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Norton photos

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Norton maps

Historic maps of Norton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Norton maps

Norton map

Historic map of Norton

Hertfordshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire

Norton map

Historic Map of any Norton postcode

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Norton books

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Hertfordshire Living Memories
Paperback
£14

Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14

Hitchin Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13

Norton books
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Memories of Norton

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Letchworth Childhood

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 by Ian Griffin.

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 by Peter Frost.

My Heritage

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 by Margaret Cadger.

Halsey's Delicatessen

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 by Sharon Dudley.

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]

Hertfordshire Living Memories

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]

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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]

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