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Hitchin books (9 available)
- 16 photos on Hitchin appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Hitchin
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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!
Contributed by sharon dudley
Visiting
The lady in the centre of the photograph walking towards the camera is Mrs Kate Silsby my grandmother who lived at 8 Tilehouse Street. When this was taken we think she would have been walking to St Ippollytts to visit her daughter Mrs Babs Brown.
Contributed by MAUREEN RAINE
Car in the Churchyard
This car was parked in the Churchyard outside the provisions shop Halseys.
Man in Picture 1965
The white-haired man in the photograph, I believe, is my father John Neville. He was a police sergeant in Hitchin from 1941 until his retirement in the late '50s.
Contributed by John Neville
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.
Hitchin
The scene is the rear of The Sun Hotel.
Extracts From Hitchin & Hertfordshire books
The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century. The cupola of the 1851 Corn Exchange rises above the collection of stalls and the surrounding Georgian facades. The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century. The cupola of the 1851 Corn Exchange rises above the collection of stalls and the surrounding Georgian facades. The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".
This photograph shows how the traffic used to run diagonally across the Market Place. To the left of the Italianate Corn Exchange, G C Flanders advertises the various cycles sold in the shop: Swift, Rover, Royal Enfield, Rudge and Whitworth amongst them. On the other side of the Exchange is Edwin Logsdon’s confectionery business. Gatward’s Engineers are to the right of this, and on the roof next door a man seems to be painting the chimneystack. On the far right is the Red Cow, and to its left is the Post Office. Next comes John R Jackson’s, a milliner and outfitter. In the right foreground, a policeman keeps an eye on proceedings.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
Still Walsworth Road, still 1901, but a little closer to the station. The wall on the right was built from slag and clinker from local foundries. The entrance leads to the Reverend Gainsford’s residence.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
Walsworth Road in 1901, at the junction with Whinbush Road and looking towards the station. The building on the left is a lodge forming part of the Hermitage estate. It is still there, but the thatch has been replaced with cedar shingles. Behind the trees stands St Luke’s Home of Rest for the Sick and Infirm.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".