London’s need for expansion may have been the catalyst for building these almshouses 280 years after Eleanor Palmer died a ...
The gestation period for this almshouse was 80 years. While Samuel Byford died aged 86 in 1898, the cottages he ...
I was born 1934, and qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon in 1961. This is unusually late for a vet, but ...
The oldest continuously-inhabited building in Watford was on the point of demolition in 1931. A suggestion was made to the ...
The marble steps in the sacrarium of St Mary’s Watford, bearing the words ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’, are in memory of ...
This provision may be unique in that originally the almswomen lived in the main house, not in purpose-built dwellings. In ...
Pope Adrian IV (also known as Hadrian IV) was born in Hertfordshire, as Nicholas Breakspear. He is the only Englishman ...
I worked for John Dickinson in their Manchester Offices a trainee rep. For two years from 1955 until I was ...
I was at Briar patch childrens home, Letchworth, about 1958. I have some wonderful memories of my time there we ...
A source at Watford Museum mentioned an almshouse in Cecil Street, provided by Derby Road Baptist Church. There are no ...
