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Breachwood Green, Hertfordshire
Breachwood Green photos
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Breachwood Green maps
Historic maps of Breachwood Green and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Breachwood Green maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire
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Breachwood Green books
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Hertfordshire Living Memories
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Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
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Hitchin Town and City Memories
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Memories of Breachwood Green
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When I was small my mother used to help out in the farm run by Mr Coleson, which was behind the photographer. His son Tommy still lives there I think.
I remember collecting eggs and Mr Coleson drinking milk that was still warm from the cows he had.
The house at the bottom is now called the Old Queen's Head after... [more]
Shared on 18 December 2008
My dad used to live in the end cottage up until the early 1950s (the one next to the car). Both my grandparents lived there until about 1965.
The cottage was very small, with no running water and an old earth closet toilet. The water had to be collected in pails from standpipes every day.
These were dotted around the... [more]
Shared on 18 December 2008
Hertfordshire memories
A delightful place to work if only for six months. We would lunch at the Brocket Arms or take a picnic into the grounds by the swimming pool. We did work as well; caring for the silk worms in the mornings and showing visitors around in the afternoons. My favourite task would be to walk the grounds collecting... [more]
Shared on 29 August 2008
This pond used to be known as The Silver Cup Pond but I do not know where the name originated. Here was where children would sail toy boats or paddle. I have not yet come across a current photo or reference to this pond so I am wondering if it has survived health and safety strangulation. Would love... [more]
Shared on 28 August 2008
Silver Cup Pond, Harpenden, Herts.
Having grown up in Harpenden I remember The Silver Cup Pond very well. Firstly, to answer the question posed, I'm sure that the pond was named after the pub that stands on the main road not far away, which in my time was the A6, in it's day the fore-runner of the M1. It is possible that the silver cup itself... [more]
Shared on 05 October 2008
Personally I don't have a memory of the Sun Hotel, but my late mother told me once that she thought her father's family either owned or ran the hotel. Their name was Taylor and they came from Hitchen and the surrounding area.
Shared on 11 May 2009
Our grandparents used to visit Halsey's weekly from Old Stevenage to buy their provisions. Now I with my sister visit regularly especially as we love the new owners' Kirsty and Damien's Tea Room. We take our children for 'tea' there and they think it's a real treat! Christmas simply wouldn't be Christmas without our Christmas Pudding Coffee, and Wild Boar and... [more]
Shared on 30 October 2008
Extracts From Breachwood Green & Hertfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Breachwood Green, inspired by Frith photos.
Outside the row of terraced cottages at Breachwood Green near Hitchin stands a pristine Ford 100E model. In front of one of these houses stood the community's well. This was cemented over in the 1950s. It was 175 feet deep, and was notorious for breaking its rope and losing the bucket. This had to be fished out using a hooked heavy... [more]
This is an extract from Hertfordshire Living Memories.
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Hitchin Town and City Memories
In 1901, Hermitage Road was a pleasant, open avenue. The building on the left in view 46642, left, is the Hermitage, home of Frederick Seebohm; very little of it still remains. Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.
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Hitchin Town and City Memories
A view of St Marys church in 1931, with the War Memorial in the foreground. In 1752, the Rewd William Cole wrote that the tower was `one of the most clumsy and heavy ones I ever saw`. Perhaps `solid` is a kinder description.
This is an extract from Hitchin Town and City Memories.
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