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Author: Eve Davis Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445628694 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 192
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hemel Hempstead has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Eve Davis Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445628694 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 192
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hemel Hempstead has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Hemel Hempstead Local History and Records Society Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 362
Author: Stephen Jeffery-Poulter Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445616327 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 193
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hertfordshire has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445626861 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 194
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Berkhamsted has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: John Cooper Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445632039 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 191
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Watford has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: F. S. Brereton Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267647583 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 92
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Excerpt from Hemel Hempstead Through the Ages Those who recall their history will remember the occasion of the founding of this ancient Abbey. Offa, like many a potentate before him and since, was ambitious and, it would seem, unscrupu lous. Not content with the kingdom of Mercia, which embraced the greater part of the centre of England, he cast covetous eyes on the kingdom of the east-angles, of which Ethelbert was king. He invited this king to his court, and it may be that the court was at Berkhampstead, and baited the trap with promise of the hand of his daughter. Ethelbert was foully murdered, and the east-angles came under the sway of Offa. Matthew Paris, that diligent historian of the Abbey of St. Albans, to whom we owe so much because of his careful account of events in English life, and who, moreover, had at hand in the library of the Abbey records left by his predecessors, excuses the perfidy of the act and seeks to exonerate the great Offa. But his comments were made round about the year 1240, by which time the vastness of the Monastery and Abbey and their magnificence and wealth attested to the worth of the founder, rather than to the opposite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ken Sears Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1471113582 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 235
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This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors. Ken Sears was born in 1934 to a poor farming family in Hertfordshire - the fifth child of what would be eleven. He learns how to fend for himself at an early age. His boyhood life coincides with wartime, evacuees and American GIs arriving in his home town of Hemel Hempstead (the 'Treacle Bumpstead' of the title). At the age of nine he is caught stealing eggs and accused of killing a chicken (which he denies to this day) and is sent to reform school for five years. So begins a punishing existence, but it breeds a tough teenager, and after learning the trade of bricklaying he is called up to do his National Service in 1952. So begins his adventures in the Army, in Europe and Korea, where the ever-plucky Ken - who has an eye for the ladies and is always landing himself in trouble - finds not-always legal ways to make life that bit easier. After the Army he comes back to England and sets up a building business. From there he sees his home town change out of all recognition. The story is a characterful testament to the resourceful generation of the men who did National Service, fought wars, built towns and stood up to everything in their way. Ken's story reads like 'Commando Comics meets Fred Dibnah'.
Author: Eve Davis
Author: Eve Davis
Author: Hemel Hempstead Local History and Records Society
Author: Stephen Jeffery-Poulter
Author: Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society
Author: John Cooper
Author: Scott Hastie
Author: Scott Hastie
Author: F. S. Brereton
Author: Ken Sears
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