Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Hitchin photos
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Hitchin maps
Historic maps of Hitchin and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hitchin maps
Hitchin books
Displaying 3 of 4 books about Hitchin and the local area. View all Hitchin books
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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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
The road is called Queen Street and shows St Mary's Square on the left where the market was held on Tuesday and Saturday every week. Beyond that is Portmill Lane and the back of shops and offices at the top of Hermitage Road. On the immediate right is the Telephone Exchange.
Shared on 30 September 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
Hertfordshire memories
This is not a memory but a plea!
My late wife was born in March, Cambridgeshire but her mother was born in Great Wymondley in 1911, the date being 2nd July, 1911. This was just after the Census of that year. However, I would like to find the rest of the family on the 1911 Census which should give me names and ages of the rest of the family.... [more]
Shared on 19 May 2009
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.
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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.
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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]
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