Photograph of the Hoddesdon VE Day Parade 1945. Main parade shows the Special Constabulary (Volunteers) W.H. Cutler (Bertie) Inspector in charge of ...
I have lived in Hoddesdon for many years and have seen many changes to the area, when I moved here ...
Launch of a new DVD, 22nd October 2011
‘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 ...
It’s a feature of the towns, villages and hamlets along the Lea Valley that many have large houses whose names ...
The shops on the east side of Hoddesdon’s High Street include a range, numbered 64, occupying a large old house ...
(Associated with an extract from Herts Mercury, 16/12/1916, which was being searched for police articles for www.hertspastpolicing.org.uk) In this particular copy ...
The road-builder's connection with Hoddesdon
Joseph George Stokes and his wife Anne moved to Hoddesdon from Greenwich in about 1834, with their eldest children, Anne and Martha.
Of the twenty-six historical Hoddesdon pubs recorded on the Pub Wiki website, a mere handful now survives. Five of them, ...
I had been researching my family history for many years and had successfully got back to the time of King ...
Lowewood is recognisable now as the Borough of Broxbourne’s museum, but it has a long history. Built in the mid-18th ...
Meadway and Admirals Walk, Hoddesdon Herts
During the Second World War I lived at Rye Farm with my parents and other members of my Dad’s family. The ...
At the southern end of the High Street, a house called Borham House used to stand next door to what ...
Myrtle Pinner's audio recording her memories of Hoddesdon from 1938
I recently bought this object in a charity shop in my home town of Deal in Kent and would like ...