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 ...
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 ...
The history of this establishment raises a number of questions. Before Pilston According to Henry Chauncy, there were benefactions before the time of ...
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, ...
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 ...
These are not almshouses but model designs for dwellings for working people. As at least three people had mentioned them ...
‘I am not cynical but my own view is that these memorials when organised in moments of enthusiasm by living ...
In 1905 the Warner family decided to add a cottage to the Queen Victoria Cottage Homes, in memory of their ...
Also known as the Hoddesdon Cottage Homes for Aged Poor, these homes were erected as part of the celebrations for ...
The benefactions board in St Augustine’s church, Broxbourne, records that Richard Rich gave five almshouses in 1440. This was during ...
The word hospital does not mean the same as nowadays; it referred more to caring for those in need for ...
The Historic England list refers to this building as the pound keeper’s cottage, at one time a ‘charity cottage’ for ...
Fortunately, Alma Gertrude Vansittart Strettell is an unusual name. Alma (1853 – 1939) was an internationally-known translator who married the ...
Few almshouses could boast of a Royal visit, but Princess Alexandra paid a visit to these almshouses in 1888 when ...
