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Old News from TRING and district |
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Links to News Stories These have been selected to illustrate the wide range of news stories that can be available |
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| 1724 | Tring saves money with a Workhouse This is the earliest reference to Tring I have found - and suggests that Tring, together with Berkhamsted, Watford and Aylesbury had been able to reduce Poor Rates by using workhouses. | |
| 1740 | Fatal accident in Tring Park The son of minister, Rev. Randolph, dies in riding accident in Mr. Gore's park. | |
| 1753 | A Chancery Case involving Joseph Adkins of Tring This frustratingly short report raises the question of how someone in the workhouse can fight and win a court case in Chancery. | |
| 1754 | Fraud at Tring | |
| 1775 | Tring defeated by Wendover at Cricket The earliest reference I have found to Tring playing Cricket | |
| 1800 | Opening of the Grand Junction Canal through Tring | |
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| 1827 | A Fist Fight at Wigginton The account of the fight, in which one of the fighters died, was reported around the country. | |
| 1835 | Cricket - Tring v Berkhamsted The earliest cricket match involving Tring which gives the score card | |
| 1836 | Fire at Tring Silk Mill Detailed account of fire which affected the top three floors of the mill. | |
| 1842 | Fire at Tring Silk Mill A very brief mention of a second smaller fire | |
| 1842 | Opening of the National School, Tring | |
| 1843 | Auction of Bakehouse and Chapel at Long Marston | |
| 1849 | Stealing a tea-caddy at Tring | |
| 1853 | Sale of the Tring Grove Estate Following the death of Viscount Lake the estate is sold in connection with a case in the Court of Chancery | |
| 1853 | The inquest of John Bagnall at Tring A Brief Inquest Report on death of John Bagnall | |
| 1859 | Tring Agricultural Society Includes the names of many local farmers and farm workers | |
| 1860 | Formation of Tring Rifle Corps | |
| 1860 | Short Weights in the Tring & Hemel Areas | |
| 1861 | Fire at Miswell Farm, Tring Buildings destroyed but farmhouse saved - arson suspected | |
| 1866 | Inquest into Mary Ann Parish at Aldbury who died of arsenic poisoning | |
| 1872 | An Earth Closet at the Tring Agricultural Show Work of a local inventor | |
| 1881 | Sale of Farm Stock at Town Farm, Aldbury (late William Ashby, sale by William Brown) | |
| 1887 | Obituary of Benjamin Crouch, of Miswell Farm, Tring | |
| 1889 | Visit of the Shah of Persia to Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire Visit included Hatfield, Ashridge and the Rothschilds at Halton | |
| 1890 | Stealing Money at Tring Account of case in Magistrates Court in Hemel Hempstead | |
| 1890 | Stealing Silk Stockings at Tring Account of case in Magistrates Court in Hemel Hempstead | |
| 1890 | Sale of Building Land at Tring Sale of plots in the Longfield Road area | |
| 1897 | Two killed by Lightning at the Tring Agricultural Show Death of Joseph Putman and Esther Keen | |
| 1897 | Pickpockets at the Tring Agricultural Show Trial of man arrested for pickpocketing | |
| 1900 | Football at Tring Grove Tring C.L.B. played football against Hempstead Youths in Grove Park, Tring | |
| 1914 | The Tring Agricultural Show in 1914 Disruptive effect of declaration of War - and horses taken for the army | |
| 1914 | Tring at War - November 1914: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, December: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th | |
| 1915 |
Tring at War - January 1915: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, February: 6th (Tring Show), 13th, 20th, 27th March: 6th, 13th, 20th. 27th, April: 3rd, 10th, 17th (Edward Barber V.C.) |
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| 1915 | Tring Agricultural Society AGM | |
| 1947 |
See Tring in 1947 |
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The Book Letters to Tring: The Great War 1914-1919 contains many letters from the Bucks Herald and other sources. |
| April 2012 | Page Created | |
| July 2012 | 1897 news added | |
| December 2012 | 1835 cricket news | |
| February 2013 | Many additions | |
| November/December 2014 | Regular postings of WW1 news |