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| Frontispiece: Norton Road, near Baldock | 9 | Watford's Garden of Rest, by T. H. Hook | 22 | |
| Sir Richard F. Burton, by John Lea | 10 | Tally Ho! in Hertfordshire. by E. D. Dawson | 23 | |
| Hertfordshire Inns and the Church, by F. A. Richardson | 11 | North Mimms History recorded in Churchwardens' Accounts, | ||
| Cheshunt's "Mr. Squeers," by Peter E. Rooke | 12 | by H. M. Alderman | 24 | |
| The Village in which I live, by C. G. Pilgrim | 13 | An Old Map of Hertfordshire, by F. B. Egginton | 26 | |
| Tragedy at Powder-mill River, by Courtney Dainton | 14 | Shipbuilding in Hertfordshire, by Philip Kershaw | 27 | |
| A Mumming at Hertford, by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 15 | Robert Hugh Benson of Buntingford, by John R. Milsome | 28 | |
| The Clock Tower, St. Albans | 16 | The Romans set their Course through Hertfordshire, by | ||
| Annie Swan in Hertford, by Margery Roberts | 18 | C. Morris | 30 | |
| The Romance of Ransoms, by P. Blair Ferguson | 20 | Our Readers' Forum | 32 | |
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| Frontispiece: The tower of St. Mary's Aston | 49 | County Watchdog comes of Age | 60 | |
| Hertfordshire's Decaying Castles, by Anne Collins | 50 | The One with the Waggly Tail! by Romie Lambkin | 63 | |
| To a Kingfisher by the Purwell, by Pauline M. Powell | 51 | All Saints', St. Paul's Walden, by R. de Mornay Davies | 64 | |
| Bank Robbery at Hertford, by F. J. Parker | 52 | The Hormeads of Hertfordshire, by A. J. Ford | 65 | |
| The Village of Throcking, by Harold A. Roberts | 53 | The Beauty of Hertfordshire Churches, by M. V. Murphy | 66 | |
| A Forgotten Antiquity, Carson I. A. Ritchie | 54 | Bovingdon Airport via Box Lane, W. G. S. Crook | 68 | |
| Glimpses of Welwyn in 1824, by W. Branch Johnson | 56 | "The Happy Child," by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 69 | |
| Thomas Dimsdaleof Hertford, by J. R. Milsome | 57 | The Local Press in Hertfordshire, by M. F. Thwaite | 70 | |
| The Royston Cave, by Fred J. Davies | 58 | A Golden Jubilee | 71 | |
| A Historical Geographer in West Hertfordshire, by J. B. Rigg | 59 | Our Readers' Forum | 72 | |
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| Frontispiece: Thatched cottages at Aldbury | 89 | Hertfordshire Centenarians, by L. H. Chambers | 103 | |
| Minsden Chapel, by Chas. H. Cooke | 90 | Church and Inn were both built by Monks, by Richard T. | ||
| Quakers in Hertfordshire, by W. G. S. Crook | 93 | Whitmore | 104 | |
| County of Contrasts, by Kenneth Johnson | 94 | The Beauty of Hertfordshire Churches, by M. V> Murphy | 106 | |
| Murder for Money, by David A. Thomas | 96 | A Miracle at Hatfield? by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 108 | |
| The Umbrella and Hertfordshire, by Harold A. Roberts | 98 | The Hertfordshire Health, by S. H. Ward | 109 | |
| The Charities of St. Ippolyts, by D. S. A. McMurtrie | 99 | The Story of Aldenham House, by W. Brooks | 110 | |
| The Inn at Election Times, by W. Branch Johnson | 100 | The School that I went to, by Elizabeth Douglas | 111 | |
| The Angel Vaults, Hitchin, by Harold A. Roberts | 101 | Contest for the best-kept village in Hertfordshire | 112 | |
| The Mills of the Gade and Colne, by T. H. Hook | 102 | Our Readers' Forum | 114 | |
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| Sunny Pavement: Baldock High Street | 129 | William Penn's Hertfordshire Home, by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 144 | |
| Memories of Hertford Castle, by Rudolph Roberts | 130 | The Ghost of Bishop's Hatfield, by S. H. Ward | 145 | |
| Whitwell Hoo, by F. E. Ballin | 132 | Water End School, North Mimms, by H. M Alderman | 146 | |
| A Golden Jubilee for Ware Grammar School, by Kathleen | Sir John Evans of Apsley, by J. R. Milsome | 147 | ||
| Menhinick Dewey | 133 | The Cuffley Greatwood, by Bryan L. Sage | 148 | |
| Poetry on Stone, by Harold A. Roberts | 134 | Marble Head 2,000 years old, by D, Neville Wood | 149 | |
| Minsden Chapel, by Chas. H. Cooke | 136 | Unique Paintings found at Hertfordshire Hamlet, by Stewart | ||
| The Royal Game at Hatfield House, by Geraldine Mellor | 138 | R. Knowles | 150 | |
| Hertfordshire Centenarians, by L. H. Chambers | 139 | Hertfordshire's New Family | 151 | |
| Bygone Customs and Ceremonies in Hertfordshire, by | Billeted at the Inn, by W, Branch Johnson | 152 | ||
| W. G. S. Crook | 140 | Our Readers' Forum | 154 | |
| Coaching Days in Hertfordshire, by H. J. Willis | 142 | |||
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Contents of this issue Vol. 12 No. 45 Summer 1957 |
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| Frontispiece: Reflections on the Grand Union Canal | 9 | Some Curious Hertfordshire Marriages, by Harold A. | ||
| St. Nicholas's Church, Stevenage, by Ralph E. Gray | 10 | Roberts | 20 | |
| Rare Inscriptions at Pirton, by Richard T. Whitmore | 11 | Dow to the Cress Beds, by W. G. S. Crook | 22 | |
| Poetry on Stone, by Harold A. Roberts | 12 | Trials for Witchcraft, by Anne Collins | 23 | |
| Hertfordshire Gardens open to the Public | 13 | The Saxon Boundaries of Wheathampstead, by R. H. Read | 24 | |
| The County's Poor - 200 Years Ago, by Peter E. Rooke | 151 | The Hertfordshire Dialect, by F. A. Richardson | 26 | |
| Bells of Memory, a review by John Lea | 16 | The Hertford Savings Bank Fraud, by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 27 | |
| Three County Parsons, by A. J. Ford | 18 | East India Collage, Haileybury, by R. Roberts | 28 | |
| Modern Oak Carvings for Church | 19 | Hertfordshire Commentary, by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 30 | |
| Our Readers' Forum | 32 | |||
| Charles Chauncy, by J. R. Milsome | 38 | |||
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| Frontispiece: St. Mary's, Hitchin | 49 | Lady Sussex at Gorhambury during the Civil War, by | ||
| Hertfordshire's Best Kept Village Competition | 50 | the Rev. F. C. Hamlyn | 58 | |
| Threats to the Charm and Beauty of our Countryside | 52 | Progress Report on a Garden City, by Rudolph Roberts | 62 | |
| A Miracle in Hertfordshire, by J. W. West | 53 | What is the Future of our Commons? by J. G. Craufurd | 64 | |
| Tahiti Chief at Hertford, by Carson I. A. Richie | 54 | The Spring among the Ashes, by Albert W. Sheldrick | 66 | |
| Our County's Heritage of Parks, by Geoffrey R. Allenby | 56 | The Flirtations of Elizabeth Raper, by W. Branch Johnson | 69 | |
| Our Readers' Forum | 70 | |||
| The Great Fire of Ashwell in 1850, by Peter J. Catterick | 78 | |||
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| Frontispiece: A Hertfordshire hunting scene | 89 | The Grass Money of Hertfordshire, by Malcolm Pinhorn | 100 | |
| Markyate gets its By-pass, by H. J. Willis | 90 | Link with Victorian Days Broken, by Lady Robertson Nicoll | 102 | |
| Roman Akeman Street, by Jas. A. Patrick | 92 | Anthony Trollope at Waltham Cross, by M.W. ROberts | 103 | |
| The Policeman of Hertfordshire, by Claude Hamilton | 94 | Early Probation in East Hertfordshire, by F. H. Sillitoe | 104 | |
| Harts, Hurts and Hertfordshire, by A. H. Tounge | 96 | The Royal Hunt in Royston, by Carson I. A. Richies | 106 | |
| The Manor of Aspenden, by K. R. Jones | 97 | Watford and the Coming of the Railway, by Wynne High | 110 | |
| Forgotten Hertfordshire Writer, by J. R. Milsome | 98 | A Lesser Known Hertfordshire Battle, by Richard Law | 111 | |
| Amber Tankard of North Mimms, by H. M. Alderman | 99 | Our Readers' Forum | 112 | |
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| Frontispiece: Evening light on Flamstead village | 131 | Fading Scenes: Memories of Hoddesdon of Sixty Years | ||
| Best Kept Village Competition | 132 | Ago, by Dora Saunders | 140 | |
| "Puffing Annie" in Retrospect, by W. G. S. Crook | 133 | Hemel Hempstead in the 1880's and 90's, by V. J. Wrigley | 142 | |
| The Golden-hearted Man of Hertfordshire, by Ronald S. | Theatre in a Barn, by Rudolph Roberts | 144 | ||
| Pickersgill | 134 | The Cuckoo in Hertfordshire, by Harold A. Roberts | 145 | |
| The Manor of Mardleybury, by F. E. Ballin | 135 | Welwyn and The Frythe, by F. E. Ballin | 146 | |
| John Edwin Cussans, Herald and Historian, by Anthony | Police Work during the War, by Claude Hamilton | 150 | ||
| de C. Cussans | 136 | Our Readers' Forum | 152 | |
| The Scorched Almanacs | 137 | Hertfordshire Gardens | 156 | |
| A Hinxworth Story | 138 | |||
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| Frontispiece: Waterford near Hertford | 11 | Hertfordshire Illustrated: Ancient and Modern; Minding the | ||
| Dog Watch Sailors, Lieut. Ian Lowe, R.N.V.R. | 12 | Baby; Hertfordshire Curios; Hertfordshire Reflections; | ||
| I'm pretty middling-how are you? by F. A. Richardson | 14 | Tower View | 25-33 | |
| May Day in Hertfordshire - ancient and modern, by Gordon | Memories of Stevenage over forty years ago, by E. I. Molony | 34 | ||
| Ridgewell | 16 | Crimes in Hertfordshire a century ago | 36 | |
| Arthur Orton, the Hertfordshire imposter, by J. R. Milsome | 18 | Fishing in the River Mimram, by R. S. Ferry | 38 | |
| Elizabeth Aynsworth, the shady lady of Bishop's Stortford, | What's in a Name, by Geoffrey Bowell | 41 | ||
| by Harold A. Roberts | 20 | On Turning the Pages of the Parish Register, by W. G. S. Crook | 42 | |
| The Bittern in Hertfordshire, by Charles H. Cooke | 22 | St. George's School, Harpenden, by F. C. Hamlyn | 45 | |
| The Charles Lamb Silver Medal, by H. G. Smith | 23 | Hertfordshire Gardens | 46 | |
| The Sebrights and Beechwood, by L. R. Jones | 24 | Theodore of Tarsusand the Synods of Hertford and Hatfield, | ||
| by Ronald S. Pickersgill | 47 | |||
| Our Readers' Forum | 48 | |||
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| Frontispiece: Lord-Lieutenant at Wymondley | 67 | The Married Men's Feast, by D. K. Jervis | 78 | |
| The Fight Against Apathy and Subtopia | 68 | Verulamium - a City of Rediscovery, by Alec MacMunn | 80 | |
| When Hertfordshire Property was Mutually Protected, by | One of the County's first Probation Officers, by H. S. | |||
| W. G. S. Crook | 71 | Chambers | 83 | |
| The Luck of the Game, by William Crisp | 72 | Over Sixty Years at the Forge, by T. C. Mayhew | 84 | |
| Percy Everett, Inventor of the Slot Machine, Harold A. | The South-east Peninsula of Hertfordshire, by Margery | |||
| Roberts | 73 | Roberts | 86 | |
| The Road-Railer of the Nicky Line, by Vic Lea | 74 | Hertfordshire's New River, Reginald P. Mander | 90 | |
| The ravages of time have nearly destroyed this old church, | The Best Kept Village Contest | 92 | ||
| by Harold A. Roberts | 76 | The Story of Methodism in Hertfordshire, by Derek I. Jarrett | 94 | |
| Our Readers Forum | 97 | |||
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| Frontispiece: Hertfordshire Hunt at Water End | 115 | The 25-second Thrill, by Ian Lowe | 128 | |
| Personality with Many Interests, by Jean Harding | 116 | The Remarkable Countess of Stagenhoe, John de Vine | 130 | |
| The Charm of the Chilterns, by Geoffrey R. Allenby | 118 | Hertfordshire's Most Famous Prize-fight, by Vic Lea | 132 | |
| The County's Quiet Corner, by A. J. Ford | 120 | St. Albans Factory's Golden Jubilee, by T. H. Hook | 136 | |
| The Coming of the Railway to West Hertfordshire, by J. G. | Weston | 137 | ||
| Craufurd | 122 | Our Readers' Forum | 138 | |
| Hertfordshire's Lost Customs, by R. J. Pickersgill | 124 | Printing in Hertfordshire, by Harold A. Roberts | 146 | |
| The Welwyn Tunnel Tragedy of 1886, by Harold A. Roberts | 126 | |||
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| Frontispiece: Entrance to St. Albans Abbey | 159 | A race at three miles an hour, by David W. Reed | 174 | |
| More memories about St. Albans pioneer probation officer, | They call it the "shop walk," by T. Hamson | 176 | ||
| by Claude L. Westell | 160 | The Saxons in Hertfordshire, by J. R. Milsom | 179 | |
| Gossip - or more than gossip? by W. Branch Johnson | 162 | Our Readers ' Forum | 180 | |
| The great Panshanger Oak | 163 | How to win the Best Kept Village Competition | 188 | |
| Tragedy at Datchwood, by S. H. Ward | 164 | Literary Wheathampstead, by Harold A. Roberts | 189 | |
| How I started my own museum, by R. S. Ferry | 168 | Hertfordshire gardens open this spring | 190 | |
| Royal Hunsdon, by Eric Rayner | 170 | How to tame a turbulent husband | 190 | |
| Hertford - our county town, by G. C. Leach | 172 | |||
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| Frontispiece: Her Majesty the Queen at Stevenage | 9 | A Gentleman's Comments on Hertfordshire - in 1742, by | ||
| Prisoner in the Palace, by Rudolph Robert | 10 | W. G. S. Crook | 23 | |
| St. Albans Grand Old Man of Poetry, by V. W. Garratt | 14 | The Story of the Sparrows Herne Turnpike Trust, by | ||
| Grammar Schools in Hertfordshire yesterday and today, by | V. J. Wrigley | 24 | ||
| Robert Aitkin | 16 | The Chiltern Country, by G. S. Murphy | 26 | |
| The Oddities of Hertfordshire Clergymen a century ago, by | A Hertfordshire Village in the Great Civil Wars, by J. G. | |||
| W. Branch Johnson | 18 | Craufurd | 29 | |
| Hertfordshire Gardens open to the Public | 19 | Our Readers' Forum | 31 | |
| Obstreperous Ware, by Eric Rayner | 20 | Photographic Competition | 38 | |
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| Frontispiece: Morris dancers at Hitchin | 49 | Shepherds Farm at Rickmansworth, by G. Cornwall | 62 | |
| Quaker meeting houses in Hertfordshire, by F. Bennett | 50 | Gossip - or more than gossip ? by W. Branch Johnson | 64 | |
| The roaming reporter of 700 years ago, by John Hales | The man-about-horses, by Julian Divett | 66 | ||
| Tooke | 52 | A gentleman's comments on Hertfordshire - in 1742 | 68 | |
| Sheep stealing and transportation, by W. G. S. Crook | 54 | Round and about Hertfordshire, by Lily Titman | 69 | |
| Best-kept village competition | 56 | Winged messengers of secrecy, by Eric Hardy | 70 | |
| Hertfordshire invaded by Frogmen, by K. Slader | 58 | Our Readers' Forum | 74 | |
| Photograph competition | 58 | War on ugliness | 80 | |
| "Uncle Toby" of Preston, by Edward Hunter | 60 | Women's page | 82 | |
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| Frontispiece: Wintry scene at Water End | 95 | County portrait - Joan Ryder, by Sylvia Burls-Hunt | 106 | |
| Unity of old and new at Hemel Hempstead, by G. Brooke | The forgotten pioneers of Hertfordshire, by, Edward Hunter | 108 | ||
| Taylor | 96 | "Poor and miserable . . ." by Carson I. A. Richie | 110 | |
| Trade signs in Hertfordshire, by Geraldine Mellor | 100 | Photographic competition | 111 | |
| I try to rear a baby bat, by James J. Walling | 102 | Mercy flight into Hertfordshire | 113 | |
| Soho in Wheathampstead, by William Crisp | 102 | Book reviews | 113 | |
| Sleapshyde, by S. F. Page | 103 | The Clock Tower of St. Albans, by F. C. Hamlyn | 114 | |
| The valley of the Mimram, by John D. Vine | 103 | Rugby football in Hertfordshire, by K. R. Jones | 116 | |
| Hertfordshire pioneer of the telegraph system, by Rudolph | The church which has disappeared, by Harold A. Roberts | 117 | ||
| Robert | 104 | Our Reader's Forum | 118 | |
| Dickens in our county, by John A. Dettmar | 105 | Women's page | 123 | |
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| Frontispiece: fir trees at Aldbury | 133 | The story of the Trojan car, by R. S. Pickersgill | 148 | |
| The Scots masterpiece, by Rudolph Robert | 134 | Photographic competition | 149 | |
| A Hatfield tragedy, by, Harold A. Roberts | 136 | The quiet man of Cheshunt, by E. M. D. Oliver | 150 | |
| The craze for long walks | 137 | Baldock's nine centuries, by Eric Rayner | 152 | |
| The last of the millers of Redbourne Bury, by Vic Lea | 138 | William Ford Stanley - Hertfordshire Inventor, by Frank | ||
| County Amenity Awards in Hertfordshire | 140 | Haley | 154 | |
| "I have sent for Mr. Lattimore," by J. H. Bushey | 141 | Royston boy's unusual hobby, by T. J. Ward | 156 | |
| Hertfordshire's first police court missionary, by F. H. Sillitoe | 142 | Our Reader's Forum | 159 | |
| Panshanger and the Cowpers, by F. E. Ballin | 144 | Best-kept village competition | 166 | |
| My mother's memories of a century ago, by Dorothy A. L. | County gardens open to the public | 166 | ||
| Prince | 146 | Women's page | 168 | |
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| Frontispiece: The alter, Ashwell parish church | 99 | Old age in Hertfrodshire | 115 | |
| Watford's historic almshouses restored and moderized, by | When Baldock had a workhouse, by Canon F. G. Brenchley | 116 | ||
| T. H. Hook | 100 | Ancient and modern in Kmpton, by R. W. Groom | 120 | |
| Scrapbook of 1860 | 101 | Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead, by G. W. S. Crook | 122 | |
| Bird visitors to the Lea valley, by J. J. Walling | 102 | A choice of names in Hemel Hempstead, by G. W. S. Crook | 123 | |
| Hertford homes in Queen Anne's day, by Harry Forrester | 104 | Our Reader's Forum | 124 | |
| When Hitchin and Royston had their own railway, by J. A. | County bookshelf | 128 | ||
| Fleming | 109 | Photographic competition | 128 | |
| The story of the heretic in the rectory, by Rudolph Robert | 110 | County commentary, by Reginald S. Pickersgill | 129 | |
| The scrag-end of Hertfordshire, by A. H. Tounge | 112 | Women's page | 130 | |
| How the railway came to St. Albans, by William Brooks | 114 | |||
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