Update of South Mimms Page

I have update the page containing information and higher resolution pictures of South Mimms & Potters Bar

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Coal Posts in Hertfordshire

Coal Post at Wormley

Following the Coal Duties Act of 1851 coal posts were erected around London to indicate where tax became due, the tax helping to raise money for many of the bridges across the Thames. At least 44 were in Hertfordshire (but there may have been more). If you want to know more a good place to start is the excellent article "Hertfordshire's Coal Posts" on the Brookmans Park site. It addition to listing all known Hertfordshire posts it has articles, with photographs, on those at Potters Bar, Colney Heath, Hawkshead, Wormley, Northaw and Newgate Street.

Potters Bar Trade Fete, 1910

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I have just acquired this somewhat damaged photograph of the Potter Bar Trade Fete of 1910. One name is given but the figure is not identified. If you had ancestors living in Potters Bar, particularly if they were in trade, you may be able to identify the,

I have not investigated it, but I would guess the fete was an annual affair.