Web Sites of Interest

Dacorum Heritage Trust

www.dacorumheritage.org.uk

The Dacorum Heritage Trust is hoping to set up a museum for the Borough of Dacorum - but as yet has no permanent display site. It holds regular historical exhibitions, has touring displays in local libraries, and has produced a number of publications. Its website currently includes the history of Coopers, the Berkhamsted based company founded in the mid nineteenth century which sold sheep dip (and later other products) world-wide.

An important feature of the site is the War memorials and Rolls of Honour which provides information on the men of Hemel Hempstead who died and who are commemorated on local war memorials.

Some of the earlier books and booklets were published by the Trust's predecessor, the Dacorum Museum Advisory Committee. A list of their books still in print can be found on their web site.

The books reviewed on this site (some out of print) are listed below:

Miss Salisbury's Notes on the History of Bourne End, 1985

Highways & Byways of Dacorum, 1985

Hemel Hempstead Volunteer Company 1915-1919 [undated]

Dacorum at War Exhibition Handbook 1987, revised 1995,

parts reprinted with picture in The Home Front.

Education in Dacorum 1992

The ABC of the History of Schools in Dacorum  1992

Roman Britain Exhibition 1993

Mrs Pipkin Remembers 1993

Berkhamsted Castle 1066-1495  1995 & 1998

Archaeology of Dacorum 1996

The Archaeology of the A41 Berkhamsted and Kings Langley Bypasses

Times Highway 1998 (Hardback Book)

Canal Memories through Dacorum 1999 - accounts of the Grand Union Canal

and the people who worked on it.

Railways of Dacorum 2nd edition 2000

The Early History of Machine Paper-Making 2nd edition 2003

Paper and Papermaking: An A-Z of People, Places and Terms 2004

A Walk along the High Street, Hemel Hempstead 2007

Lefevre James Cranstone: A Victorian Quaker Artist 2007 (Paperback Book)

Paper Pioneers 2008

A Walk along the Canal Towpath from Kings Langley to Winkwell 2008

Men of Iron. The History of Boxmoor Ironworks 2010

From the Blog March 2011

News from the Dacorum Heritage Trust The Dacorum Heritage Trust newsletters are now available online. The December issue gives details of the Tring Local History museum, and the March issue includes the history of Birtchnell Menswear shop. This Victorian building in Berkhamsted High street collapsed while undergoing building modifications in January. Percy Birtchnell was a local historian who wrote A Short History of Berkhamsted.