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World War Two

  • A German Spy in London Colney
    A German Spy in London Colney
    A short-lived episode in WW2
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
    A Hard Life But a Happy One
    The Memoirs of Margaret Hurst, a Hertfordshire Land Girl
  • A Vital Link
    A Vital Link
    The importance of the Land Girl Magazine
  • An American in Tewin
    An American in Tewin
    Hello to Hertfordshire, I am an American and my father lived in Tewin during WW2. He was a radio operator and ...
  • An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
    An unknown wartime R.A.F. p.o.w.
    Papers found in the loft of a house in South Hertfordshire
  • And so the bells were silent
    And so the bells were silent
    Bell ringing, or rather, change ringing origins lie in the sixteenth century when church bells were hung with a wheel. ...
  • Baby Respirator
    Baby Respirator
  • Berlin to Helmstedt Movement Order
    Berlin to Helmstedt Movement Order
    National Service 1960
  • Blackout Aids in Watford
    Blackout Aids in Watford
  • Bombed in the war
    Bombed in the war
    A lucky escape
  • Bovingdon Memories – At War
    Bovingdon Memories – At War
    In common with the rest of the country Bovingdon played its full part in the war effort, men and women ...
  • Boxmoor
    Boxmoor
    During and after the war.
  • Digging Shelters in Welwyn Garden City
    Digging Shelters in Welwyn Garden City
  • Distribution of Gas Masks at Cheshunt School, 1938
    Distribution of Gas Masks at Cheshunt School, 1938
    Entries in Cheshunt School logbook for 1938 26th Sept The school has been requisitioned as a respirator fitting station. Children were ...
  • Dog Respirator
    Dog Respirator
  • Evacuees in Hertfordshire
    Evacuees in Hertfordshire
    Eighty years ago, Hertfordshire had a sudden increase in population as the evacuation from London began in 1939.
  • Evacuees to Weston, nr Hitchin, Hertfordshire
    Evacuees to Weston, nr Hitchin, Hertfordshire
    The following list of names was retrieved from a discarded school pencil box that belonged to a resident in a ...
  • Frank Smith
    Frank Smith
    c.1943
  • From London to Cottered in Wartime
    From London to Cottered in Wartime
    This article was printed in Cottered and Trocking News  No. 15 August 1971.  A copy is held in WW2 Folder ...
  • 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 ...
  • Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
    Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
    Gwendoline Page – The WW2 Code Breaker At Bletchley Park
  • Italian POWs from Royston Camp at Harvest
    Italian POWs from Royston Camp at Harvest
  • John Robert Scales
    John Robert Scales
    Special Constable, St Albans
  • Knebworth during the Second World War
    Knebworth during the Second World War
    An oral history
  • Air Raid Precautions

    Air Raid Precautions (6)

  • Battle of Britain Exhibition

    Battle of Britain Exhibition (9)

    War over Hertfordshire
  • Evacuees

    Evacuees (11)

  • Home Guard

    Home Guard (11)

  • VE Day

    VE Day (20)

  • VJ Day - 75th Anniversary in 2020

    VJ Day - 75th Anniversary in 2020 (1)

  • Wartime letters

    Wartime letters (10)

  • Women's Land Army

    Women's Land Army (11)

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