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The Bell Hotel, Hare Street, Buntingford
I have recently discovered that my Great Grandfather John Main originally from Devon (a shoe maker) and then in Brixton, London as a Dairy Manager owned the Bell Hotel in Hare Street around 1905.
My Grandmother lived there as a little girl and would often tell us stories as children about how it was haunted and about secret panels etc and of an old huntsman who would sit on the garden wall!
I have several old postcards of it and the Street. He was still there in 1916 when my Grandmother married and I think on into the 1920s.
I just wondered if The Bell was still there?
Contributed by Judith Irwin
Hertfordshire memories
The Bell Hotel, Hare Street, Buntingford
I have recently discovered that my Great Grandfather John Main originally from Devon (a shoe maker) and then in Brixton, London as a Dairy Manager owned the Bell Hotel in Hare Street around 1905.
My Grandmother lived there as a little girl and would often tell us stories as children about how it was haunted and about secret panels etc and of an old huntsman who would sit on the garden wall!
I have several old postcards of it and the Street. He was still there in 1916 when my Grandmother married and I think on into the 1920s.
I just wondered if The Bell was still there?
A memory of Buntingford contributed by Judith Irwin
My memories of Wyddial
My father's people were from Wyddial, their name was Pinner. I was baptized at St. Giles, along with my sister. (My parents felt I should be old enough to remember this event). The dish in the font was cracked. I later stayed with my cousin Angela, she lived in Buntingford, her parents were from Aspenden. For the six weeks I was with her I worked for Mr Hodge, of Hodges Farm, Wyddial. My dad had worked for the same farm as a boy. I worked at the duck farm.
A memory of Wyddial contributed by valerie stephens
The Picketts of Standon
The majority of my father's family lived in and around Standon from 1600 onwards and one of them was the Sexton of St. Mary's and another was the innkeeper of The Three Horseshoes at Farnham in 1881. My Grandfather was born in the Three Horsehoes. Does anyone have any connections with the Pickett family?
A memory of Standon contributed by Angela Kenny
Extracts From Buntingford & Hertfordshire books
The bridge over the Rib, built in 1852, leads to the Causeway and Layston church. The Cottage, on the corner, faces onto River Green and looks towards the right of the photograph and Pig's Nose, originally a c1500 farm shed but now a residence. The reasons for it name are lost in obscurity, although it has been suggested that the shape of the plot is reminiscent of a pig's snout!
An extract from from"North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories".
The Causeway leads from the town of Buntingford to the original, and now derelict, parish church of St Bartholomew, Layston. The trees on the left fell victim to Dutch elm disease, and have now been replaced. On the right is the garden wall to Little Court, and behind the trees stands Layston School, skirted on the west by Paddock Road. The open land to the left of the trees is now the playing fields of Layston School.
An extract from from"North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories".
The building on the right, now demolished, stood on the corner of what is now Vicarage Road, and was the first county library in the town. Mrs Crouch and her daughter are at the door of their cottage. This, too, has gone, and Freman Drive cuts now across the site. Of all the buildings, only the house in the distance on the left, No 1 Ermine Street, survives. It reminds us that Buntingford High Street and Royston Road follow the line of the Roman Ermine Street.
An extract from from"North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories".
We are looking south. The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance. Today, the suspended street lighting has disappeared, and although Buntingford has a major by-pass, traffic is heavier than the two cyclists and the solitary parked delivery van.
An extract from from"North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories".
Buntingford was founded in the 1100s and served as a market for the surrounding villages and communities, particularly the settlement at the adjacent Layston. The weekly cattle market, revived in 1920, was based on a royal charter of 1542. The tall building in the left distance was originally the Manse, and became a shop in the 1930s.
An extract from from"Hertfordshire Living Memories".