Tring

Gleaning — Hertfordshire’s Original Foodbank
The idea of leaving food for the poor to collect is by no means modern
Martine Wright, Paralympian & Campaigner
Meet: Martine Wright, Tring Resident, Award Winning & Honoured Campaigner & World Paralympian.
Poor Relief in Tring, Hertfordshire, 1820
The poor relief system in Tring was a scheme which gave bread to anyone who came and asked for it. ...
Ruth Osborne of Tring, 1751
Ducking and drowning on suspicion of witchcraft
Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
Was Ruth Osborne The "Tring Witch" or A Woman, Wrongly Accused?
The confession of Thomas Colley to the murder of Ruth Osborne, a suspected witch, 1751
The events leading up to this horrific ‘witch swimming’ seem to have begun when sixty-nine year old Ruth Osborne, begging ...
The Devil’s Work in Hertfordshire
The Devil is a common figure in folklore everywhere, and Hertfordshire is no exception. Besides featuring prominently in such tales ...
Tring Park Gates.
1930s?
Tring's Victoria Cross Winner
Private Edward Barber, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards Edward Barber was born in Tring in 1893 and was the son of a ...
Watercolours
Tring, c1820

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Lowewood, High Street, Hoddesdon
Lowewood is recognisable now as the Borough of Broxbourne’s museum, but it has a long history. Built in the mid-18th ...
The last bomb to land on British soil.
A Fieseler F1 103 or flying bomb, commonly known a ‘Doodlebug’ to the British, fell out of the sky and ...

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