The Home Guard in West Herts
10 January 2022
Right. Get fell in! Atten-shun! Right dress! Eyes front. Stand at ease. Stand easy.
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Canal memories (continued)
1 January 2022
In the June 2009 issue of Village News I related some condensed extracts from the memoirs of Edward Bell, a Tring man and engineer who worked for 49 years on the local stretch of the Grand Junction Canal.
A century at the Half Moon at one sitting
20 December 2021
A hundred years of the Half Moon pub in Wilstone were represented when family members of previous publicans visited recently.
Canal Memories
10 December 2021
A request in the April 2009 Village News from Professor Timothy Peters regarding information on the Wendover Arm and the Woodhouse family, caused me to look through some old articles about the Grand Junction Canal.
Tales of my Grandfather
1 December 2021
Last Autumn Teresa and I attended a fund raising talk showing recently discovered photographs. Tring’s local history exhibition was the target. A local politician was the speaker. The photographs were wonderful, but the jokey, sarcastic remarks about Tring families got very irritating. In fact I had to have a word.
UK Census 1901, Wilstone results available now
10 September 2021
Wilstone today is a thriving village. Its people generally have a good standard of living and enjoy quite a comfortable lifestyle. However this has not always been the case.
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