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Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Stevenage maps
Historic maps of Stevenage and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Stevenage maps
Historic map of Stevenage
Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire
Historic Map of any Stevenage postcode
Stevenage books
Displaying 3 of 4 books about Stevenage and the local area. View all Stevenage books
Hertfordshire Living Memories
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Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
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Hitchin Town and City Memories
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7 Stevenage photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Stevenage
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This is simply my most favourite place in the whole world! No words can describe the peace and tranquility I feel when I walk along The Avenue with my family and dogs. The autumn months are my favourite! The range of colours in the trees, the conkers falling to the ground, and the sound of the branches swaying in the wind.... [more]
Shared on 30 October 2008
Hertfordshire memories
Last year, as part of a two month trip from New Zealand, in mid September, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to Walkern, the place of my paternal ancestors. During the war I was taken by my mother and grandfather to Clay End, near Walkern where we stayed for a few days to avoid the bombing in London. I don't... [more]
Shared on 04 July 2009
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
I remember when I was just a young teenager... you could roam around the village and just about everyone knew you.
I loved to wander down to Mill Stream Lane with my jam jar and fishing net and walk along the stream searching for stickle backs and anything else I could catch. The fields behind us would whisper in the... [more]
Shared on 04 June 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
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 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
Extracts From Stevenage & Hertfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Stevenage, inspired by Frith photos.
Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract a considerable degree of interest from onlookers. Even the grocer in his full-length apron has left his counter and come to the door of his shop to view the proceedings.
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Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
In the heyday of Stevenage, at the start of the 19th century, up to twenty stagecoaches a day passed along this stretch of the Great North Road. Here, only a peddler's humble donkey waits to cross from the Bowling Green towards the gable end of the Tudor Alleyn's School.
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Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
The White Lion, on the left, was, along with the Cromwell Hotel, the Two Diamonds, and the Yorkshire Grey, among a series of coaching inns spread along the spacious High Street. Even in 1903, the un-made-up road surface bears mute witness to the substantial amount of horse-drawn traffic it carried daily.
This is an extract from Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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