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Halsey's Delicatessen
Our grandparents used to visit Halsey's weekly from Old Stevenage to buy their provisions. Now I with my sister visit regularly especially as we love the new owners' Kirsty and Damien's Tea Room. We take our children for 'tea' there and they think it's a real treat! Christmas simply wouldn't be Christmas without our Christmas Pudding Coffee, and Wild Boar and Black Seal Rum Pate!
A memory of Hitchin contributed by sharon dudley
Hitchin
The scene is the rear of The Sun Hotel.
Queen Street
The road is called Queen Street and shows St Mary's Square on the left where the market was held on Tuesday and Saturday every week. Beyond that is Portmill Lane and the back of shops and offices at the top of Hermitage Road. On the immediate right is the Telephone Exchange.
Car in the Churchyard
This car was parked in the Churchyard outside the provisions shop Halseys.
Extracts From Charlton & Hertfordshire books
Charlton was the birthplace of Henry Bessemer, inventor of the Bessemer converter.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
The village of Charlton lies about 3/4 mile to the south-west of Hitchin. At the time of Domesday it was held by King William himself - before 1066, it was included in Earl Harold's estates as part of Hitchin. The River Hiz has its source just south of the village, and a watermill is recorded in the village in Domesday. In the 1800s, the villagers' income came from the straw-plaiting industry, which served the hat-making trade at Luton. Sir Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the Bessemer conversion process for manufacturing steel, was born here. It is said that Dog Kennel Farm, at Charlton, was originally kennels for Henry VIII's hunting hounds.
An extract from from"North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories".
In 1901, Hermitage Road was a pleasant, open avenue. The building on the left in view
46642, left, is the Hermitage, home of Frederick Seebohm; very little of it still remains.
Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
A view of St Marys church in 1931, with the War Memorial in the foreground. In 1752, the Rewd William Cole wrote that the tower was `one of the most clumsy and heavy ones I ever saw`. Perhaps `solid` is a kinder description.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
In the 1960s, the Sun Hotel’s yard did not include
fire escapes from the upstairs rooms, as it does now.
Otherwise, there is little but the parked cars to give
a clue to the date of this photograph. The timber-
framed buildings, on the left, are believed to date
from the 16th century.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".