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2020 Stories
Stories contributed by the Hertfordshire community in 2020
1940 and Eighty Years On.
"The eight year olds today face another war"
A brand new home in Hemel Hempstead
"a brand new three bedroomed house in Sawyers Way, Hemel Hempstead"
A prodigal son
"I was planning to live in the woods"
Becoming a bookworm
"My favourite shop however was the bookshop on Brocket Road"
Big School
"It was a new school - Big school!"
Blunt and Sharp
“Help me please, my hand, please can someone hold my hand”
Childhood Days in St Albans
Looking back over my early life in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, my memories are mostly of the outdoors, watery outdoors.
Childhood Memories of Park Street
"fortunately the flames were put out before such a calamity occurred"
Christmas Gifts
A poem
CONFINEMENT
"I need air, greenery and contact with the elements"
Cycling Downhill
"You just drank in the view with your eyes, the air with your lungs and the sounds with your ears."
DATING SHOW
"I arrived at London’s Regents Park and was greeted by one of the show Producers for LOVE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT"
Friday Night is not alright!
"it felt like I was drowning as I spluttered and struggled for air!"
Getting Lost
"Rhys was all alone"
Guy Fawkes Night
"we were to climb the narrow steps leading to the great tower of this monumental building"
Hail to Normandy
"Suddenly, a single spotlight emblazons the keep as a lone man climbs to the top. He kneels and a crown is placed upon his head."
In Search of Ghosts
"And so we stood, seemingly unable to move, transfixed"
It All Began in Birmingham
" I arrived in Tring after living in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, London, East Hertfordshire"
Life.
A poem
Lockdown Poem
A poem
Meeting Man Utd
"One day, when he was a little boy, his daddy took him to see Manchester United."
Memories of St Albans
"the cattle market was still functioning behind the High Street"
My childhood
"We WILL get through this."
My Aunt Judith
"precious reminders of a wonderful lady"
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