Serious Riot at Watford - Police sent to Rickmansworth

Earlier I answered a question from Bryan about 173-175 High Street, Watford, and he emailed back to explain why Charles Bradley was no longer running a shop in Watford High Street at the time of the 1881 census.  Undoubtedly there will have been extensive cover in the Watford Observer but I decided to use the incident as another test of the British Newspaper Archive. The above description of the riot comes from The Graphic and I have posted reports of the serious riot from several other papers.

J. T. Newman - an important Berkhamsted Photographer

Barbara contacted me about some old family photographs by James Thomas Newman, of his family and possible relatives, including some by a photographer called Piggott. I had been planning to update the Newman page for some time - and the revised page gives details of the relationship between Theophilus Piggott, a photographer of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, William Coles of Watford, and James Newman of Berkhamsted. Over the next few weeks (probably after the Olympics) I plan to provide many more examples of Newman's work - and would be very interested to hear from you if you know of examples of his early photographs, books and magazines which used his photographs, and post cards of events (including the Inns of Court Regiment when they were in Berkhamsted during the First World War).