Hertfordshire Magazine Contents

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Frontispiece: Swans on the pond at Aldbury	11	Hertfordshire gardens open to the public	24
The cemetery of Holy Trinity, Stevenage, by Harold A.		Well End's local, by G. Sherran	26
Roberts	12	The war years in Shaw's village, by Jean Harding	28
Hertfordshire looks altogether strange - on old maps, by		Bank holiday	30
M. Tomkins	14	A matter of tippling and otherwise, by W. G. S. Crook	32
The early mail roads of Hertfordshire, by W. G. Stitt Dibden	16	Widford, by Eric Rayner	34
A Hertfordshire nature reserve, by Edward Hunter	18	The duty of watch and ward, by W. G. S. Crook	36
A Hertfordshire worthy - Bishop Claud T. T. Wood, by		Our Reader's Forum	39
J. G. Craufurd	20
Photographic competition	20

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Frontispiece: Working boats on the Grand Union Canal	187	When the County Council was regarded as " new fangled,'
The man who inspired a love of nature, by Chas. H. Cooke	188	by, W. G. S. Crrok	205
By bus through Hertfordshire, by David W. Reed	190	An early co-operative experiment that failed, by Philip
Queer happenings in Hertfordshire, by Nora I. A. Robinson	192	Brown	206
The story behind road and place names, by C. Morris	194	The school on the A1, by R. G. Godsmark	208
The county scores a double century, by Lewis F. R. Jones	196	Hertfordshire brevities, by Ronald S. Pickersgill	210
Hertfordshire gardens open to the public	198	Reader's letters	211
Bassey builds the viaduct, by Rudolph Robert	200	Best-kept village competition	216
The bells of Hertfordshire and their founders, by E. A.		Photographic competition	217
Humphrey Fenn	202	Ford's new Zodiac Mark III	218
Seeing the county from a canal, by Roger P. Smith	204

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Frontispiece: River Bulbourne at Bourne End	229	Extracts from the Hertfordshire Society report	246
Walking round Hertford, by Margery Roberts	230	Hertfordshire's churches - (1) St. John the Baptist, Aldenham,
The cemetery of St. James, Goff's Oak	232	by Anthony S. B. New	248
The story of printing in our county, by Alfred H. Vernon	234	The River Lea is pleasant still, by Joan Bellingham	250
The last days of "Royston spike," by Richard Whitmore	236	The mansion	251
A veteran of 1883, by J. A. Fleming	237	Childhood memories of sixty-five years ago, by Olive Folds	252
The story of Roman life preserved in Veulamium Museum,		How the Hertfordshire Countryside has changed over two
by Rudolph Robert	238	centuries, by M. Tomkins	254
Fought for Cromwell, then turned Royalist, by J. R. Milsom	240	The curate turned Baptist, by Nora I. A. Robinson	256
The charm of Aldbury, by Ernest G. Crawley	241	County briefs, by Ronald S. Pickersgill	257
Hertfordshire's best-kept villages	242	Readers's letters	258
County portrait: Archdeacon of St. Albans, by W. G		Hertfordshire miscellany	262
S. Crook	244	Photogrphic competition	262
The secluded hamlet of Whempstead, by Harold A. Roberts	245	The Standard Triumph achievement, by our motoring cor-
		respondent	264

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Frontispiece: Snow scene on the River Colne at London		If we had bought that farmhouse at Aldbury, by Mrs.
Colney	277	M. E. Taylor	291
The farm labourer who left a small fortune, by the Rev.		The last known witch killing in this county, by A. A.
M. E. Dahl	278	McLoughlin	292
The house with four hundred years of history, by Harold A.		Barley, by Eric Rayner	294
Roberts	280	Haileybury College-one hundred years old, by E. S.
Limericks that Edward Lear might have written, by M.		Etheridge	298
Tomkins	281	Gymkhana organizer-aged thirteen	302
Amelia-the harum-scarum, by Rudolph Robert	282	Samuel Pepys slept here	303
New town: county reactions, by F. J. Osborn	283	From real to lawn tennis in Hertfordshire, by K. R. Jones	304
My collection of unusual smoking pipes, by J. T. Barton	284	Old persons and other (solutions to limericks on page 281)	305
Tring is a good centre for exploring the Chilterns, by Bryan		Reader's letters	306
L. Sage	288	Photographic competition	311
		The Singer Gazelle	312

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Frontispiece: St. Mary's Braughing	13
Hunting for the bats in Hertfordshire	14	James J. Walling
New life for a derelict butcher's shop	16	John Bailey
Who was the Roman General	17	J. A. Fleming
Memories of Brummy the knife grinder	18	Elizabeth E. Chivers
The unknown highwayman of Aston	19	W. O. Wittering
The Buntingford branch line	20	Geoffrey Body and
		Robert L. Eastleigh
New Lady chapel of St. John the Baptist, Harpenden	23	Rev. Gerald Ritson
Violence at Hoddesdon	26	E. W. Paddick
Introduction of Sunday schools in Hertfordshire	27	W. G. S. Crook
Hertfordshire churches (7)	28	Anthony New
Hertfordshire's library on wheels	30	Geraldine Mellor
Place-names which go back through the ages	32	J. G. Craufurd
The double murder at Aldbury	34	Ruth Craufurd
Edmund of Langley and the Spanish princess	36	G. C. Harper
New light on Roman roads	38	W. Branch Johnson
Gardens open to the public	39
Cottages saved from demolition	40
The history of Moor House	41
Gardeners' Sunday in Hertfordshire	41
Reader's Forum	42
The Humber Sceptre	46	Richard L. Jones

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Frontispiece: St. Andrew's church, Much Hadham	59
How the harvest was taken home in old Hertfordshire	60	Dorothy W. J. Baker
Gerybeard jug found in village inn	63
Anstey-the dower of queens	63	Eric Rayner
How the wooden fighter was developed in Hertfordshire	67	Ronald S. Pickersgill
John Scott of Amwell House	68	V. A. Rowe
Brass rubbing at Watton-on-Stone	70
Charles Lamb at the Blue Coat School	72	Rudolph Robert
The splendour of Ashwell church	74	Anthony S. B. New
A mixed bag, those tramps	77	Meta Hill
Village history in a parish magazine	78	Dorothy Colville
Best-kept village competition	80
The "wind of change" in Hertfordshire	82
Reader's Forum	84
The eating places of Hertfordshire (1)	90

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Eating places of Hertfordshire	101	"Trencherman"
Hertfordshire commentary	103	R. S. Pickersgill
Frontispiece: St. George's church, Norton	105
The Harrison's of Balls Park	106	R. P. Mander
Walking in Hertfordshire	108	D. E. Lennon
Hertfordshire churches (9): St. Stephen's St. Albans	110	Anthony S. B. New
The sunset of the year in Hertfordshire	113	Eileen Jones
Witchcraft in Hertfordshire	114	Betty Puttick
The defiant clerk of Ridge Parish Council	115	V. A Harwood
An ancient art in a modern Hertfordshire church	116	Rev. Edward Charles
The open-air lakeside theatre at St. Albans	118	Margot Strickland
The day gold was discovered in Hertfordshire	119	Harold A. Roberts
Church which was founded by the Conqueror's niece	120	Rev. E. A. Quin
The hair of King Edward IV	121	E. W. Paddick
It was Hobson's choice at Buntingford	122	Eric Rayner
Book review: Local boys who "made good"	125	John Bailey
"Pub" revolution in Hertfordshire	126	Francis Jones
The county's most unusual new church	130	Lewis F. R. Jones
Reader's Forum	132