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Letchworth Childhood
Seeing the fountain in this picture brings back childhood memories from the 1950/60s of sailing boats up and down the paddling pool at weekends or when your parents took you down on a sunny afternoon. Summer fetes and funfair on the grass area between the paddling pool and Norton Way South, last but not least playing in the small wood behind the paddling pool before the Council cut it down and spoilt it!
A memory of Letchworth Garden City contributed by Ian Griffin
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.
A memory of Hitchin contributed by MAUREEN RAINE
Oakmere
I have found a painting of Oakmere House, Potters Bar dated 1935. I believe the house is now a Beefburger Resaurant. There is a clearer view of the house from across the lake, there is the large pine tree & smaller trees on the right of photp, the trees & bushes on the left have not yet grown. It is an interesting painting relating to a modern photo. I can be contacted on 07752033574 if you are interested.
A memory of Potters Bar contributed by David Walker
My favourite place as a kid
I spent most of the summers of the mid 60's in this pool and learnt to dive off the platform board in 1967. I swam all of my major medal and cetificate swims in this pool. The fountain was a place to play when not swimming.
A memory of Welwyn Garden City contributed by Jim Donnelly
Extracts From Pimlico & Hertfordshire books
It is thought that there has been a building on the site of the church since Roman times. A coin of Emperor Constantine, c337AD, was found on the site close to the line of the old Akeman Street and its crossing with the Icknield Way. The corbels on the arches of the nave are worth a close examination. They depict a pig wearing a friar’s cowl; a fox running off with a goose; and a monkey in a religious habit carrying a bottle in one hand and a book in the other. The church registers record the baptisms of a number of the early members of the family of George Washington, first President of the United States of America.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
The museum was erected in 1881 as a 21st birthday present for Walter Rothschild by his mother at a cost of £3300. It was designed by William Huckville, and built by the local builders J Honour & Sons; it replaced the original museum in a shed at the bottom of the garden! The museum was opened to the public in 1892, and attracted over 30,000 visitors each year. When Walter Rothschild died in 1939, the collection and museum were passed to the Natural History Museum, in whose possession they remain today.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
Close to the village of Nettleden is one of the most beautiful places in the county. At Water End, the River Gade runs under the fine three-arched bridge and through water meadows shaded by beech, willow and oak trees. One early visitor recorded in her journal: ‘Water End, where the broad pool of the river is shaded by large trees.’
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
The parish church of St Peter, which dates from before 1222, was built on the site of part of the old St John’s Chapel at the side of the Roman Akeman Street. In 1870 it was restored and clad in faced flint to a design by William Butterfield. The surplus flints from the interior were saved and used to build Sunnyside Church of St Michael and All Angels, which was dedicated in June 1909. Among the treasures of St Peter’s is a window commemorating the Hertfordshire poet William Cowper, who was born at Berkhamsted Rectory in 1731.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".
Parked by the side of Kings Road and opposite the memorial are a gleaming black Rover 14, a Riley 1.5 and an early F-type Vauxhall Victor. The school in the background was founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul’s, to provide education for 144 boys. Work was completed in 1544, and the school has been in continuous use since then. William Camden, the antiquarian, said: ‘This fine old school building is the only structure in Berkhamsted worth a second glance.’
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".