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Berkhamsted Review Articles by Percy Birtchnell

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Sep-48 Wood-Turners of Berkhamsted (place name 'town of the birch trees') Beorcham Name

Sep-48 Six Hundred Years Ago (bowl-turners and shovel makers when the Castle was in its

prime)

Beorcham Business

Sep-48 Real Craftsmanship (William Ellis of Little Gaddesden tells us that alder poles used by

turners)

Beorcham Business

Sep-48 Industrial Age (saw-mills, coach-builders, barge-building works, coopers' yards,

breweries)

Beorcham Business

Sep-48 Varied Products (woodenware , brushmaking) Beorcham Business

Sep-48 Sixpence an Hour (Joseph Tufnell, died two years ago aged 86, apprentice to John Sills) Beorcham Business

Sep-48 Dwindling Woods (National Trust reafforestation scheme for Ashridge) Beorcham Nature

Aug-50 Wool Merchants of Berkhamsted Beorcham Business

Nov-50 Peace, Plenty - and Poverty, Berkhamsted The Good Old 'Times' (Berkhamsted Times) Beorcham Publication

Dec-50 Berkhamsted in the Good Old Coaching Days Beorcham Road

Jan-51 Berkhamsted's Ancient Markets and Fairs Beorcham Business

May-51 No Recreation Ground, No Trams Beorcham Utilities

Jul-51 White Smocks for Firemen Beorcham Utilities

May-52 Straw-plaiters of Berkhamsted Beorcham Business

Apr-55 Berkhamsted Tradesfolk in 1824 Beorcham Business

Jul-64 When wool was the staple local trade: The town's first merchants Beorcham Business

Jul-64 On the screen (the Bargee) Townsman Entertainment

Jul-64 Town Hall clock (painted) Townsman Municipal

Jul-64 Manor house (Little Gaddesden) Townsman Places

Jul-64 Where to go (the Lee at Great Missenden, Tring museum, Ivinghoe windmill) Townsman Visitors

Aug-64 August the Fourth 1914 Beorcham Military

Aug-64 Spoiling the view (Home & Colonial advertisement) Townsman Building

Aug-64 No Happy Returns (from Euston station) Townsman Utilities

Aug-64 Breaking the Glass (Church room, Potten End) Townsman Church

Aug-64 Swinging the Gate (telescoping street names e.g. Swingate Lane) Townsman Street

Sep-64 Berkhamsted in the Great War: The Inns of Court O.T.C Beorcham Military

Sep-64 Aldbury double murder (gamekeepers killed by poachers, Dec 1891) Townsman Places

Linda Rollitt 03/02/2015



Sep-64 From the continent (exchange students) Townsman Visitors

Sep-64 Same name (St Peter's visitors book; Swing Gate farm Johannesburg) Townsman Visitors

Sep-64 Visitors' views Townsman Visitors

Oct-64 Berkhamsted in the Great War: On the Home Front Beorcham Military

Oct-64 Green light (signal always green) Townsman Railway

Oct-64 Station bell (signal box removed) Townsman Railway

Oct-64 Down on the 'Upper' (Kings Road) Townsman Street

Oct-64 Thanks for the memory ('Alice' the horse-drawn fire engine) Townsman Utilities

Nov-64 Choirboy's return (John Dell moved to New England) Townsman Church

Nov-64 What's his name? (Northchurchian, -er, -ite, -man) Townsman Name

Nov-64 Colourful Berkhamsted (autumn colours in the town) Townsman Nature

Nov-64 Black Marks in Local History: Berkhamsted's Lost Chances (Wilderness / the Moor) Beorcham Planning

Nov-64 Alice where art thou? (fire engine) Townsman Utilities

Nov-64 Overseas visitors (St Peter's visitors book; connection with Swing Gate Lane - Sylvia

Hart née Dell)

Townsman Visitors

Dec-64 Hidden casket (buried under oak tree in Hall Park, but never found again) Townsman Artefact

Dec-64 Firefighting in bygone Berkhamsted: The Church 'Engine Room' Beorcham Church

Dec-64 Local time signal (church bells) Townsman Church

Dec-64 New library (transfer from Prince Edward Street) Townsman Municipal

Dec-64 Our parish registers (request for data for Cambridge population project) Townsman Records

Dec-64 Flint cottage (demolished to make way for development up Swing Gate Lane) Townsman Street

Jan-65 Beorcham in the Underworld: Berkhamsted's Secret Tunnels Beorcham Church

Jan-65 In the limelight (suggestions for floodlighting the church) Townsman Church

Jan-65 Robert de Tuardo (first rector of St Peter's) Townsman Church

Jan-65 Hard to find (Victory Road and Victoria Road) Townsman Directions

Jan-65 Bright lights (Christmas tree - request for more lights in the town) Townsman Entertainment

Jan-65 Information please (regarding Park Street - chapel?) Townsman Street

Feb-65 Old characters (Ali Sloper's toy windmills to swap for jam-jars, Dutter, Old Brushy) Townsman People

Feb-65 Whiter Berkhamsted (Billy Whitening sold chalk for doorsteps) Townsman People




Feb-65 Brickhill Green (appeal to stop rubbish) Townsman Utilities

Feb-65 Side by side (little bridge beside Castle Street bridge, for use of horses from towpath) Townsman Waterway

Mar-65 On the waterfront (Crystal Palace and Poets Corner) Townsman Building

Mar-65 Tall chimneys (industrial chimneys being demolished) Townsman Change

Mar-65 Collops and cucumber (book by W.S. Shears, This England) Townsman Food

Mar-65 Tring dumplings (meat one end and jam at the other - is this a myth?) Townsman Food

Apr-65 Tavern in the town (Railway Tavern to be pulled down) Townsman Business

Apr-65 Eighty Institutions in 750 years: The Rectors of Berkhamsted Beorcham Church

Apr-65 Dumplings for dinner (Tring dumpling not a myth; drovers' pork and apple 'clanger' in

Bedfordshire)

Townsman Food

Apr-65 Curly stories (local character famous for Berkhamstedisms, or Irishisms with W. Herts

upbringing)

Townsman People

Apr-65 Another post (turnpike post in Gossoms End, also Watford) Townsman Road

May-65 Relic of the past (farm gate next to Sayer's almshouses in Cowper Road) Townsman Artefact

May-65 Poet's corner (named after Frank Reffitt, lodger at cottage after serving with Inns of

Court)

Townsman Building

May-65 Private not public (Boote and George and Dragon in Castle Street) Townsman Building

May-65 The folly (students asked if folly in neighbourhood were advised to see Beorcham!) Townsman People

May-65 Four centuries of parish history: Strange tales from the Registers Beorcham Records

May-65 Nothing new (traffic noise in the High Street; local by-pass first mooted 30 years ago,

1935)

Townsman Road

May-65 Penny post? (Victorian letter-box in Shootersway) Townsman Utilities

Jun-65 In the air (resurgence of interest in civic affairs) Townsman Municipal

Jun-65 Four centuries of parish history: An Ale-house at Brickhill Green Beorcham Places

Jun-65 Looking to the future (social centre, by-pass, new building plans) Townsman Planning

Jun-65 Citizens' Association Townsman Society

Jun-65 The Crinkle-Crankle (near Bottom Farm) Townsman Walk

Jul-65 Odd names in the registers Beorcham Records

Jul-65 Ninety Years Young (Cricket Club booklet by H.E. Todd) Townsman Sport

Jul-65 Duncombe Terrace (walk to Northchurch and Aldbury Commons) Townsman Walk




Jul-65 Right Number (phone numbers in Berkhamsted in 1906-7) Townsman Utilities

Jul-65 Coaching Days (man's life saved by coach driving over him) Townsman Transport

Jul-65 Opening of Berhamsted's new library Townsman Utilities

Aug-65 The American Berkhamsted (in Connecticut) Beorcham Places

Aug-65 That Hidden Casket (planted at the Hall) Townsman Artefact

Aug-65 Empty Houses Townsman Building

Aug-65 Look for the Date (visible from pavement) Townsman Building

Aug-65 Half Baptised (emergency when child not expected to live) Townsman Records

Aug-65 Keep Going! (footpaths becoming overgrown) Townsman Walk

Sep-65 Dated buildings (in High Street) Townsman Building

Sep-65 In the wilds (raspberry picking, wood collecting) Townsman Nature

Sep-65 What we lack (large public garden) Townsman Visitors

Sep-65 Canal museum (at Stoke Bruerne) Townsman Waterway

Sep-65 Our hill-top village namesake: Little Berkhamsted Beorcham Places

Oct-65 The King's Way to the Castle: Berkhamsted's Royal Road (Castle Street) Beorcham Castle

Oct-65 Farrier's Hall (British Legion) Townsman Building

Oct-65 Writing on the wall (Nash's celebrated Chesham Ales on wall during demolition of

Railway Arms)

Townsman Business

Oct-65 Torture chamber (hard chairs in Council Chamber) Townsman Municipal

Oct-65 Plain spelling (two letters dropped from Berkhampstead) Townsman Name

Oct-65 Crossing the road Townsman Road

Oct-65 Found in a garden (metal token 'C.B. Chasteney, Berkhamsted. Denomination 1/2-lb.

coupon' for tea)

Townsman Archaeology

Nov-65 Ancient and Modern (servants, curate's mistake, bread & fireworks) Beorcham People

Nov-65 Lighting-up time (Town Hall clock) Townsman Utilities

Nov-65 Fresh Discoveries (at the Castle and Station) Townsman Archaeology

Nov-65 Wandering Around (local walks) Townsman Walk

Nov-65 Roadside Chat (Council meeting outside Civic Centre) Townsman Utilities

Dec-65 Two ways to the castle: Tradesman's Entrance Beorcham Castle

Dec-65 Famous hymn writer (Rev. Henry Twells) Townsman People

Dec-65 Popular lectures (at Local History Society) Townsman Society

Dec-65 Not so bright? (street lights) Townsman Utilities




Dec-65 Climbing the heights (Ivinghoe Beacon) Townsman Walk

Jan-66 When labourers married straw plaiters: Northchurch Registers Beorcham Records

Jan-66 In the cart (Temperance children on an outing in a brewer's dray, 1896) Townsman Road

Jan-66 Coming events (pageant) Townsman Entertainment

Jan-66 Butts meadow (Mrs Lionel Lucas' gift to the town, including allotments) Townsman Street

Jan-66 On the level (Butts Meadow levelled by unemployed in 1932 @ 1s per hour) Townsman Street

Feb-66 Yeomen of Northchurch (local names, including Wild Boy) Beorcham People

Feb-66 Missing Milestones (removed in 1940) Townsman Street

Feb-66 Burke Hampstead (letter addressed) Townsman Name

Feb-66 Thomas Ellens / Henry Twells Townsman People

Feb-66 Ashlyns in America (Wethered family) Townsman People

Mar-66 Telling the time (different clocks in the town tell different times) Townsman Municipal

Mar-66 Milestones again Townsman Street

Mar-66 Saint Berkhamsted (letter addressed) Townsman Name

Mar-66 Transplanted (Sunken cottages railing moved to the Moor) Townsman Building

Mar-66 Lord Brownlow's Enclosure Beorcham People

Apr-66 Electrified line (not as many stops, affected parcel carriage e.g. watercress) Townsman Railway

Apr-66 Have you a crowbar? (from saving the Common) Townsman Artefact

Apr-66 New generation (players for pageant) Townsman Entertainment

Apr-66 The fight for Berkhamsted Common: Lord Brownlow's 'Carrot' (land nearer the town) Beorcham People

Apr-66 By the wayside (Berkhamsted station described as 'wayside station' to justify stopping

parcels)

Townsman Railway

May-66 Daffodil time (castle grounds and trough outside Goat) Townsman Nature

May-66 Unfriendly? Bah! (certainly not) Townsman People

May-66 Cheap outings (choir visited Llandudno in 1896) Townsman Entertainment

May-66 In Victorian Times (Temperance Society) Townsman Society

May-66 The Raid on the Railings (Berkhamsted Common) Beorcham People

Jun-66 In the window (displays from Society of local bygones in Dacorum college window) Townsman Society

Jun-66 Small world (inter-church pilgrimage to Holy Land) Townsman Church

Jun-66 On tap (water trough outside Town Hall, 1887) Townsman Municipal




Jun-66 Non-Roman walls (between Frithsden and Nettleden) Townsman Places

Jun-66 The 'Dick Turpin' of Berkhamsted Pageant: Snooks the Highwayman Beorcham People

Jul-66 Castle grounds (suggestions for use e.g. tennis courts, bowling green etc) Townsman Castle

Jul-66 Making friends (at the pageant) Townsman Entertainment

Jul-66 Not in the papers (pageant not mentioned in London papers) Townsman Entertainment

Jul-66 Ten years on (suggestion that pageant held at 10-yearly intervals) Townsman Entertainment

Jul-66 Twin town? (suggestion to link up with French town) Townsman Overseas

Aug-66 Old names for new (street names) Townsman Name

Aug-66 Smoothing the way (walk from Frithsden to Nettleden sunken lane) Townsman Walk

Aug-66 Villagers All (Pageant photo caption refers to villagers) Townsman Entertainment

Aug-66 Thomas Read (donated drinking fountain) Townsman People

Aug-66 The Churchwardens' Accounts Beorcham Church

Dec-66 Safety Measure (life-belts at the castle) Townsman Castle

Dec-66 Tatty Posters (should be removed after serving their purpose) Townsman Utilities

Dec-66 A Nice Town (visit by London Appreciation Society) Townsman Society

Dec-66 Name and Trade (Richard Wood, carrier) Townsman People

Dec-66 Home Example (speech by example) Townsman School

Dec-66 Paving the Way Victorian Style Beorcham Utilities

Mar-67 A Romance of the Coaching Days: Polly Page's Marriage (to Mr Monk) Beorcham People

Mar-67 Wild life (deer on Berkhamsted Common, foxes) Townsman Nature

Mar-67 Citizens' Association (popular) Townsman Society

Mar-67 From Ponds and Wells to Taps and Hydrants: Town's Pipelines Beorcham Utilities

Mar-67 Falling into line (spelling of Berkhamsted on ancient monuments) Townsman Name

Mar-67 This year's centenaries (film of pageant eagerly awaited) Townsman Entertainment

Apr-67 Planning progress (town centre appraisal plan at the library) Townsman Planning

Apr-67 Cheap fares- old version Townsman Railway

Apr-67 A Cottage in Berkhamsted churchyard: How the High Street developed Beorcham Street

Apr-67 New views (new plans for the town) Townsman Planning

May-67 Our changing town (Dell Field housing estate, new RC church in Park Street, Poet's

Corner gone)

Townsman Change

May-67 In the country (flowers, birds and rubbish) Townsman Nature

May-67 No end of ends (why do so many place names end with End?) Townsman Name




May-67 Local History with a personal touch: Long Memories and Short Commons Beorcham Society

May-67 Zigzag path (north side of castle) Townsman Street

May-67 Caught in a trap (stoats in Ivy House Lane) Townsman Nature

Jul-67 1495 - a Black Year in Local History: Why the Castle was Abandoned Beorcham Castle

Jul-67 Snakes alive (in a building near railway station) Townsman Nature

Jul-67 Frittisden prayer book Townsman Church

Jul-67 American compliment (in the Wethered book) Townsman Publication

Jul-67 Lock gates or weirs? (possibility of downgrade to utility waterway with weirs instead of

gates)

Townsman Waterway

Aug-67 Fun and games in Merrie Berkhamsted: Entertainments Old and New Beorcham Entertainment

Aug-67 The green belt (Brickhill Green, Sandpit Green) Townsman Nature

Aug-67 Links with Ashlyns (book by US descendants of Wethered family) Townsman Publication

Aug-67 Berkhamsted Museum (constrained by housing problem) Townsman Society

Aug-67 Wrong number (milk bottles indicator changed by children) Townsman Utilities

Sep-67 Accommodation bridges (to access properties on either side of the railway line) Townsman Railway

Sep-67 Bridge problem (narrow under the railway) Townsman Railway

Sep-67 Angle Place (footpath between Doctors Commons to Cross Oak Road) Townsman Street

Sep-67 From £12 'Jayle' to £100,000 Police Station: When Berkhamsted Owned a Prison Beorcham Utilities

Sep-67 Fares please! (need for new bus routes) Townsman Road

Dec-67 Why East's went West to Gossom's End: Berkhamsted's Oldest Business Beorcham Business

Dec-67 Gravel Path (named after carts carrying gravel between Ravens Lane and the Common) Townsman Name

Dec-67 Rambling club (not in Berkhamsted, though one in Tring_ Townsman Walk

Dec-67 Broad and narrow (Broadway between Hall Park and Bourne End very narrow) Townsman Name

Dec-67 Endpiece (OED definition of End, as in East End -> quarter) Townsman Name

Dec-67 Looking for eyesores (quiz by Citizens' Association) Townsman Society

Apr-68 Old bridge (canal bridge in Lower King's Road) Townsman Waterway

Apr-68 Have you ever seen a Southey?: From Stage Coaches to Motor-Cycles Beorcham Business

Apr-68 Victoria school (one of the town's greatest assets) Townsman School




Apr-68 Nameless alley (between High Street and Back Lane) Townsman Street

Apr-68 Favourite sights Incents, church, castle, market etc) Townsman Street

May-68 Street Cried of Bygone Berkhamsted: Watchman, What of the Night? Beorcham People

May-68 Ashley Green Townsman Places

May-68 Chalk school (Park View school) Townsman School

May-68 Berkhamsted Institute (oldest society, may have to close down) Townsman Society

May-68 Pride of Berkhamsted (first motor-coach) Townsman Road

Sep-68 From Market Stalls to Supermarkets 4: Contrasts in Local Shopping Beorcham Business

Sep-68 Town sign (outside Civic Centre, in need of repair) Townsman Directions

Sep-68 Georgian evening (in Ashridge College conference room) Townsman Entertainment

Sep-68 Flowers all the way (in Station Road and Ravens Lane) Townsman Nature

Sep-68 High Street changes (long row of post-war buildings, Waitrose, Woolworth, Sketchley) Townsman Business

Sep-68 Canal-side hazards (towpath washed away between Dudswell and Cow Roast bridge;

rubbish)

Townsman Waterway

Oct-68 From Market Stalls to Supermarkets 5: Tradesmen of Bygone Berkhamsted Beorcham Business

Oct-68 Georgian evening (idea from Local History Society; School for Scandal, Rivals, songs etc) Townsman Entertainment

Oct-68 Roadmender V.C. (James Osbourne) Townsman People

Oct-68 End of the road (A41, ends in Birkenhead) Townsman Road

Oct-68 Post Alley (between High St and Back Lane) Townsman Street

Oct-68 After 54 years (Captain Pearson came with Inns of Court; remembers bath lists) Townsman Military

Nov-68 Saving the gates (at entrance to Berkhamsted Place; moved to Radclive Manor,

Buckingham)

Townsman Artefact

Nov-68 Tuppence a head (in 'Daffy' de Fraine's hairdresser's) Townsman Business

Nov-68 Stories behind the Monuments 1: Thomas Baldwin's Hyde Park Charity Beorcham People

Nov-68 Hockeridge Wood Townsman Walk

Nov-68 Northchurch mystery ('new' postbox not new) Townsman Utilities

Nov-68 Cross Oak (Mansion the home of Lady Haslam, on site of home of Robert de Cruce) Townsman Street




Nov-68 By appointment (hairdressers Percy Pocock; 'Daffy' de Fraine hairdresser to Louis XVIII) Townsman Business

Nov-68 To boot (high leather boots for watercress growers) Townsman Business

Dec-68 Deans' Hall (named after both Deans, Incent and Fry) Townsman Building

Dec-68 Choirboys' cake (at Queen's Arms) Townsman Church

Dec-68 Finding the right name Townsman Name

Dec-68 Stories behind the Monuments 2: The Adventures of Anne Murray Beorcham People

Dec-68 Well well well (three wells at Waitrose site) Townsman Utilities

Dec-68 Sentry walk (parapet and rampart walk) Townsman Castle

Dec-68 Men at work (digging at the Castle) Townsman Castle

Dec-68 Save the mark (apostrophe in church names e.g. St Peter's) Townsman Name

Jan-69 Have a guess! (Knowles' Mill) Townsman Building

Jan-69 Auld Lang Syne (meeting under yew tree to sing and welcome the New Year, stopped

after war)

Townsman Entertainment

Jan-69 Shah at Ashridge Townsman People

Jan-69 Stories behind the Monuments 3: Constable of the Castle Beorcham People

Jan-69 Fairyland (decoration of flowers at Ashridge House for the Shah's visit) Townsman Building

Jan-69 High time (clock on top of shop at corner of Lower King's Road and High St) Townsman Building

Feb-69 Stories behind the Monuments 4: A Scotsman Exiled to Berkhamsted (Francis

Farquharson)

Beorcham People

Feb-69 William Cowper (hardly a fmily left that Cowper would know) Townsman People

Feb-69 Bourne's charity Townsman Society

Feb-69 Mud mud mud (footpaths, especially on Common) Townsman Walk

Feb-69 Au revoir (Townsman discontinued temporarily while he writes a book) Townsman Publication

Feb-69 From the air (aerial photos note detailed enough) Townsman Publication

Feb-69 The targets (rifle range on the Common) Townsman Military

Mar-69 Berkhamsted's Modern growth 1: The Decline of the Country Mansion Beorcham Change

Apr-69 Berkhamsted's Growing Pains 2: Housing Problems in Years Gone By Beorcham Planning

Jun-69 Mission Rooms in the 'Suburbs': The Sunny Side of the Town Beorcham Church

Jun-69 Walks 2: Over the Hills to Tring Townsman Walk

Jul-69 Rural life in years gone by: Frithsden the Cherry Hamlet Beorcham Places

Jul-69 Augustus Smith of Scilly (Book Review) Beorcham People




Aug-69 New facts from old diaries: The Man Who Rebuilt Ashridge Beorcham People

Oct-69 Country life 150 years ago: The Diary of an Ashridge Bailiff (2) Beorcham People

Nov-69 The Old Craft of Straw-Plaiting: High Wages Make the Poor Saucy Beorcham Business

Nov-69 Walks 7: The Quickest Way to Aldbury Townsman Walk

Dec-69 Strange Tales from the Parish Records: Whipping the Dogs out of Church Beorcham Records

Dec-69 Walks 8: From Bullbeggars to Winkwell Townsman Walk

Jan-70 Low Wages and Cheap Prices: Berkhamsted in 1900 Beorcham Money

Jan-70 Walks 9: The Call of the Crinkle-Crankle Townsman Walk

Feb-70 Berkhamsted's Ancient Monument 1: The Castle in Early Times Beorcham Castle

Feb-70 Walks 10: Potten End and the Ladies Mile Townsman Walk

Mar-70 Berkhamsted's Ancient Monument 2: Before and After the Siege of 1216 Beorcham Castle

Mar-70 Walks 11: Clipperdown and Pitstone Hill Townsman Walk

Apr-70 Berkhamsted's Ancient Monument 3: The Castle in its Heyday Beorcham Castle

Apr-70 Walks 12: The Hilltop Way to Bovingdon Green Townsman Walk

May-70 Berkhamsted's Ancient Monument 4: The Castle's Decline and Fall Beorcham Castle

May-70 Walks 13: Along the Ridgeway from Hawridge to Chesham Vale Townsman Walk

Jun-70 How the Town was Governed 1: Whan Berkhamsted was a Borough Beorcham Municipal

Jun-70 Walks 14: Up Hill Down Dale to Nettleden Townsman Walk

Aug-70 Boot scrapers (outside recreation ground changing rooms, to prevent blocking drains) Townsman Sport

Aug-70 Trouble in church (quarrel about tithes, 1290) Townsman Church

Aug-70 The Citizens' map (new edition) Townsman Publication

Aug-70 How the Town was Governed 3: Attempts to Revive the Charters Beorcham Municipal

Aug-70 Strange Addresses (Birkhampstead, Near St. Albans, Bucks) Townsman Municipal

Aug-70 Choice specimen (boot scrapers round the town) Townsman Artefact

Aug-70 Taking the air (end of the 'Best Walks' series) Townsman Walk

Sep-70 Co-op (demolition of house and adjoining shops to Cowper Road corner) Townsman Business

Sep-70 Marlin Chapel (built 13th century by lord of manor of Maudelyns; later Marlin Chapel

Farm)

Townsman Church

Sep-70 How the Town was Governed 4: The Poor People of Ragged Row Beorcham Municipal

Sep-70 Billy Roberts (fishmonger in shops near corner of Cowper Road) Townsman Business

Sep-70 News from Exmoor (Charles Whybrow) Townsman People




Sep-70 Coaches and coats (Hawkins & Co later Bulbourne Factory in Lower King's Road, and

others)

Townsman Business

Sep-70 Victorian postbox (replaced at top of Cross Oak Road) Townsman Utilities

Sep-70 Late News (Prince Edward Coffee Tavern opened in 1887, nearly opposite Town Hall) Townsman Business

Sep-70 Man-made hill (earth from Northchurch tunnels between Normandy Drive and railway) Townsman Railway

Jan-71 Catastrophe in Church (Christmas story from Parish Magazine, Jan 1875) Townsman Church

Jan-71 Holding one's breath (when fever cart passed by) Townsman People

Jan-71 Local dialect (e.g. furze-cutting = fuzzen-stalking) Townsman People

Jan-71 Berkhamsted's first newspaper was Bucks, Beds & Herts Herald, 1793 (Berkhamsted

Times 1875)

Beorcham Publication

Jan-71 By candlelight (power cuts in Dec 1971; bedtime ceremony) Townsman Utilities

Jan-71 Best walks (routes suggested, since Citizens' Association footpath map) Townsman Walk

Jan-71 Coming shortly (additional walking routes) Townsman Walk

Jan-71 No sleighs (but boy saw lovely reindeer on the Common) Townsman Walk

Feb-71 Town's Oldest Shop (A.G. Fry's stationery shop) Townsman Business

Feb-71 Local politics (interest declining?) Townsman Municipal

Feb-71 Special subjects (Council's big business, little issues more interesting) Townsman Municipal

Feb-71 Forthcoming centenary (Review) Townsman Publication

Feb-71 Local education since 1800 1: The Town's First Sunday Schools Beorcham School

Feb-71 Thompson's Row (cottages demolished near Holliday Street) Townsman Street

Feb-71 Careless people (litter) Townsman Utilities

Feb-71 Letter from America Townsman Overseas

Mar-71 Gable Hall (built about 1955) Townsman Building

Mar-71 Useful addition (for meetings, Gable Hall) Townsman Municipal

Mar-71 Local directory (Round Table) Townsman Publication

Mar-71 In the window (Evening School) Townsman School

Mar-71 Local education since 1800 2: British and National Schools Beorcham School

Mar-71 Making alterations (Alteration to Young Wives [meeting] - Cosmetic Demonstration) Townsman Society

Mar-71 Slippery slope (Butts meadow) Townsman Street




Apr-71 Locke & Smith's brewery Townsman Business

Apr-71 Farthing on the bottle Townsman Money

Apr-71 Peter the Wild Boy's Home (Haxter's End Farm) Townsman People

Apr-71 Local education since 1800 3: Royal Gifts to the Court House School Beorcham School

Apr-71 Marlin Farm (another landmark gone) Townsman Street

Apr-71 Prince Edward Street Townsman Street

Apr-71 Snob's Alley (named after cobbler) Townsman Street

May-71 Bottle in Berkhamsted Townsman Artefact

May-71 Pitstone Windmill Townsman Places

May-71 Local education since 1800 4: When School Fees were Twopence a week Beorcham School

May-71 Chesham Road Townsman Street

May-71 St Edmund's Townsman Street

May-71 Overhead system (telegraph poles over canal) Townsman Waterway

Jun-71 All Saints architect (Noel Rew) Townsman Church

Jun-71 Elephants and camels (Sanger's circus and menagerie) Townsman Entertainment

Jun-71 Town Hall clock Townsman Municipal

Jun-71 Viscount Malvern (Godfrey M Huggins, died in Rhodesia) Townsman People

Jun-71 Local education since 1800 5: The Closing of the Bourne School Beorcham School

Jun-71 Bridge Street (Bulbourne at end of road behind high wall) Townsman Street

Jun-71 Please try later (phone) Townsman Utilities

Jul-71 Smallest house (Aldbury) Townsman Places

Jul-71 Hilltop villages (book by Hays) Townsman Publication

Jul-71 Local education since 1800 6: New Schools for Old Beorcham School

Jul-71 Dangerous curves (St Johns Well Lane) Townsman Street

Jul-71 Sunnyside playground (George Street) Townsman Street

Jul-71 Daniel's trudge Townsman Walk

Jul-71 Walker's choice Townsman Walk

Jul-71 Canal mileposts Townsman Waterway

Aug-71 Digging for history (Archaeology group) Townsman Archaeology

Aug-71 Half a crown a week Townsman Money

Aug-71 Jimmy (O'Connell) and Johnny (Rippon, Billy Collins, Shiner) Townsman People

Aug-71 Odd characters (Ali Sloper, Freddy 'Dutter' Honour) Townsman People




Aug-71 Peeps into an Old Ledger: Trade Secrets of 1861 Beorcham Records

Aug-71 Trucks and prams (obstruction of footway) Townsman Road

Sep-71 Villa on the Common: Roman Finds in Berkhamsted Beorcham Archaeology

Sep-71 Found in the garden (farthing of George IV) Townsman Archaeology

Sep-71 Bucknall of Berkhamsted (clockmaker) Townsman Business

Sep-71 From pubs to shops (One Bell) Townsman Business

Sep-71 Hazell's shop (International Stores) Townsman Business

Sep-71 Closed shops (redevelopment, by-pass) Townsman Change

Sep-71 Joseph North (furniture shop) Townsman People

Sep-71 Tell your neighbour (about the Review) Townsman Publication

Sep-71 One t or two? (Kitsbury or Kittsbury) Townsman Street

Oct-71 Those dreadful doors (Post Office) Townsman Building

Oct-71 At the court of George III: A Turbulent Rector Beorcham Church

Oct-71 Out of town (St Mary's Hemel) Townsman Church

Oct-71 Court theatre Townsman Entertainment

Oct-71 Silent' days (piano played by Jack Bath) Townsman Entertainment

Oct-71 Counting sheep (Carmarthen system) Townsman People

Oct-71 The 'Gazette' (started 1904) Townsman Publication

Oct-71 What to see (several routes suggested) Townsman Walk

Nov-71 Berkhamsted in 1607: 'One Redd Rose' for the Castle Beorcham Castle

Nov-71 Middle of the road (squirrels) Townsman Nature

Nov-71 Old Court Green (in Potten End, named after Courtauld) Townsman Places

Nov-71 Village life (Little Gaddesden) Townsman Places

Nov-71 On the table (booklet called Human Rights; not to be taken away, quite!) Townsman Publication

Nov-71 Stag Lane (Gossoms End) Townsman Street

Nov-71 Tourist attraction (the Chilterns) Townsman Visitors

Dec-71 The Good Old Coaching Days: Seven Miles an Hour to London Beorcham Road

Jan-72 Egerton House Townsman Building

Jan-72 No Sunday digging Townsman Church

Jan-72 Joyful Occasion (loyalty for Queen Caroline) Townsman Entertainment

Jan-72 Peter Pan Townsman Entertainment

Jan-72 Northchurch in Early Victorian Times: Free Cloaks for the Scholars Beorcham School




Jan-72 Local museum? Townsman Society

Jan-72 Cross Oak Townsman Street

Jan-72 Berkhamsted in Canada Townsman Overseas

Jan-72 Link with Dacca (Paul Pechell) Townsman Overseas

Feb-72 Watercress by the ton Townsman Food

Feb-72 Namesakes (street names in different places) Townsman Name

Feb-72 Peter the Wild Boy Townsman People

Feb-72 A notable Victorian rector: John Cobb and his 'History' Beorcham Publication

Feb-72 Garden sleepers Townsman Railway

Feb-72 Dangerous roads Townsman Road

Feb-72 Graemesdyke Road Townsman Street

Feb-72 Wrong letter Townsman Utilities

Mar-72 Whitehill Lodge Townsman Building

Mar-72 Bygone shops Townsman Business

Mar-72 The story of John Cobb (contd): A Victorian rector's travels Beorcham Church

Mar-72 Why 'Dacorum'? Townsman Municipal

Mar-72 Cross oak (tree in Shootersway) Townsman Street

Mar-72 Down in the valley (Provident Place, Holliday Street) Townsman Street

Mar-72 By candlelight (electricity cut) Townsman Utilities

Apr-72 Fresh finds at the castle Townsman Archaeology

Apr-72 Looking for relics Townsman Archaeology

Apr-72 New 'history' (Short History revised) Townsman Publication

Apr-72 When Chesham Road was 'Grubs Lane': The place names of Berkhamsted Beorcham Street

Apr-72 Lonely walk Townsman Walk

Apr-72 Bulbourne Townsman Waterway

May-72 New shops for old Townsman Business

May-72 Gossoms end changes Townsman Change

May-72 Local Population Changes: How Berkhamsted has grown Beorcham Change

May-72 Round the town (Dell Field middle school, Three Close Lane, Ashlyns Estate

developments)

Townsman Change

May-72 Bridewell Townsman Municipal

May-72 Berkhamswood Townsman Name




May-72 Axtell's descendants Townsman People

May-72 Salter's Charity Townsman Society

May-72 Common pest (rubbish) Townsman Utilities

Jun-72 Floodlit church Townsman Church

Jun-72 Town sign (outside Civic Centre, in need of repair) Townsman Directions

Jun-72 Civic centre Townsman Municipal

Jun-72 Reading room Townsman Municipal

Jun-72 Town Hall (renovation) Townsman Municipal

Jun-72 Long spring Townsman Nature

Jun-72 The Town's Oldest Society: Early days of the Institute Beorcham Society

Jun-72 From Alley to Street (Snob's Alley to Prince Edward Street) Townsman Street

Jul-72 Iron age pottery Townsman Archaeology

Jul-72 Berkhamsted bankers Townsman Business

Jul-72 Town Hall (not available until end of year) Townsman Municipal

Jul-72 Eddy of Eddy Street (John Turpin Eddy) Townsman People

Jul-72 Born 1872 - still going strong!: The Review's 100th birthday Beorcham Publication

Jul-72 New edition (Short History book) Townsman Publication

Jul-72 Flashlight corner (traffic lights) Townsman Street

Sep-72 Information re Red house (building demolished behind the house) Townsman Building

Sep-72 Oyez? Oh No! (Mr Elliott, town crier) Townsman People

Sep-72 Season ticket Townsman Railway

Sep-72 The pleasures of local history Beorcham Society

Sep-72 Critical visitors Townsman Visitors

Sep-72 News from Canada Townsman Overseas

Sep-72 Straight from the wood (Hockeridge Wood) Townsman Walk

Oct-72 Nowhere to go (Town Hall meeting rooms) Townsman Municipal

Oct-72 It's that name again Townsman Name

Oct-72 Book review: A short history of Berkhamsted by Percy Birtchnell Beorcham Publication

Oct-72 Local pride (Citizens' Association) Townsman Society

Oct-72 Museum question Townsman Society

Oct-72 Bowmen of Berkhamsted Beorcham Sport

Oct-72 Back lane Townsman Street




Oct-72 Post code (Joyce Grenfell at Pavilion Hemel railed against it) Townsman Utilities

Nov-72 Red House Townsman Building

Nov-72 Lane's Prince Albert Townsman Business

Nov-72 Echoes from an exhibition (Bygone Berkhamsted) Beorcham Entertainment

Nov-72 Town hall Townsman Municipal

Nov-72 Alfred Williams (manager of W.H. Smiths) Townsman People

Nov-72 Big ideas (1946) Townsman Planning

Dec-72 Last post (field gate next to Sayer almshouses) Townsman Artefact

Dec-72 Old fruit (jar of smelly gooseberries) Townsman Artefact

Dec-72 Bygone industry (brushmaking) Townsman Business

Dec-72 Finding the way (Northbridge Road industrial estate) Townsman Directions

Dec-72 Christmas in Victorian times (toys, skating, band, soup kitchens) Beorcham Entertainment

Dec-72 Big ideas in 1946 Townsman Planning

Dec-72 Local museum? (discussion with Richard Harrison) Townsman Society

Jan-73 Gathering winter fuel (furze, chimney sweeps) Beorcham Business

Jan-73 Still going strong (Lane's Prince Albert apple) Townsman Business

Jan-73 Bells of St Peter Townsman Church

Jan-73 Famous humorist (W.W. Jacobs) Townsman People

Jan-73 Epileptic piglet (trailer to Ruth Crauford's book) Crauford Publication

Jan-73 Our miniature railway (gas works) Townsman Railway

Jan-73 Bulbourne dries up Townsman Waterway

Feb-73 Curate's egg Townsman Church

Feb-73 Forward thinking (demise of Urban Council) Townsman Municipal

Feb-73 Going electric (Town Hall clock) Townsman Municipal

Feb-73 Town Hall teething problems Beorcham Municipal

Feb-73 Local coachbuilders (Pethybridge and King) Townsman Road

Feb-73 Well done (Berkhamsted football club) Townsman Sport

Feb-73 Better late (postal delays) Townsman Utilities

Mar-73 Winkwell bridge Townsman Waterway

Mar-73 Sale of a pulpit Townsman Church

Mar-73 Our neighbours Townsman Places

Mar-73 How the Town lost a Central Park Beorcham Planning




Mar-73 Memories of Ashridge (book by Clough Williams-Ellis, Architect Errant) Townsman Publication

Mar-73 On the right lines (miniature railway at gas works) Townsman Railway

Mar-73 On tour? (dust carts) Townsman Road

Apr-73 Changing Scenes (east of Town Hall) Townsman Change

Apr-73 The Curate's Elopement (James Caufield Browne) Beorcham Church

Apr-73 Wake up! (dreary winter, needing cheer) Townsman Entertainment

Apr-73 Old and new (ambulance appeal) Townsman Utilities

Apr-73 Grand junction Townsman Waterway

May-73 Pilgrim's way (to Marlin Chapel) Townsman Church

May-73 Uncommon spelling (Berkhampstead) Townsman Name

May-73 Reunion in Berkhamsted (Browne family) Townsman People

May-73 Costly project (local museum) Townsman Society

May-73 Filling the gaps (redevelopment) Townsman Street

May-73 Watching for Wrongdoers (Neighbourhood Watch) Beorcham Utilities

Jun-73 Sessions Hall Townsman Building

Jun-73 Popular chess Townsman Entertainment

Jun-73 Reading habits Townsman Entertainment

Jun-73 What's in a name? (Ivinghoe / Ivanhoe) Townsman Name

Jun-73 Berkhamsted in the Nineties (strike in 1894, Victorian police courts, etc) Beorcham Municipal

Jun-73 Rains and drains (High Street) Townsman Utilities

Jun-73 As others see us Townsman Visitors

Jul-73 Fined for not going to church Beorcham Church

Jul-73 At the Pavilion (Hemel) Townsman Entertainment

Jul-73 Inside story (new police station) Townsman Municipal

Jul-73 What's in a name? (boats) Townsman Name

Jul-73 Our neighbours (History of Hemel) Townsman Publication

Jul-73 Ten miles per hour (lollipop ladies / gents) Townsman Road

Jul-73 Looking around (Canadian visitors) Townsman Visitors

Aug-73 Brighter Berkhamsted (people moving in, livelier here) Townsman Entertainment

Aug-73 Our historic court house Beorcham Municipal

Aug-73 Worth keeping (mosaic tablet above fireplace in Town Hall) Townsman Municipal

Aug-73 Words words words (Anagrams) Townsman Name




Aug-73 Sunken lane (Frithsden to Nettleden) Townsman Places

Aug-73 Aeroplanes repaired (book The Pictorial record) Townsman Publication

Aug-73 Chestnut corner (story from Loosley's Directory, 1896) Townsman Records

Aug-73 On tour? (Society visits) Townsman Society

Aug-73 Secret code? (postcodes) Townsman Utilities

Sep-73 Saxon origin (St Marys) Townsman Archaeology

Sep-73 Emery Mill Townsman Business

Sep-73 Churchyard cross (Mary Ann Smith-Dorrien) Townsman Church

Sep-73 Delayed action (Temperance joined after barrel consumed, 1880) Townsman Society

Sep-73 Asking the way Townsman Directions

Sep-73 When nurses were paid £22 a year Beorcham Money

Sep-73 Berkhamsted clock Townsman Municipal

Sep-73 Nice lot! (large books sold from Institute) Townsman Municipal

Oct-73 Summit meeting at Castle Hill? (guessing where William was offered the crown) Beorcham Archaeology

Oct-73 An eye on the land (agriculture an essential industry) Townsman Business

Oct-73 Out of pawn (pawnbroker William Chilton) Townsman Business

Oct-73 Long and short of it (Brickhill Green sign) Townsman Directions

Oct-73 More Anagrams Townsman Name

Oct-73 Nutting time Townsman Nature

Oct-73 Accurate forecast (population projections, 1951) Townsman Records

Oct-73 Postal tour (letter redirected) Townsman Utilities

Oct-73 Canadian tribute Townsman Visitors

Nov-73 Early days of the Urban Council Beorcham Municipal

Nov-73 Joseph North Townsman People

Nov-73 Knowles Drewe (artist) Townsman People

Nov-73 Lock and key (not locking houses in the old days) Townsman People

Nov-73 Noisy High Street Townsman Road

Nov-73 Broadwater Townsman Street

Nov-73 Outside opinion Townsman Visitors

Dec-73 Egerton House (site considered for Civic centre) Townsman Building

Dec-73 On the board (E. Carlisle, fruit and potato merchant) Townsman Business




Dec-73 All for 8 1/2d a day (Militia recruits, 1908) Townsman Military

Dec-73 Militia pay Townsman Military

Dec-73 Council chamber Townsman Municipal

Dec-73 Off-centre (siting Civic centre) Townsman Municipal

Dec-73 The Council's early days - II Beorcham Municipal

Jan-74 King's Hall Townsman Building

Jan-74 Queen's Hall Townsman Building

Jan-74 Happy new year! Townsman Entertainment

Jan-74 Period films Townsman Entertainment

Jan-74 The Council's early days - III Beorcham Municipal

Jan-74 Galloping to the fire Townsman Utilities

Feb-74 Our constituency Townsman Municipal

Feb-74 The Council's early days - IV Beorcham Municipal

Feb-74 Cowper or Cooper? Townsman People

Feb-74 Jingle bells (Dorrien's sleigh) Townsman People

Feb-74 50 years ago (Herts & Essex Trade Directory, 1922-23) Townsman Records

Feb-74 On the level (canal) Townsman Waterway

Mar-74 Not wanted (mayor) Townsman Municipal

Mar-74 The Council's early days - V Beorcham Municipal

Mar-74 Benevolent landlord (rules for Brownlow's tenants) Townsman People

Mar-74 Level crossing Townsman Railway

Mar-74 On the right lines (railway centenary) Townsman Railway

Mar-74 More about 'Alice' (horse-drawn fire engine) Townsman Utilities

Apr-74 High Street changes (new police station, International building demolished, Walklates) Townsman Change

Apr-74 Demolition of Congregational church Townsman Church

Apr-74 The Council's Pig Farms (started 1918, swine fever 1919) Beorcham Municipal

Apr-74 Not taken for a ride (elderly ladies decide against it) Townsman Railway

Apr-74 Never mind the mud Townsman Road

Apr-74 White cliffs of Berkhamsted (building on Chesham Road chalk) Townsman Street

May-74 Cheap at the price (property) Townsman Building

May-74 On and off the map Townsman Directions




May-74 Every picture tells a story (portraits of local worthies in Civic Centre) Beorcham Municipal

May-74 B. Hampsted (Bradshaw) Townsman Name

May-74 Nature reserve (book by the Hays, the Trees are Full of Song) Townsman Nature

May-74 Trains and bridges Townsman Railway

May-74 Mudlarks (footpaths and bridle ways) Townsman Walk

Jun-74 On the map (TH = dilapidated Town Hall) Townsman Directions

Jun-74 Beating the bounds Townsman Entertainment

Jun-74 Those were the days (servant at Barncroft, errand boy in Shootersway) Townsman People

Jun-74 Second time round (Review 1947 Townsman Publication

Jun-74 Through the tunnel Townsman Railway

Jun-74 Industrial zone (North Bridge Road) Townsman Street

Jun-74 Down in the valley (Bulbourne rubbish) Townsman Utilities

Jun-74 The Port of Berkhamsted Beorcham Waterway

Jul-74 Changes at the crossroads Beorcham Change

Jul-74 Weathercock Townsman Church

Jul-74 Showing the way Townsman Directions

Jul-74 Last straw "refuse collection vehicle with town name blotted out) Townsman Name

Jul-74 Grapevine (opposite Chesham Road) Townsman Nature

Jul-74 Miss is as good (Ms) Townsman People

Jul-74 Railway bridge Townsman Railway

Jul-74 The train now standing… Townsman Railway

Jul-74 Buses to Ashlyns Townsman Road

Aug-74 Elvyne Hall (Chesham Road) Townsman Building

Aug-74 Berkhamsted's Famous Nurseries Beorcham Business

Aug-74 Changes at Gossoms End Townsman Change

Aug-74 Look west young man (views in High St) Townsman Directions

Aug-74 Local artists Townsman People

Aug-74 Breaking-up time (C of E school demolition) Townsman School

Aug-74 Gade Valley trail Townsman Walk

Sep-74 Butts Meadow (metal sleeper from light railway when levelling meadow) Townsman Archaeology

Sep-74 Healthy and nourishing (ads in old mags) Townsman Food

Sep-74 Anonymous Court House Townsman Municipal




Sep-74 Friday Street (Haresfoot Farm) Townsman Street

Sep-74 High wall (name of road between castle and high wall of railway) Townsman Street

Sep-74 The Streets of Berkhamsted Beorcham Street

Sep-74 Information service (noticeboard at library) Townsman Utilities

Sep-74 Next-day delivery (postal service between Watford & Berkhamsted) Townsman Utilities

Sep-74 Timely visit (Lane family) Townsman Visitors

Oct-74 Our changing town Townsman Change

Oct-74 Rector's rights Townsman Church

Oct-74 Neglected writer (W.W. Jacobs) Townsman People

Oct-74 Book about Tring (S. Richards, History of Tring) Townsman Publication

Oct-74 Export orders (for Short History) Townsman Publication

Oct-74 Among so many (population studies) Townsman Records

Oct-74 Life in 1851 (census) Beorcham Records

Oct-74 Straight and narrow (path under railway bridge) Townsman Utilities

Nov-74 Looking for the otter (signs at Old Mill led to shed with kettle) Townsman Nature

Nov-74 The Berkhamstedian family Robinson Beorcham People

Nov-74 Round the villages (Potten End) Townsman Places

Nov-74 Busy writers (books on local places) Townsman Publication

Nov-74 New directory? Townsman Publication

Nov-74 What's in a name? (street names) Townsman Street

Dec-74 New bridge (canal bridge at Billet Lane) Townsman Waterway

Dec-74 Rate for the job (ledger of building contractor) Townsman Money

Dec-74 Old clock (Thomas Sadler) Townsman Municipal

Dec-74 Famous pianist (Benno Moiseiwitsch) Townsman People

Dec-74 Bygone berkhamsted Townsman Publication

Dec-74 Railway's Early Days Beorcham Railway

Dec-74 Down in the valley (Provident Place) Townsman Street

Dec-74 In darkest Berkhamsted (lighting) Townsman Utilities

Jan-75 Highfield Road Chapel Townsman Church

Jan-75 Sign of the times Townsman Directions

Jan-75 More time for reading Townsman Entertainment

Jan-75 Still waiting (Civic centre meeting room) Townsman Municipal




Jan-75 Railway centenary Beorcham Railway

Jan-75 Dangerous paths (Greenway) Townsman Street

Jan-75 As dry as a Bourne Townsman Waterway

Feb-75 Narrow view (of Berkhamsted through Les Mitchell's Victorian novelty) Townsman Artefact

Feb-75 New crossword (Crossoak) Townsman Name

Feb-75 Spring in the air Townsman Nature

Feb-75 Bygone Berkhamsted Townsman Publication

Feb-75 In the Wilderness Beorcham Street

Feb-75 On tour (ideas sought) Townsman Visitors

Mar-75 Crested China Beorcham Artefact

Mar-75 Beating the Bounds Beorcham Church

Mar-75 War-time relic (Alsford's used by OTC) Beorcham Military

Mar-75 Another amalgamation! (Townsman becomes Beorcham) Beorcham Publication

Mar-75 St John's Well Beorcham Street

Mar-75 Disgrace to the Town (drainage) Beorcham Utilities

Apr-75 Temporary lull (in building works) Beorcham Change

Apr-75 Beating the Bounds Beorcham Church

Apr-75 Newspaper centenary Beorcham Publication

Apr-75 In the old blue box (papers in attic) Beorcham Records

Apr-75 Credit where due (drainage improved) Beorcham Utilities

May-75 Back Lane - and Back Again! Court House and its neighbours Beorcham Municipal

May-75 Court House memories Beorcham Municipal

May-75 Berkhamsted Times Beorcham Publication

May-75 In the picture (photos sent in) Beorcham Publication

May-75 Slippery slope (Butts meadow) Beorcham Street

May-75 Bourne Gutter Beorcham Waterway

Jun-75 Castle moats Beorcham Castle

Jun-75 Our changing town Beorcham Change

Jun-75 St Margaret's Nunnery Beorcham Church

Jun-75 Reader's comments Beorcham Publication

Jun-75 Larger audiences (local societies) Beorcham Society

Jun-75 Northchurch Museum? Beorcham Society




Jul-75 Where is it? (houses for sale) Beorcham Directions

Jul-75 Town Hall architect (Lamb) Beorcham Municipal

Jul-75 Attractive Northchurch Beorcham Places

Jul-75 On the cover (of Bygone Berkhamsted) Beorcham Publication

Jul-75 High and dry (towpath) Beorcham Waterway

Aug-75 Boxwell House (possible museum?) Beorcham Building

Aug-75 In the market (extra market day) Beorcham Business

Aug-75 110th anniversary (Baptist church) Beorcham Church

Aug-75 Family budget (schoolgirl's exercise) Beorcham Money

Aug-75 Mr Heber Mills (last furze cutter) Beorcham People

Aug-75 Walks for motorists (new AA book) Beorcham Walk

Sep-75 100 years ago (children's outing) Beorcham Entertainment

Sep-75 Famous tree (behind Crooked Billet) Beorcham Nature

Sep-75 Heber Mills (more information) Beorcham People

Sep-75 Ashridge observed (new book) Beorcham Publication

Sep-75 On stony ground (cobbles in Back Lane) Beorcham Street

Sep-75 Outside views Beorcham Visitors

Oct-75 On the air (Radio 4 'A Town Grows Up') Beorcham Entertainment

Oct-75 Cowper Hall? (Civic centre) Beorcham Municipal

Oct-75 Popular names (local names in Wembley) Beorcham Name

Oct-75 Lofty Home (more about Heber Mills) Beorcham People

Oct-75 Praise - and brickbats! Beorcham Visitors

Nov-75 Made in Berkhamsted (Southeys) Beorcham Business

Nov-75 Disgraceful scenes (railway navvies) Beorcham Railway

Nov-75 Northchurch Tunnel Beorcham Railway

Nov-75 Too tired for school (Potten End Maying) Beorcham School

Dec-75 Christmas Greetings (Harry Sheldon) Beorcham Entertainment

Dec-75 School broadcasts (Radio 4) Beorcham Entertainment

Dec-75 Long walk (Missenden story) Beorcham Places

Dec-75 Whitehill Sleepers Beorcham Railway

Dec-75 Red Lion Yard (18 cottages, then Midland Bank) Beorcham Street

Dec-75 Walking in the road (top of New Road) Beorcham Street




Mar-76 Musical note (fife given to Local History Society) Beorcham Artefact

Mar-76 Our changing town (Water Lane car park) Beorcham Change

Mar-76 Civic centre (directions to) Beorcham Municipal

Mar-76 Lutes and Rifts (book by Louise Nash / Sahn) Beorcham Publication

Mar-76 Recipes for All (book by E.M. Sworder) Beorcham Publication

Apr-76 Churchyard (High St shifted back to widen road) Beorcham Church

Apr-76 American spellings (Barkhamsted) Beorcham Name

Apr-76 Northchurch nonsense (book on Chilterns by Kevin Fitzgerald) Beorcham Publication

Apr-76 Old Photographs (Dudswell Lock and Berkhamsted Steam Wagon 1910) Beorcham Publication

Apr-76 Back to Back Lane (changed to Church Lane) Beorcham Street

Apr-76 Hands across the sea (Beaune Society invited to town namesake in Connecticut) Beorcham Overseas

May-76 Family Tree (Stevens family) Beorcham People

May-76 Ashridge Deer (84 crossing the road) Beorcham Places

May-76 Little Berkhamsted (no connection) Beorcham Places

May-76 Sunken Lane (between Frithsden and Nettleden) Beorcham Places

May-76 As others see us (Book by E.W. Teale, Springtime in Britain) Beorcham Publication

May-76 Tailpiece (postal address with Dacorum) Beorcham Utilities

May-76 Just looking (guided tour of area, including Totem Pole) Beorcham Visitors

Jun-76 Prominent names (inscribed stones at Methodist Church, for sale) Beorcham Church

Jun-76 Where is Dacorum? (election results) Beorcham Municipal

Jun-76 Berkhamsted Express (published by Arthur D. King: local names, ads) Beorcham Publication

Jun-76 Guided Tours (by Northchurch WI) Beorcham Publication

Jun-76 Dangerous curves (Brownlow Road, used to be Zigzag) Beorcham Road

Jul-76 Change of name? (Parish council v Town council) Beorcham Municipal

Jul-76 Dacorum's fair name (District council) Beorcham Municipal

Jul-76 Houses and People (population studies) Beorcham Records

Jul-76 Over to Belton (signatures of those prepared to sacrifice common rights) Beorcham Records

Jul-76 Off to America (carving of coat of arms to Connecticut) Beorcham Overseas

Sep-76 St Peter's Hall Beorcham Building

Sep-76 Dwight's Pheasantries Beorcham Business




Sep-76 Bricks and Iron (Wesleyan Methodist Church, Cowper Road, relocated from Hemel) Beorcham Church

Sep-76 Prominent site (St Peter's and yew tree) Beorcham Church

Sep-76 Corrections (bus fare and school date) Beorcham Publication

Sep-76 On the front page (G. Sills photo) Beorcham Publication

Sep-76 In Low Water (canal) Beorcham Waterway

Nov-76 Printers to the fore (Clunbury) Beorcham Business

Nov-76 Roses all the way (in St Peter's churchyard) Beorcham Church

Nov-76 What's wrong with Berkhamsted? (local government not so local any more) Beorcham Municipal

Nov-76 Cowper or Cooper? Beorcham People

Nov-76 Cheap labour (book by J.S. Hurt, Bringing Literacy to Rural England) Beorcham Publication

Nov-76 Peter the Wild Boy (book by C.M. Tennant) Beorcham Publication

Jan-77 Castle Street discovery (Tudor fireplace from cottages before Congregational chapel) Beorcham Archaeology

Jan-77 Dwight's Pheasantries (200 years old) Beorcham Business

Jan-77 Timely suggestion (St Peter's church clock renovation for Silver Jubilee) Beorcham Church

Jan-77 Cab cleaner (John taylor & Elizabeth Ryder in Northchurch) Beorcham People

Jan-77 John Brown's body (book Barkhamsted Heritage, Connecticut) Beorcham Publication

Jan-77 Picture books (book by B.W. Coe, The Birth of Photography) Beorcham Publication

Jan-77 Breaking the ice (canal boats, skating) Beorcham Waterway

Mar-77 Another Pipeline (Berkhamsted Park) Beorcham Archaeology

Mar-77 Cyclists in costume (1897 celebrations) Beorcham Entertainment

Mar-77 Water - and watercress (industry at an end) Beorcham Food

Mar-77 Casting a spell (old spelling of Berkhamsted) Beorcham Name

Mar-77 Family Bibles (George Margrave) Beorcham People

Mar-77 Deer Soup (for Potten End residents 1897) Beorcham Places

Mar-77 Our Railway Station Beorcham Railway

Apr-77 Fleeting Glimpse (of the castle from the train) Beorcham Castle

Apr-77 In the Valley (west side rejuvenation) Beorcham Change

Apr-77 Poor substitutes (coffee & tea) Beorcham Food

Apr-77 Pretended Marriage (booklet by Mrs Davis of Aldbury) Beorcham Publication

Apr-77 Visiting reader (remembered in letter of 1939) Beorcham Records




Apr-77 Name and number (house numbering) Beorcham Street

Jun-77 Isandula Villas (Charles Street; Zulu war defeat in 1879, day before Rorke's Drift) Beorcham Building

Jun-77 Monk's House (fish shop 1905) Beorcham Business

Jun-77 Local artists (Sheldon, Sear, Fricker) Beorcham People

Jun-77 Looking for Cowper (his birth place demolished) Beorcham People

Jun-77 Over to Lincoln (Dr Fry was dean at the cathedral) Beorcham Places

Jun-77 Chapel Street (telephone exchange, Bridge House built for use as pub) Beorcham Street

Jul-77 Interrupted sermon (Lady Brownlow's hat caught fire) Beorcham Church

Jul-77 Very Old Bird (whistling weathercock) Beorcham Church

Jul-77 Moor (fairground for Jubilee) Beorcham Entertainment

Jul-77 Royal Agitation (Edward VII coronation celebrations postoned) Beorcham Entertainment

Jul-77 Changing the name (Haxter's End Lane -> Little Heath Lane) Beorcham Name

Aug-77 What's in a nickname? (Berko) Beorcham Name

Aug-77 Shepherd Boy (Book by D.A. Nixon, Walk Soft in the Fold) Beorcham Publication

Aug-77 Lower King's Road Beorcham Street

Aug-77 American visitors (including Axtells) Beorcham Visitors

Aug-77 One Side or Another (towpath for horses) Beorcham Waterway

Oct-77 Brighter Berkhamsted (improvements e.g. Monk's House) Beorcham Change

Oct-77 Hertfordshire Hedgehogs Beorcham Nature

Oct-77 Two former surveyors (J.R. Hadfield and E.H. Adey) Beorcham People

Oct-77 Hertfordshire landscape (book by L. Munby) Beorcham Publication

Oct-77 A plaque for no. 222? (Bourne school) Beorcham School

Oct-77 Ancient bowling green (behind Swan, 1693) Beorcham Sport

Oct-77 Athletic meeting 1902 Beorcham Sport

Oct-77 Taking steps (ramps into canal for horses to climb out if they fall in) Beorcham Waterway

Dec-77 Action at once (church social work) Beorcham Church

Dec-77 Ring the changes (nonsensical story about bells swapped between churches) Beorcham Church

Dec-77 Dudswell Forge (Albert Pocock shod 100 barge horses per week) Beorcham People

Dec-77 Local setting (book by G. Greene, Human Factor?, with local theme) Beorcham Publication

Dec-77 Railway disaster (Northchurch, undated) Beorcham Railway

Dec-77 Street names Beorcham Street




Jan-78 On the stage (Berkhamsted Repertory Company, 1939-40) Beorcham Entertainment

Jan-78 Polly Page (musical play) Beorcham Entertainment

Jan-78 1066 and all that (claim by Little Berkhamsted) Beorcham Places

Jan-78 Going the wrong way (Ashridge / Asheridge) Beorcham Places

Jan-78 Man's Job (lady district visitors except to slums, 1914-18) Beorcham Street

Jan-78 Attention, please! (drainage) Beorcham Utilities

Feb-78 Large and small (large houses replaced by small) Beorcham Change

Feb-78 Pointing the way (on the Common) Beorcham Directions

Feb-78 What a party! (McCorquodale, Rossway, 1902) Beorcham Entertainment

Feb-78 Broadly speaking (local accent countrified, Sir Bernard Miles) Beorcham People

Feb-78 Famous resident (Clementine Hozier) Beorcham People

Feb-78 Mrs Edward Popple Beorcham People

Feb-78 Taking his ease (retired, made recumbent) Beorcham People

Feb-78 Local Vineyard (Frithsden) Beorcham Places

Mar-78 Unlucky Dip? (premises of vets Wilson, worked with Cooper) Beorcham Business

Mar-78 Brighter outlook (things looking up in the High Street) Beorcham Change

Mar-78 Found and Lost (Rev. George Spencer Cautley) Beorcham People

Mar-78 Local Branch Line (Hemel Hempstead and Harpenden) Beorcham Railway

Mar-78 Happy Valley (cottages next to Boote) Beorcham Street

Apr-78 Lagley House (Duncombe family) Beorcham Building

Apr-78 Human Factor (book by G. Greene) Beorcham Publication

Apr-78 Our historic county (book by Gwenna Robinson) Beorcham Publication

Apr-78 Our Side Streets Beorcham Street

Apr-78 Road up? (road works) Beorcham Utilities

May-78 Quick Change (from town to countryside) Beorcham Change

May-78 Question of size (St Peter's) Beorcham Church

May-78 Mobile Theatre (Magic Lantern Narrowboat) Beorcham Entertainment

May-78 Local names (book by J. Field, Place names of Dacorum district) Beorcham Publication

May-78 Side by side (north and south of High Street) Beorcham Street

May-78 Back Lane (drainage problems) Beorcham Utilities

May-78 General post (misdirected) Beorcham Utilities

Dec-78 Victorian Values (valuation of deceased ironmonger's stock) Beorcham Business




Dec-78 Shorter Hours, Higher Output! (library opening hours) Beorcham Municipal

Dec-78 River Bulbourne (spelt 'Boobun' in 1818) Beorcham Name

Dec-78 Axtell family Beorcham People

Dec-78 Blood Relations (book by B.J. Bailey, Portrait of Hertfordshire) Beorcham Publication

Dec-78 Seeing Double (brochure, Herts' Delight) Beorcham Publication

Dec-78 In darkest Berkhamsted (lighting) Beorcham Utilities

Dec-78 Over to Beaune (twin town in France) Beorcham Overseas

Apr-79 Rich and poor (Kitsbury church, All Saints) Beorcham Church

Apr-79 Local colour (film of G. Greene, The Human Factor) Beorcham Entertainment

Apr-79 Songs of Praise Beorcham Entertainment

Apr-79 General Election (Halsey Diaries, 1852) Beorcham Municipal

Apr-79 Halsey Diaries (lived at Hall 1845-54) Beorcham People

Apr-79 Kitsbury Village (swallowed up by the town) Beorcham Street

Feb-80 Local Pride (Berkhamsted a snobbish town?) Beorcham Places

Feb-80 All steamed up (locomotive called County of Hertfordshire, duplication since shire =

county)

Beorcham Name

Feb-80 Drovers' Way (from Hassell's Tour of the Grand Junction Canal, 1818) Beorcham Publication

Feb-80 Fireside stories (long sermons at the Baptist Chapel) Beorcham Church

Feb-80 Neglected Memorial (Inns of Court memorial on the Common) Beorcham Church

Mar-80 Kitchener's Field (four of first Kitchener battalions trained there shortly after outbreak

of WWI)

Beorcham Military

Mar-80 Petticoat Lane (track to Coldharbour Farm from Kitchener's Field) Beorcham Street

Mar-80 Human Factor (film, Berkhamsted called a suburb & a place of impeccable green-belt

respectability)

Beorcham Entertainment

Mar-80 Swanning around (gulls harassing swans and ducks) Beorcham Nature

Mar-80 Old Railway Station (bricked-up entrances for subway) Beorcham Railway

Mar-80 Famous family (Smith-Dorrien) Beorcham People

Mar-80 Out of sight (Rev G.S Cautley fell off box behind pulpit 'a little while and ye shall not see

me')

Beorcham Church

Apr-80 Local Museum? (Berkhamsted deemed best site; Dacorum Museum Advisory

Committee formed)

Beorcham Society




Apr-80 Much-travelled clock (Rev E. Bartrum's retirement clock went to Bermuda with his son) Beorcham Artefact

Apr-80 Wild Man (pub in Norwich named after Peter the Wild Boy) Beorcham Business

Apr-80 Two Notable Books (Col D. Coult on Ashridge; B. Garnons Williams on Berkhamsted

school)


Apr-80 Berkhamsted is not snobbish! (comments from friendly residents) Beorcham Name

Apr-80 Our highest village (Wigginton, variously spelt) Beorcham Name

Apr-80 Bone End (Bourne End; dry as a bone, or Bourne?) Beorcham Name

Jun-80 Town's Oldest Society (Institute should be dissolved; new museum?) Beorcham Society

Jun-80 Clown and Sausages (King Edward VI pub in Mill Street) Beorcham Business

Jun-80 Two-in-one puddings (Tring dumpling) Beorcham Food

Jun-80 Compare these prices! (ads in newspapers Recorder, Times, Express & Independent) Beorcham Publication

Jun-80 Cast Iron Compliment (street lamps outside St Peter's; gas lamp above Court House

porch)

Beorcham Artefact

Jun-80 George Macaulay Trevelyan (memoir by daughter Mary Moorman) Beorcham People

Jul-80 Our first Sunday School (Baptist & Congregationalist, between 1789 and 1810) Beorcham School

Jul-80 Balloon went up! (summer treats, balloon sent up from Rectory garden to signal home

time)

Beorcham School

Jul-80 Who had the furniture? (from castle in 1495) Beorcham Castle

Jul-80 Town Hall (re-opening of Market House) Beorcham Municipal

Jul-80 Common ground (book by R. Mabey. 'The Common Ground'; naturalist) Beorcham Publication

Jul-80 Beating and Bumping (Beating the Bounds, 1903) Beorcham Church

Jul-80 Those were the days (houses and shops at top of Castle Street, plus corner house) Beorcham Street

Jul-80 Tailpiece (lots of trees in Berkhamsted, remarked chap who spent most of his time in

Abu Dhabi)

Beorcham Nature

Sep-80 Little and Great (summer outing to Little Berkhamsted) Beorcham Places

Sep-80 Hut with a history (Auction room in Middle Road, used for Inns of Court training) Beorcham Building




Sep-80 431 years on (book by B.H. Garnons Williams, A History of Berkhamsted School, 1541-

1972)


Sep-80 Mighty Organ (cinema organ at the Court Theatre) Beorcham Entertainment

Sep-80 Towpath walks (booklets on nature walks and history walks) Beorcham Walk

Sep-80 Northchurch 'Tech' (in Bell Lane) Beorcham School

Oct-80 Barber's recollections (George Lyth started in W. Rickard's shop) Beorcham Business

Oct-80 Shop talk (George Lyth) Beorcham Business

Oct-80 First Impression (size of Post Office) Beorcham Building

Oct-80 Link with Fiji (plaque of Berkhamsted Parish Church on cathedral wall in Fiji) Beorcham Church

Oct-80 Just like the ivy (Berkhamsted Ivy C.C. - cycle club) Beorcham Sport

Oct-80 Readers' Comments (signature tunes for Court Theatre; auction room in Middle Road) Beorcham Building

Oct-80 County Militia (exhibition of old documents at County Record Office Hertford) Beorcham Records

Nov-80 Impersonator (of Rudyard Kipling and Admiral Loder-Symonds) Beorcham People

Nov-80 Asking the way (calls for a town map) Beorcham Directions

Nov-80 Horse sense (Gossoms End dust-cart horse galloped to fire station on hearing horn;

Alice)

Beorcham Utilities

Nov-80 American visitors (including Axtells) Beorcham Visitors

Nov-80 Hot news (fire destroyed Coopers's printing works in 1875; still able to print parish

magazines)


Nov-80 Near and Far (book 'Mountbatten: Hero of Our Time mentions Locker's Park school in

Hemel)

Beorcham School

Nov-80 John of Berkhamsted (abbot at St Albans 1291-1301) Beorcham Church

Nov-80 Town's Name (book by Mr J. Field, 'Place-Names of Great Britain and Ireland') Beorcham Publication

Nov-80 Right Number (telephone exchange in Chapel Street) Beorcham Utilities

Dec-80 Strange Claim (book by Kevin Fitzgerald with dodgy facts) Beorcham Publication

Dec-80 Henry Nash (book Reminiscences, 1890) Beorcham Publication

Dec-80 Potten End 'Obstacle' (joining Temperance Society delayed until barrel of beer

consumed, 1880)

Beorcham Society




Dec-80 Christmas is coming (changes over the years: extension of mid-winter holiday, clubs for

saving)


Dec-80 Horse Bridge (Castle Street) Beorcham Street

Dec-80 Royal Visitors (London statues evacuated to the castle) Beorcham Castle

Dec-80 Coincidence in Canberra (Arthur Mayling meets David Alexander's father) Beorcham Overseas

Dec-80 Graham Greene (biographer collecting material) Beorcham People

Jan-81 Local Museum (collection growing; ideas for location) Beorcham Society

Jan-81 Five Bells (empty buildings on both sides of Civic Centre, old PO 1891-1909 and Five

Bells pub)

Beorcham Business

Jan-81 Lost licence (at Five Bells as landlord unable to control navvies; used as Old Tea House) Beorcham Business

Jan-81 On the Trail (connection with Fiji) Beorcham Church

Jan-81 Beautiful book (by R. Mabey 'The Flowering of Britain') Beorcham Publication

Jan-81 Ashlyns Hall (photo of staff in 1887) Beorcham Building

Jan-81 What's in a name? (place names obliterated in war-time) Beorcham Military

Jan-81 Green Lane (right of way from Chesham Road aka Elvyne Lane, to top of Rectory Lane) Beorcham Street

Feb-81 Canal Field (plans for lake, bowling green, play ground etc) Beorcham Street

Feb-81 News from China (Berkhamsted connections) Beorcham Overseas

Feb-81 Round the town (new houses in Montague Road, Cross Oak Road, George Street) Beorcham Change

Feb-81 Broadway Church (St John the Evangelist, Bourne End may be saved from closure) Beorcham Church

Feb-81 Gamble Hall (mis-spelling for Gable Hall) Beorcham Building

Feb-81 Signing on (Peter Llewellyn Jones, son of vicar of Potten End, providing sign language

on TV)

Beorcham People

Feb-81 Changing the time (meetings starting earlier due to faster trains) Beorcham Railway

Feb-81 Red Lion (ceased as an inn 1870, Sgt J. Seabrook took over and ran grocery store) Beorcham Business

Mar-81 Town Hall (work in progress to make this a central social centre again) Beorcham Municipal

Mar-81 Change of address? (Penny & Thorne to Dean Incent's) Beorcham Business

Mar-81 In the swim (threatened closure of open air swimming pool) Beorcham Sport




Mar-81 Early library (parochial lending library 1842) Beorcham Municipal

Mar-81 Augustus Smith (Radio 4 programme of Scilly) Beorcham People

Mar-81 Once in a Lifetime (Henry Nash comments on agricultural labourers and their smocks,

1877)


Apr-81 Kitsbury and Sunnyside (west end of town known as Kitsbury; Sunnyside at the other

end)

Beorcham Street

Apr-81 Lady Spencer's house (in Berkhamsted Place, demolished 1967) Beorcham Building

Apr-81 Monk's House (Flambards receives Citizens' Association first environment award [now

Café Rouge])

Beorcham Building

Apr-81 Very Good Show (Berkhamsted Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society put on Mikado) Beorcham Entertainment

Apr-81 Watford's new museum (in Benskins brewery) Beorcham Places

Apr-81 Not on the Level (footpaths) Beorcham Utilities

Apr-81 News from Fiji (advertising to find news about their plaque of Berkhamsted Parish

Church)

Beorcham Overseas

May-81 Our Growing Town (recent census) Beorcham Records

May-81 Ashridge organ (restoration and Radio 3 recital) Beorcham Artefact

May-81 Town's Arms (brass plate outside Civic Centre) Beorcham Municipal

May-81 Book about Trees (by Esmond and Jeanette Harris) Beorcham Nature

May-81 Graham Greene (Paris mint struck medal with profile) Beorcham People

May-81 Veering North (Joseph North) Beorcham People

May-81 Where was it? (First mission services in Kitsbury district) Beorcham Street

Jun-81 250th anniversary (Cowper's birth) Beorcham People

Jun-81 Town Crier (W. Elliott 'Blowhard') Beorcham People

Jun-81 Where is Dennys Lane? (top of Cross Oak Road, cross Shootersway, steep lane to

Hockeridge Wood)

Beorcham Street

Jun-81 Watercress Valley (used to be down St John's Well Lane and over plank bridge to canal) Beorcham Business

Jun-81 Court Theatre (built 1916-7 to entertain soldiers; adapted for Tesco, but fire in 1969) Beorcham Entertainment

Jun-81 Victorian Prices (Champneys farm receipts) Beorcham Money




Jul-81 Cowper tour (Berkhamsted, Olney, Huntingdon and E. Dereham, for 250th anniversary

of birth)

Beorcham People

Jul-81 Victorian squabble (opposition to St Peter's Cowper window, reported in Rev B.

Armstrong's diary)

Beorcham People

Jul-81 American visitor (tour of St Peter's and castle) Beorcham Visitors

Jul-81 Local Pride (Northchurch opposed extension of Berkhamsted boundary, which took

place 1935)

Beorcham Places

Jul-81 Moving Around (Co-op had many shops in Berkhamsted; built Progress Hall in Cowper

Rd in 1888)

Beorcham Business

Jul-81 Cab, Sir! (Mr A.C. Meek livery and hunting stables in Lower Kings Road) Beorcham Business

Jul-81 Grand old man (painting of Henry Nash) Beorcham People

Jul-81 Do it yourselves! (paintings of Cowper, Gen. Finch; Nash suggested schoolchildren

should paint Finch)

Beorcham People

Jul-81 Little ducks (sign 'Slow: Ducklings Crossing' in Castle St) Beorcham Nature

Jul-81 Cowper or Cooper? (A riddle by Cowper, Made me swear like a trooper) Beorcham Name

Jul-81 Going for a trip? (Butts meadow slope) Beorcham Street

Jul-81 Differing distances (to / from Aylesbury and London) Beorcham Places

Jul-81 Early days (Berkhamsted old boys' autobiographies including Greene and Cockburn) Beorcham People

Sep-81 New Footbridge? (Castle St canal bridge) Beorcham Waterway

Sep-81 Busy spot (more on Castle St canal bridge) Beorcham Waterway

Sep-81 Seating capacity (St Peter's church; Kelly's directory 1902 reported 1,100 sittings) Beorcham Church

Sep-81 On the trail (Ashridge Nature Trail) Beorcham Nature

Sep-81 Ashlyns Hall (restoration) Beorcham Building

Sep-81 Miss Ada Timson (obituary; headmistress of Victoria School 1937-1957) Beorcham People

Oct-81 Shops and Houses (conversions in George St, Ellesmere Rd, Chapel St, Castle St, Cowper

Rd)

Beorcham Change

Oct-81 Doctors Common (Milton House doctors' surgery, next door to surgeon G.M. Huggins,

PM of Rhodesia)

Beorcham Building

Oct-81 Eddy Street (after John Turpin Eddy, banker, who gave magic lantern shows) Beorcham Street

Oct-81 Town Hall (Music Society looking forward to refurbishment) Beorcham Municipal




Oct-81 Popular Tradesmen (Basil Leatherdale, blind chap whose shop now part of Barclays

bank)

Beorcham Business

Oct-81 On the level (new pavement outside Sharlands in High St) Beorcham Utilities

Oct-81 Boxwell Estate (sale of Boxwell House and meadows, 1879) Beorcham Building

Oct-81 Berkenhead (post still arrived) Beorcham Name

Nov-81 Forty Years On (Evacuees' entertainment over Christmas in 1940) Beorcham Entertainment

Nov-81 Milky Way (no milk deliveries on Sunday; J. Stupples creamies in Castle St and King's

Road)

Beorcham Business

Nov-81 Glum Humorist (Alec Waugh recalls his marriage to Barbara, daughter of humorist

W.W. Jacobs)

Beorcham People

Nov-81 Early Allotments (Sir John Hobart Culme-Seymour, rector of Northchurch, provided

'garden ground')

Beorcham People

Nov-81 Carving a name (Sir Colin Buchanan, thrashed by Charles Greene, Berkhamsted school

headmaster)

Beorcham People

Nov-81 Local Museum (exhibition at Civic Centre; hopes for museum in Town Hall reading

room)

Beorcham Society

Dec-81 Good deal (Hannah Deal born Northchurch in 1840, lady's maid to Lady Culme

Seymour)

Beorcham People

Dec-81 Brighter Berkhamsted (Dean Incent's House and Sayers almshouses re-painted; Bull

refurbished)

Beorcham Building

Dec-81 Common path (overgrown path at the top of New Road) Beorcham Utilities

Dec-81 Information please ('Dryfoot' leather waterproofer Seal Products of Berkhamsted) Beorcham Business

Dec-81 Ancient Sampler (by Ann Baskerfeild of Berkhamsted, 1759) Beorcham People

Dec-81 Church and Castle (article by N. Doggett, 'The Parish Churches of Dacorum') Beorcham Publication

Dec-81 At the Crossroads (one of first towns in Herts to have traffic lights; Flashlight Corner) Beorcham Street

Dec-81 Greetings from Olney (from Gordon Osborn, local historian) Beorcham Places

Dec-81 Old Cottage Craft (book by Jean Davis of Aldbury 'Straw Plait') Beorcham Publication

Jan-82 Those were the days (good Christmas feasts in Berkhamsted) Beorcham Entertainment

Jan-82 Fond Memories (evacuees; Victor Brown stayed with George Ellis) Beorcham People

Jan-82 Court House dinners (provided to evacuees by WRVS) Beorcham Entertainment




Jan-82 Prompt replies ('Dryfoot' leather dubbin manufactured in part of old brewery buildings

in Water Lane)

Beorcham Business

Jan-82 Women of straw (book contains photo of Potten End plait school, built by Mr

Gravestock)


Jan-82 Clementine Hozier (certificates achieved at Girls' Grammar School in 1902) Beorcham People

Jan-82 Village life (flourishing activities in Gaddesden, Potten End, Northchurch) Beorcham Places

Feb-82 Servant problems (registry offices to engage servants; country girls sought by gentry) Beorcham Business

Feb-82 Royal Requests (Heath House, where George Sills photographer supplied prints to

royalty)

Beorcham Business

Feb-82 Carriage Days (E King & Sons, coachbuilders until 1937; accounts book in BLH&MS) Beorcham Business

Feb-82 County Boundary (after war, debate about Berkhamsted & Tring transferring to Bucks) Beorcham Places

Feb-82 Sir Hugh Greene (biography of BBC Director-General, brother of Graham) Beorcham Publication

Feb-82 Cure for Chilblains ('Dryfoot' made by P.D. Millen at shop with grapevine next to

Brandon's, now Neil's)

Beorcham Business

Mar-82 Sister towns(with Chesham; commuters used Chesham or Amersham during rail strike) Beorcham Places

Mar-82 Safe crossing (Castle St footbridge replaced by one from Waltham Cross) Beorcham Waterway

Mar-82 Co-op changes (Grocery shop opened 1933, closed in High St, fronting Progress Hall in

Cowper Road)

Beorcham Business

Mar-82 Country walks (15 walks to be published by Citizens' Association) Beorcham Walk

Mar-82 Not forgotten (Berkhamsted Common war memorial to be refurbished) Beorcham Military

Mar-82 Greatly exaggerated (Cooper's sheep dip boxes have exaggerated illustrations of

chemical works)

Beorcham Business

Mar-82 Bewigged rector (Parish magazine entry, 1915) Beorcham Church

Apr-82 Not so plain (newly replaced memorials in the church) Beorcham Church

Apr-82 News from Africa (Simon Houghton, working with Baptist Missionary Society) Beorcham Church

Apr-82 Town Hall architect (Michael Tollit talk about Edward Buckton Lamb) Beorcham People




Apr-82 Worldwide fame (Coopers sheep dip used in a 'dorp' - small village - in Cape Colony) Beorcham Business

Apr-82 Local Critics (busy road compared to fresh air in Tring High Street) Beorcham Visitors

Apr-82 Town's Name (Berkhamsted spelling used by railway & post office) Beorcham Name

Apr-82 Die Fledermaus (Operatic Society production audience limited in Civic Centre) Beorcham Entertainment

Apr-82 Victorian Relics (chocolate tins from Boer War) Beorcham Artefact

Apr-82 Hertfordshire Hedgehogs (prickly people in our county known as 'Arfersheer Edgeogs') Beorcham Name

May-82 Town Hall Clock (still slow a week after BST; memento of Thomas Reid) Beorcham Municipal

May-82 Thomas Bourne's Charity (exhibition of documents from Bourne charity archive) Beorcham School

May-82 Sayer and Salter (John Sayer's almshouses and land bequeathed by Edward Salter) Beorcham Society

May-82 Kings Road (not Upper Kings Road; used to be Cockes Lane) Beorcham Street

May-82 American Caller (related to surgeons Thomas, of Egerton House, and George Frederick

Whately)

Beorcham People

May-82 Town's name (Dr Fry, headmaster Berkhamsted School credited, but appears in Pipe

Rolls of 1230)

Beorcham Name

Jun-82 Antony Hopkins (autobiography 'Beating Time') Beorcham Publication

Jun-82 Six Little Pigs (Hawridge stained glass window at the church) Beorcham Church

Jun-82 Happy Birthday! (Basil Cole 80; father licensee at White Hart pulled down in 1973) Beorcham People

Jun-82 Printer's Ink (in building that used to be printing press for Berkhamsted Times in

Holliday Street)

Beorcham Business

Jun-82 Those were the days (gentry used to allow fetes in their grounds; later in Castle

grounds)


Jun-82 Down in the valley (development including George Street, Fiske House in Chapel Street) Beorcham Change

Jul-82 Shopping List (Kennett & Fox opposite St Peter's; le Shopperowe; Bailey's near top of

Castle St etc)

Beorcham Street




Jul-82 General's House (Rodinghead, General de Gaulle's home for sale, near Berkhamsted

Lodge)

Beorcham Building

Jul-82 On the wing (birds flying into church, dog whippers removed badly behaved dogs from

church)

Beorcham Church

Jul-82 Serial story (proposals for by-pass at Civic Centre; increase of heavy traffic in High

Street)

Beorcham Utilities

Jul-82 Lifelong Choristers (Sidney Chappell 90, married Saltmarsh's daughter) Beorcham People

Aug-82 On the warpath (remedies for drains, potholes, footpaths slow to come) Beorcham Utilities

Aug-82 Red House (first occupant Rev. George Nugent, contributed £1000 to building

workhouse)

Beorcham Building

Aug-82 Red and White (In 1841 Red House owned by quaker James Field; John Tawell; Joseph

Robinson)

Beorcham Building

Aug-82 Hubert Figg (chemist; son of George Figg who kept toy shop near Monk's House, died

aged 92)

Beorcham Business

Aug-82 Four Rivers? (proposed transfer of Berkhamsted to Three Rivers) Beorcham Municipal

Aug-82 Where can you go? (visit to Olney with Local History Society) Beorcham Visitors

Aug-82 Little Berkhamsted (book by Gerald Millington) Beorcham Publication

Aug-82 North Bridge Road (need signpost at entrance to Billet Lane) Beorcham Utilities

Sep-82 Stag Lane (takes its name from Stag public house; lost licence after WWI, demolished

1960s)

Beorcham Street

Sep-82 Far East Callers (on a cycling tour, including Graham Greene) Beorcham Visitors

Sep-82 Bulbourne Factory (H.G. Hughes, Hawkins & Co, ladies' wear, 1902; later Corby, Palmer

& Stewart)

Beorcham Business

Sep-82 Sign of the times (school sign converted to Soho) Beorcham Name

Sep-82 Hands across the sea (Victoria School with Barkhamsted, Connecticut) Beorcham Overseas

Sep-82 Early Settlers (in Barkhamsted, from Berkhamsted?) Beorcham Overseas

Sep-82 Summer Visitors (Castle and church; Local History Society to Olney and Little

Gaddesden)

Beorcham Visitors

Oct-82 River Bulbourne (source in field between Cow Roast and Dudswell; hamlet of

Bulbourne)

Beorcham Waterway

Oct-82 Echoes of the past (Pictorial Record for Aylesbury, Berkhamsted and Tring, c1916) Beorcham Publication




Oct-82 Local Windmill (in Millfield, shown in 'Prospect of Berkhamsted, 1724; last miller blind

Bening)

Beorcham Building

Oct-82 Harvest Home (1901 - 100 farm workers, great reduction from Victorian times) Beorcham Business

Oct-82 Local Lace-Maker (Mrs Dorothy Deacon, lived in Ravens Lane, earlier Haddenham) Beorcham Business

Oct-82 Welcome Visitor (Major W. Ward, son of last licensee of Stag inn) Beorcham Business

Nov-82 Canadian Dudswell (forty miles south of Quebec , near Tring jonction) Beorcham Overseas

Nov-82 Canal-side forge (Albert Pocock shod 100 boat horses a week at Dudswell Forge; Swan

Inn by lock)

Beorcham Business

Nov-82 Cowper's Well (photo by J.T. Newman; demolished in 1894) Beorcham People

Nov-82 High Street changes (shop next to Town Hall: draper, Khaki Tea House, Lloyds bank,

Boots)

Beorcham Change

Nov-82 World-wide interest (Whately family; Thomas Whately donated glass for window in St

Peter's)

Beorcham People

Nov-82 Snob's Alley (between High Street and Butts Meadow; named after bootmakers) Beorcham Street

Nov-82 Down Under (Berkhamsted accent recognised in Sydney Australia) Beorcham Overseas

Dec-82 Christmas Recipe (objects purchased at antique shops, e.g. St Peter's moustache cup

and recipe book)

Beorcham Artefact

Dec-82 Wrong Date (Swan Inn in Dudswell closed in 1890s, not 1980s) Beorcham Business

Dec-82 Chapels of Ease (for people a long way from parish church; Marlin Chapel) Beorcham Church

Dec-82 Broadway Church (Open Day at St John's church) Beorcham Church

Dec-82 Welcome Restoration (Inns of Court memorial; floral tributes to those who lost their

lives in WWI)

Beorcham Church

Dec-82 Early Motor Cycles (garage between Kings Road and Elm Grove, started by C.E.

Southey)

Beorcham Business

Dec-82 William Penn's visit (tried to persuade local girl Gulielma Woodhouse to go to his

colony Pennsylvania)

Beorcham People

Dec-82 Tailpiece (order for book 'Begone Berkhamsted' - let begones be bygones!) Beorcham Publication

Jan-83 Castle Street changes (Mrs Bishop's chitterlings house demolished for entrance to

Manor Close)

Beorcham Change




Jan-83 Too many names (official guide with street plan; Haxter's End Lane renamed as

Broadway Church Lane)

Beorcham Name

Jan-83 In and around Berkhamsted (complaint about renaming Haxter's End Lane) Beorcham Street

Jan-83 Friendly town (Americans visiting home town of Axtell family) Beorcham Visitors

Jan-83 Compare these prices! (Hilda Kent, about 1910, exercise book of weekly income

planning)

Beorcham Change

Jan-83 Early Motor Cycles (Southey's moto cycles no longer in existence) Beorcham Business

Jan-83 100 years ago (events at St George's Temperance Hotel, nursing home, Rectory,

church, Court House)


Jan-83 Rector's Travels (Cobb travelled to Alsace-Lorraine, Sedan, Italy, Austria) Beorcham Overseas

Jan-83 Tailpiece (changes each side of Town Hall) Beorcham Change

Feb-83 Spoilt walk? (trees cut down by towpath, rubbish dump and car park spoilt the view) Beorcham Walk

Feb-83 What's in a name? (letter delivered to Boxwell Road, Bokhuched, Herts) Beorcham Name

Feb-83 On the wall (plaque on 152 George St commemorating Victoria's diamond jubilee) Beorcham Artefact

Feb-83 Gamma airship (landed at castle on 23 May 1913, soon after 6am; officer J.N. Fletcher) Beorcham Entertainment

Feb-83 Museum enthusiasts (proposals for Hemel museum in disused school; Berkhamsted in

market hall)

Beorcham Society

Feb-83 Rural rides (book by William Cobbett, 1830; wrote of clean, fat, well-clad children in

Herts)


Feb-83 Feast at Tring (by William Cobbett) Beorcham Publication

Mar-83 As others see us (Shell County Guide by R.M. Healey) Beorcham Publication

Mar-83 Writing on the wall (Home and Colonial Stores) Beorcham Building

Mar-83 Cut 'em shorter (black puddings made by Tommy Janes, reported by Northchurch

'Hedgehog')


Mar-83 In the wilderness ('of evil repute'; Knowles Drew painting of tall house at end of Water

Lane, 1907)

Beorcham Street

Mar-83 Seating capacity (Civic Centre mail hall to be extended to 260 seats, from 160) Beorcham Municipal




Mar-83 Musical Town (Hamish Milne biography 'Bartok, his Life and Times'; other famous

names)


Apr-83 St John's Well Lane (proposal for bridge across canal to swimming pool) Beorcham Street

Apr-83 High and low (variety at roof level of buildings between PO and Lower King's Road) Beorcham Street

Apr-83 Happy Band (Bernard Kempster of Charles Street, bandsman) Beorcham People

Apr-83 Music in the air (bells of St Peter's and St Mary's) Beorcham Church

Apr-83 Marlin Chapel (built 13th century; directions to get there) Beorcham Church

May-83 Sayer Almshouses (built 1684; 300th anniversary) Beorcham Building

May-83 Henry Nash (building at Girls' School dedicated to Nash, leather merchant) Beorcham People

May-83 Grand Old Man (founder of Mechanics' Institute) Beorcham People

May-83 Ashridge Park (Thames and Chiltern Region report on wildlife at Ashridge) Beorcham Nature

May-83 Old, Old Stories (Gallows Lane off Shootersway; story goes a Civil War soldier was

hanged for treason)

Beorcham Street

May-83 Old School Relic (James Wood's exercise book, Commercial School, 1854; the son in J.

Wood & Son)

Beorcham Business

May-83 Compliment (Shropshire man who spends all his holidays on canals says Berkhamsted

port is best)

Beorcham Visitors

Jun-83 Off the Rails (gasworks tramway) Beorcham Railway

Jun-83 Brownlow Estates (Ashridge sold off to pay mortgages and expenses in 1920s) Beorcham Building

Jun-83 In Greenland (Graham Greene's books) Beorcham Publication

Jun-83 Lower Kings Road (widening in 1883) Beorcham Street

Jun-83 Lowering the name! (subscriptions raised for Lower Kings Road, but the name is

lowering)

Beorcham Street

Jul-83 Broadwater Lock (canal lock near Lower Kings Road bridge) Beorcham Waterway

Jul-83 Two Unlucky Black Eyes (Theodore Kitching, cadet at training garrison, bullied by

roughs)

Beorcham People

Jul-83 101 years ago (Kelly's Directory 1882; population, private residents, trades) Beorcham Records

Jul-83 Over to Northchurch (Kelly's Directory 1882; population, private residents, trades) Beorcham Records

Jul-83 Deanery Magazine (appeal for copies 1934-1946) Beorcham Publication




Jul-83 Boisterous times (before general election; years ago used to be hecklers 'chuck him in

the horse trough')

Beorcham Municipal

Jul-83 In the right direction (call for street map outside police station) Beorcham Directions

Aug-83 Sports Ground (near station; first used for cricket 1875; YMCA huts in Lower Kings

Road)

Beorcham Sport

Aug-83 On the level (towpath improvements) Beorcham Waterway

Aug-83 On the right lines (exhibition on railways; line might have followed Gade but for local

landowners)

Beorcham Railway

Aug-83 Iron Age Fort (Local History Society visit to Hawridge and Cholesbury) Beorcham Society

Aug-83 1984 and all that (George Orwell's novel; 'Autobiography of an English Gamekeeper',

John Wilkins, 1892)


Aug-83 Little Gaddesden (... and Ashridge, book by Canon H. Senar) Beorcham Publication

Aug-83 Happy Valley (name for a little group of cottages off Castle Street) Beorcham Street

Sep-83 Little Gaddesden (Canon H. Senar's book; Gen. Kitchener at Ashridge Sunday before

WWI)


Sep-83 Visitors (Northchurch WI folder useful for visitors) Beorcham Visitors

Sep-83 Forgotten Branch Line (Lord Brownlow refused railway line on his land; had private

waiting room at station)

Beorcham Railway

Sep-83 Milky Way (R.M. Tutt milkman, sold dairy to Stupples in 1905; cows walked from

Millfield to Castle St)

Beorcham Business

Sep-83 Over the Bridge (wooden footbridge over Bulbourne from Park St to canal towpath) Beorcham Waterway

Sep-83 One hundred years ago (Sunday school treat, invited to Kingshill by Mrs Lucas, 1883) Beorcham School

Oct-83 Sessions Hall (named after Petty Sessions; moved to Civic Centre 1938) Beorcham Municipal

Oct-83 Potten End's Loss (Mrs Viviane Bryant died; was writing a history of Potten End;

member of Local History Soc)

Beorcham Society

Oct-83 Our Noisy Highway (work in High Street; need for by-pass) Beorcham Utilities

Oct-83 Thirty years on (Death of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner; passages from his county book) Beorcham Publication

Oct-83 Changing shops (ads in Parish Magazine: Sainsbury, Co-op, Bailey & Son watch & clock

maker, etc)

Beorcham Change




Oct-83 Mind where you go (Butts Meadow to Kingshill footpath) Beorcham Utilities

Oct-83 Old Offenders (road users' offences in 1869; riding without reins and obstructing

highway)

Beorcham Road

Nov-83 Our changing High Street (Waitrose to take over Woolworth; shops in that row 1934) Beorcham Street

Nov-83 Town's nickname (Berko - who started it? Don't know, but the posh version is Berk-ho!) Beorcham Name

Nov-83 Sir Hugh Greene (biography, 'A Variety of Lives' by Michael tracey) Beorcham Publication

Nov-83 One of the Old Brigade (Tom Cox, Bert Nash, hon. Capt. Frank H. Shaw; Berkhamsted &

Northchurch Fire Brigade)

Beorcham Utilities

Nov-83 Bygone craft (Luton Museum talk at Local History Society; straw plaiters for Luton hat

makers)

Beorcham Society

Nov-83 Water Sports (book by Keith Jary, 'Water Sports for the Disabled') Beorcham Publication

Nov-83 Long Green (with splendid views over the Bourne Valley) Beorcham Walk

Dec-83 Travelling Talesman (H.E. Todd, writer, collaborated with artist Val Biro 'The Scruffy

Scruffy Dog)


Dec-83 Midnight March (St Peter's Drum & Fife Band; carol singing, out-relief and the

workhouse, prices in 1887)


Dec-83 Bourne's Day (1886 annual service at Christmas; dinner at King's Arms for Bourne

scholars)


Dec-83 Christmas Tale (people in Gossom's End in 1890s who prayed for snow - his livelihood

was snow-sweeping)

Beorcham Business

Dec-83 On the right lines (Railway exhibition at the Civic Centre) Beorcham Railway

Dec-83 Northchurch wedding (Daniel Winter and Sally Johnson, 1887) Beorcham People

Jan-84 Happy New Year (Town hall with interesting shopping arcade, lake in St John's Well

Lane, sports ground etc)

Beorcham Change

Jan-84 Hard winters (Lane & Son supplied 5s tickets for food; collections; soup; Primitive

Methodist dinners)

Beorcham Church

Jan-84 Petticoat Lane (track to Coldharbour Farm from Kitchener's Field) Beorcham Street

Jan-84 Common Roads (railway bridges across to the common) Beorcham Railway

Jan-84 Graball Row (demolition of this encroachment suggested many times to open up

prospect of the church)

Beorcham Street




Jan-84 Axtells Again (Thomas Axtell sailed to America 20 years after the Pilgrim Fathers) Beorcham Visitors

Feb-84 Pest House (Moor Cottage the home of Col. Derek Webster and wife Molly, who

moved to Ivy House Lane)

Beorcham Building

Feb-84 St Edmund's (the name of several acres south of the rectory, possibly a religious

foundation)

Beorcham Street

Feb-84 Post Haste? (letters with Berkhamsted address posted pre-10am bear Berkhamsted

postmark, otherwise Hemel)

Beorcham Utilities

Feb-84 Coaching Days (Post boy John Stevens made to 'stand and deliver' mailbags to Robert

Snooks)

Beorcham Road

Feb-84 Moving Around (James Abbey tailor / postmaster next to Post Alley; PO moved next to

Civic Centre 1891)

Beorcham Utilities

Feb-84 What's in a name? (Ravings Lane, Grovel Path, Birkenstead) Beorcham Name

Feb-84 William Beament, B.E.M. (British Empire Medal, Godden's butcher's shop) Beorcham People

Feb-84 Great Expectations (disappointment that the castle is only a ruin; Norman earthworks

the best of their kind)

Beorcham Castle

Mar-84 Town's Cinemas (Aug 1948 programme for Rex and Court, each seating 1000 people;

popular)


Mar-84 Not quite a gem! (Gem cinema opened in Cowper Road in about 1910; Picture

Playhouse in Prince Edward St 1912)


Mar-84 Beyond the reservoirs (Long Marston, Puttenham and Wilstone) Beorcham Places

Mar-84 Cross Oak (cure for the ague) Beorcham Street

Mar-84 Court Theatre (built 1916-7 to entertain soldiers; Egerton House demolished for the

Rex cinema)


Mar-84 Small world (Rev. Horace Spence, Berkhamsted rector met in Samaria, 1966) Beorcham Overseas

Apr-84 Sayer Almshouses (John Sayer, Charles II's cook, lived Berkhamsted Place) Beorcham People

Apr-84 Mary Sayer (survived John by nearly 30 years, augmented the bequest by several

hundred pounds)

Beorcham People

Apr-84 Watch your step! (pavement in need of repair; action was swift when local government

was truly local)

Beorcham Utilities

Apr-84 On the right lines (metal and rope frame erected in which post pouches would be

dropped at 3:30am)

Beorcham Utilities




Apr-84 High Street changes (Park View School 1834 first elementary school; infants added

1894; now demolished)

Beorcham School

Apr-84 Chalk School (Augustus Smith 1834, British School; Board School in 1870, Council

school 1912, Park View school)

Beorcham School

May-84 Article on Sayer's almshouses Jim Pullen People

May-84 Our changing town (Lane's Nurseries started 1777; Prince Albert apples) Beorcham Business

May-84 Woolworth building (purchased shortly before WWI; boarded up during the war then

started trading)

Beorcham Business

May-84 What a card! (misprinted menu - tomato soap - Clunbury Press in the soup) Beorcham Name

May-84 Dig for Victory (Urban District Council leaflet in WWI; allotments) Beorcham Publication

May-84 May days of long ago (dancing round the maypole, 1617 churchwardens' accounts 8d

for taking down of the pole)


May-84 Postscript (Birkcombstead) Beorcham Utilities

Jun-84 First night (souvenir programme for Court Theatre 1934) Beorcham Entertainment

Jun-84 Journey of long ago ('The journeys of Celia Fiennes', 1685-1703 - Barkminstead, a good

market town, good inns)


Jun-84 Our changing town (building in Park View Road; workhouse mentioned in Nash's

Reminiscences)

Beorcham Change

Jun-84 Edward Salter (little known of charitable Salter; surveys of 1607 & 1616 mention

Salter's Heath and Salter's Croft)

Beorcham People

Jun-84 Cherry Ripe (Potten End and Frithsden had many cherry trees; known as Cherry

Bounce)

Beorcham Food

Jun-84 More Vandalism (huge heap of rubbish at the entrance to Long Green) Beorcham Utilities

Jun-84 Town's best viewpoint? (from St Peter's tower; Edward Popple took boys up the tower,

relieved to get them down)

Beorcham Church

Jul-84 United we stand? ('Impossible dream of united Dacorum'; Berkhamsted the best town.

So there!)

Beorcham Municipal

Jul-84 Brighter Berkhamsted (Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society at Civic Centre) Beorcham Entertainment

Jul-84 Roses all the way (Mr Mawley won prizes; president of National Rose Society; window

in Sunnyside church)

Beorcham Church




Jul-84 New footbridge (Broadwater; Park Street; also one from High Street to George Street) Beorcham Waterway

Jul-84 Kingshill developments (National Film Archive; ex-home of Dorriens; Mrs Lucas who

gifted Butts Meadow)

Beorcham Building

Jul-84 Initial justice (at back of Civic Centre, actors' changing rooms used to be charge rooms

for petty sessions)

Beorcham Municipal

Jul-84 White and Blue (Hockeridge wood bluebells and whitebells) Beorcham Nature

Aug-84 Charlie Pendleton (GI, trying to find the house in which he was billeted in 1944; not

Rothesay)

Beorcham Visitors

Aug-84 Over There (Berkhamsted Farm in Red Deer, halfway between Calgary and Edmonton,

Canada)

Beorcham Overseas

Aug-84 Found in the debris (cheque found under floorboards while demolishing Progress Hall,

built 1888)

Beorcham Building

Aug-84 Round the villages (Local History Society visit to Wilstone, Long Marston and

Puttenham)

Beorcham Society

Aug-84 A song of Berkhamsted (composed for pageant 1922) Beorcham Entertainment

Aug-84 Rents and Scents ('My Garden's Bedside Book, compiled by T.A. Stephens; gillyflower

rent)

Beorcham Nature

Sep-84 Local Press (Berkhamsted Express, 1895, short-lived) Beorcham Publication

Sep-84 Dangerous corner (Park View Road with High Street; Lower Kings Road) Beorcham Utilities

Sep-84 My mistake! (Rothesay at the corner of Cross Oak Road and Shrublands Road) Beorcham Street

Sep-84 Slower Deliveries (post erratic now that sorting is at Hemel) Beorcham Utilities

Sep-84 Some unusual people (chap selling chalk for whitening doorsteps; Ali Sloper made

windmills; Dutter and Shiner)

Beorcham People

Sep-84 Some old sayings (Johnny Ripon announced football results; Curly noted for unusual

remarks)

Beorcham People

Oct-84 The Elms (Lloyds Bank replaced what Nash described as the old house of forbidding

aspect, used to be Dr Steele's)

Beorcham Building

Oct-84 Cowper window (obscured east window in St Peter's; west window mentioned in book

'Painted Windows', 1869)

Beorcham Church




Oct-84 Sports Ground (plans of the northern portion of Ashridge estate, Sep 1923; Lower Kings

Road)

Beorcham Street

Oct-84 Famous soldiers (Berkhamsted boys George R Pearkes, V.C. and L.F. Page in Canada) Beorcham Overseas

Oct-84 100 years ago (Parish magazine Oct 1884; Rev Marsden had no house at Potten End so

moved to Wilstone)

Beorcham Church

Nov-84 Changes at Haresfoot (home of Dorriens from 1720; seven outbreaks of fire; Tollit

family, then kindergarten)

Beorcham Building

Nov-84 Busy House (Dorrien's large family; Horace born 1859; Boer War and WWI; staff in

1851; Mardell's whiskers)

Beorcham People

Nov-84 Royal visit (butler told the Prince of Wales would be calling for lunch - he said 'Tell it to

the Marines')

Beorcham People

Nov-84 The Blackwells (at Haresfoot; Crosse and Blackwell fame; trespass on their preserves

you would be in the soup)

Beorcham People

Nov-84 Readers' Comments (west window at St Peter's at Paris exhibition of 1867) Beorcham Church

Nov-84 Life in a Lock-House (Mr Short at no. 53, 2-up 2-down, damp cellar, his father's duties

as lock keeper)

Beorcham Waterway

Nov-84 News from Cornwall (Sidney Chappell, 92, shopkeeper and chorister) Beorcham People

Nov-84 Tailpiece (schoolboy: why was the town called Great Berkhamsted when it was much

smaller than it is today?)

Beorcham Name

Dec-84 1066 and all that (book by Dorian Williams, 'Between the Lines'; wrote script for 1966

pageant)


Dec-84 Wrong Direction (cyclist asking for Berkhamsted Avenue in Wembley) Beorcham Directions

Dec-84 Namesakes (GI visitors, Barkhamsted namesake in Connecticut) Beorcham Visitors

Dec-84 Doctors Commons (named after a few acres of grassland south of Charles Street; gift

from John Incent, lawyer)

Beorcham Name

Dec-84 Different County? (Strong feeling at Tring that it should transfer to Bucks, nearer to a

county town)

Beorcham Places

Dec-84 Music and Fun (Edwin Winter entertainer and his troupe, popular at local dances) Beorcham People

Jan-85 100 years old (completion of Lower Kings Road, cost £3,097 raised by donations but

'shoddily made')

Beorcham Utilities




Jan-85 Hard Times in 1885 (22 children among 83 paupers at workhouse, wages counted in

shillings, 4 policemen)

Beorcham People

Jan-85 Watersplash (raft needed for crossing road from Barclays to Sharlands) Beorcham Utilities

Jan-85 Ancient Horse Trough (outside Goat Inn, date unknown) Beorcham Artefact

Jan-85 Welcome Book ('History of Hertfordshire' by Tony Rook) Beorcham Publication

Jan-85 Unusual Tenants (Autobiography by actress Hermione Baddeley; mother lived in

Hawridge Lane)


Feb-85 Sunnyside Up (named after Sunnyside House, once situated between Gravel Path and

Ivy House Lane)

Beorcham Street

Feb-85 Our First Newspaper (Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Journal,

printed by W. McDowell)


Feb-85 Mudlarks (towpath under new footbridge) Beorcham Utilities

Feb-85 Our Changing Town (Cowper Road car parks on site of cinema and Co-op buildings,

formerly Unity Cottages)

Beorcham Change

Feb-85 In Years Gone By (In 1898, Dr Bontor reported that the crossing by Mr Pike's shop was

nothing but a quagmire)

Beorcham Utilities

Mar-85 Famous Cyclist (Thomas Stevens rode from west to east US, arriving in Boston after 104

days)

Beorcham People

Mar-85 Round the World (cycling trip by Tom Stevens, 5ft 6in 'compressed giant') Beorcham Overseas

Mar-85 By Numbers (street numbers applied in 1894 to the 36 roads; High Street renumbered

after WWII)

Beorcham Street

Mar-85 Local Artist (Merry-go-round on the ice by Robert Barnes, A.R.W.G., 1940-95 who also

illustrated 'Mayor of Casterbridge')

Beorcham People

Mar-85 Looking Up (quiz - which building has date in largest figures -> Colebrook House

opposite Goat Inn)

Beorcham Building

Mar-85 Peter the Wild Boy (200th anniversary of death commemorated at Northchurch Society

meeting)

Beorcham People

Apr-85 Short Stories (Reginald Short's recollections of his life as son of lock-keeper west of

Lower Kings Road bridge)

Beorcham People

Apr-85 Turning Turtle (Thames barges turned round opposite railway station; one turned

turtle)

Beorcham Waterway




Apr-85 By Numbers (Alma Road in Northchurch was once known as Number Row, first road

with numbered houses)

Beorcham Street

Apr-85 Long Memories (toy shop run by Mrs Figg, mother of Hubert Figg the chemist, barrister

and member of UDC)

Beorcham People

Apr-85 Visitor's Views (complimentary comments about canal, surrounding countryside and

view of castle from New Road)

Beorcham Visitors

Apr-85 Garden Suburb (Cross Oak and Greenways in 1912) Beorcham Street

Apr-85 Hidden Mug (bricklayer buried mug in a building in Manor Street which had been

delivered to him with flat beer)

Beorcham Building

May-85 Long Distance Call (Australians plan trip to see Little Heath Farm, home of ancestor

Cornelius Flower)

Beorcham People

May-85 Snob's Alley (former name of Prince Edward Street, named after bootmaker) Beorcham Street

May-85 High Street changes (between Elm Grove and Cowper Road, former Co-operative store

alterations)

Beorcham Change

May-85 Over to Nettleden ('History of Nettleden Church', by Jean Simson) Beorcham Publication

May-85 Happy Memories (early years in Sunnyside, Sunday school outings, canal a great

attraction, people)

Beorcham Change

Jun-85 Midsummer Fetes (Whitsuntide fair on Berkhamsted Common, traditional rural

character)


Jun-85 Unfamiliar names (Happy Valley, Petticoat Lane, Foggy Bottom, Pightle, Squire's Lane,

Cavendish now Clarence Road)

Beorcham Street

Jun-85 Cherry Ripe (cherry turnover invented in Frithsden, or Potten End) Beorcham Food

Jul-85 Out of Bounds (Ashley Green in Buckinghamshire) Beorcham Places

Jul-85 Ancient Pillar (in St John's Chapel in the parish church, a timber pillar) Beorcham Church

Jul-85 Our Popular Library (opened about 1930 in the committee room of Town Hall, then

Prince Edward Street & King's Road)

Beorcham Building

Jul-85 Best Sellers ('Frampton Flora' by Richard Mabey) Beorcham Publication

Jul-85 Looking Around (visit by Local History Society to Nettleden church) Beorcham Society

Jul-85 Change of Light (Court House porch light probably retained in 1963; street lighting

changed from gas to electrity)

Beorcham Artefact

Aug-85 No Mean City! (Citizens' Association marked diamond jubilee with book) Beorcham Publication




Aug-85 Changing Town ('Footpaths around Berkhamsted', by Citizens' Association, 1949) Beorcham Publication

Aug-85 Local Politics (interest waned when power shifted from UDC to Dacorum District

Council)

Beorcham Municipal

Aug-85 Fish Street (Middle Road ws known as Fish Street because Mr Griffin smoked kippers

there for Monk's House)

Beorcham Street

Aug-85 Beware of Drag ('Here be Dragons', by Ralph Whitlock refers to St Paul banishing

snakes etc from Berkhamsted)


Aug-85 Are You a Batchelor? (Miss Anne Batchelor's family research ) Beorcham People

Sep-85 King's Hall (Prince Edward Street, replaced King's Arms stables in 1912, became cinema

Picture Playhouse)

Beorcham Building

Sep-85 Great Gaddesden (compact valley village, large church, lively parish magazine) Beorcham Places

Sep-85 Dorian Williams (pageant master in 1966, wrote book 'Between the Lines') Beorcham People

Sep-85 Furze Cutters (ban on cutting furze in summer months, claims staked at nightfall on last

day of August, cutting at midnight)

Beorcham Business

Sep-85 Wilderness (broken down cottages and small cemetery, new Mission Room built in

1874)

Beorcham Street

Oct-85 Bowls Club (green constructed on Canal Fields) Beorcham Entertainment

Oct-85 Waterways Bridge (in Lower Kings Road, repainted from faded blue to black, red and

gold, reminiscent of narrowboat colours)

Beorcham Waterway

Oct-85 Get 'Em In (refusal by Dacorum to planting of daffodil bulbs on banks around canal

footbridge in St John's Well Lane)

Beorcham Waterway

Oct-85 Holidays at Home (bad weather boosts tour operator's business; wash-out fetes and

fairs)


Oct-85 Diamond missed? ('Berkhamsted Citizens' Association - a Diamond Jubilee History 1924-

1984)


Oct-85 Another Dudswell (in Quebec, Canada near another place called Tring Junction) Beorcham Overseas

Oct-85 Telling the Time (Town Hall clock missed when taken down for a few weeks; memorial

clock for Thomas Read)

Beorcham Municipal




Oct-85 Fun and Games (posters for fetes gifted to Local History Society; need a local museum

to store them)

Beorcham Society

Oct-85 Changing Names (Ivy House Lane named after Ivy House; Pheasantries Cottage;

Sharpes Lane in Bourne End)

Beorcham Change

Oct-85 What's in a Name? (Was Lower Kings Road named after Richard the Second; Berko in

newspapers, posh version Berkeau)

Beorcham Name

Oct-85 At the Crossroads (no sign to the station in the centre of town) Beorcham Street

Nov-85 Historic Bourne End (book by Miss Ethel Salisbury, edited by Joan Hands) Beorcham Publication

Nov-85 Interior Changes (at Sayer almshouses, now for 4 ladies, not 6 as in years gone by) Beorcham Building

Nov-85 Useful Guide (to St Peter's church, different from last edition in 1961) Beorcham Church

Nov-85 Hertfordshire Hedgehogs (what people born in Hertfordshire are called) Beorcham Name

Nov-85 No End of Ends (21 Ends recorded in footpath map) Beorcham Name

Dec-85 Highways and Byways (exhibition by Dacorum Museum Advisory Committee at Civic

Centre)

Beorcham Society

Dec-85 Turnpike Days (toll gate at New Ground; Park Street post marks ancient boundary

between Berkhamsted and Northchurch)

Beorcham Utilities

Dec-85 Fleet Street? (Gazette moved to Church Lane while High Street office renovated;

Review next to Court House)


Dec-85 More Light on the Subject (Peter Medway bought gas lantern from Rectory Lane, with

hook for tethering horses)

Beorcham Artefact

Dec-85 Slow Progress (Berkhamsted postmark only on letters posted early in the day) Beorcham Utilities

Jan-86 On the Screen ('Cinemas of Hertfordshire' by Allen Eyles, includes the Gem in Cowper

Road)


Jan-86 Court and Rex (Court had seats for over 700; Rex replaced Egerton House with seats for

1,100)


Jan-86 Soup Kitchens (Balshaw's charity in the Castle grounds in 1887) Beorcham Food

Jan-86 List of rectors (parish magazine reported brass delivered and fixed on wall behind

rector's stall)

Beorcham Church

Feb-86 Cowper's Well (photo by J.T. Newman; demolished in 1894) Beorcham Entertainment




Feb-86 High Points (in Chilterns - Ivingoe Beacon 802ft or Coombe Hill near Wendover 852ft) Beorcham Places

Feb-86 Sad Humorist (W.W. Jacobs described in 'A Little Learning', by Evelyn Waugh) Beorcham Publication

Feb-86 Watch your step! (uneven paving stones; complaints about road in 1758) Beorcham Utilities

Mar-86 Chalk School (Augustus Smith 1834, British School; Board School in 1870, Council

school 1912, Park View school)

Beorcham School

Mar-86 School Pence (parents' contributions of 1-3 pence a week; some could not afford this) Beorcham School

Mar-86 Work and Play (Board school log books from 1869, including visit by Matthew Arnold) Beorcham School

Mar-86 Gathering Nuts (A.F. Wakelin headmaster comments that despite truancy, full

attendances at summer treats and teas)

Beorcham School

Mar-86 At the Turnpike (highway called Berkhamsted St Peter's Turnpike in 1817) Beorcham Utilities

Apr-86 Chapel Street School (fire spread from plumber's shed to school in Aug 1886;

immediately rebuilt by Matthew Brothers)

Beorcham School

Apr-86 Graham Greene, O.M. ('Human Factor' made into film set in Berkhamsted;

autobiography 'A Sort of Life')


Apr-86 Familiar Names (letter sent from Netherlands to Berkham Ted) Beorcham Name

Apr-86 Full House (Sessions Hall in Town Hall, opened in 1890) Beorcham Municipal

Apr-86 Looking Around (gift of 'History of the Foundling Hospital', hefty tome - sites

considered e.g. Ashridge, Claremont, Stowe)


Apr-86 In Memoriam: 'Beorcham' on 12-Mar Beorcham People

May-86 Reprinted from Sep-1948 Beorcham Various

Jun-86 Wool Merchants of Berkhamsted (reprinted from Aug-1950) Beorcham Business

Jul-86 Berkhamsted Tradesfolk in 1824 (reprinted from Apr-1955) Beorcham Business

Aug-86 Berkhamsted The Good Old "Times" (reprinted from Nov-1950) Beorcham Publication

Sep-86 Berkhamsted in the Good Old Coaching Days (reprinted from Dec-1950) Beorcham Road

Oct-86 Berkhamsted's Ancient Markets and Fairs (reprinted from Jan-1951) Beorcham Business

Nov-86 No Recreation Ground, No Trams (reprinted from May-1951) Beorcham Utilities

Dec-86 White Smocks for Firemen (reprinted from Jul-1951) Beorcham Utilities

Jan-87 Berkhamsted's Bridewell Beorcham Municipal

Feb-87 Straw-plaiters of Berkhamsted (reprint from May-1952) Beorcham Business




Jan-90 Around the town begins here: proliferation of signs, including Home & Colonial John Cook Various

Feb-90 Bourne End scriptural text; Station and bridges; lightning struck St Peter's John Cook Various

Mar-90 Taverns in the town (down to 15); Yew news (tree in St Peter's graveyard); Trains John Cook Various

Apr-90 More on trees; Castle moats; Environmental awards; Estate Agents boards John Cook Various

May-90 Town's ruins (Castle Inn); Eyesore in the town (Rex); Rising Sun; the Arts funds (9p /

head v. £3.44 in Leics)

John Cook Various

Jun-90 Golden Age? (care & social services); Pavement improvements; Push-pull trains;

bluebells

John Cook Various

Jul-90 Plot thickens (Wellcome development); Not just a postman; Flowers for free (in castle

grounds); Star material (corner of Church Lane)

John Cook Various

Aug-90 Name's the same (castle); Floreat Berkhamsted; Coiffurery (Barber's shop); no water

shortage; Coloured fields

John Cook Various

Sep-90 Shops Away; Town Hall; Yews and graves John Cook Various

Oct-90 Country colours; Lofty Activity (Lady Chapel in St Peter's); Town Centres (out of town

shopping): Getting Around (loss of bus services)

John Cook Various

Nov-90 Views and trees (Ashridge); Doctor in the Town (Chris Tully); Different Faces (St Peter's

clock); Quiet Flows the Bulbourne

John Cook Various

Nov-90 Beating the bounds of 1905 [1903] remembered Sydney Chappell Church

Dec-90 Chapels in the Town; Oldest Tree in Town (lime trees); Car Count (traffic) John Cook Various

Jan-91 Butchers in uniform; Historic Churches Trust; Mammals about us John Cook Various

Feb-91 Arts and the Town; Fame is not ours; Famous Cyclist (Thomas Stevens); Market John Cook Various

Mar-91 Broken Glass (in the Church); Yew Tree again; Furry Friend (Glis glis); Town Hall John Cook Various

Apr-91 Inns and Coaches; Soiled soil (at Cooper's); NIMBY (Astley Cooper v railway) John Cook Various

May-91 Marble and brick (School chapel); Exotic fruits (on the market); Citizens' Accolade John Cook Various

Jun-91 Facts and figures (prices / tax); Staff numbers (of St Peter's); Charity shops (presentable

on the High St); Road names

John Cook Various




Jul-91 Church Lane; Bird roads (after Gen. Finch, John Raven); Democracy at work; Beacon John Cook Various

Aug-91 Late Patrons (Graham Greene, Gerald PriestlandSir Bernard Miles); 1897 and all that

(Ordnance Survey map); Bricks (St Peter's car park); Shopper's footnote

John Cook Various

Sep-91 Old Iron (railings round St Peter's used in war effort); Lanterns restored; Household

Names (Cooper's, Greene, Longman's, [Crosse &] Blackwell); Borough Local Plan

John Cook Various

Oct-91 Nash's Reminiscences; Valley exalted (building railway); Berkhamsted birds; Foxes;

Directions (via derelict buildings)

John Cook Various

Nov-91 Weeds and flowers; Council flowers; Calming (of traffic in High St); Lead (stripped from

St Peter's roof)

John Cook Various

Dec-91 Weekly Local (Berkhamsted Gazette ceased in Oct); Choir Stalls (dedicated to Percy

Birtchnell); Housing the Poor; Trust for historic churches

John Cook Various

Jan-92 Business depart (Wellcome and Outspan); Timber and Totem (Alsfords); Shops and

Restaurants; Town up the road (Tring)

John Cook Various

Feb-92 Progress and loss (bypass); Mega shopping (Kingsgate development etc); Plaques

(commemorative); Latin postscript

John Cook Various

Mar-92 Coaching Inns; Eating out; How much Conservation? John Cook Various

Apr-92 New road; Sleepy Lagoons (drainage for new road); Good restoration (Wellcome);

Fighting Lawyers (over motto of IOC); Crown (possible change of name)

John Cook Various

May-92 Digging to a Deadline (archaeologists at site of new road); Ice for the Summer (ice

houses); Ancient and Modern (planning applications); People and Landscapes

John Cook Various

Jun-92 New Trees for Old (High St); Whither the Rex?; Breaking Eggs to make Omelettes

(gravel for road); What time do you make it? (sundial at school)

John Cook Various

Jul-92 Another Loss (Susan Douglas dress shop); Berkhamsted Bones (St Peter's); Good Year

for Exotic (flowers); Manners and Breeding; Local Produce

John Cook Various

Aug-92 Green Belt at Risk; Shops of Interest (Barbara's Florist); Police Presence; Town Clerk

retires

John Cook Various




Sep-92 Town's Owners; Local Brew; Guerra Galleria (objections to licence until 2am); Kneelers

(hand-made in St Peter's)

John Cook Various

Oct-92 Countryside Changes; Going Dutch (transport systems); Identity (loss of UDC, local

paper, franking on mail); Homemade and Wholesome (WI stall); Post Boxes

John Cook Various

Nov-92 French are coming (Roussel, restaurants); Trees are not for ever; Star Awards; Statistics

(road accidents and rainfall)

John Cook Various

Dec-92 Every Prospect Pleases (from bypass); 40 years ago; A Spokesman Said; Canal

Improvements; Kipper Season

John Cook Various

Jan-93 Death on the Roads (fallow deer); Our Last Festival (St Peter's 750th in 1972); It Looks

Well (church cleaning); Boundaries (Northchurch); Seasons Greetings

John Cook Various

Feb-93 Pewing (1897); Reservations (pews); Grave Matters; Water Returns (Bulbourne); Let

Canal take the Strain (deliveries to Kingsgate); Café Continental (Mange Tout)

John Cook Various

Mar-93 Long Road (High St); Music concerts; Report from Down Under; Workhouse Folk (Union

men); Wembley Connection (local names in Wembley)

John Cook Various

Apr-93 Another stream (Bourne Gutter); Preserving and Improving; Pre-war Views (aerial

photographs 1938)

John Cook Various

May-93 Institute Goes; After the Bypass (town planning); Comfrey John Cook Various

Jun-93 Shops to Remember (Figgs, Dickman's, Birtchnell's); Sister town (Connecticut); Coat of

Arms; Architects

John Cook Various

Jul-93 Trains; Straw (no burning of stubble); Shops and Shoppers (plan for large Tesco's in Stag

Lane); Institute Footnote

John Cook Various

Aug-93 Water Life; New Town Feature? (statue of William the Conqueror); Errors; Local Crime

(opportunists in daylight); Gifts to Berkhamsted (Connecticut - wooden bowl)

John Cook Various

Sep-93 Pupils Plus (net importer of students); Losses (Donald Lockhart and Robert Aitchison);

Water (Three Rivers); Town Guide; Charities

John Cook Various

Oct-93 To the Woods (crossing the bypass); Road Names (new signs); Population (15,493 with

490 more women than men); Town Birds; And Flora

John Cook Various




Nov-93 More trees; Whither the Castle? (Duchy / English Heritage); Texture in the town

(window frames and paving); War Memorial (cramped position)

John Cook Various

Dec-93 Connecticut connection; Eating out; Local Authors (Peter Quennell) John Cook Various

Jan-94 Council Capers (reducing local authorities); Selling off Trains; Another Market Day?;

Mabel Lasham (died, aged 99)

John Cook Various

Feb-94 Shops Then and Now (1922-3); Stick without Carrot (Mrs Wimbush used the cane);

Industrial Decline (East's); Berkhamsted Restored (postmark)

John Cook Various

Mar-94 Response to Stephen Halliday re Kingsgate development John Cook Various

Mar-94 King Co, Great Berkhamsted, letter from USA answered by Archivist of BLH&MS Eric Holland Business

Apr-94 Street names; Computer choice; Poplars; Castle Isolated (flooding); Alligators (steaks at

the fishmonger's)

John Cook Various

May-94 Sports Centre; Floral Art; Pheasantries; Deer John Cook Various

May-94 More on King & Sons H.R. Denham Business

Jun-94 How old is that? (High St, Ash, 125 High St); Brickwork (Tudor school room); Building

Update; Trains Update; May Day

John Cook Various

Jul-94 Glass (in church); Alkaline or Acid?; Berkhamsted Families (Dorrien Smith); Death on

the Canal (pike taking ducklings)

John Cook Various

Aug-94 Wells and Water; More Water (canal walk); Nobility (road names); Totem Pole John Cook Various

Sep-94 Evacuees; West Herts Council; Bird Life; Thomas and Eilwin John Cook Various

Oct-94 How Fast? (20mph in town); Dates on Buildings; The Common John Cook Various

Nov-94 Spoiling of Berkhamsted (changes in 1934); Flats; Canal scene (Bridgewater Boats);

Slogans (Local Government); Unwelcome Statistics (high divorce rate in Herts)

John Cook Various

Dec-94 Paving; Flints; Bricks; Policing; Cells; Local Crime (from cars at Ashridge); From Security

to Health; Handel and Berkhamsted

John Cook Various

Nov-95 Butchers; Soldiers Bottom; Trade Names John Cook Various

Dec-95 Churchwardens; Famed Novelists John Cook Various

Jan-96 Berkhamsted Butchery John Cook Various




Feb-96 Busy Lawyers; Berkhamsted Apple; Berkhamsted’s Department Store; Beating the

Bounds; Thunderbird (totem pole); Apples and Meadows – Tompkins (horse & cart)

John Cook Various

Apr-96 Antiques; Swan; Rex John Cook Various

May-96 Bones – Burial Grounds in Berkhamsted; War Memorial; Hostess with the Most –

Adelaide Lady Brownlow; Names and Nicknames

John Cook Various

Jun-96 Portraits (Cowper, Finch, Norris, Lancashire); Ornamental Lighting – Lower Kings Road John Cook Various

Jul-96 Nicknames; The Pightle; Two Front Doors – Kingsgate, new Waitrose; 1851 and all that

– census (Goose); The Workhouse in 1851 census

John Cook Various

Aug-96 Cinema Days – Rex, Court Theatre and others; Why Choose Berkhamsted?; Ashridge

Story

John Cook Various

Sep-96 Power on Tap – water pumping station; What Was It Called?; Gas – Wilderness then

Billet Lane; Church Lane/Back Lane; Little Berkhamsted

John Cook Various

Oct-96 Faux Pas; Wild Boy; Parish Anomaly – St Mary’s & St Peter’s; Where Did They Live? John Cook Various

Nov-96 Butterflies, Birds and Rectors; Regicide - Axtell; Butterfield - architect; 5000 Years of

Occupation; Grims Ditch

John Cook Various

Dec-96 High Street Architecture; Award-Winning Design (Waitrose etc in High St); Chimneys

without Smoke – Sayers Almshouses; The King’s Cook – John Sayer; Behind the Façade -

AgrEvo; Mystery Plants – sunflowers?; Thought for the Month

John Cook Various

Dec-96 The Other William Cooper - Founder of an Industry Stephen Halliday Business

Jan-97 When did they go? (Woolworth); What’s in a name? (Rector, Vicar etc); Roman Villa;

Wild Boy Book; Industrial Change

John Cook Various

Oct-97 Living Memory; Precious Glass – Ashridge Chapel John Cook Various

Jan-98 Local Films – A Road Through History, A41 John Cook Utilities

Jan-98 Surveillance and Crime John Cook Utilities

Jan-98 Winter Reading (Betjeman) John Cook Publication

Jan-98 Publications (Dacorum Digest) John Cook Publication

Jan-98 Feathered Friends John Cook Nature

Jan-98 Industry to Housing – Coopers/Wellcome John Cook Business




Jan-98 Medieval Scribbles – St Peter’s church John Cook Church

May-98 The Crown Inn – Chaffcutters Arms John Cook Business

May-98 Coaching Inns John Cook Business

Sep-98 Milling Around - watermills John Cook Waterway

Sep-98 A Windmill Too - Millfield John Cook Waterway

Sep-98 Whistling Weathercock – St Peter’s John Cook Church

Nov-98 Our Canal John Cook Waterway

Nov-98 Moonlight Dancing in the Cemetery John Cook Church

Nov-98 Berkhamsted Republicans - Axtell John Cook People

Nov-98 The Windmill John Cook Building

Dec-98 St Peter’s Spire John Cook Church

Dec-98 The railway route John Cook Rail

Feb-99 The American Axtells – Thomas Axtell John Cook People

Feb-99 Cobb’s Book John Cook Publication

Feb-99 Another Restaurant – Caffe Uno John Cook Food

Mar-99 The Duchy of Cornwall John Cook Municipal

Apr-99 The Common – a correction John Cook Name

Apr-99 Within Living Memory (Ray Brinkley) John Cook People

May-99 Literary Connections - Trevelyan John Cook Publication

May-99 W. W. Jacobs - storywriter John Cook People

May-99 An Ingenious Resident - Edgeworth John Cook People

Jun-99 An Illustrated History – Scott Hastie John Cook Publication

Jun-99 Grave Records - WWI John Cook Records

Nov-99 Percy the journalist John Cook People

Dec-99 Correctness and the King’s Arms John Cook Business

Dec-99 Snooks John Cook People

Jan-00 Pubs with pictures John Cook Business

Jan-00 Gossoms End John Cook Places

Jan-00 The Crystal Palace John Cook Business

Jan-00 Walking Distance John Cook Walk

Feb-00 A Church Cottage John Cook Building

Feb-00 The 1851 Census John Cook Records




Feb-00 The Workhouse in 1851 John Cook Records

Feb-00 Quotes - Cowper John Cook People

Mar-00 More on Local Names John Cook Name

Mar-00 Our First Bypass - Shootersway John Cook Road

Mar-00 The Last Chimney - Pitstone John Cook Building

Apr-00 St Peter’s Bells John Cook Church

Apr-00 Cicely Duchess of York John Cook People

May-00 Our local stone John Cook Building

May-00 Smoking - now and then John Cook Change

May-00 Local Services in 1900 John Cook Utilities

Jun-00 Buried among the Famous – John Waltham John Cook People

Jun-00 Another Prelate (Henry Chichele) John Cook People

Jun-00 Our New Footpath Map John Cook Directions

Jul-00 Berkhamsted on Film John Cook Entertainment

Jul-00 Another Pageant John Cook Entertainment

Jul-00 Farewell Agents (Estate Agents) John Cook Business

Jul-00 Trees (Bill Willett reported change on map) John Cook Nature

Aug-00 Village Churches John Cook Church

Aug-00 Bulbourne Report 2000 John Cook Waterway

Sep-00 The Poet-Priest – Rev G.S. Cautley John Cook People

Sep-00 A Thirtieth Birthday – Totem Pole John Cook Artefact

Oct-00 100 Years Ago (Water mill ground its last bag of flour) John Cook Business

Oct-00 The Fever Cart John Cook Health

Nov-00 Security John Cook Municipal

Nov-00 Pilkington Manor John Cook Building

Nov-00 Greene and Waugh John Cook People

Nov-00 Versifying Parsons – R.S. Thomas John Cook People

Dec-00 A Century Ago (How big was the town?) John Cook Change

Dec-00 Berkhamsted UDC John Cook Municipal

Dec-00 How would they see us? (People of 100 years ago) John Cook Change

Dec-00 Roman Hertfordshire John Cook Archaeology

Dec-00 The Way Inn café John Cook Food




Jan-01 Vines John Cook Food

Jan-01 A 19th century arrest – John Tawell John Cook People

Jan-01 The Story of a Road – Meadway John Cook Street

Feb-01 Road under Rail John Cook Road

Feb-01 The Town’s Fortress John Cook Municipal

Feb-01 The Dark Satanic Mills of Tring Cynthia Wheatley Building

Mar-01 Royal Pleasures John Cook Entertainment

Apr-01 Medieval Fashions John Cook Change

May-01 Our Valley John Cook Places

May-01 Berkhamsted – the last 150 years Jenny Sherwood Change

Jun-01 Edmund of Berkhamsted John Cook People

Jul-01 Magna or Great John Cook Name

Aug-01 The Berkhamsted Institute John Cook Municipal

Sep-01 Local Bricks John Cook Building

Oct-01 The Old Road John Cook Road

Oct-01 Libraries Yesterday and Today John Cook Change

Oct-01 The Kings Arms John Cook Business

Nov-01 Festivals and Figures John Cook Entertainment

Nov-01 A Book of Our Countryside John Cook Publication

Nov-01 Enigma (part filmed in Manor Street) John Cook Entertainment

Feb-02 Ashlyns John Cook Building

Feb-02 The Bourne Gutter David Simmons Waterway

Apr-02 People and Plait John Cook Business

Apr-02 Demolition John Cook Building

May-02 Thomas Coram And The Foundling Hospital John Cook People

May-02 50 years on – Golden Jubilee John Cook Entertainment

Jun-02 Public Executions – Snook, Tawell and others John Cook People

Jun-02 A Special Architect – Nicholas Pevsner John Cook People

Jul-02 Thomas Coram And The Foundling Hospital John Cook People

Jan-03 A Hidden Treasure House DHT Museum Store Gerry Morrish Society

Apr-03 A Jewel of a Jewellers – Figg’s John Cook Business

Jan-04 Hosiers and Greenes Bill Willett People




Feb-04 The Mechanics Institute Gerry Morrish Municipal

Jul-05 Hatchments explained John Abbott Church

Feb-08 Street Names Ian Reay Street

Jun-08 A One-Oak Mansion Berkhamsted Place Ian Reay Building

Jul-08 Jan Wyck and Berkhamsted Place Jenny Sherwood People

Jan-09 Chiltern Woodlands Ian Reay Nature

Apr-09 Charles de Guiffardiere Jenny Sherwood People

Jun-09 Wall Paintings of St Peters Christopher Green Church

Jul-09 Berkhamsted Market Ian Reay Business

Sep-09 Castle Matters Jenny Sherwood Castle

Dec-09 Memorials & Epitaphs John Cook Church

Jan-10 Not in his Bed (Dorrien Smith died as a result of car accident) Jenny Sherwood People

Apr-10 Fool’s Cap & Dandy Rolls; Dacorum’s Industrial Past (Paper making) Ian Reay Business

Jun-10 Preserving History Jenny Sherwood Society

Sep-10 Grand Junction Canal – its success and decline Christopher Green Waterway

Oct-10 Strangers in the country (statues from London) Jenny Sherwood Castle


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