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Heaven
This is simply my most favourite place in the whole world! No words can describe the peace and tranquility I feel when I walk along The Avenue with my family and dogs. The autumn months are my favourite! The range of colours in the trees, the conkers falling to the ground, and the sound of the branches swaying in the wind. Here I am at peace with the world. I wish it were longer, I could walk for ever!
Contributed by sharon dudley
Hertfordshire memories
Heaven
This is simply my most favourite place in the whole world! No words can describe the peace and tranquility I feel when I walk along The Avenue with my family and dogs. The autumn months are my favourite! The range of colours in the trees, the conkers falling to the ground, and the sound of the branches swaying in the wind. Here I am at peace with the world. I wish it were longer, I could walk for ever!
A memory of Stevenage contributed by sharon dudley
Childhood Memories
I remember when I was just a young teenager... you could roam around the village and just about everyone knew you.
I loved to wander down to Mill Stream Lane with my jam jar and fishing net and walk along the stream searching for stickle backs and anything else I could catch. The fields behind us would whisper in the breeze and the sunlight would filter through the trees and glisten on the water below. Life was not so demanding, not worried too much about stranger danger and you knew that you was nestled in a village that looked after its own.
I remember old "Snowy" who had worked for years in the local butchers shop.
I remember Mr ...read more here
A memory of Watton At Stone contributed by JOY ABBATO
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
Extracts From Stevenage & Hertfordshire books
Looking across the bowling green, we can see the Publix Cinema. It is showing ‘Jungle Jim’ starring Johnny Weissmuller, ex-Tarzan, and features the yet-to-be-famous Superman actor, George Reeves. ‘Jungle Jim’ was one of the worst of the ‘Jungle’ film genre - one reviewer wrote that ‘Jungle Jim’ had ‘no particular personality or background’. The Publix struggled on for a few more years, but it finally succumbed and closed when the Astoria opened in the new town. The war memorial was dedicated in 1921. Shortly afterwards, the open bowling green was fenced off.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
The building behind the Hillman Minx was originally the home of the Courbold-Ellis family. It is thought to have started life as a farmhouse, and was possibly owned by John Thurloe, Oliver Cromwell’s Secretary of State. The Courbold-Ellises owned it until the 1930s, when it became a hotel. The Cromwell, with its illuminated fish pond in the forecourt, was a popular stopping place for travellers; among its famous regulars was Sir Henry Wood, the musical conductor and founder of the Albert Hall Promenade concerts.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
Stevenage was the first of a series of post-Second World War new towns ringing London. Initially, Knebworth had been suggested, but it was felt that railway provision was better at Stevenage. It was envisaged that the population of Stevenage would increase from 7,000 to 60,000 in the following twenty years, and indeed 67.000 people lived in the town in 1971.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living 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".