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Aldbury. Memorial Cottages
The building was erected in memory of Richard Mountford Wood M.A., late rector of the parish by his widow and ...
Elizabeth Howard
A poem about Ebenezer Howard's wife, Lizzie
Life on the Home Front
A snapshot of life on the Home Front
Aston. Boteler
Sir John Boteler granted some property and land to John Kent in free socage (that is for payment of rent ...
Barnet. Lancelot Hasluck
When he was vice-chairman of Jesus Hospital, Lancelot Hasluck realised there was still a great need for almshouse provision. That ...
Chipping Barnet. Thomas Watson Cottage Homes
This not so much an almshouse as a developing estate of almshouses, specifically for the benefit of those linked with ...
Hitchin. The Biggin
The Biggin may be the only haunted Hertfordshire almshouse. During archaeological excavations in 1968-9 a skeleton was found, nicknamed ‘Old ...
Watford. Longley
Minutes books are useful as they can give an insight into the details of an organisation’s management. The frustrating aspect ...
Wareside. The Retreat and unknown
Helham Green, Hellum Green, Pelham Green and Elm Green appear to be synonyms for the same place, situated to the ...
Baldock. Roe
In January 1838 Henricus Octavus Roe, a maltster in High Street, attended a local meeting as he wanted to erect ...
Cottered. Page or Paddocks Wells
Like the Town House at Cottered, Page’s building was rebuilt on a new site, this time in 1691. The site ...
Berkhamsted. Parish
A cottage in the churchyard and another at Gossams End were bought by the parish 1703 for the habitation of ...
Essendon. Eventide Homes
12 May 1937 was the coronation day for George VI. The Eventide almshouses at Essendon were erected in commemoration by ...
Aldbury. Glad's Cottage and Town Houses
It would be nice to know how Glad’s Cottage got its name. However, it is really one of three buildings. ...
Northchurch. St Mary's or Church Houses
These buildings go back to the 15th or 16th centuries, in rough terms the days of Edward IV and V, ...
E M Forster
Acclaimed writer E M Forster spent his childhood in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
A Discussion about Sources
There are many sources of information, all with their own benefits and disadvantages. They need to be regarded as complementary. ...
Hertfordshire's Hidden Histories
A project for the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
Sarratt. Day or Church End
Ralph Day was the main instigator of almshouse provision in the Sarratt and Chipperfield areas, though his brothers Henry and ...
Much Hadham. Parish
The Much Hadham almshouses date back to before 1689. Clutterbuck reports that a Mr Piggott devised that the almshouse residents ...
Berkhamsted. John Sayer
One look at this building and you immediately recognise it as an almshouse. It’s a strange mixture of plain and ...
Monken Hadley. Pagitt's
The Justinian Pagitt who instituted this almshouse does not seem to be as well known as his father, also named ...
Discrimination
Racial conflict in Herts, 1960s - 1990s
The Abolition of Slavery
The steps taken to end slavery
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