The new Peace Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1925, was largely funded by public subscription
The Watford Observer was a major supporter of the appeal to build the Peace Memorial Hospital.
“The Hospital will be a living memorial of the dead, and by its nature more endurable than any monuments of stone or brass.”
The two ilegitimate children of William, first earl Cowper, and his near neighbour, the heiress Elizabeth Culling survived their mother and ...
Reflecting on fishing’s reputation as being the preserve of old men, Brian Clarke, the Angling correspondent for the Times, pointed out in ...
Perhaps the most famous opening words of a novel are those of Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice concerning the ...
A historic listed building in Cheshunt
During 1913, the Mercury published a serious of jokes. This is what local people were laughing at back then.
Some information on one of the memorials in St Leonard's church, Bengeo.
Some of the more bizarre snippets from the last year of World War One, mainly from the Hertfordshire Mercury.
Some of the more bizarre snippets from the first year of World War One, mainly from the Hertfordshire Mercury.
Paintings by Myrtle Desmond Blair and Photographs by Thomas Lucien Blair Hertford Castle/reimaged photo Blair We and the Hertford Oral History Group ...