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Past Events
Commercial census
2011
We have recently carried out a census of all the shops in the High
Street from the Old Mill right down to Gossoms End.
It is a ‘commercial’ version of this year's
census. People involved were Jimmie and Jenny
Honour, Robin Gee and Keith
Farmery.
Heritage Open Days and Summer
outings 2011
A visit to the British Film Institute was one of the
attractions of the Heritage Open Days. Summer outings in 2011 included Luton Hoo
walled garden and Redbourn.
Photos by Trisha & Ken Wallis...
BFI1
BFI2
BFI3
BFI4
Luton Hoo 1
Luton Hoo 2
Luton Hoo 3
Luton Hoo 4
Luton Hoo 5
Redbourn 1
Redbourn 2
Redbourn 3
Redbourn 4
Redbourn 5
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BLH&MS 60th
Anniversary Exhibition 2010
Opened by Councillor Phil Gibbs, the exhibition entitled ‘60 years
of preserving history’ included a fascinating selection of photographs and
artefacts.
Photos by Linda Rollitt...
Phil Gibbs
Map in display case
GM Trevelyan letter
Hazell's folly
Walklates Saddlery
Court Theatre
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A County of Small Towns
(2008)
Hertfordshire Association for Local
History held its 29th Annual Symposium in Ewen Hall, Barnet in Nov-08. The theme was ’Care and
the Community’ and interesting talks ranged from the peripatetic poor and workhouses through to
Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace.
Terry Slater announced the launch of a book called
A County of Small Towns: the development of Hertfordshire's urban landscape to
1800
, edited by
Terry Slater and Nigel Goose, for which Society
chairman Jenny Sherwood contributed a chapter on
Berkhamsted.
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Jenny, second left, with some of the
co-authors of A County of Small Towns
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Penny Farthing 2008
On 3-May-08, the Society greeted a group of travellers (members of the International Veteran
Cycle Association) riding through the town in honour of Thomas Stevens, a Berkhamsted man who
was the first to cycle around the world on his trusty penny farthing in 1884.
In the preface to Thomas Stevens’
book of his experiences Around the World on a
Bicycle, Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote this of Thomas Stevens’ speech at the
Massachusetts Bicycle Club: “He seemed like Jules Verne, telling his own wonderful
performances, or like a contemporary Sinbad the Sailor. We found that modern mechanical
invention, instead of disenchanting the universe, had really afforded the means of
exploring its marvels the more surely. Instead of going round the world with a rifle, for
the purpose of killing something—or with a bundle of tracts, in order to convert
somebody—this bold youth simply went round the globe to see the people who were on it;
and since he always had something to show them as interesting as anything that they could
show him, he made his way among all nations.”
Photos by Trisha & Ken Wallis...
Penny Farthing 1
Penny farthing 2
Penny Farthing 3
Penny Farthing 4
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