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Standon photos

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Standon maps

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

Standon map

Historic map of Standon

Hertfordshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire

Standon map

Historic Map of any Standon postcode

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Standon books

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Hitchin Town and City Memories
Paperback
rrp £13  £10.40

Hertfordshire Living Memories
Paperback
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Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Standon books
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Memories of Standon

Standon memories
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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?

Shared on 17 January 2007 by Angela Kenny.

I lived in Standon  from the 1950s onwards till 1969 & then came back!!

My dad ran the butchers shop in the High Street from 1951-1969, Victor John Ward. I went to the school at the far end of the High Street (now residential). Headmaster was Mr Eric Norman Butler. I remember May Day, and dancing in the High Street ... more memories than I can write! School journeys? Sports days on the rec...Westwoods newsagents....Catons... [more]

Shared on 22 July 2009 by Sheila Tanner.

Hertfordshire memories

A good time in Much Hadham

I spent about one year in Much Hadham as German prisoner of war, 1946 till July 1947, working for the Hertfordshire War Agricultural Executice Committee; I specially was engaged in our camp labour office as clerk, under Mr. Wooley and later Mr. Smolenski, two wonderful men. We enjoyed already a lot of liberty, and I really loved this little village, which... [more]

Shared on 30 September 2008 by Walter Scharnagl.

Memories of the Red Lion

I was born in 1966 and lived in the Red Lion. My dad and mum were married in 1961. My dad lived in the village all his life, moving to the Red Lion on his marriage. My dad was formerly of Temperance Hall, down the road from the village stores.
Mum and Dad lived in the Red Lion in one room... [more]

Shared on 18 October 2008 by Amanda Shaw.

Visits to Wareside 1964 - present

My dad was born at Hillside Cottages in Wareside in 1929 (I think). I remember visiting my Grandmother there up until she moved to Ware round about 1978/9. She lived in the house with the "Hillside Cottages" sign on the front. I remember going to visit every Saturday afternoon. The front garden was a typical cottage garden where I would collect... [more]

Shared on 13 December 2007 by Sandra Penstone-Smith.

Looking after Mungo Walker at Wyddial Hall

My mother - Peggy Barker - looked after Mungo Walker, the grandson of the Heaton-Ellises when he returned from Kenya as a 7 year old in the late 1930s. This was only for a few months until he went to boarding school. She was supposed to be teaching him Maths but I think from the sound of it, they just had... [more]

Shared on 02 November 2009

My Grand Parents Wedding

My Grand parents - Christopher and Dorothy McHugh nee Roblett, of Archers in Buntingford. They married here sometime between 1940-1950, the church was open air and they married on Christmas Eve. They have three children, Christopher, Bernadette (my mother) and John. They passed away over 20 years ago now.

Shared on 29 April 2009 by Charlotte Norman-Smith.

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... [more]

Shared on 15 April 2007 by Judith Irwin.

Extracts From Standon & Hertfordshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Standon, inspired by Frith photos.

North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories

The large piece of puddingstone (we get a good view of it in S377013) is reputed to have been turned up by a plough on a field called 'Plain', and it was set up in the street opposite the church gate. It was later moved to the triangle in front of Groom's shop in 1904. The Top Shop has gone, but... [more]

Hertfordshire Living Memories

The parish church of St Mary at Standon has a three-stage detached tower - one of the few in England. It is said to have been built by the Knights Hospitallers as a 'processional' church - again, one of only three in England. The Windmill pub stands out as the white building in the centre left of the view. The building... [more]

This is an extract from Hertfordshire Living Memories.
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North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories

Previously a corn mill, the building was converted to manufacture hand-made paper in 1713. More than forty people were employed here collecting rags, which were sorted by women and children, washed in the river and laid out to dry in Laundry Meadow opposite the mill to the right of the photograph. The rags were then cut up and pounded to form... [more]

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