Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a politician and philosopher, who also acted as Viscount of St Albans from 1621 until his ...
Vita Sackville-West was an English author, playwright, and diarist, also latterly known for her garden designing! Born in 1892 in ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton of Knebworth House stood as candidate for Hertfordshire at the 1858 election. Although he was unopposed, it ...
Most of the records suggest that London haberdasher Humphrey Spencer provided funds for the poor. Victoria County History records the ...
Thomas Buxton was a partner in Truman, Hanbury & Buxton of Spitalfields, one of the largest breweries in the country. ...
There seems to be a solitary reference to several houses in the parish of Tring, occupied by poor persons placed ...
In 1407 the Ware feoffes acquired a house and garden in Mill Lane. There is a 1612 reference to a ...
Three milch (milking) cows which had to be replaced must be one of the strangest endowments for an almshouse, though ...
2021 saw the sale of the Harrison almshouses, and with it the end of Ware Charities almshouse provision in Ware. ...
Laurence Armatrading, James Birch James Hitch and unknown donors are the relevant names for this article. David Perman notes that ...
John Akers, is a local Hertfordshire artist that you might not be completely familiar with, but whose pictures will make ...
Workhouse records can be an invaluable source for researching Disability history. An extract from Barley Parish records, dated January 1800 from ...