The Francis Frith Collection.
You are here: Home > Explore your past > England > Hertfordshire > Hitchin > Memories

Memories of Hitchin

Get involved in the Frith Memories Community
Savour and share Memories of your favourite places.

Start now - Add your own Memory of Hitchin or to a Hitchin photo.

Shared Memories of Hitchin

Click to enlarge
Hitchin, St Mary's Church from Market Place 1908 (ref: 60881)
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!

Last edited: 31/10/2008 09:34 by Sharon Dudley  

Add your Memory    Add a comment    Add to your Album   
Click to enlarge
Hitchin, Cars c1965 (ref: H89301X)
Hitchin
The scene is the rear of The Sun Hotel.

Posted: 30/09/2008 14:40

Add your Memory    Add a comment    Add to your Album   
Click to enlarge
Hitchin, Queen Street c1965 (ref: H89078)
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.

Last edited: 30/09/2008 14:31

Add your Memory    Add a comment    Add to your Album   
Click to enlarge
Hitchin, Car c1965 (ref: H89058X)
Car In The Churchyard
This car was parked in the Churchyard outside the provisions shop Halseys.

Posted: 30/09/2008 14:18

Add your Memory    Add a comment    Add to your Album   
Click to enlarge
Hitchin, Churchyard c1965 (ref: H89065)
Year: 1965 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.

Posted: 26/01/2008 11:32 by John Neville  

Add your Memory    Add a comment    Add to your Album   
Click to enlarge
Hitchin, Bridge Street c1955 (ref: H89012)
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.

Posted: 29/06/2006 22:38 by Maureen Raine  

Add your Memory    Add a comment    Add to your Album   
 Send page to a friend

Need to revise your search? Click here for our Search Homepage, where you can browse by Place, Postcode or Keyword.