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  • Watford. Longley
    Watford. Longley
    Minutes books are useful as they can give an insight into the details of an organisation’s management. The frustrating aspect ...
  • Wareside. The Retreat and unknown
    Wareside. The Retreat and unknown
    Helham Green, Hellum Green and Elm Green appear to be synonyms for the same place, situated to the east of ...
  • Watton at Stone. Crosland
    Watton at Stone. Crosland
    Abraham Crosland bequeathed £10 to buy books for the poor of Watton at Stone. He was the rector of St ...
  • God‘s Acre Flamstead
    God‘s Acre Flamstead
    God’s Acre is the cemetery in Singlets Lane, Flamstead, a few hundred yards from St Leonard‘s church. The land was donated by Sir Edgar Sebright in 1903 when the churchyard became full.
  • Rev. Cecil Russell
    Rev. Cecil Russell
    The Reverend Cecil Edward Russell MBE was the vicar at St Leonard’s for 20 years, from 1937 to 1957. This means of course he was the parish priest throughout the second world war. He also wrote a history of Flamstead and the church, 50 years after the one written by his predecessor.
  • Frederick Charles Harvey, died in WW2 aged 16
    Frederick Charles Harvey, died in WW2 aged 16
    Frederick Charles Harvey, a Flamstead resident, died in an explosion in a munitions factory in Hemel Hempstead, aged just 16. Although a non-combatant, as he was carrying out war work when he died, following a campaign by the Rev. Cecil Russell, vicar of St Leonard’s, his name was included on the war memorial.
  • Weston. Roe
    Weston. Roe
    This almshouse at Weston was the last of three erected by Henricus Octavus Roe. It was erected in 1840, at ...
  • Baldock. Roe
    Baldock. Roe
    In January 1838 Henricus Octavus Roe attended a local meeting as he wanted to erect 2 almshouses at the back ...
  • Life in Bengeo in Covid-19 Times, Part 11
    Life in Bengeo in Covid-19 Times, Part 11
    Gill and I have both had our first Astrazeneca jabs.  Gill was slightly under the weather for a couple of ...
  • Looking for Katy Phillips
    Looking for Katy Phillips
    Hello, My name is Raquel Rosa and I’m writing to you from Lisbon, Portugal. I’m trying to find some news from a ...
  • Greens and a chalk stream in the history of Hertfordshire
    Greens and a chalk stream in the history of Hertfordshire
    Two jewels of Hertfordshire are its greens and its chalk streams, both key to the social history of the county. ...
  • Cottered. Page or Paddocks Wells
    Cottered. Page or Paddocks Wells
    Like the Town House at Cottered, Page’s building was rebuilt on a new site, this time in 1691. The site ...
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