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Norton, Hertfordshire
Norton maps
Historic maps of Norton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Norton maps
Historic map of Norton
Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire
Historic Map of any Norton postcode
Norton books
Displaying 3 of 4 books about Norton and the local area. View all Norton books
Hertfordshire Living Memories
Paperback
£14
Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Hitchin Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Norton
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Hertfordshire memories
Seeing the fountain in this picture brings back childhood memories from the 1950/60s of sailing boats up and down the paddling pool at weekends or when your parents took you down on a sunny afternoon. Summer fetes and funfair on the grass area between the paddling pool and Norton Way South, last but not least playing in the small wood behind... [more]
Shared on 05 June 2006
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
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 Norton & Hertfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Norton, inspired by Frith photos.
North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Now part of a strictly controlled conservation area, this group of shops on the corner of Green Lane and Norton Road blend into the environment. The Standard 8 and the pre-war Morris 8 complement the view, and the youngster on the tricycle reminds us that Norton was still a tranquil backwater. Only the concrete 1930s telephone kiosk seems out of place.... [more]
This is an extract from North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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This quiet north Hertfordshire village offers teas in the garden - or something a little stronger at the Three Horseshoes (left). The pub had been the village school in 1873. In the background is the 12th-century parish church of St Nicholas, which has been superseded by the ultra-modern church of St George in the 'new' town of Letchworth. St Nicholas' is... [more]
This is an extract from Hertfordshire Living Memories.
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North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
The village of Norton dates from the Saxon period. One of the earliest references to Norton is a grant by Offa of Mercia to the monastery at St Albans. A priest is mentioned in Domesday, and it is possible that his wooden church stood on the site of the present church of St Nicholas, which was dedicated in 1119. In the... [more]
This is an extract from North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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