This photo was taken about July or August 1959 and shows the aftermath of the destruction of Gray’s Garage in ...
The Hitchin train station first opened in August 1850 and is 1 mile from the town centre. The train line underwent many changes and was popular for intercity journeys until the Stevenage train station opened in 1973.
A pupil from Hitchin British School "does her bit"
Henlow Camp I was born at Henlow Camp in 1932 and lived with our family of eight children in two furnished ...
Too novel in design to succeed ?
Hitchin was one of the first towns in Hertfordshire to set up its own Anti-Slavery Society. Quakers in Hitchin had been ...
Do you know where this shop was?
Christmas Day in the Workhouse is a very sad story*. The poor, as recipients of charity, were dependent on the view ...
Reflecting adjustment to the ‘new normal’, Hitchin’s Market Place community noticeboard remains frozen in time, as on July 18 it ...
The first photograph shows the Dance and Fancy Dress shop of Hitchin’, 102 Bancroft, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1NB, was taken ...
December 1918 saw the Armistice Christmas and also a General Election
Elizabeth Impey, Hitchin's Suffragette, Demonstrator & Protester.
Emily Davies, Founder of Britain’s First Women’s College.
some of the events during 2009
Reflecting the uncertainty of the world’s ‘new normal’, on July 18 2020 Hitchin’s Market Place community noticeboard remains frozen in ...
Girton College boasts of being founded on “values of equality and diversity,” welcoming “students of all backgrounds” but did you know the college’s origin in Hitchin?
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