My late mother is on the left in this picture, Barbara, how many of these young ladies can you name ...
The Biggin may be the only haunted Hertfordshire almshouse. During archaeological excavations in 1968-9 a skeleton was found, nicknamed ‘Old ...
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Abraham Crosland bequeathed £10 to buy books for the poor of Watton at Stone. He was the rector of St ...
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.
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, 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.
This almshouse at Weston was the last of three erected by Henricus Octavus Roe. It was erected in 1840, at ...
