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- 5 photos on Redbourn appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Redbourn
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who remembers the Goodger family from Shoreditch London
My Mum Ivy Goodger was Born at 43 Fish street in 1942 Along with her Twin sister Patrica
My Grandparents Rose & Alf Goodger moved from Shoreditch London to Redbourn during world war two. And they moved back to Shoreditch after 1944/45, does anyone have any memorys of The Goodger Family, (They were a big family 13 children) My Mum still has cousins living there,
Has any one got any Photos of the Goodger Family
Please contact me at dannyallen25@aol.com
many Thanks
Danny
Contributed by Danny Allen
Hertfordshire memories
who remembers the Goodger family from Shoreditch London
My Mum Ivy Goodger was Born at 43 Fish street in 1942 Along with her Twin sister Patrica
My Grandparents Rose & Alf Goodger moved from Shoreditch London to Redbourn during world war two. And they moved back to Shoreditch after 1944/45, does anyone have any memorys of The Goodger Family, (They were a big family 13 children) My Mum still has cousins living there,
Has any one got any Photos of the Goodger Family
Please contact me at dannyallen25@aol.com
many Thanks
Danny
A memory of Redbourn contributed by Danny Allen
The pond on the Common
This pond used to be known as The Silver Cup Pond but I do not know where the name originated. Here was where children would sail toy boats or paddle. I have not yet come across a current photo or reference to this pond so I am wondering if it has survived health and safety strangulation. Would love to hear more about it.
Silver Cup Pond, Harpenden, Herts.
Having grown up in Harpenden I remember The Silver Cup Pond very well. Firstly, to answer the question posed, I'm sure that the pond was named after the pub that stands on the main road not far away, which in my time was the A6, in it's day the fore-runner of the M1. It is possible that the silver cup itself could have been a horse racing prize from the days when this sport could be seen taking place on the common. As well as the pond, there was also a sandpit nearby where we used to play. It was hexagonal, made of concrete, and had a short pillar in the middle, great for banging your head on!
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A memory of Harpenden contributed by Malcolm McBride
Extracts From Redbourn & Hertfordshire books
It was along this street that the men of the town swarmed in 1381 towards St Albans. They demanded and received a charter protecting their right of pasture, fisheries and so on. After the death of Wat Tyler, the Peasants’ Revolt collapsed, and many of these concessions, but not all, were revoked. In ‘Hertfordshire Countryside’ for January 1970, W G S Crook writes: ‘I cannot recollect ever finding Redbourn High Street deserted.’ Frith’s photographer would have begged to differ.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
On 24 June 1827, William Cobbett wrote in his ‘Rural Rides’: ‘Set out at four this morning for Redbourn. The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort. The hedges are full with shepherd’s rose, honeysuckles and all sorts of flowers, with the most beautiful of all flower gardens and shrubberies on your one hand and corn on the other. What can equal these fields in Hertfordshire?’ Maybe our view lacks the shrubberies, flowers and corn, but little else would have changed since Cobbett’s time.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
Considered to be the oldest house in the village, the Jolly Gardeners is now a private dwelling. In the distance on the right stands the parish church, which dates from Norman times. It boasts one of the finest carved rood screens in the county - it is mentioned in the church records of 1479.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
On the level ground to the south-west of the town stands the almost ploughed-out remains of an ancient double-ditched camp called The Aubreys. Close by stood a house called The Aubreys, later the Aubrey Park Hotel, a fine part mock-Tudor building graced, in this view, by an elegant Humber Pullman limousine.It was originally Foster’s Farm, and was owned by the Dunn family, the London hat makers. After its conversion, The Aubreys was used for a short time as a holiday centre for children from Bethnal Green.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
It is a few years after No R87001 (above), and the High Street is still almost deserted - just a couple of cars but no pedestrians, despite the new-fangled zebra crossing. As every school child knows, the Romans built long straight roads; Redbourn High Street is no exception, for it forms part of the Roman Watling Street. It was along this road that the body of King Edward I’s wife, Eleanor, was brought on its journey from Lincoln to London. In 1554, the sick and feeble Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth I) was dragged from her bed at Ashridge to be brought to the Tower of London. She was so weak that her first overnight stop was at Redbourn. A hundred and seventy years ago, a Dr Stephens lived in the High Street. His invention of blue-black ink made him world famous.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".