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This web page lists links to other pages which contain information about various occupations and will be updated as relevant new pages are added.

General: Occupations in Hemel Hempstead in 1797

Tring Employers and Occupations in 1881

Hertfordshire Industry in 1903

Population Movements in Rural Hertfordshire

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Agriculture: Definition of "Husbandman"

Blacksmiths: see LINES, Wheathampstead, etc., 1800-1881 for a dispersed family of Blacksmiths - Blacksmith's Shop, Thorley, 19th century

Brewing and Malting: The Brewers and Malsters of Baldock, Early 19th Century

Brickmaking: How Bricks were made by hand & St Albans Brickmakers & Hertfordshire Brickmakers 1851 & The Leverstock Green Brickfields
see also A Short History of Bernards Heath

Buses: Hertfordshire Buses in Camera, 84 Bus to St Albans

Canals: Hertfordshire Barge Builders & Canal Houses, Tring & Lock Keeper's Cottage, Bulbourne, 19/20th Century & The Grand Junction Canal & The Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire & The Canal Tring-Rickmansworth in Camera & Water from Wendover

Cinema: Cinemas of Hertfordshire & Elstree. the British Hollywood

Coaching: Coaches and Inns, Redbourn, 1830's

Crime & Punishment: Early Crime and Punishment
150 Years Policing in Watford District  
St Albans Prison Staff  

Education: See Schools and Education

Entertainers: Entertainers in Hertfordshire & TheatreUK

Finance: Land Tax Commissioners 1863

Fire Brigade: Fire Brigade, St Albans, late 19th century

Fish: Hodgson & Hankin: A Fishy Tale of Old Hitchin &  Fried Fish Sellers

Gas Making: The Watford and St Albans Gas Company, 1834-1934

Markets: Hertfordshire Markets & Fairs

Match Making: Book: A Striking Industry in Letchworth

Mental Asylums: Early Mad Houses in St Albans and Harpenden & TAYLOR, Leavesden Asylum, 1889 (about problems locating records)
The Long Stay Hospitals of the St Albans area.

Military: World War One

Paper Making and related Occupations: The Endless Web & John Dickinson's Paper Works: WW1 casualties & But Where is Doo Little? & The Booksellers Retreat, Abbots Langley & Paper Makers, Hatfield, circa 1790 & Paper Mills and Paper Makers in England 1495-1800 & The Early History of Machine Paper-Making & WARRELL, Two Waters, Paper maker, early 19th Century & Stephen Austin of Hertford & John Dickinson and the Brandywine & Paper and Papermaking: An A-Z of People, Places and Terms

Pubs & Publicans : Hertfordshire Inns
Hertfordshire Inns & Public Houses
Brewers in Hertfordshire
The Inns & Public Houses of Walkern
The Inns & Public Houses of St Albans  in the 19th Century
Rickmansworth Publicans in 1850
The Red Lions of Hertfordshire in1881
Cricket and Cricketing Pubs in Hertfordshire
or for a definition of "Common Lodging House" see ALDRIDGE, Fishpool Street, St Albans, 19th century

Railways: see The Railways of Hertfordshire

Rural Sports: Hare & Hounds

Seed Merchant:  RYDER & Son, St Albans, Early 20th Century

The Sex Industry: Fallen Women

Shoe Makers: See Tring Employers and Occupations in 1881

Silk: See Silk Mills in Hertfordshire

Stone Masons: See Tring Employers and Occupations in 1881 & WARD, Abbey & Abbey Gateway, St Albans, 1870/80s

A Straw Plait Competition at Pirton in 1913: See post cards

Straw Industry: The History of Straw Plait & The Straw Hat Industry & Straw Plait Dealers 1851 & The Economics of Straw Plaiting in 1801 & Splitting Straw  & Fraudulently dealing in Straw Plait, St Albans in 1882

Suet Making: Wiles & Lewis, St Albans

Timber Merchants: Massey, St Albans
LAVERS, Hemel Hempstead, from late 19th century

Theatre: Cassio Dramatic Society - The King and I - Watford 1967

Undertakers: HORN, Undertaker, Hemel Hempstead, early 20th century

Veterinary: The Diseases of Sheep 1895 (William Cooper & Nephew, Berkhamsted)

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