Saturday, January 30, 2016

Dating a picture of Shenley Post Office

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The Star Coffee Tavern and Post Office, Shenley This picture must have been taken by 1905, as it appears on a post card carrying this da...
Friday, January 29, 2016

A "Food Bank" in Hemel Hempstead is nothing new

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The Food Bank for the needy poor of Hemel Hempstead, currently provided by DENS had a Victorian predecessor - as this advert shows. Cli...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Update of Hertfordshire Photographers & Post Card Publishers

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One of the activities that is slowly continuing is the update of information on Victorian  photographers in Hertfordshire and also early p...

Giving help by email ....

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Regular visitors to this web site will realize that I am not spending as much time updating the site and newsletter as I use to - but the be...

The Old Market Square, Codicote, circa 1900

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The Old Market Square, Codicote
Friday, January 15, 2016

More about comic post cards published in St Albans

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In 1908 a company called Crown Publishing Co appeared in St Albans and published some very distinctive comic post cards by an artist us...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

British Newspaper Archive - Victorian Newspapers covering Hertfordshire & Borders

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Newspapers The following list show the Victorian papers digitized at the beginning of January which cover Hertfordshire and adjacent are...
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Growing food at Abbots Langley School in the First World War

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Working in the Garden at Abbots Langley School

Another Publican for the Four Swans, Waltham Cross

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The Four Swans Inn circa 1900 Jerry has written to say his ancestor, William John Nash was the publican at the Four Swans, Waltham Cross...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

A Silhouette of St Albans Abbey from 1904

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An unusual early post card of St Albans Abbey More Information