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Transport

The car now dominates the way we live, but how did you get around in the past?  Write your stories about what you used to get to work, to school etc.  Write about the steam trains that came through your town or village.  Or maybe you can write about your old car.

  • 1954 Aldbury Valetta accident
    1954 Aldbury Valetta accident
    My dear brother was 22 years old and was one of the Officers killed in the 1954 Valetta plane crash ...
  • 1954 Aldbury Valetta accident
    1954 Aldbury Valetta accident
    6 January 1954
  • 20s style travel
    20s style travel
    A baby in a Brougham
  • Aldbury Valetta memorial
    Aldbury Valetta memorial
  • Coach Outing from Hertford
    Coach Outing from Hertford
    My mother is in this photo and guessing at her age leads me to think that this photo was taken ...
  • Dye's Coaches
    Dye's Coaches
    1930's
  • Glebe Farm, Offley
    Glebe Farm, Offley
    At 3pm on the 8 January 1945 a US Army lorry carrying munitions was involved in a collision with a ...
  • Hertfordshire's Mobile Library Service
    Hertfordshire's Mobile Library Service
    c1960 - 2015
  • Martin Baker and Irvin success.
    Martin Baker and Irvin success.
    In June 1960 I ejected from a Sea Venom jet aircraft using a Martin Baker Ejection seat fitted with an ...
  • The Amphibious Caravan
    The Amphibious Caravan
    on the River Lea, Broxbourne
  • The early days of planes and cars
    The early days of planes and cars
    We might find it difficult to believe that people living around Luton might get up very early to assemble on ...
  • The world is full of signs
    The world is full of signs
    2009
  • Thomas King: Wheelwright and Coachbuilder of Berkhamsted
    Thomas King: Wheelwright and Coachbuilder of Berkhamsted
    Along with the blacksmith and carpenter, the wheelwright provided an essential service to any community in nineteenth century England. Indeed, ...
  • Trams in Waltham Cross
    Trams in Waltham Cross
    In 1904, the metropolitian tramway network reached Waltham Cross.  The last tram ran in 1938, and the service continued with ...
  • Was this a Hertford Man?
    Was this a Hertford Man?
    Hertford Castle Fun Day
  • Railways

    Railways (35)

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