Waterford, The Old Windmill Tea Rooms c.1960
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Photo of Waterford, The Old Windmill Tea Rooms c.1960

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Waterford lies along the North Road from Hertford towards Stapleford and Stevenage - the road follows the course of the meandering River Beane. The row of four whitewashed cottages in the foreground leads up to the Vicarage Lane turning on the right; the lane crosses the river about 200 yards north of the Overflow, a weir at Waterford Marsh. Just after the lane stands what was in the 1950s the Old Windmill Tea Rooms - it had been the post office in the 1930s. Today it is a private residence.

A Selection of Memories from Waterford

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Waterford

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Can someone tell me when the Windmill Tearooms opened and when they closed and any photos of it inside at the time stories or photos wish this had been around in 1980 and who ran it and what did they serve what was it before a tea room and what is it now?
Thousands of teenage boys would have spent their formative years at William Baker Technical School which was housed in the historic mansion of Goldings in the village of Waterford. In 1922 around 240 boys and staff marched from Stepney Causeway where Barnodos had their training workshops to the station where they travelled by train to Hertford. Forming up behind their band they marched past the newly errected war ...see more