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St Albans / Penrose 1926St Albans, Hertfordshire: French Row
The Spirella Building, Letchworth Garden City, HertfordshireThe Spirella Building, Letchworth Garden City, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1938
St Albans Abbey 1802St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire. The Abbey was founded in 793 by Offa, King of Mercia, supposedly on the site of the martyrdom of St Alban in A.D. 303
Hitchin, Herts 1940SThe corner of Bridge Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where the speed limit for W.D. (War Department) vehicles is 15 m.p.h. The Half Moon pub, sells Noted Luton Ales, too
Welwyn Garden City, an example of town planningAn advertisement for new houses and industrial sites at the new town of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, an example of town planning, designed to take people away from polluted cities
St. Albans Market Day possibly 1920s
The Village, Codicote, HertfordshireThe Village, Codicote, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Showing the George & Dragon Hotel Date: 1903
Harpenden High Street early 1900s
Wallingford Screen, St Albans Abbey, HertfordshireView of the 15th century Wallingford Screen (high altar) in St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire. The statues were destroyed during the Dissolution, but were replaced in the 19th century
Crib Street, Ware, HertfordshireCrib Street, Ware, near Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1930s
Market, Hitchin, HertfordshireMarket, Hitchin, near Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1904
Stevenage New TownThis pedestrianised shopping centre at Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire, England was the first in England, opened in 1959. It was also the first designated New Town in 1946. Date: July 1966
Ladies Cycling ClubJolly Hockey sticks! Its the Rosslyn Ladies Cycling Club, causing quite a stir as they cycle through the village of Hadham Cross, Hertfordshire, England. 1930s
Stanstead Abbotts - The BridgeThe village of Stanstead Abbott in Hertfordshire lies on the Greenwich Meridian. Date: 1907
Letchworth / HillshottLetchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire: Hillshott, a street of small houses
Pishiobury Approved School, HertfordshireAerial view of the Approved School at Pishiobury, near Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. A cricket match is taking place. Date: circa 1940s
St. Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire. A sacred site from ancient times, Benedictine monks built an abbey in St. Albans memory. Later rebuilt by the Normans. Date: 1930s
William HaleWILLIAM HALE Well-fed resident of Kings Walden, Hertfordshire, with his autograph Date: 1749 - 1829
The Ovaltine Factory and Farms, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. Date: circa 1940s
England / WaresideThe pretty little village of Wareside, near Ware, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1930s
England / SawbridgeworthBell Street, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, showing some of its quaint and picturesque old houses. Date: 1950s
Sir John BrockettSIR JOHN BROCKETT of Brockett Hall, Hertfordshire : merchant trading with Spain. Date: 1538 - 1598
Cinema, LetchworthQueuing to see The Golden Voyage of Sinbad at the Broadway cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England Date: circa 1969
Coal Narrow BoatsA pair of laden narrow boats, with their cargoes of coal, passing through a lock on the Grand Union Canal near Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Hitchin, Herts 1940SThe corner of Bridge Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where the speed limit for W.D. (War Department) vehicles is 15 m.p.h. A horse and cart keeps strictly to this limit
St Albans, HertfordshireThe medieval clock tower at St Albans, Hertfordshire Date: 1948
St Marys Church, Hitchin, HertfordshireSt Marys Church, Hitchin, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1910s
Multiview, Letchworth Garden City, HertfordshireMultiview, Letchworth Garden City, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1930s
England / RickmansworthA solitary vehicle leaving Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, in the days when it was more like a country lane. Date: 1950s
Tewin Water House and Tewin Water, HertfordshireView of Tewin Water House and Tewin Water, at Digswell, Hertfordshire, with a host of golden daffodils in the foreground
Napsbury Asylum Administration Block, HertfordshireThe administration block of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, also known as Napsbury Asylum, originally opened in 1905 on Shenley Lane, London Colney, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Rickmansworth - 1922Grand Union Canal, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Grand Union CanalNarrow boats passing through the locks on the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth, in the Colne Valley, Hertfordshire, England
Rickmansworth / Herts / 50SA sylvan glimpse in one of Rickmansworths pretty lanes, one of the beauty spots of Hertfordshire
England / Gorhambury HouseRemains of Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire
Photograph of Stonehouse Hotel, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub
Photograph of Cuffley Hotel, Cuffley, Hertfordshire. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub
Broxbourne Mill and Stream, the Old Mill and Meadows Site Lee Valley Park, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. A mill stood here for 900 years before being destroyed by fire on 1 October 1949. Date: 1911
Woodcarvers Shop - Woolmer Green, HertfordshireHarry Macdonalds Woodcarvers Shop - Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Harry MacDonald (a Yorkshireman) came south and brought this cottage for 1, 000 in 1937
Shaftesbury and Arethusa Boys Homes, Royston, HertfordshireThe Shaftesbury & Arethusa Boys Homes at Royston, Hertfordshire, were set up by the National Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children, founded in 1843 by William Williams
St Andrews Street, Hertford, HertfordshireSt Andrews Street, Hertford, near Ware, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1900s
The Fall of the German airship L-21 by Fortunino Matania, WW1The destruction of the German Zeppelin L-21 over Cuffley, Hertfordshire after being shot down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson on the night of 2nd/3rd September 1916
Eight Bells, HatfieldThe Eight Bells inn at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, referred to in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Bill Sykes met the pedlar here. Date: 1950s
Three Counties Asylum, Arlesey, BedfordshireThe Three Counties asylum at Arlesey (misspelt on picture), near Stotfold, Bedfordshire, opened in 1859, serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire
The Garden Model Village - Woodcarvers Shop - Woolmer GreenHarry Macdonalds Model Village in the Garden of his Woodcarvers Shop - Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Hertfordshire
Ayot Place, HertfordshireA pair of architectural drawings showing various angles, including the entrance facade, of Ayot Place, in Hertfordshire. Date: early 1900s
St. Albans Abbey, west front, St Albans, HertfordshireSt Albans Abbey (Cathedral), west front, before Grimthorpes additions in the early 1880s. circa 1870s
Market Place, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1910s
Guessens Court, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1920
John of WallingfordJOHN OF WALLINGFORD monk of St Albans, Hertfordshire Date: 1231 - 1258
Hatfield aerodrome, Hertfordshire
England / WatfordThe Ponds, a well-known feature at Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1960s
Ford on the River LeaThe Ford on the River Lea, Waterend, east of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England. The lane is a fragment of a Roman Road, pointing towards Welwyn. Date: 1930s
YE OLDE FIGHTING COCKSYe Old Fighting Cocks, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, a quaint old hostelery which claims to be the oldest unaltered house in the country. Date: early 17th century
Gardens at Tewin, HertfordshireView of gardens at the village of Tewin, near Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, showing many shades of tulips growing in an open, grassy area
Union Workhouse, HertfordA view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre
Laundry at National Childrens Home, Harpenden, HertsGirls iron and fold clean washing in the laundry at the National Childrens Home, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
Bee Hives Near WelwynA cyclist stops to admire the many rows of bee hives situated here along the Great North Road near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England
Knight Templar EffigyThe effigy of a Knight Templar in a niche in the south wall of St Marys Church in Walkern Hertfordshire. The knight is probably William de Lanvalei II
Lifting PotatoesPotato lifting using horses and plough, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Rickmansworth / 1926Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Letchworth / Houses 1913Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire: houses near Norton Common
Cedars Estate RickmanswhAerial view of Cedars Estate, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England - showing homes tastefully laid out with large gardens
Watford in 1826The High Street of Watford, Hertfordshire, with a carriage, a coach, a wagon and numerous citizens going about their business
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, the celebrated Jacobean mansion built by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and the home of the Cecil family ever since
St. Albans Market Place early 1900s
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, around the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I (1559). As Princess Elizabeth she lived there in a form of semi-confinement, during the reign of Queen Mary
Poster, Explore Your Country through the YHAPoster, Explore Your Country through the Youth Hostels Association. circa 1955
Selby Avenue, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1910s
Temnocidaris sceptrifera, fossil echinoidTemnocidaris (Stereocidaris) sceptrifera, 5.5 cm in diameter, from the Cretaceous Chalk of Hertfordshire, England, apical view
The Natural History Museum at TringGallery 3 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, the sister museum of the Natural History Museum, London
G. B. SHAWs HOMEThe home of Irish playwright GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856 - 1950), at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1930s
COLD CHRISTMAS SIGNAn amusing signpost for the villages of Much Hadham and Cold Christmas in Hertfordshire, England! Date: 1950s
Straw-PlaitingThree women plait straw, near St Albans, Hertfordshire
England / Nasty 1930SNot so bad as the name suggests. An interesting old village with a " bad" name: Nasty in Hertfordshire
Charles Lamb / Mackery EndCHARLES LAMB English writers farmhouse at Mackery End, Hertfordshire
Royal Masonic Institute For Boys, Bushey, HertfordshireThe Royal Masonic Institute For Boys opened in 1903 Bushey, Hertfordshire. The school educated the sons of Freemasons. Date: Date unknown
Timber-Framed CottagesTimber-framed Clergy Houses just within the gateway of the churchyard at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 16th century
Moor Park, HertfordshireMoor Park, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1770
ST GEORGEs SCHOOL 1930SSt Georges School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
Map of the Greater London area with council areas marked. Date: mid-20th century
Lady de Trafford and her children at Newsells Park, HertsWhos Who in Herts - Lady de Trafford and her children (Anne, Mary, Violet and Catherine) at Newsells Park, Hertfordshire. Date: 1930
Hatfield House, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century
St. George's Church, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1964