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Redbourn Missionary Trust or Pilgrims' Friend
These properties at Redbourn look like any housing development of the 1970s, the only obvious sign of their use being ...
Leona
Meet Leona, who created a spin off oral history project
Stanstead Abbotts. Edward Baesh
Five generations of the Baesh family owned Stanstead Bury from 1558 till 1678. They were Edward, Ralph, Edward, Ralph and ...
Sawbridgeworth. Frances Lane
Miss Frances Lane died in 1895 at the age of 83. Her obituary was included in Hertfordshire Mercury at the ...
Sawbridgeworth. Mann Memorial
With one exception, Thomas Mann and his family did not survive to old age. Thomas, born in 1848, married Rose ...
Clothall. Fox Lambert
1887 was Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. Various charities were founded in celebration, one of which was the Fox Lambert almshouses ...
Buntingford. Seth Ward
‘The stateliest almshouses in the county’ is how Nicholas Pevsner described these almshouses. Others in the running for this accolade ...
Charing Cross Hospital Gender Identity Clinic
Charing Cross Hospital has the oldest gender clinic in the country, and relocated to Boxmoor during the Second World War.
Esmé Langley
Esmé Langley was the co-founder of the Minorities Research Group and Arena Three
Royston. Mary Barfield and Charles Beldam
Mary Barfield was the wife of Rev Abraham Barfield, the first congregational minister of Ashwell, who also ran a boys’ ...
Thundridge. Jane Wall
Jane Wall’s memorial in Thundridge church notes she was the largest benefactor in 400 years. Note this is the new ...
Aston. John Boteler
John Boteler gave a messuage at the Aston church gate, an almshouse and some other land to John Kent in ...
Hunton Bridge. Brookside Cottages
No references to almshouses at Hunton Bridge have been found in the standard works on Hertfordshire. Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire ...
Hertford War Memorial - test again
Hertford War Memorial is unusual because it has civilian war dead commemorated
Pirton. John Hammond and William Handscombe
John Hammond provided for the young and the old. He was a yeoman, and it seems he did quite well ...
Tring. Louisa Cottages
If you have traditional small cottages in mind it’s a bit of a surprise when you first see this building. ...
Stevenage. Hellard
Until recently Hellard’s almshouse was the oldest continuously-occupied almshouse in Hertfordshire, fulfilling its purpose for half a millennium. That ended ...
Cheshunt. Turners Hill or Beaumont
A number of benefactions were amalgamated under the title of The Beaumont Charity in October 1859, under a scheme approved ...
St Albans. Pemberton
We all like a good anecdote whether it’s true or not. The story behind Roger Pemberton’s almshouse is that he ...
Westmill. T T Greg or Pilgrims Close
Westmill is a particularly attractive village, located a few miles south of Buntingford. The view towards the village pump, an ...
Holwell. John Rand
Like Robin Hood and King Arthur, some people attract stories in the absence of information. There are unsubstantiated stories that ...
Flamstead. John Saunders Sebright
This almshouse is rarely mentioned, in contrast to the smaller but picturesque Saunders almshouse nearby. It is not mentioned by ...
A County Remembers Project
Exploring Hertfordshire memorials since World War I
Indian Family History Guide
Let us help you trace your Asian roots
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