The scope of this survey, started in March 2016, is to list, locate (and hopefully photograph) the almshouses (or sites ...
‘Crased in body but in perfect memory’ was how Richard Platt described himself when he wrote his will. A brewer ...
Henry Chauncy Henry Chauncy was the renowned historian of Hertfordshire, but it was his father, also named Henry, who left the ...
Money and shady dealings often go hand in hand. John Wynne, a citizen of London and a member of the ...
You can’t always believe what’s written in stone. The dedication stone states these almshouses were erected by the great-grand-daughters of ...
This is one of the oldest Town Houses in the country, built around 1530 (probably 1526). Henry VIII was still ...
There is a report that Sir George Knighton had leanings towards ‘the old faith’ of Roman Catholicism, which could be ...
Charles Deedes, the rector of Bengeo for 28 years (1848 – 1876), would have overseen the building of the new ...
We may need to go back to Elizabethan times for the foundation of these almshouses. Victoria County History simply says ...
The history of this establishment raises a number of questions. Before Pilston According to Henry Chauncy, there were benefactions before the time of ...
Thomas Jenyns, a London fishmonger, had property in the area around Braughing and Standon as well as in London. His ...
William Bonest made his will on 30th October 1612, and it was proved at London on 30th January 1612. This ...
The almshouses were founded by Dame Laetitia Monson (also spelt Lettitia, Letitia or Latitia) in 1728. This is confirmed by ...
1 or 2 tenements were erected before or during the reign of James I (working back from the ‘time out ...
According to Dave Field, George Henningham built the first almshouse in 1536. He lived at The Black House in High ...
A few remains of Theobalds House (later Palace) can still be seen in Cedars Park, Cheshunt. William Cecil Lord Burghley, ...
The settlement of Harmer Green is part of the parish of Digswell. It is a little to the north east ...
Following in their father’s footsteps, Carr Wigg and Elizabeth Ann Oliver paid for three almshouses. This was in 1890 when ...
Frogmore House in this article is not the royal property at Windsor, nor the listed building in High Street Watford ...
How to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee? The first suggestion, in January 1887, was to place a clock in the ...
While Nikolaus Pevsner (p158) and Kate Thompson (Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire p151) state these were almshouses, it seems more likely ...
Drains, privies, theft and squalor summarise these premises in Butchery Green. As noted in the article about the Harrison almshouses, ...
Eve Sangster’s book provides the main information for this institution. There is little about the buildings, but some references to ...
Lady Mary Harrison knew what it was like to be without a home, if only for a few years. Her ...
