The system for workhouses in St Albans was a success. One result of this was that in 1725 St Stephens ...
Every picture tells a story and the same is true of local postcards. In the heyday of this not-quite-instant messaging medium ...
The Braughing Society was set up in 1972. The following year, local vicar, The Rev’d D.R.Smith, sold to the society ...
An evening of poetry and art, we hosted three fantastic performers, including Sophie Gresswell (Hitchin’s Artist in Residence). A crowd ...
"The first meal I ever served up for a girlfriend was Coq au Vin in the romantic surroundings of the school cookery room."
Until recently Hellard’s almshouse was the oldest continuously-occupied almshouse in Hertfordshire, fulfilling its purpose for half a millennium. That ended ...
Winners of the Best Community Archive & Heritage Group 2021
A number of benefactions were amalgamated under the title of The Beaumont Charity in October 1859, under a scheme approved ...
We all like a good anecdote whether it’s true or not. The story behind Roger Pemberton’s almshouse is that he ...
It’s hard to say no to a king. James I preferred Theobalds Palace to his own at Hatfield, so arranged ...
Cussans reports that George Robson, by a deed dated in 1616, gave 12 poles of land (303 sq m) ‘whereon ...
