Books on Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Countryside

March 1966

 This magazine contains articles/photos on the following subjects:

Walkern Parish Church (cover picture)

Children fishing [on the River Gade, Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead] (frontispiece)

Round the world on a penny farthing bicycle [Tom Stevens, of Berkhamsted] by Percy C. Birtchnell

Anthony Trollope at Waltham Cross by Rudolph Robert

Peeps into the past of old Barnet by Rev Sydney W Hart

What Hertfordshire Place-names mean by B J Terry

Diamond Magnates and their Tewin country seat by Rudolph Roberts

As now, the housewife of 1750 had plenty of advice [William Ellis, Little Gaddesden] by Betty Puttick

Royal Royston by Sidney Raban

Catching big Pike by Frank Guttfield

My memories of Hoddesdon in the olden days by W. F. Taylor

The letters of a Barnet Ostler [James Ripley at the Red Lion] by R. G. Ware

The Holyhead Road of Ogilby's "Britannia" by M. Tomkins

Furneaux Pelham - The former forge alongside the blacksmith's cottage

Spotlight on Furneaux Pelham by Eric Rayner

The Hertfordshire St. George and the Dragon [Piers Shonkes, Brent Pelham] by Betty Puttick

The fascination of pond life [Willian pond]

Afoot in Hertfordshire (1) Elstree and the Colne Valley by Frank Dawes

Our Reader's Forum [Edward VII and Hertfordshire; Straw plaiting; Chesfield church; Hertfordshire mountaineer; Witches' broom; Watford legend; Child mortality; An unusual stile; Zeppelin raids; Arkley mill; The Kesteven brass; Hertford's hart]

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