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  • Friends and Family
    Friends and Family
    A beautiful poem about the tears and joy of familly life
  • Sarratt. Day or Church End
    Sarratt. Day or Church End
    Ralph Day was the main instigator of almshouse provision in the Sarratt and Chipperfield areas, though his brothers Henry and ...
  • Sarratt. John Baldwin
    Sarratt. John Baldwin
    Baldwin’s almshouse was built in 1550 or 1700. Historic England (citing Pevsner) and Cussans quote the earlier date, while Victoria ...
  • Much Hadham. Parish
    Much Hadham. Parish
    The Much Hadham almshouses date back to before 1689. Clutterbuck reports that a Mr Piggott devised that the almshouse residents ...
  • Life in Bengeo in Covid-19 Times, Part 9
    Life in Bengeo in Covid-19 Times, Part 9
    The days shorten, the trees show their structures and lockdown two continues. After all the rain recently, River Rib just manages ...
  • 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 ...
  • Life in Bengeo in Covid-19 Times, Part 8
    Life in Bengeo in Covid-19 Times, Part 8
    Now in the second lockdown from yesterday until 2nd December.  Only able to meet one person outdoors so no family ...
  • Watford. Jubilee Retreat
    Watford. Jubilee Retreat
    The Jubilee years of 1887 and 1897 saw an outpouring of ideas for civil and charitable projects as a form ...
  • Childhood Days in St Albans
    Childhood Days in St Albans
    Looking back over my early life in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, my memories are mostly of the outdoors, watery outdoors.
  • Interview with Lionel Wallace
    Interview with Lionel Wallace
    Exclusive interview with the Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
  • Northchurch. Unknown donor
    Northchurch. Unknown donor
    An unknown donor gave land on which 4 tenements were erected, each for a poor widow. They were pulled down ...
  • Berkhamsted. John Sayer
    Berkhamsted. John Sayer
    One look at this building and you immediately recognise it as an almshouse. It’s a strange mixture of plain and ...
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