Books on Hertfordshire

Barracuda Books

Barracuda Books, of Chesham, published a series of local  quality local history books, initially in "The Book of" series, to a standard plan. Typically each consists of a number of chapters of 2-3 pages of text and perhaps 5-6 pages of black and white illustrations - usually old photographs. The Hertfordshire volumes I know about, with first (and often only) edition dates, are:

• The Book of Amwell (1980) by Cyril Heath

• The Book of Bishop's Stortford & Sawbridgeworth (1976) by Ian Orton

• Remember Stortford (1985) by Violet Sparrow

• Yesterday's Stortford (1981, new ed 1997) by Violet Sparrow

 

• The Book of Boxmoor (1989) by Roger & Joan Hands and Eve Davis

• The Book of Chorleywood and Chenies (1983) by George E Ray

• The Book of Elstree & Boreham Wood (1988) by Stephen Castle & William Brooks

• The Book of Hatfield (1978) by Robert Richardson

• The Book of Hemel Hempstead & Berkhamsted (1975) by Gwennah Robinson

• The Book of Hertford (1975) by Cyril Heath

• Yesterday's Town. Hertford (c1981) by Cyril Heath

• The Book of Hitchin (1981) by Arthur M Foster

• The Book of Letchworth (1976) by Kenneth Johnson

• Remember London Colney (1986) by E. F. Banfield

• Remember Markyate, Flamstead & Trowley (1986) by Reg A Nelsey & Rosslyn French

• The Book of Park Street & Frogmore (1981) by Cyril H Martin

• The Book of Radlett and Aldenham (1990) by Donald Wratton

• The Book of the River Lea (1991) by Margaret Ashby

• The Book of Shenley (1985) by Joyce Boswell

• The New Book of St Albans (1976) by Elsie Toms

• Yesterday's Town. St Albans (1986) by Beryl Carrington & Robert Richardson

• The Book of Stevenage (1982) by Margaret Ashby

• The Book of Ware (1977) by Cyril Heath

The Book of Welwyn (1976) by Richard J Busby

• Hertfordshire (1978) by Gwennah Robinson is in a completely different format  and consists of a chronology of events that relate to the county.

• The Nicky Line. The story of the Hemel Hempstead and Harpenden Railway. (1977) by James & Hedley Cannon

• Children of straw. the story of a vanished craft and industry in Bucks, Herts, Beds and Essex. (1988) by László L. Gróf

   

  Unless there is a picture of the cover, or a link to another web page, I do not have ready access to books listed on this page.

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