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Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Hitchin maps
Historic maps of Hitchin and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hitchin maps
Historic map of Hitchin
Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire
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Hitchin books
Displaying 3 of 4 books about Hitchin and the local area. View all Hitchin books
Hitchin Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Hertfordshire Living Memories
Paperback
£14
Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
12 Hitchin photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Hitchin
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memories of Hitchin
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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
The lady in the centre of the photograph walking towards the camera is Mrs Kate Silsby my grandmother who lived at 8 Tilehouse Street. When this was taken we think she would have been walking to St Ippollytts to visit her daughter Mrs Babs Brown.
Shared on 29 June 2006
This car was parked in the Churchyard outside the provisions shop Halseys.
Shared on 30 September 2008
The white-haired man in the photograph, I believe, is my father John Neville. He was a police sergeant in Hitchin from 1941 until his retirement in the late '50s.
Shared on 26 January 2008
Extracts From Hitchin & Hertfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Hitchin, inspired by Frith photos.
The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century. The cupola of the 1851 Corn Exchange rises above the collection of stalls and the surrounding Georgian facades. The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.
This is an extract from Times Gone By.
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The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century. The cupola of the 1851 Corn Exchange rises above the collection of stalls and the surrounding Georgian facades. The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.
This is an extract from Countryside Poems.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
Hitchin Town and City Memories
This photograph shows how the traffic used to run diagonally across the Market Place. To the left of the Italianate Corn Exchange, G C Flanders advertises the various cycles sold in the shop: Swift, Rover, Royal Enfield, Rudge and Whitworth amongst them. On the other side of the Exchange is Edwin Logsdon's confectionery business. Gatward's Engineers are to the right of... [more]
This is an extract from Hitchin Town and City Memories.
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