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World War One

  • Floods in Watford High Street c1915
    Floods in Watford High Street c1915
    The Landlord gets his milk
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    Food shortages 100 years ago
    2018 has not been kind to farmers, gardeners and allotment holders but similar problems were faced 100 years ago.
  • Hertford County Constabulary
    Hertford County Constabulary
    A step towards promotion in 1916
  • Hertford Heath - 28th November 1920
    Hertford Heath - 28th November 1920
    Saved - A Relic of the Dedication of the Memorial Cross
  • Hertford's Victoria Cross winner
    Hertford's Victoria Cross winner
    Corporal Alfred Alexander Burt, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment Alfred Burt was the first member of the Hertfordshire Regiment to win the ...
  • Hertfordshire and the Great War
    Hertfordshire and the Great War
    Events at Hertfordshire Archives and Libraries
  • Hertfordshire in WW1
    Hertfordshire in WW1
  • Hertfordshire War Horses
    Hertfordshire War Horses
    When war began in 1914 the British army possessed a mere 25,000 horses. The War Office was given the urgent ...
  • Hertfordshire War Memorials
    Hertfordshire War Memorials
    Throughout Hertfordshire there are various memorials and rolls of honour to those who served and died in World War One and World ...
  • Hitchin Riot 1914
    Hitchin Riot 1914
       So often the past is portrayed with a ‘Downton Abbey’ style nostalgia, as a golden more simple time. And ...
  • Images of the first world war
    Images of the first world war
  • Intoxicating Liquor (Temporary Restriction) Act 1914
    Intoxicating Liquor (Temporary Restriction) Act 1914
    Reduction in Licensed Hours - to aid the War effort
  • Ist Hertfordshire Battery
    Ist Hertfordshire Battery
    Gunner Saville
  • Joe Randle
    Joe Randle
    Oldest man in Britain
  • John Robert Scales
    John Robert Scales
    Herts Medical Volunteers
  • Kings Langley's Victoria Cross Winner
    Kings Langley's Victoria Cross Winner
    Private Christopher Cox, 7th (S) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
  • More WW1 Pictures
    More WW1 Pictures
  • Names on the Buntingford Town War Memorial
    Names on the Buntingford Town War Memorial
    To Find out more about the names of those commemorated on the War Memorials of Hertfordshire please visit the Roll ...
  • NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE.
    NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE.
    The following letter was printed in the Hertfordshire Mercury on 15th December 1919.  This was a man who had a ...
  • News from the Front
    News from the Front
    The Christmas Truce
  • News Snippets from 1913
    News Snippets from 1913
    During 1913, the Mercury published a serious of jokes. This is what local people were laughing at back then.
  • News Snippets from 1914
    News Snippets from 1914
    Some of the more bizarre snippets from the first year of World War One, mainly from the Hertfordshire Mercury.
  • News Snippets from 1918
    News Snippets from 1918
    Some of the more bizarre snippets from the last year of World War One, mainly from the Hertfordshire Mercury.
  • Peace Celebrations
    Peace Celebrations
    1919
  • Voices of World War I

    Voices of World War I (5)

  • The Autobiography of a First World War Soldier

    The Autobiography of a First World War Soldier (5)

  • The

    The "Seeing It Through" WW1 Community Project for East Herts (6)

  • Broxbourne: We Will Remember Them Project

    Broxbourne: We Will Remember Them Project (14)

    Heritage Lottery Funded community engagement project led by Lowewood Museum in 2019
  • Julian Grenfell

    Julian Grenfell (5)

  • News from the Front

    News from the Front (4)

  • Conscientious Objectors

    Conscientious Objectors (14)

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