tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38492207389215847662024-03-13T19:55:50.916+00:00North Mymms History ProjectCurating, digitising, and sharing the history of the parish of North Mymms in HertfordshirePeter Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08963658233600041160noreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-59707029986212221142023-12-08T13:48:00.007+00:002023-12-15T18:43:44.883+00:00Welham Green's storm relief work in the 1970s<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hI58xSwftjm3k-43QFEAIip_EOCSLC1vDFd7Cxbk2gjK4eGHukCO6ffIiOUv9DlFdTFesh6Khx6c9BosOAfqkMNZh94j1HctzNAv79zrfIS-95pdCI-PYoDBDAIYNLiQFrk-mtAS8DP4jdp3pXN4kuz3vhoxpH8kPyFInNOnLHy94sEWZuH1raUxP8KS/s550/dlfloods.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Flooding in Dellsome Lane in the 1970s" border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hI58xSwftjm3k-43QFEAIip_EOCSLC1vDFd7Cxbk2gjK4eGHukCO6ffIiOUv9DlFdTFesh6Khx6c9BosOAfqkMNZh94j1HctzNAv79zrfIS-95pdCI-PYoDBDAIYNLiQFrk-mtAS8DP4jdp3pXN4kuz3vhoxpH8kPyFInNOnLHy94sEWZuH1raUxP8KS/s16000/dlfloods.jpg" title="Flooding in Dellsome Lane in the 1970s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Flooding in Dellsome Lane in the 1970s</b><br /><i>Photograph by K. King - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>For many years areas of Welham Green have been prone to flooding. Two areas to suffer the most have been Dellsome Lane close to Whites Corner and Travellers Lane close to the junction with Dixons Hill Road. In the 1970s two storm relief drains were laid with the aim of diverting water away from the village towards the swallow holes at Water End.
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One of the drains took excess water around the Welham Green shops in Dellsome Lane to a tank under the green before pumping it through drains to an area known as The Watersplash on Station Road just south of the Catholic church, and from there into a brook leading to Water End.
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The image above shows the drains lined up outside the shops in Dellsome Lane ready to be laid. <br />
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The map above shows the proposed route of the planned drainage. The second drainage route dealt with the problem of excess water at the industrial site on Travellers Lane. This resulted in the water being discharged into the stream that runs under the railway at Foxes Lane.
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From there the stream goes past the Catholic church, under The Watersplash and on to Water End. People in Skimpans Close on the side that backed onto the railway had their gardens dug up to avoid railway property.
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The route taking water away from outside the shops on Dellsome Lane has not always been 100% successful. When the pumps on the green block the water backs up and the area around the shops can flood.
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And it's not suprising when you look at old photographs of what is now Dellsome Lane.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMz1WC5-pAJKLBRGgu-YyfZzIWeuoPDrlLsvkkV73orZqIcjFlnrz8Ifxt5n9lCTl8kXr5bZLI-IVuLLtgzIWRQTiFxVrP0q8a5i8ttNWJ_V5556F03XJrzTvho6nyU3uX77VbrNQklUEfc7CxUqr8Hx5kRGLVQUcO8t75Bju-4n7l91ndt0CvYDuRfM4q/s550/por.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Post Office Row, now Dellsome Lane, in the 1900s Photograph A Nott / G Knott - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection" border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMz1WC5-pAJKLBRGgu-YyfZzIWeuoPDrlLsvkkV73orZqIcjFlnrz8Ifxt5n9lCTl8kXr5bZLI-IVuLLtgzIWRQTiFxVrP0q8a5i8ttNWJ_V5556F03XJrzTvho6nyU3uX77VbrNQklUEfc7CxUqr8Hx5kRGLVQUcO8t75Bju-4n7l91ndt0CvYDuRfM4q/s16000/por.jpg" title="Post Office Row, now Dellsome Lane, in the 1900s Photograph A Nott / G Knott - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Post Office Row, now Dellsome Lane, in the 1900s</b><br /><i>Photograph A Nott / G Knott - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The image above shows Dellsome Lane in the 1900s with a ditch running alongside it. Since then pavements and shops have been built, and that water has to go somewhere.
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According to local resident D'Arcy Marlborough, posting on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/northmymmshistoryproject/" target="_blank">North Mymms History Project Facebook group</a> locals were involved in some of the excavation work. "A guy who lived at the top of Dellsome Lane, Martin Flaherty, had a three-in-one digger and he did excavation work".
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMm-P7yq9Sgq0qH1L9-CBMJwrEfgXXKDxZ2EAgrA7z9tToqwDqWFlRj1-89NzCMCcAlSeLtgV-BcDKRs5vrS5t9oI3hJhxBQ1mJZSfRtfeil1uNsxHMl4g9OqfMg6gyK1fjgrlESMZL3wGaZaCRNCIhyphenhyphencIQ6TjrCIzhQaKQfha8X-fyH1W30oSaqoKUJ6v/s690/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2010.24.03.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Storm drain work south of Bulls Lane 1972 Photograph by Ron Kingdon - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection" border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMm-P7yq9Sgq0qH1L9-CBMJwrEfgXXKDxZ2EAgrA7z9tToqwDqWFlRj1-89NzCMCcAlSeLtgV-BcDKRs5vrS5t9oI3hJhxBQ1mJZSfRtfeil1uNsxHMl4g9OqfMg6gyK1fjgrlESMZL3wGaZaCRNCIhyphenhyphencIQ6TjrCIzhQaKQfha8X-fyH1W30oSaqoKUJ6v/s16000/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2010.24.03.png" title="Storm drain work south of Bulls Lane 1972 Photograph by Ron Kingdon - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Storm drain work south of Bulls Lane 1972</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
D'Arcy writes that "two boys were overcome by fumes in the chambers on the green during construction and had to rescued by the fire brigade".
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Dellsome Ln, Welham Green, Hatfield AL9, UK51.7353846 -0.2196923.425150763821158 -35.37594 80.045618436178842 34.93656tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-31622564465644191352023-12-07T08:35:00.005+00:002023-12-15T18:46:22.066+00:00The 'Welham Green curve'
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On 17 October 2000, an InterCity 225 train bound for Leeds left London King’s Cross at midday heading north on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" target="_blank">East Coast Main Line</a>. It passed through North Mymms travelling at 185 km/h (115 mph) before encountering the 'Welham Green curve' where it started to derail before travelling a further 1km to a point south of Hatfield. Four people died and 70 were injured.
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The final report by the <a href="https://www.orr.gov.uk/monitoring-regulation/rail" target="_blank">Office of Rail Regulation</a> (ORR), July 2006, concluded that the <i>"immediate cause of the derailment ... was the fracture and subsequent fragmentation of the [outer] rail on the [northbound] fast line at the Welham Green curve".</i> The rail failure, according to the board, was due to the presence of <i>"multiple and preexisting fatigue cracks in the rail".</i>
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The issue of the "<i>preexisting fatigue cracks</i>" on the Welham Green curve had been known for some time.
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According to Adrian Gray, author of '<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/East-Coast-Main-Line-Disasters/dp/1899816194" target="_blank">East Coast Main Line Disasters</a>' published in 2013 and <a href="https://archive.org/details/eastcoastmainlin0000gray/page/46/mode/2up" target="_blank">available on the Internet Archive</a>, replacing the track on the Welham Green curve had been considered an urgent priority by engineers.
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In late 1999, almost a year before the Hatfield crash, an issue with a rail in Durham had <i>"given rise to widespread concern"</i> among Railtrack's engineers about 'gauge corner cracking' (GCC).
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Writing in a parliamentary report on GCC before the Hatfield crash, the then rail regulator, Tom Winsor, described what GCC looked like.
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<i>"The GCC cracks appear as a series of transverse cracks across the top of a rail (the running surface), and they may extend down the inner vertical face of the rail. In the early stage of development these cracks are fine, hairline fractures, that may not even be immediately visible to the naked eye."</i>
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Winsor's report continued by describing the possible consequences of leaving GCC untreated.
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<i>"Continued loading under traffic causes these cracks to grow. Crack growth initially occurs at shallow depth (a few millimetres) below the rail surface. However, if left unchecked, two things tend to happen. The near-surface cracking can lead to significant spalling or "shelling", where the rail surface actually begins to break up and pieces of metal come away, leaving the rail surface pitted and corroded."</i>
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Railtrack's LNER engineers were so concerned about GCC that a review of the entire East Coast Main Line was carried out. The review, which took place in early 2000, identified a number of <i>"priority sites"</i> where similar problems were <i>"a significant risk"</i>.
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These sites were each accorded a priority level. The <i>"high speed curves through the Hatfield area at Hatfield itself and at Welham Green just to the south"</i> were identified as <i>"some of the highest priorities"</i>.
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Repair work was scheduled to start on the Hatfield section then move on to the Welham Green section in May 2000.
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However, engineers decided to bring the work at Welham Green forward to April after the state of the rails was considered to be <i>"an urgent matter"</i>.
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Repair work at Welham Green was then rescheduled for the third week of April. Rail was delivered to the site on April 28.
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But those replacement rails were to be left lying alongside the faulty track for six months. Gray wrote that <i>"over-running work at Hatfield caused further delays for rerailing at Welham Green"</i>.<div>
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In Chapter 4 of his book 'East Coast Main Line Disasters' Gray wrote that <i>"dates were suggested into the start of the next year"</i>. He also noted that <i>"problems at the site"</i> (Welham Green) were well known and that <i>"rails laid in 1982 had been replaced in 1995."</i>
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The <i>"start of the next year"</i> would have been January 2001, two months after the fatal crash. Gray wrote that the constant delays were motivated in part by worries over delays to trains.
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"<i>As the final report stated, Railtrack was biased towards performance-driven decision and train delays was the most significant target. There was a marked reluctance to impose speed limits. At the same time the condition of the track was inspected weekly by staff from Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance but they, together with engineers from Railtrack, had a difficult job making visual inspections of rails on a high speed main line with curves because of the staff "protection" arrangements</i>."
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Gray noted that engineers faced particular problems examining the track at Welham Green due to the speed of approaching trains. As a result they were not always able to conduct close inspections.<blockquote><i>
"At Welham Green, staff on the track would only have a four-second sighting of an approaching express and so inspection was often conducted from the cess rather than on the track."</i>
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The "<a href="https://safety.networkrail.co.uk/jargon-buster/cess/" target="_blank">cess</a>" is the area at the side of the track which is used as a walkway or refuge for staff working on the track.
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The official inquiry into the disaster by the HSE (<a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Health and Safety Executive</a>) stated that the maintenance contractor at the time, <a href="https://www.balfourbeatty.com/what-we-do/expertise/rail-engineering/rail-plant/" target="_blank">Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance Ltd</a> (BBRML), "<i>failed to manage effectively the inspection and maintenance of the rail at the site of the accident</i>". The investigation also found that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack" target="_blank">Railtrack PLC</a>, the infrastructure controller at the time, failed to manage effectively the work of BBRML.
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Similar blame was registered by <a href="https://raeng.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Royal Academy of Engineering</a> which published <a href="https://engineeringx.raeng.org.uk/media/sogkgnhl/engx-revisiting-the-causes-of-the-hatfield-rail-crash.pdf" target="_blank">a report into the crash</a>:
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"<i>A preliminary investigation found that the rail had fragmented as trains passed and that the likely cause was rolling contact fatigue (RCF). Repeated high loading caused fatigue cracks to grow. When they reached a critical size, the rail failed. Portions of the failed track at Hatfield were reassembled and numerous fatigue cracks were identified</i>".
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<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/rolling-contact-fatigue" target="_blank">Rolling contact fatigue</a> (RCF) is a group of rail damages which manifest themselves on the surface or close to surface inside the rails due to over-stressing of the rail material.
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Almost five years later, when <a href="https://www.networkrail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Network Rail</a> (which at the time of the crash was known as Railtrack) appeared in court, Richard Lissack QC, prosecuting, indicated that problems at the Welham Green section of the track were known about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/sep/06/hatfieldtraincrash.transportintheuk" target="_blank">months before engineers examined and prioritised repair work</a>:
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A month later the engineering company Balfour Beatty was fined £10m and Network Rail £3.5m for "<i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/oct/07/balfourbeattybusiness.hatfieldtraincrash" target="_blank">breaking safety rules before the crash</a></i>". The companies were ordered to pay £300,000 each in legal costs.
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Gray also noted that following the crash pieces of the rail were taken to Sheffield for analysis. Gray quotes the final engineers report as recording that "<i>the rail fracture was due to the presence of multiple pre-existing failure cracks</i>".
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The crash of 17 October 2000 is not the first close to Welham Green. The North Mymms History Project has details of two more.<br />
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On Sunday 10 November 1946 a London-bound express train <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/12/marshmoor-train-derailment-1946.html" target="_blank">derailed about 200 yards south of the Dixons Hill Road bridge</a>, Welham Green. On a section described as “troublesome” by rail workers.
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The entire train derailed, apart from the leading wheels of the engine. There were no serious casualties, although seven people complained of minor injuries and shock; none required hospital treatment.
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On a frosty Boxing Day evening in 1870 a wheel on a north-bound train travelling through North Mymms <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/12/north-mymms-fatal-train-derailment.html" target="_blank">fractured sending carriages down the embankment</a> at the Marshmoor railway crossing near Welham Green.
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Eight people died that evening, including two local women - sisters-in-law - who were walking close to the line. Three people were injured.
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<hr /></div>brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Welham Green, UK51.73473 -0.21695123.424496163821154 -35.373201 80.044963836178852 34.939299tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-68921022639096818782023-12-05T17:56:00.010+00:002023-12-15T18:46:33.567+00:00North Mymms man given 10 years for "forgery and fraud"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTv_VdR2GTV1c9Du3kftGNGQWAfEOBVA418xLnfZ9zK45AWjieboSVNtIr-UBo1gqC2Hl_miZx5NUt3F-1fOWHhWpYDeo34R1yAPs88fA-qLDG7VfF2F7DH615P-SOcq-QF0aCWyyVd_moZur0S3JqDodgo970aXjtVgKjM6Jhw46CRA_dvRRdLmeUMLI/s550/NMH.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="North Mymms House front entrance 1870s" border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTv_VdR2GTV1c9Du3kftGNGQWAfEOBVA418xLnfZ9zK45AWjieboSVNtIr-UBo1gqC2Hl_miZx5NUt3F-1fOWHhWpYDeo34R1yAPs88fA-qLDG7VfF2F7DH615P-SOcq-QF0aCWyyVd_moZur0S3JqDodgo970aXjtVgKjM6Jhw46CRA_dvRRdLmeUMLI/s16000/NMH.jpg" title="North Mymms House front entrance 1870s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>North Mymms House front entrance 1870s</b><br /><i>Photograph R. Sinclair part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
On Wednesday 4 November 1908 Sidney Boughton Pope, who lived in Welham Manor, Welham Green, was sentenced to 10 years <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour" target="_blank">penal servitude</a> for a series of crimes in which he was accused of stealing thousands of pounds through <i>"forgery and fraud"</i>. Among his victims was one of the owners of <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/03/north-mymms-park-short-history.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Park</a>.
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The judge described the case as <i>"one of the most serious"</i> he had ever had to deal with. He said it was <i>"extraordinary"</i> that so many <i>"simple-minded people"</i> had been <i>"taken in"</i> by the accused, and likened the case to <i>"Alice in Wonderland"</i>.
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The defence said that Pope <i>"confined his frauds to the rich people, and was a good friend to the poor"</i>, but the court was also told by the prosecution that Pope was <i>"mean enough to take £10 from a poor club"</i>.
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Several references on The North Mymms History Project suggest that Pope was involved in the community life of North Mymms. The late Tom Nott, <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/reminiscences-of-my-childhood-in-north.html" target="_blank">writing his memories in 1975</a> when he was 85 years old, had this to say about Pope:
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Nott also noted that Pope donated <i>"outfits and also awarded prizes for sports and other events"</i> at Welham Green School.
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Benjamin Mallett, who was the headmaster at Welham Green School at the end of the nineteenth century is <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-schools-their-children-1700.html#c4" target="_blank">quoted in chapter four</a> of the late Dorothy Colville's book '<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-schools-their-children-1700.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Schools & their Children 1700-1964</a>' as follows:
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The North Mymms History Project has transcribed a newspaper report of Pope's trial which was published in The Beds Advertiser And Luton Times dated November 6 1908. The cutting, <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2023/12/north-mymms-man-given-10-years-for.html#cutting" target="_blank">embedded at the end of the following transcript</a>, is from the Peter Miller Collection.
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<br />At the Hertfordshire Assizes on Wednesday, before Mr. Justice Grantham, Sidney Boughton Pope, aged 36, described as a land agent, and of superior education, pleaded guilty to six indictments of forgery and fraud.
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Pope was well connected, and was well known locally, having been for many years prominently connected with social and public life in the neighbourhood of Hatfield, and consequently great interest was evinced in the proceedings, the Court being crowded.
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On one of the indictments Pope was charged with forging the name of the Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, by executing what purported to be a mortgage deed of that gentleman's property, by means of which he was alleged to have obtained £3.530 from Mrs. Emily Bates, of North Mimms.
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By means of forged mortgages he was also alleged to have obtained £294 5s, and £682 15s. 6d. from Mr. John Spencer Chapman, a London solicitor, and £650 from Mr. Hugh Douglas Lermitte. From Mrs. Mary Lyman Burns of North Mimms, as whose agent Pope acted, he was alleged to have obtained £1,920 7s. 4d, by false pretences, and also to have converted to his own use £3,823 which had been entrusted to him.
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Other indictments were that Pope converted to his own use £58 3s. 6d., which had been entrusted to him on behalf of Dr. Leonard Steward Barnes, and sums of £50, £28, £10, and £12 which had been entrusted to him by William Fred Marsden.
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The Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt was present in Court.
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Referring to the case in his address to the Grand Jury, Mr. Justice Grantham said it was one of an exceptional character. It certainly seemed a most unfortunate thing for the county that Mrs. Burns should have appointed defendant as her agent, and thus brought him into the county. It was most extraordinary that in a county so near the Metropolis as Hertfordshire they should find so many simple-minded people (laughter). He really did not credit them with having so many simple-minded people (laughter). There was not a single crime which this man had committed which they would have thought would have taken in anybody.
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From Mr. Chapman, his lordship said he understood Pope had obtained altogether £12,000 on various pretexts. Having got to the end of his tether with the wealthy people, Pope was actually mean enough to take £10 from a poor club.
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The Grand Jury having found a true bill, the prisoner was put into the dock, and pleaded guilty.
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Mr. Travers Humphreys, who prosecuted, said the prisoner, by pleading guilty to the indictments, had admitted to having obtained £5.126 by forgery and £5,575 by fraud; total of £10,700 in the course of five years. In addition to that, evidence also showed that the prisoner received about £8,000 from Dr. Barnes, for the purpose of investment, not one shilling of which had ever been invested. The prisoner was a man of good family, his people being of undoubted respectability. He was well educated, and was a clever accountant. He first obtained a position at Coutts Bank, where he remained five years, during which time he carried out several forgeries.
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In 1898 he was appointed agent to Mrs. Burns, of North Mimms Park, at a salary of £250 year. Pope gave up his position at the Bank, and went to live at North Mimms. Just about that time he got to know Mr. John Spencer Chapman, a solicitor, practising in London, and Pope led Mr. Chapman to believe that he was a man of considerable private means. He expressed a desire to be articled to Mr. Chapman, and told the latter that Mrs. Burns had arranged that Messrs. Spencer, Chapman and Co. should act as her agents, on the understanding that he (prisoner) remained at North Mimms and did the actual work. That story was a total fabrication.
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His Lordship said Mr. Chapman, in his own interests, ought to have made inquiries into this story, and have communicated with Mrs. Burns.
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Mr. Travers Humphreys: It does sound like a fairy story, this transaction between an articled clerk and an astute London solicitor Mr. Chapman advanced £12,000 at various times, thinking he was financing the banking account of the North Mimms estate, which Pope was supposed to be keeping.
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The Judge: "Alice in Wonderland" is not in it.
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Mr. Travers Humphreys said prisoner continued to live at North Mimms in good style, and kept a motor-car, and told the local residents that he was a partner in the firm of Messrs. Spencer, Chapman, and Co., and not an articled clerk.
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The Judge: I suppose nobody in the parish had ever heard of a book called "The Law List". I should have thought somebody would have looked it up.
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Mr. Travers Humphreys: It is fair to say that the smallest inquiry on the part of anybody in the last five years would have shown this man to be a fraud. That inquiry was never made. Dr. Barnes reposed in the man his most implicit confidence, and gave the whole of his income as he received it to the defendant for the purposes of investment.
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Counsel than told how prisoner induced Dr. and Mrs. Barnes to part with £3,500 in the belief that it was to be advanced to Mr. Lewis Harcourt at an interest of 7 per cent in return for a mortgage on his house in Berkeley Square and on Nuneham Park. The signature of Mr. Harcourt was forged for the purpose. Then there was the case of "Cecil Arthur Harper," who Pope led Mr. Chapman to believe was a friend who wanted money. Harper was said to be the son of a general who had left a will making the son his sole legatee. Mr. Chapman obtained money from one of his clients, which he handed to Pope for Harper.
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As a matter of fact, the story was a concoction, and the money went into Pope's pocket.
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Money was obtained from Mr. Lermitte on the pretext that Mrs. Gaussen wished to raise money on her property and timber. The money was advanced, but was not repaid at the time agreed upon, and repayment was postponed on the understanding that a guarantee was obtained from the trustees, who included the Earl of Enniskillen. Pope obtained this, but it was a forgery, and he himself provided the names of trustees. Large sums of money were obtained from Mrs. Burns on the pretext that it was desirable that he should purchase certain property. This money went into Pope's pocket. Other money was obtained from a sick and medical club which the prisoner formed, and £100 for investment from a chauffeur, the money constituting his life's savings.
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Mr. Dickens, for the defence, said the prisoner took the full responsibility for what he had done, and understood the gravity of it. He came of a very good family, his father being a professor of Oriental languages at Oxford. Prisoner obtained a scholarship, which he did not take up, and then went to Coutts Bank. He was the last person in the world fit for the post of an estate agent, having no business knowledge, and being of foolish and extravagant habits, and absolutely reckless in financial matters. Once he commenced these frauds he could not stop. He had no vices such as gambling, the money going entirely in reckless extravagance. He confined his frauds to the rich people, and was a good friend to the poor.
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The judge said it was a very bad case, and he must doubt whether the defendant confined his frauds to the rich. It was one of the most serious cases with which he had ever had to deal. He must pass a severe sentence. The prisoner would go to ten years' penal servitude.
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Welham Manor, Welham Green, Hatfield AL9 7EL, UK51.7319178 -0.219416923.421683963821152 -35.3756669 80.042151636178843 34.9368331tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-18608250601493072172023-06-06T21:21:00.003+01:002023-06-07T08:47:47.551+01:00A German child evacuated to North Mymms during WWII<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0CtIB2Dv-gVB3O22iIhVxK5gOUu6aa8WLGCtfBUxnvyZS6YfkVxVGYdX9VuK5ZoknBaVqJt14Czf8iZfzZaWUlC8pSY6ZSbbeg97ydv4_oNac8GK1egMQ_KUEukLnbUIayYIW30YFnFarl2od6d0Nb1QSbZx8pTSx_0XvRbdLtn55pzTxqRi9EGLtQ/s550/ms1930s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0CtIB2Dv-gVB3O22iIhVxK5gOUu6aa8WLGCtfBUxnvyZS6YfkVxVGYdX9VuK5ZoknBaVqJt14Czf8iZfzZaWUlC8pSY6ZSbbeg97ydv4_oNac8GK1egMQ_KUEukLnbUIayYIW30YFnFarl2od6d0Nb1QSbZx8pTSx_0XvRbdLtn55pzTxqRi9EGLtQ/s16000/ms1930s.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Theodora Schwarzschild, third from the right bottom row<br />At the <i>"large old and very cold house" in Brookmans Park where she was educated</i></b><br /><i>Image North Mymms Local History Society,<br />Part of the Images of North Mymms Collection<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
In 1938 a Jewish girl fled Hitler's Germany with her family and headed for England. Soon after arriving she was separated from her parents along with dozens of other children and evacuated to Brookmans Park. Speaking no English, she remembers being <i>"deposited"</i> on Brookmans Park Station and taken in by a <i>"really special family"</i> who lived in Brookmans Avenue. She recalls being woken one night after a shell exploded in the back garden <i>"blowing out the upstairs windows"</i>.
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<blockquote><i><span style="color: #274e13;">The following collection of memories of life in North Mymms during WWII was sent to us by Theodora Straker (nee Schwarzschild), who contacted the North Mymms History Project (NMHP) from New Zealand offering to share her wartime experiences. The original written memories have been slightly edited in places </span></i><i><span style="color: #274e13;">with comments added by the NMHP in italics and enclosed in parentheses. These additions are in order to add relevant information. Throughout the piece we have added maps, images, and links where we felt appropriate.</span></i></blockquote>
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My name was Theodora Schwarzschild, and I was born in Munich in 1932. Because of Hitler coming to power <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/question/how-did-the-nazis-and-their-collaborators-implement-the-holocaust" target="_blank">life was becoming very dangerous for the Jewish community</a> so we fled to England in 1938. We almost left it too late.
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A short while later my parents rented a house in Finchley and I was sent to <a href="https://highgateprimaryschool.co.uk/our-school/history#" target="_blank">Highgate Primary School</a>. After a few weeks all the parents were asked to attend a meeting only to be told that all the children were to be evacuated.
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Soon after that my older sister Bettina and I found ourselves sitting in a train with a large luggage label attached to our coats. We also had another little girl called Brenda the same age as my sister.
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It was not a long journey before we arrived at Brookmans Park Station and were deposited on the platform.
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We were met by a very efficient woman who handed us over to a young middle-aged lady and gentleman. She told us that this was Mr and Mrs Bryan who were going to take care of us for the duration of the war.
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Actually I had no idea what was really going on as I still had not learnt any English. However we could not have been placed with anyone kinder than they turned out to be.
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The Bryan family had a large Austin car and we drove to the top of Brookmans Avenue where they had a roomy and comfortable house. It was called 'Bradwell' and it was 100 Brookmans Avenue.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8L2BjqM-DMIqlXU-bHf7SJPWWL5KPqt8Eeof9OA3UhDNAIuXhyg-LL2MNlrXHPLQ6FGiRfOFmVgOzOYv9p-i6kVtnocLurRM9emymI-e-d97q-GJlq6pTcvzoHE0eWHBMXZsEEpkqcqJjwK5c3U-8QB3tKOIRaY86i8eCOwA40oFtnZpeZqymwy4jQ/s550/BA1930s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Postcard of Brookmans Avenue in the 1930s" border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8L2BjqM-DMIqlXU-bHf7SJPWWL5KPqt8Eeof9OA3UhDNAIuXhyg-LL2MNlrXHPLQ6FGiRfOFmVgOzOYv9p-i6kVtnocLurRM9emymI-e-d97q-GJlq6pTcvzoHE0eWHBMXZsEEpkqcqJjwK5c3U-8QB3tKOIRaY86i8eCOwA40oFtnZpeZqymwy4jQ/s16000/BA1930s.jpg" title="Postcard of Brookmans Avenue in the 1930s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Postcard of Brookmans Avenue in the 1930s</b><br /><i>Image from the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2q6OOEv1B_vxGXdypNY9w2_RZJ6pqFf9xJBdsJ5gGPOx1-KBgbY-Q4d7j-4AhGOiHtWrgtywCDqjhdUCzqD0Nin0dfppos-mTPP3a90u_1QebT9iGRNGZWKDOPhz1Sr4XmX3Q_ygGPqyy8zWD9fB0OkNoZlkPExxxLJZp_xg-f-N53_xxTqlROAjdQ/s550/100ba.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="100 Brookmans Avenue - June 2023" border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2q6OOEv1B_vxGXdypNY9w2_RZJ6pqFf9xJBdsJ5gGPOx1-KBgbY-Q4d7j-4AhGOiHtWrgtywCDqjhdUCzqD0Nin0dfppos-mTPP3a90u_1QebT9iGRNGZWKDOPhz1Sr4XmX3Q_ygGPqyy8zWD9fB0OkNoZlkPExxxLJZp_xg-f-N53_xxTqlROAjdQ/s16000/100ba.jpg" title="100 Brookmans Avenue - June 2023" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>100 Brookmans Avenue</b><br /><i>Photograph taken in June 2023 by the NMHP</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Opposite we had people living called Stephens and they gave me a fountain pen one Christmas. Mrs Bryan said they were one of the Stephens ink family. Writing in ink was not an option but it was a very kind gesture.
<blockquote><i>(The Stephens family who gave Theodora a fountain pen were possibly related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stephens_(Conservative_politician)" target="_blank">Dr Henry Stephens (1796–1864)</a>, the inventor in 1832 of an indelible "blue-black writing fluid" which was to become famous as Stephens' Ink.)</i></blockquote>
I am still a little mystified as I can never remember Brookmans Park as what I would call an English village; it just seemed to be a few streets, Brookmans Avenue being the most prominent.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkpmGj92kusJcL3uYlkmcCJeoAWr6Y8qODF-aWH1EvdCOpNT9h-uklKTHQhmD6JpgdBZbz3mLicCzBKEPYHJ1EMouF0-5x6l0OCxgHEzrOXkQV29fZ8kcZ0i0C24FIlTwGyArVZVpwC78XcxbpdXgfLJ1oTkStZJ5wMEEXiaA5--ot__FrFDnPCk2wg/s550/oldmap.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Ordnance Survey (OS) map showing Brookmans Avenue published 1936" border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkpmGj92kusJcL3uYlkmcCJeoAWr6Y8qODF-aWH1EvdCOpNT9h-uklKTHQhmD6JpgdBZbz3mLicCzBKEPYHJ1EMouF0-5x6l0OCxgHEzrOXkQV29fZ8kcZ0i0C24FIlTwGyArVZVpwC78XcxbpdXgfLJ1oTkStZJ5wMEEXiaA5--ot__FrFDnPCk2wg/s16000/oldmap.jpg" title="The Ordnance Survey (OS) map showing Brookmans Avenue published 1936" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Ordnance Survey (OS) map showing Brookmans Avenue published 1936</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a><br /><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201842" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
We settled in and not too long after were told we had to go to school. I cannot remember where my sister and Brenda went, but as I could not understand much they thought I should go to a little private school until my English was more fluent.
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It was in a large old and very cold house run by two ladies. The photograph at the top of this page is of us at the school. The picture must have been taken during summer as I remember it was quite the coldest place I had ever been. For lunch we all had to help with peeling, scrubbing and cleaning vegetables for making vegetable soup or whatever was available. The school was down a little lane just a few minutes walk from the Bryan's. Moffats Lane rings a bell.
<blockquote><i>(Theodora is talking about Moffats Prepatory School which was housed in what was probably once part of Moffats House Home Farm and which was adjacent to <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/the-apothecary-who-built-moffats-house.html" target="_blank">Moffats House</a> on Moffats Lane. Part of the building was later converted into residential and became 60 Moffats Lane. This was demolished in the 1980s and a new house built in its place. )</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXG8AszgpJf_1BSAEfogts4n_WgJt6JZeDIZ-FQ7bOVnSVOnmkjaUvo1QmoV7q8vOl73YtaS7e95DLU97qTte9xuOvJtdHFykgSoQPG1dxNWFgc0xtO8GV_atxkrsH7GomrejdRSyS6MMOBHtSiqLgyPHJ7KqBLYHmyy_adaMFOkj5qqjTh7cVmg2aDg/s550/mhrk.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Moffats School from the south - 1930s" border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXG8AszgpJf_1BSAEfogts4n_WgJt6JZeDIZ-FQ7bOVnSVOnmkjaUvo1QmoV7q8vOl73YtaS7e95DLU97qTte9xuOvJtdHFykgSoQPG1dxNWFgc0xtO8GV_atxkrsH7GomrejdRSyS6MMOBHtSiqLgyPHJ7KqBLYHmyy_adaMFOkj5qqjTh7cVmg2aDg/s16000/mhrk.jpg" title="Moffats School from the south - 1930s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Moffats School from the south - 1930s</b><br /><i>Photograph gifted by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Z4UVRChpEIom3wiCVNyY4xXtpSc1Ni5fLlN-awaOvNlggXvgwjPaDRoUuLnvhj-DGRn1_hyBhXroVXKc6ZUY0pyrY2MF8T34J8wOU-2ca1bsz4ibwQ5w49lZe0HUo0PTNbOvEORRdAsuIHNijULUqds3IEmOQ0ivfrH9nN8Yx_uoo_H58thl_kQjtQ/s550/schoolfront.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The old school building from the front - 1980s" border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Z4UVRChpEIom3wiCVNyY4xXtpSc1Ni5fLlN-awaOvNlggXvgwjPaDRoUuLnvhj-DGRn1_hyBhXroVXKc6ZUY0pyrY2MF8T34J8wOU-2ca1bsz4ibwQ5w49lZe0HUo0PTNbOvEORRdAsuIHNijULUqds3IEmOQ0ivfrH9nN8Yx_uoo_H58thl_kQjtQ/s16000/schoolfront.jpg" title="The old school building from the front - 1980s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The old school building from the front - 1980s</b><br /><i>Photograph by Peter Dalling, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4KeTBFymMd1dGahpTJnRa5R2F8TtirXg6N4suv3R7p5Z3YmrGF_PqPjVNFXxD0s1uE9Bjxp5j2kLWAASKtaeQo3QFNG1YLzA1BwHqLh2qt_S4VO4sJu_Z97ilZW-PlxnQoOScHNVcmhB_my8chh4N0uW65xQTs8Q2NPoJren0-Qb_rm6W8iU2_OfgQ/s550/schoolsite.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Moffats School circled in red on the Ordnance Survey map of 1936" border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4KeTBFymMd1dGahpTJnRa5R2F8TtirXg6N4suv3R7p5Z3YmrGF_PqPjVNFXxD0s1uE9Bjxp5j2kLWAASKtaeQo3QFNG1YLzA1BwHqLh2qt_S4VO4sJu_Z97ilZW-PlxnQoOScHNVcmhB_my8chh4N0uW65xQTs8Q2NPoJren0-Qb_rm6W8iU2_OfgQ/s16000/schoolsite.jpg" title="Moffats School circled in red on the Ordnance Survey map of 1936" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Moffats School circled in red on the Ordnance Survey map of 1936</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a><br /><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201842" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFHFWRuER2Fb5cM0fFAto9OnpMLjzjK_69u2EJaTHW-iEmd3-2sj2wfoi7hfqXMN8QvhyAix4J3DHsetjddt4yJgmhRClOK26hGgTKclhb-TLke0qsHiFdBO2GexuaDV_SzrKcExDUpZLFzAlY4Nd_DcXaPsU5EfsaLv_dzy-s49jDGWPefNu-x-TJw/s550/school60.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The site where Moffats School stood is where 60 Moffats Lane is now" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiFHFWRuER2Fb5cM0fFAto9OnpMLjzjK_69u2EJaTHW-iEmd3-2sj2wfoi7hfqXMN8QvhyAix4J3DHsetjddt4yJgmhRClOK26hGgTKclhb-TLke0qsHiFdBO2GexuaDV_SzrKcExDUpZLFzAlY4Nd_DcXaPsU5EfsaLv_dzy-s49jDGWPefNu-x-TJw/s16000/school60.jpeg" title="The site where Moffats School stood is where 60 Moffats Lane is now" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>
The site where Moffats School stood is where 60 Moffats Lane is now</b><br /><i>Photograph taken in 2023 by the NMHP</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote><i>(In his book '<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-schools-their-children-1700.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Schools & their Children 1700-1964</a>' - which is published on this site - Peter Kingsford wrote about the schooling of the evacuated children in '<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-schools-their-children-1700.html#c6" target="_blank">The Promised Land 1939-1964</a>'.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i><blockquote>"Even before it started, during the Munich crisis, 153 children from London were billeted in the parish, though they soon returned. The parish council resolved that "We in North Mymms Parish do not think that this Parish is a fit place to bring children into". This opinion had no effect, for children came again in the real crisis of war, from two London schools, Highgate Mixed and Infants council school and a Roman Catholic school in Chelsea.</blockquote></i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i><blockquote>"Fit place or not, the parish did its duty by the evacuated children. When the air raid trenches had been dug and the school windows blacked out, the buildings were ready for the evacuees. Their head teachers publicly thanked the school managers, teachers, billeting officers and foster parents of North Mymms for their kindness and generosity in the upheaval.
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<blockquote><i><blockquote>"The school children, both local and evacuees, became part timers, the local children occupying the schools in the afternoons, while the evacuees had the mornings, with an overflow in the scout hut in Dixons Hill Road. No less a person than John Newsom, county education officer found time to visit the parish and confirmed the arrangement. It was improved after a few months. The Highgate children went to Moffats, Brookmans Park; the preparatory school there had been evacuated to a place of greater safety. The Roman Catholic girls attending Water End took their lessons in the scout hut. The middle classroom at Water End was still, however, occupied by the Highgate infants."</blockquote></i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>When children were evacuated from London, local resident, Marjorie Tether, took in two brothers aged 4 and 6 years old. She wrote about <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/brookmans-park-evacuees.html" target="_blank">Brookmans Park Refugees</a> in the booklet 'North Mymms Reminiscences'as follows: " The boys went to school at Moffats House School, which had originally been a boarding school for boys who were evacuated to Devon. The house was divided, one half for the Catholics from Chelsea and the other half for a council school in Islington.")</i></blockquote>
I had my seventh birthday in July and the war had just started. I am a bit hazy about the dates, but I think we must have been evacuated a few months before the actual beginning.
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One of the first people we met was Mr Muddiman (I am not sure of spelling). He lived opposite and was the local warden. He fitted us with gas masks and told us how to use them. We carried them in a case round our necks at all times but never had to use them.
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Later on when I had learnt English properly and went on to another school at Little Heath. We had an extra tin to carry which contained lunch which was usually a sandwich of cold mutton with a little blob of pickle and one of homemade blackberry jam. The rations were very small.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYqbYyqMhkFVl_37CXLK0-2a8KV9qLezdP0PPIZfC9BdWlFZo6RAaRagQJEYNk6eDIurVaoyrAP6tXSAO24tc2Rgm1mH9j8a61PmNYsJHqmoMATVcZ15sCBofiZms--E4TlBFLmLp10WVB0i4JlGV9EEniyLiv2Z6hzMtWxCZuXXjUBp4-442XKf1EQ/s550/BG1930s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Postcard of Bradmore Green with Brookmans Avenue on the left - 1930s" border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYqbYyqMhkFVl_37CXLK0-2a8KV9qLezdP0PPIZfC9BdWlFZo6RAaRagQJEYNk6eDIurVaoyrAP6tXSAO24tc2Rgm1mH9j8a61PmNYsJHqmoMATVcZ15sCBofiZms--E4TlBFLmLp10WVB0i4JlGV9EEniyLiv2Z6hzMtWxCZuXXjUBp4-442XKf1EQ/s16000/BG1930s.jpg" title="Postcard of Bradmore Green with Brookmans Avenue on the left - 1930s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Postcard of Bradmore Green with Brookmans Avenue on the left - 1930s</b><br /><i>Image from the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
At this stage there were very few shops at the bottom of the avenue <i>(Brookmans Avenue)</i> but I always remember the grocers who sold broken biscuits in brown paper bags. He always gave me some to take home but as it was about half a mile to the top of the road I had usually eaten them before getting there.
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Mrs Bryan used to read me all the traditional English children’s books and had the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Encyclop%C3%A6dia" target="_blank">Children's Encyclopaedia</a> by Arthur Mee. This was full of creative ideas and we made lots of little things with acorns, pinecones, beech nuts etc.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikE5RgYRLm378gdmvPSLR435rslIjc7_x2w17EBnb8ipIwXhzBA2ImG7WhRpVs4zDD11i9i5zuKNfDwo-IDA5FlYPw-mTISCaISnPuV8v-FxE1tDiRqs2J8hCSW-UtNOD-Yqji908OBkeTdEjP7JQIRfQ2w6IFTst46SlVfiOIPC3l_z7TPaDcdUx0FQ/s550/encyclopedia.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Volume One of the Children's Encyclopaedia by Arthur Mee" border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikE5RgYRLm378gdmvPSLR435rslIjc7_x2w17EBnb8ipIwXhzBA2ImG7WhRpVs4zDD11i9i5zuKNfDwo-IDA5FlYPw-mTISCaISnPuV8v-FxE1tDiRqs2J8hCSW-UtNOD-Yqji908OBkeTdEjP7JQIRfQ2w6IFTst46SlVfiOIPC3l_z7TPaDcdUx0FQ/s16000/encyclopedia.jpg" title="Volume One of the Children's Encyclopaedia by Arthur Mee" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Volume One of the Children's Encyclopaedia by Arthur Mee</b><br /><i>Photograph courtesy of aviator2511</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Mr Bryan caught an early train to go to work in Kings Cross and arrived home at 6.30 every evening.
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One thing I should explain is that Mrs Bryan who had three grown up daughters who had all left home but had still retained a housekeeper through all the years and who now was having to help cope with us evacuees.
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Our schooling was not regular during these turbulent times and there were many days when we did not attend, but with Miss Peglar's watchful eyes we were taken out a lot to explore the countryside foraging for every edible thing we could.
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Just opposite and three houses distant was the entrance to Golf Club Road. The road was flanked by horse chestnut trees, sadly not edible but great fun hunting for the biggest and strongest conker!
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We went on frequent walks up to the old manor house. Next to it there was a rambling garden behind a tumble down stone wall. We used to scramble over the top and climb up what they called a tulip tree. This was supposedly a very rare tree. I am pretty sure that it was a magnolia tree and quite common now, however it was still beautiful and the colourful banks of rhododendrons in the neglected garden were magnificent.<blockquote><i>(The NMHP has checked with Theodora, and it seems that "the old manor house" and the "rambling garden behind a tumble down wall" she refers to could be the remains of the walled garden of Brookmans Manor and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothy" target="_blank">The Bothy</a> attached to the former manor. <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/07/the-paintings-that-survived-destruction.html" target="_blank">Brookmans Manor burnt down in 1891</a>, but The Bothy remained. The stables, which now form the <a href="https://www.bpgc.co.uk/" target="_blank">Brookmans Park Golf Club</a> buildings, also survived. )</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9r5LSuf3MpqNvffGdmzIH-6TTnaMbBJdiw-3xQdrGNTn96IEaTYhuVLRi4zaSuAdk_0JmTwrWkDCypHUraa-_qCO20I-SdAj0JmkybIeSl60lQaj0rSjPIoulI_BmqSX67S906TC1IMWQfdsZ2jtNzDVIYDoA--60VIuTgGi7DiDnyNDIZjXwOJeLg/s550/thebothy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Bothy, now part of the golf club - 1982" border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9r5LSuf3MpqNvffGdmzIH-6TTnaMbBJdiw-3xQdrGNTn96IEaTYhuVLRi4zaSuAdk_0JmTwrWkDCypHUraa-_qCO20I-SdAj0JmkybIeSl60lQaj0rSjPIoulI_BmqSX67S906TC1IMWQfdsZ2jtNzDVIYDoA--60VIuTgGi7DiDnyNDIZjXwOJeLg/s16000/thebothy.jpg" title="The Bothy, now part of the golf club - 1982" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Bothy, now part of the golf club - 1982</b><br /><i>Photograph from the NMLHS, now part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrJsb1gllqMloVtG-AtiavEpd-twKmng5990hjf56vDFKaTXL9JkX75_QDmgaYgrLbSZsC2oLahnAIYPB_brAICIUjbMWqDbLgnYnapv9Dm8QwPFeLu_IjmWuGMbjF4IeogmnvxpMeT6tM5JhtPar_gVhnZQYvBODTT2IizuLjTasJIX_Gvxu4uHzIQ/s550/gcr.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrJsb1gllqMloVtG-AtiavEpd-twKmng5990hjf56vDFKaTXL9JkX75_QDmgaYgrLbSZsC2oLahnAIYPB_brAICIUjbMWqDbLgnYnapv9Dm8QwPFeLu_IjmWuGMbjF4IeogmnvxpMeT6tM5JhtPar_gVhnZQYvBODTT2IizuLjTasJIX_Gvxu4uHzIQ/s16000/gcr.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Golf Club Road heading north towards the golf club</b><br /><i>Photograph taken in June 2023 by the NMHP</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
We walked further up the lane until we got to an old cottage hidden behind a hedge. It had a huge brick bread oven at the back. I cannot remember the baker's name, but his bread was so good. Even now the smell of freshly baked bread brings back memories and we always came home with a warm freshly baked loaf. One day we went and the poor baker had both arms in bandages. Apparently there was a blowback and when he opened the oven the flames shot out and he was terribly burned. I never found out if he went back to baking or retired soon after.
<blockquote><i>(The 'bakery' that Theodora remembers was probably a house with a bread oven. Among the next buildings she would have come across along Bell Lane from the walled garden is the old Brookmans Farm cottage, which still exists, see image below, and that could possibly have had a bread oven.)</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnfy2YDdQ805PkvLRGtADrh-1XwCX3Guc0o93krZNFUEq5l-M-XCeo9K1b2Jk7--v0ddHAC5xqagpRsabj7Dt_s0c3ufEXix9Fe_RgjcMnZL3e8gZ0kVNvvCDtQNOKR35ORgd08ZmHJTXhriZ4BrJMurgPylTpxIH14VQiP-4fZ0aAXpJ7euaeo7YYg/s550/Brookmans%20Farm.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Brookmans Farm cottage" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnfy2YDdQ805PkvLRGtADrh-1XwCX3Guc0o93krZNFUEq5l-M-XCeo9K1b2Jk7--v0ddHAC5xqagpRsabj7Dt_s0c3ufEXix9Fe_RgjcMnZL3e8gZ0kVNvvCDtQNOKR35ORgd08ZmHJTXhriZ4BrJMurgPylTpxIH14VQiP-4fZ0aAXpJ7euaeo7YYg/s16000/Brookmans%20Farm.jpeg" title="Brookmans Farm cottage" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Brookmans Farm cottage</b><br /><i>Photograph from the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVi0U4Q5dJdlrFuTmY6TvMY5dG-nRLH3i7m6L_DCCCcqbBrooFbZcBFb6Vzt3VZuhorD0wrGSrtuw5I82SREf-yiK3nfMvEZl3PdA_V4tyL4RSpGD9fZ64S16mi6vwEDJ9bI4G_b4JydYQAvCAq7yXjvZMcjrFLIX1IvnsEUg2cffjj-ZcyQuPqbHNA/s550/wall.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The crumbling wall at the junction of Golf Club Road and The Drive - 2023" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVi0U4Q5dJdlrFuTmY6TvMY5dG-nRLH3i7m6L_DCCCcqbBrooFbZcBFb6Vzt3VZuhorD0wrGSrtuw5I82SREf-yiK3nfMvEZl3PdA_V4tyL4RSpGD9fZ64S16mi6vwEDJ9bI4G_b4JydYQAvCAq7yXjvZMcjrFLIX1IvnsEUg2cffjj-ZcyQuPqbHNA/s16000/wall.jpeg" title="The crumbling wall at the junction of Golf Club Road and The Drive - 2023" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The crumbling south wall of the walled garden where Theodora played</b><br /><i>Photograph taken in June 2023 by the NMHP </i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYXiiEo2hdGnBOHC8v3m5ai_cuklsAPIg-AFQlS0QAz2DkEUBpSwHEJbAJI7MBsZcYrvpN5cqA3c9c9HeywDep1y5hXAE6DoVPd8Y8woMv-XSmkHlV1SZhUdMvbE_XqnsKMAZPbZHEouxVUFDzX-JbIbhgogb1i2JnTlEm9unaMyU2MzPVii8jzLAaA/s550/wg1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Inside what was the walled garden, now a car park, looking south" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYXiiEo2hdGnBOHC8v3m5ai_cuklsAPIg-AFQlS0QAz2DkEUBpSwHEJbAJI7MBsZcYrvpN5cqA3c9c9HeywDep1y5hXAE6DoVPd8Y8woMv-XSmkHlV1SZhUdMvbE_XqnsKMAZPbZHEouxVUFDzX-JbIbhgogb1i2JnTlEm9unaMyU2MzPVii8jzLAaA/s16000/wg1.jpeg" title="Inside what was the walled garden, now a car park, looking south" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Inside what was the walled garden, now a car park, looking south</b><br /><i>Photograph taken in June 2023 by the NMHP</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxLLdQOrHyrKvomt4YCSpLdbL8VAK4VXj4QUIFYlPqBIfPOPgEMCljFc-3hnV7BXeqtZYQc5iJffeQxtpr2CjYRBGCiQzkPpMVCYj2TmydzOeGhF-D7ofBiAw5QWoGZvh6_mn4KOWoae57sRVsLgkIXc2yB4UHXvdITgJndZsVxvlvbp_aW5K0_zGAw/s550/wg2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="What was the walled garden viewed from Golf Club Road - 2023" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxLLdQOrHyrKvomt4YCSpLdbL8VAK4VXj4QUIFYlPqBIfPOPgEMCljFc-3hnV7BXeqtZYQc5iJffeQxtpr2CjYRBGCiQzkPpMVCYj2TmydzOeGhF-D7ofBiAw5QWoGZvh6_mn4KOWoae57sRVsLgkIXc2yB4UHXvdITgJndZsVxvlvbp_aW5K0_zGAw/s16000/wg2.jpeg" title="What was the walled garden viewed from Golf Club Road - 2023" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The former walled garden viewed from Golf Club Road</b><br /><i>Photograph taken in 2023 by the NMHP</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
We gathered baskets of blackberries and ended up with very scratched arms but enjoyed the jam and bramble jelly.
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The whole of this area had no boundaries. We could gather and hunt where we wished. There were wild strawberries, mushrooms, hazel nuts and lots of rose hips for syrup and elderberries for wine, this and the vegetables growing the Bryan's large garden (plus a few chickens for eggs) gave us a good and varied diet. I still make rose hip syrup, elderberry wine , bramble jelly etc and gather anything edible when available.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaNw1ne9OxPLPZtXswSMhc_dpW3Z6mSAPZjL3HEfLqpa689QLubKgFA63HeZmy3rUy9uF1Y08ATy-87tujCWrOutdDM-eHmp9z-Wv_46oNWKAk9gsJZFNcTIyfMDGZJSJ1otHNIcDUk4HrDfuyGa69OSzTbLT-3iw8S1WPDY2VZaPDMnF-0C1c63S1w/s550/fa.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Folly Arch taken from Gobions Wood" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaNw1ne9OxPLPZtXswSMhc_dpW3Z6mSAPZjL3HEfLqpa689QLubKgFA63HeZmy3rUy9uF1Y08ATy-87tujCWrOutdDM-eHmp9z-Wv_46oNWKAk9gsJZFNcTIyfMDGZJSJ1otHNIcDUk4HrDfuyGa69OSzTbLT-3iw8S1WPDY2VZaPDMnF-0C1c63S1w/s16000/fa.jpg" title="Folly Arch taken from Gobions Wood" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Folly Arch taken from Gobions Wood</b><br /><i>Photograph by the NMHP</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
We did walk up to the large brick folly but only once as the field was always inhabited by very playful cattle who chased us.
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One Christmas the milkman gave us his oranges to put into our stockings.
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When at night the air raid siren went off we all came downstairs to bunks in the entrance hall which had small windows. One eventful night a shell exploded in our back garden blowing out the upstairs windows. I did not even wake up until I heard the rattle of the tin of sweets which were saved for emergencies!
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIErIyQ42rC8f-6xRi53SwNRZllMxkLs5N90PO-zl80UU-GZzRPDT2hOZbOD2V7S_xgj3mqB6Zk3xigj9NCq6wBQ78CXL6Hllw8iEDD6RpuEOEET63uNbm3OqgaN-KHwNjWnDbEmby-6YL4QflVQWx5L3j19IrmE206Vm0X8xxE8gzjigh69A3aeWpRg/s550/crater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A bomb crater in the rear garden at 35 Brookmans Avenue c. 1944" border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIErIyQ42rC8f-6xRi53SwNRZllMxkLs5N90PO-zl80UU-GZzRPDT2hOZbOD2V7S_xgj3mqB6Zk3xigj9NCq6wBQ78CXL6Hllw8iEDD6RpuEOEET63uNbm3OqgaN-KHwNjWnDbEmby-6YL4QflVQWx5L3j19IrmE206Vm0X8xxE8gzjigh69A3aeWpRg/s16000/crater.jpg" title="A bomb crater in the rear garden at 35 Brookmans Avenue c. 1944" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A bomb crater in the rear garden at 35 Brookmans Avenue c. 1944</b><br /><i>Image from the NMLHS, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote><i>(The image above is not the house where Theodora was evaculated but is 550m east of 100 Brookmans Avenue.)</i></blockquote>
Because of our proximity to <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2019/09/brookmans-parks-nuclear-bunker.html" target="_blank">The Brookmans Park Transmitting Station</a> we had quite a few landmines and bombs but I think they all missed their main target.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-rhG8StimsFRBES4UG4ZqTG1pIo7CWBE6CHB0VVtLR8WvAWA1kP55ypG7-ruatNQ4a8ixp91ORHS1TNwJfwg3QmsnaLad0B351DIdjkU0GVx2e3Soc2O1lHvXHJiw4SmWcYKybPKML_D55gfcrx6DDaHJl5YIuEE-N4VHpPoG5O_PmFzTx4H2yhARbw/s550/BPTS.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A postcard of the BBC's Brookmans Park Transmitting Station 1930s" border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-rhG8StimsFRBES4UG4ZqTG1pIo7CWBE6CHB0VVtLR8WvAWA1kP55ypG7-ruatNQ4a8ixp91ORHS1TNwJfwg3QmsnaLad0B351DIdjkU0GVx2e3Soc2O1lHvXHJiw4SmWcYKybPKML_D55gfcrx6DDaHJl5YIuEE-N4VHpPoG5O_PmFzTx4H2yhARbw/s16000/BPTS.jpg" title="A postcard of the BBC's Brookmans Park Transmitting Station 1930s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A postcard of the BBC's Brookmans Park Transmitting Station 1930s</b><br /><i>Image from the Peter Miller collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
We as children were much protected from news of the war. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland" target="_blank">The de Havilland Aircraft Company</a> gave us all a wonderful Christmas party with a Disney film included. They had to get special permission for my sister and myself because we were Germans. But we were allowed to go.
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We also at one stage went to a Kellogg's factory and I remember being given a stuffed clown toy which I had for many years. He was not a thing of beauty but I loved him dearly.
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We all had measles but there was a very nice doctor in Brookmans Park, I think he was Dr. Dwyer, and we were well looked after. My sister who was 13 by this time went back home to go to ballet school and I was the only one left.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPA6OjDAcJXJJPBaTukRr7NsI9MbUnG_XJhKW7txFAK89xW_PeAIu4B48J4zVJcdawmp2mFpOKI1K0KgdGbYRKAHKTTojLLgO3Fle8hEw3A2yELce94v-7bjSXAWzOHxL6JEz7A8ENWvdMvyLLIpxDY9jKR2RrHcGvYIk-TGdBBofRR2uh91FpEIPogA/s550/lhs.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Little Heath School, build 1907, photographed in 1987" border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPA6OjDAcJXJJPBaTukRr7NsI9MbUnG_XJhKW7txFAK89xW_PeAIu4B48J4zVJcdawmp2mFpOKI1K0KgdGbYRKAHKTTojLLgO3Fle8hEw3A2yELce94v-7bjSXAWzOHxL6JEz7A8ENWvdMvyLLIpxDY9jKR2RrHcGvYIk-TGdBBofRR2uh91FpEIPogA/s16000/lhs.jpg" title="Little Heath School, build 1907, photographed in 1987" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <b>Little Heath School, build 1907, photographed in 1987</b><br /><i>Image from former North Mymms Local History Society (NMLHS)<br />Part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
By this time I attended Little Heath School. Sadly they have no archival records, so can't remember too much except it was a long walk home from school. Also instead of my full name the children called me Dora Alphabet because of my long name. They all seemed friendly and I stayed there until I did my 11 plus and had to go back to Hampstead to go to senior school.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1vOOkkspy1zAvG-Y6dvOLW_7iRBDuMexpmwX_Hy_oYlDKCOsF90JewkWjX-dqXQma0TcVMlH7GX3PUQ2IOB9ZPvrR0DPFVmf-rvlvEUYmswEUsFAn4O4FPi3E-KjAEHx29qqIFyTYiDS--4grHOTphrGkg5otwMNwGk-pukfCm4Kk4qQHTc7Af7FM1g/s550/schoolwalks.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Theodora's walk to school from Brookmans Avenue to Little Heath" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1vOOkkspy1zAvG-Y6dvOLW_7iRBDuMexpmwX_Hy_oYlDKCOsF90JewkWjX-dqXQma0TcVMlH7GX3PUQ2IOB9ZPvrR0DPFVmf-rvlvEUYmswEUsFAn4O4FPi3E-KjAEHx29qqIFyTYiDS--4grHOTphrGkg5otwMNwGk-pukfCm4Kk4qQHTc7Af7FM1g/s16000/schoolwalks.jpeg" title="Theodora's walk to school from Brookmans Avenue to Little Heath" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Theodora's walk to school from Brookmans Avenue to Little Heath</b><br /><i>Map created on Map Hub by the NMHP<br />Elements © Thunderforest © OpenStreetMap contributors<br />Click on map for larger version</i><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote><i>(Theodora's walk from her home in Brookmans Avenue to Little Heath School would have been about 1.6 miles each way, a 3.2 mile round trip.)</i></blockquote>
We walked miles in those days. Some people brought out ponies and traps. We sang WWI songs as we foraged in the woods.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjQqOLu6i1veW7FP2TuIKV9f0Oks0V4hwhzmqjBp2Ib2bsBBAxB5vRytiqEYs9IylM0av8CQNYXR3Q1GFMienKbOlp_bq9TytYz6X4Ble7EVfgkrGZTZeAYFrUc9Ruc_rYH4bQ6Dc4l64IYDKQwyL3ZGpdsT2pzPSsc7CGd2KowK-4tEr6c0VJfKCbQ/s550/servicemen.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Injured service personnel at the WWII hospital in North Mymms Park - 1940s" border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjQqOLu6i1veW7FP2TuIKV9f0Oks0V4hwhzmqjBp2Ib2bsBBAxB5vRytiqEYs9IylM0av8CQNYXR3Q1GFMienKbOlp_bq9TytYz6X4Ble7EVfgkrGZTZeAYFrUc9Ruc_rYH4bQ6Dc4l64IYDKQwyL3ZGpdsT2pzPSsc7CGd2KowK-4tEr6c0VJfKCbQ/s16000/servicemen.jpg" title="Injured service personnel at the WWII hospital in North Mymms Park - 1940s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Injured service personnel at the WWII hospital in North Mymms Park - 1940s</b><br /><i>Photograph gifted by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Once a month the Bryans invited a group of very injured but recovering servicemen for lunch. On one of these there was a young man called William. I sneaked out into the garden and picked what the gardener had told me was called a Sweet William flower I took it in and to his embarrassment said "<i>here you are Sweet William!</i>" From then he was nicknamed Sweet William. I always remember him and have these planted in our garden and hope he made a full recovery.
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It was nearing the end of the war, but we still had the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb" target="_blank">V1 Doodle Bugs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket" target="_blank">V2 rockets</a> for another year. We lost school friends but were a resilient generation.
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My parents were happy to see me back and for life to go back to normality. Throughout all the war years they were in constant touch with the Bryans who were just wonderful people.
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Sadly there were a few people in Brookmans Park who would not speak to the Bryans because they welcomed German evacuees.
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I have lived in New Zealand now for nearly 50 years but still have children in the UK.
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I wonder if any more of the Highgate Primary School were evacuated in the North Mymms area? Probably we shall never know.
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For many years after the war we were in touch with the Bryans and their daughters. A really special family, now all left as memories.
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<i><b>Theodora Straker - June 2023</b></i>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-75239070510535483172023-06-01T21:12:00.000+01:002023-06-01T21:12:27.238+01:00Early Memories of Eleanor Vyse 1887-1976<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzEa2gt4JZJ8Sey1oDp_3vwFRu_qReGolwPuMZOfo2ReBWJ4Gv-NL8BNIjlH880eRdkvVpHhXjiyk5GvsZ960vWKV_qhqe5YNhvTt4wPa0Pd-eQUgry27zrbJ3ziFyLJaCgOiZwhdrbAGJoIl7DCniWez57hk70McRF8MUDxoKsddlvzT7JNi98tiIg/s550/waterendschool.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Water End School c 1903. Headmistress Mrs Cooke on the left" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzEa2gt4JZJ8Sey1oDp_3vwFRu_qReGolwPuMZOfo2ReBWJ4Gv-NL8BNIjlH880eRdkvVpHhXjiyk5GvsZ960vWKV_qhqe5YNhvTt4wPa0Pd-eQUgry27zrbJ3ziFyLJaCgOiZwhdrbAGJoIl7DCniWez57hk70McRF8MUDxoKsddlvzT7JNi98tiIg/s16000/waterendschool.jpg" title="Water End School c 1903. Headmistress Mrs Cooke on the left" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water End School c 1903. Headmistress Mrs Cooke on the left<br />Image part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</td></tr></tbody></table>
Eleanor Vyse left school before she was 13 to help her mother care for her brothers and sisters. She was glad to get away from the schoolmistress who was "stern" and who could control 60 children "<i>by just looking at us</i>". A highlight of the year - "<i>almost the only one</i>" - was tea and games on the vicarage lawn on Ascension day. A year after leaving school she moved five miles away to serve as a mother's help doing "<i>stacks of washing up</i>". It was not an easy life for some children growing up in North Mymms towards the end of the Victorian era.
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<blockquote><i><span style="color: #274e13;">This collection of memories of life in North Mymms at the turn of the 20th century and up to and including WWII is just one of several collected over the years by the former North Mymms Local History Society (NMLHS). Many are published on this site.</span></i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #274e13;">The original written memories have been shortened and comments have been added by the North Mymms History Project (NMHP). Those comments appear in italics and enclosed in parentheses. These addition are in order to add information. Throughout the piece we have added relevant maps, images, and links where we felt appropriate.</span></i></blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Early memories of Welham Green<br /><i>by Eleanor Vyse 1887-1976</i></h3>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzN7WPP4L7-9k7vEisOCkgEGeIOHiOt39IvCczP0yMEmjDOKU-USm4ByrUeJCoQwoi0vGq63fmhIPauzjHV43yn1nhSHXFpPWgtUPsyJoBlqu5DiRC0a1vmUOZK8kfnduYfCsFTHTJY1pzWeg3vromIpL9amz40BoGSRlVf9o8HG0syBEPzSKaKgInw/s1412/djb.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8v6dBeXGQkpOIl47E7pwDd2tPmBjgU_4YBqaWE60wHTYvqYhquvVeS3j2nE6Wqr8Q-m3_2MFnIhjClB7VYIkg5UrTVmEGbe30y8hpnqKlKzcLM_Gxmf6nfNfBmpaelghX9cJHaA8Pvo0fITwU3YifN97ajiyL3ffO6lhfj_Dt654lfiRtpD8BWOEiMQ/s16000/djsmall.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Queen Victoria's carriage outside St Paul's Cathedral, 22 June 1897</b><br /><i>Photograph: London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company - <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110594127" target="_blank">Wikimedia</a><br />Click on image for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
I can remember, faintly, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_of_Queen_Victoria" target="_blank">Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee</a>. It was a lovely summer day and the celebrations were held on the cricket field which at that time was where Welham Close now is. There were sports and a tea, and a large mug was given to every child.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGlYA-6sehhvm0AIAlnEKLEFBdp1535OydTXzHeeRJHNqKNiX_DYLbrihTKkVN5_ZOR1P5wr5MOboDJDjVjLSaHwmid8Mq7OXBh3yP6HA7h4UcoWfD7i_VrCR6n5ioPG0o9TZjveXPzYw6IoiZpW3-e9EzweX2EVJaZlmayJESDXeKJIw6qtAq6gB0Q/s2630/wcbig.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0SpApMlVWU1pCF_B4mN2UhtMc7fbpDEh_IUwj1B9XzICCbcQR40MY13rxpOBj_IcdAAs2AGGW8YDb2vI_S_jV0nQP787_jDB_gf6enK7zl-CvQ5iiBG560xIkL3NuG7toXoz-dB1uN0I5_cew9y0BwrGA16WC1Ip6COpE5PloW_KrLyMHL9J0T00pQ/s16000/wcs.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The location of the cricket field, where Welham Close now is, marked in red</b><br />Click on the map for a larger version without the marking<br /><i>OS 25 inch 1898 map courtesy of the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201449" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">School years</h3>
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I went to Water End School. At school I did NOT like the schoolmistress. She was stern and wore a lace cap and controlled most of the 60 or so children by just looking at us, or so it appeared. Her hands were smooth and glossy. She always wore black dresses with many buttons down the bodice and full skirts to the ground.
<blockquote><i>(The schoolmistress Eleanor did not like would have been Mrs Letitia Haines, not Mrs Cooke who appears in the first photo and who was well liked.)</i></blockquote>
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<blockquote><i>(You can read more about Water End School in the <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-parish-and-people.html#c8" target="_blank">Schools chapter</a> of Dorothy Colville's book, '<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-parish-and-people.html" target="_blank">North Mymms - Parish and People</a>', and in Peter Kingsford's book, '<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-schools-their-children-1700.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Schools and their Children 1700-1964</a>', which are both published on this site.)</i></blockquote>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War" target="_blank">South African War</a> was in progress about that time and I remember we were told in school when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking" target="_blank">Mafeking was relieved</a>. The rest of the day was a holiday.
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The only music we ever heard was at church or at school, and I remember standing outside a house listening to a young girl practising on a piano. At school, before lessons started, we always sang a hymn and said the collect for the second Sunday in Advent, with eyes closed and hands together. We also sang grace before and after midday dinner. But the one I liked best was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxology" target="_blank">the Doxology</a> when we all stood with our outdoor clothes on ready to go home. I remember the fervour we put into that.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi50Zh6miLYcP7F7nEVG_IqtlA4nmHMfHl9N0cUDUxai4melaMEZylcDL7vdHyXISgI9n52p_Zv63k5Afl3cldP5dX9mXDkcigkKGGMZvuL-iwf3ZJFx-AcMFvmyZlrrzuokEBeVCXBqR9spdE6ZdNC0i8yjyg-mjzzEcN0FHEYWr0YBca8ZS7x8bGtDQ/s550/vicarage.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The vicarage and gardens seen from St Mary's tower - 1993" border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi50Zh6miLYcP7F7nEVG_IqtlA4nmHMfHl9N0cUDUxai4melaMEZylcDL7vdHyXISgI9n52p_Zv63k5Afl3cldP5dX9mXDkcigkKGGMZvuL-iwf3ZJFx-AcMFvmyZlrrzuokEBeVCXBqR9spdE6ZdNC0i8yjyg-mjzzEcN0FHEYWr0YBca8ZS7x8bGtDQ/s16000/vicarage.jpg" title="The vicarage and gardens seen from St Mary's tower - 1993" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The vicarage and gardens seen from St Mary's tower - 1993</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
One of the highlights of the year - almost the only one - was the meeting of the G.F.S. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Friendly_Society" target="_blank">Girls' Friendly Society</a>) in the vicarage garden. That was always on Ascension Day. There was a service in church, then tea on the lawn and games until dark.
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I left school at 12½ having passed the Labour Examination. For the next year I stayed at home to help my mother as there was a lot to do with five of us at home - children I mean.
<blockquote><i>(Eleanor Vyse probably meant 'labour certificate' rather than 'labour examination'. Labour certificate were granted to children by local education authorities allowing them to leave school early in order to take up work, in Eleanor's case as a ‘mother's help’. See an example of a labour certificate of 1901 below.)</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5Ie2LEDssI4ssGlDKPK1oxlvhe69ewvTeOW_0lCTTCeDgE4A5J5qudU2L7Iir8HVRG5pC2VUK3eDpMvMHYe0lFTer5S-wl0PJ11KEPwq_W1NlgvdDNWPIM8Zj-rfEfZHenIXLfA6hHweUkEHTiqjqhLNzCBi-zpFoG1sNfUNeZmpDSh3BUejnWJLag/s550/labourcertificate.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A 'labour certificate' allowed the holder to leave school in order to work Image Victoria and Albert Museum, London used with permission" border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5Ie2LEDssI4ssGlDKPK1oxlvhe69ewvTeOW_0lCTTCeDgE4A5J5qudU2L7Iir8HVRG5pC2VUK3eDpMvMHYe0lFTer5S-wl0PJ11KEPwq_W1NlgvdDNWPIM8Zj-rfEfZHenIXLfA6hHweUkEHTiqjqhLNzCBi-zpFoG1sNfUNeZmpDSh3BUejnWJLag/s16000/labourcertificate.jpg" title="A 'labour certificate' allowed the holder to leave school in order to work Image Victoria and Albert Museum, London used with permission" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A 'labour certificate' allowed the holder to leave school in order to work</b><br /><i>Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, used with permission</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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My father was a hay-binder by profession and he could tell how many loads of hay were contained in a rick by just looking at it. Gathering acorns was something we did every autumn. The price was 10d a bushel and it did take a long time to get a bushel. Once, when it was a bad hay year my father went acorning too and between us we got 40 bushel and that time they were 1 shilling a bushel, I suppose because hay was short.
<blockquote><i>(<a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bushel" target="_blank">A bushel</a> is a measure of capacity used for corn, fruit, liquids, etc. The <a href="https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/journal/history/pounds-shillings-and-pence/" target="_blank">pre-decimal currency system</a> consisted of a pound of 20 shillings or 240 pence. A shilling was shorted to 's' and a penny was shortened to 'd'.)</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSVnMLrUGfhhigqZF8TdzNTuAK9_mljuY3ESoh_cEenWJb9hznFtEe9Q2uzE1IX9Nhy3U6O6akYWm7Ops80BEt5ysSnyN7NPaClZZk28AqB__pVzL4D7eOVstcIP6Us7oqATWZ22sOe--jfbMhCF8XJTnnSstLqK65CMm2Xt6Jp1jFf2pSuxXwkakn6g/s560/Ponyandcart.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pony and cart was a common form of transport in North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSVnMLrUGfhhigqZF8TdzNTuAK9_mljuY3ESoh_cEenWJb9hznFtEe9Q2uzE1IX9Nhy3U6O6akYWm7Ops80BEt5ysSnyN7NPaClZZk28AqB__pVzL4D7eOVstcIP6Us7oqATWZ22sOe--jfbMhCF8XJTnnSstLqK65CMm2Xt6Jp1jFf2pSuxXwkakn6g/s16000/Ponyandcart.jpg" title="Pony and cart was a common form of transport in North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pony and cart was a common form of transport in North Mymms</b><br />This one carrying members of the Shadbolt and Nash families - 1912<br /><i>Image from the NMLHS part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
At 13½ I went to serve as a mother's help. I and my box were taken by Nash's pony cart five miles from home to a lady who had four children. She lived at Ludwick Farm which was a stud belonging to Gurney Shephard of Leggatts in North Mymms. There was a large garden and poultry and we fetched milk from a dairy nearby. Mrs Robertson's husband was away in South Africa with his master, Mr Shephard, who belonged to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Yeomanry" target="_blank">Imperial Yeomanry</a>. I don't know that I was of much help but I suppose I must have been, doing stacks of washing up and preparing vegetables and taking the children out, blackberrying. I remember that I once had an afternoon off and walked all the way home and back again - all 10 miles! When I went back in the evening I was met by the children who told me their father had died in South Africa.
<blockquote><i>(Ludwick Farm no longer exists, but it would have been in an area called Hatfield Hyde, situated approximately where Hall Grove and Archers Ride is today, location - <a href="https://w3w.co/pace.shapes.risen">https://w3w.co/pace.shapes.risen</a>. The journey, described by Eleanor Vyse, from Ludwick Farm to her home in Welham Green would have probably followed the route on the map below. She recalled that the round trip was 10 miles. The route on the map below is five miles each way. The green line is the probable route taken, the blue icon is where Ludwick Farm would have been, and the red icon would have been Eleanor's home.)</i></blockquote>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9nyGxIJIc457KqdbDq418HyQgcFH27U-nx3I6q5O-PdnPjvAe8Kk3jR4LoXGuBgmasnP_BozjP9kUza2psv_nN2cCspgf0iauMk6A4nR2GOo3x7MEKDTj1dbcBACKJVGW2wG5uv6FRN04p6Sq-9oGbUKm8qqduwYuLo-7zVQ94ITqIsxx2kmOpTz3g/s3072/evrb.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eleanor's possible route from Ludwick Farm to Welham Green" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tSdvg6vcESBdbPctG9xpcAI0NqNbsdu0vf753FOymqIUYWOHyenJY9mw5RRTn9JJU36PKl1sHQMd3xmPlqmXuUK6duaLPFdzA34iOyclq1L3PaOvLsMdJSBHYjeXib6V8nDycw57-EzvWfqNIFtFEEOjSNcZ9RkAx_tS7gowoMhPc6V-UQjqY92F1g/s16000/evrs.jpeg" title="Eleanor's possible route from Ludwick Farm to Welham Green" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Eleanor's possible route from Ludwick Farm to Welham Green</b><br /><i>Map created on MapHub by the NMHP - click on map for a larger version<br />Elements © Thunderforest © OpenStreetMap contributors</i><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">From home help to post office assistant</h3>
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I had been in this place a year, receiving 1s. 6d, a week all found of course (<i>all found means with everything provided, such as food, electricity, heating and laundry, at no additional cost. The job is live-in and <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/all-found" target="_blank">all found</a>.</i>), but I left soon afterwards and again had a short time at home helping my mother when the post-mistress came and asked my mother if I could go to be post office assistant. I was 14 and a half when I took up the post, or it took me up. The hours were 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with an hour off for dinner at midday. For this I received four shillings per week. The work was interesting and not hard except that I was expected to do a good many chores for the post-mistress, a Frenchwoman who, years before, had been lady's maid to the vicar's wife, Mrs Latter.
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<br />I remember having to go to a magistrate to take the oath not to divulge anything which came to my knowledge by being in the post office. This meant another ride in a pony-cart - a treat in those days - to a gentleman who lived four miles away at Mimwood. He was Mr Archibald Thompson, Chairman of the Parish Council, in fact the first chairman of the North Mymms Parish Council. When he died in 1916 a memorial to him was placed in church. It is in the stall where the vicar sits during the services.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj779tZbjZxABx95voLfC2wOjaWJMZ_i8veKJYMjPW8cMmLO5zKDWEGRP4NVu3aglaa_5SJ7PdGSaekthGDUvetfkOzEM-UdqpdwIH7-A2Unz894rrny0ZTWtvjlzwgvCH4BEqPETWyHNk1Xt0keNw2foc52D0vDvRNfHkvAO23JRNYDZivqc7yKrigzg/s550/MimwoodHouse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mimwood House, Shepherds Way - 1982" border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj779tZbjZxABx95voLfC2wOjaWJMZ_i8veKJYMjPW8cMmLO5zKDWEGRP4NVu3aglaa_5SJ7PdGSaekthGDUvetfkOzEM-UdqpdwIH7-A2Unz894rrny0ZTWtvjlzwgvCH4BEqPETWyHNk1Xt0keNw2foc52D0vDvRNfHkvAO23JRNYDZivqc7yKrigzg/s16000/MimwoodHouse.jpg" title="Mimwood House, Shepherds Way - 1982" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Mimwood House, Shepherds Way - 1982</b><br /><i>Image from the former NMLHS, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
A brother went with me and we rode with the postman who had to call for the mail at another village post office. I was by way of being in love with this postman; he was not much older than I was and of course knew nothing about that. But didn't I enjoy that ride! So I did the glass of milk and the piece of cake Mr Thompson ordered for me, but I was unhappy about my brother as he was waiting in the drive for me. We had to walk the four miles home.
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I didn't do any divulging except when the news came through that King Edward's coronation was to be postponed. I knew that was expected and would soon be known by all anyway, but I got a stern reprimand — but the postman DID ask me. (not my postman).
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I stayed with that and my four shillings a week for two years. The post mistress was not an easy woman to be with, and my brothers used to tell me that if I stayed much longer with that old woman I'd grow like her that is bad-tempered. The prospects were NIL for getting a better position and pay in the post office so I went to service again.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The two world wars</h3>
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Towards the end of the war with Germany, 1914—1918, I joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Army_Pay_Corps" target="_blank">Army Pay Corps</a> at Hounslow. I don't know how I had the nerve and don't ask me how I got to Hounslow from North Mymms. However I had heard of it and I itched to do war work of some kind.<br />
<blockquote><i>(Eleanor's memories continued with several paragraphs about working for the Royal Army Pay Corps in Hounslow, but we have not included these in this edited account because of their lack of direct relevance to the history of North Mymms.)</i>
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<!--Arriving at Hounslow I was interviewed by a woman officer whose duty it was to do so. Among other questions she asked me was what I had done previously. I said I had been a housemaid. She said, curtly, "We don't want domestic servants here". She then asked, "Who told you of this place?” I answered as curtly, “Lord Leith's secretary". She changed her tune at that and gave me the test of questions and took
me on.
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Lord and Lady Leith were my last employers as housemaid. He was a wealthy Scotsman, she an American, and they owned Fyvie Castle, in Scotland and rented Lupton House, Churston Ferrers, Devonshire from Lord Churston. They also used a house in St James's Place in London. <br /><br />
To continue about the Army Pay Corps or Royal Army Pay Corps as it became.
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My lodgings were about 10 minutes walk from the office, and the others and I walked to
and fro at midday for our lunch. The pay offices at Hounslow were in 10 very large
huts. The noise on the wooden floors was dreadful and the huts were not very warm
in winter. I think Hounslow Barracks was the home of the Fusiliers and only the
paper work for that regiment and the Middlesex Regiment was done there.
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There were 18 other pay offices up and down the country. My work was with the pay
and mess section of the Middlesex. When any of our men were attached to another
regiment their pay office claimed from ours for any pay-or mess our men had
received and I suppose the Middlesex did the same for any men other than their
own, from the appropriate office.
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Sometimes a soldier came to our office straight from the trenches, wanting some money to go on leave. He had his rifle, a great pack on his back and his 'tin hat' sometimes on his head, sometimes on top of his pack. I saw one once with blood on his overcoat.
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The men workers in the office wore khaki but I think they were unfit for active service
but could do office work. They were probably office workers in private life. I
remember one poor man had a wry neck.
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My pay was now 25 shillings a week. One pay day I was given two pounds notes which were stuck together. As it was lunch time I just pushed them into my bag. Being a 'V' I was nearly the last to be paid, so after lunch I took the extra £1 to our staff sergeant, who said "Ha, just the one we were looking for". Later in the afternoon the paymaster came to me and thanked me for returning the note. He said something about a box of chocolates. I said "Oh, not at all". I didn't get the box though I would have liked it.
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The war came to an end whilst I was at Hounslow and no work was done on that November day. Two of my fellow-lodgers and I went up to London that evening and got as near to Buckingham Palace as we could. The crowd there was enormous; one could not move but had to go as the crowd took us, cheering, until we were nearly hoarse, the royalty when they came out on to a balcony. However, we got back to Hounslow at last and went to the office next morning. There was still plenty to do before things were finally cleared up. I would have liked to stay to the end, though the sitting down work did not agree with me after the activity of working as a house maid, but tragedy happened at my own home and was allowed to leave at once.
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After <a href="https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/world-war-ii" target="_blank">America entered the Second World War</a> the 'American Army Hospital sprang up in North Mymms Park almost overnight. After a time a local lady organised a party of village women as volunteer needle-women to do some necessary sewing for the men. There were four of us. Most of the work was sewing braid on their forage caps, sewing stripes of rank on their sleeves - upside-down - shortening trousers or putting new collars and cuffs on their shirts. Sometimes one of the women staff got us to mend something for her.
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It was a long walk from Welham Green to the hospital and once I got through the wire railings to take a short cut. A sentry was there with a gun and told me off. I told him why and what I was going for and he let me go past.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">"There ain't no beer"</h3>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGyMSRPYILVHHV9T81dloYp3cNO-YS0YrOaCw0g5Xc2Yfl6n1Y6gl7BKKGuhYQ3CrF6kbdi5_rZDetBMUXczJfWKEXwoec6ybOeKoW81Rl5vf79kPIc4mlED5w9D9ZMXcw1z93qe6ElvF6oltcYebdD2uuNeWaBAdqqZ2hZDwqdfDHeZCWilnhvwbwQ/s550/WoodmanInn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Woodman Inn c 1900" border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGyMSRPYILVHHV9T81dloYp3cNO-YS0YrOaCw0g5Xc2Yfl6n1Y6gl7BKKGuhYQ3CrF6kbdi5_rZDetBMUXczJfWKEXwoec6ybOeKoW81Rl5vf79kPIc4mlED5w9D9ZMXcw1z93qe6ElvF6oltcYebdD2uuNeWaBAdqqZ2hZDwqdfDHeZCWilnhvwbwQ/s16000/WoodmanInn.jpg" title="The Woodman Inn c 1900" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Woodman Inn c 1900 </b><br /><i>Photograph by G. Knott, gifted by R. Papworth<br />Part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGBE4BwlNP0s0Hjsn3Uodo0wPBWIZ3yGYVioam3-zsjsq9VmoYnc6rvTD7rQSeSrFmM5xSQu4jEbWWgLXOVto2aaJijAxVbIsDAUsJl8fdqQ19cG5eGefKw3rtEvx4GqZuBXcQoux_S_OYRUkBK3CLvOWJgbLX7DHMAWhDfkaDexIZQzYbbrZ12ckpQ/s550/oldmaypole.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Old Maypole in the 1940s" border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGBE4BwlNP0s0Hjsn3Uodo0wPBWIZ3yGYVioam3-zsjsq9VmoYnc6rvTD7rQSeSrFmM5xSQu4jEbWWgLXOVto2aaJijAxVbIsDAUsJl8fdqQ19cG5eGefKw3rtEvx4GqZuBXcQoux_S_OYRUkBK3CLvOWJgbLX7DHMAWhDfkaDexIZQzYbbrZ12ckpQ/s16000/oldmaypole.jpg" title="The Old Maypole in the 1940s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Old Maypole in the 1940s</b><br /><i>Photograph from the former NMLHS<br />Part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
At that time there was usually a shortage of beer at the local pubs. The Americans liked our beer. One evening, early, an old village chap named Sammy was hurrying up the road past my house. He was met by someone on a bicycle and greeted with "It's no good going up there Sammy. There ain't no beer. You'll have to go home and have a cup of cocoa". Sammy stopped and said "cocoa!" in a very disgusted voice.
<blockquote><i>(The two nearest pubs to the American Hospital were The Woodman Inn and The Old Maypole. <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2023/02/north-mymms-pubs.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a slideshow of North Mymms pubs over the years.)</i></blockquote>
At the end of things we, with lots of others who had helped in some way, were given a party and we needle workers were given a certificate by the American Red Cross. It is dated 29th June 1945. I am the only one left of the four.
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<i>(Eleanor Vyse died on 23 July 1976.)</i>
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<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoawlr_KpoDqbqIBfNmC-c2W6YW8sVI1h80Fx0hVDC7LR5m2XgbyWy6E001FHEcCaDefbI1G07EySUr7ghh61oqx-fFR4T4uEbksVnBPH1WxfRckxuG_rglfi_cRUTMwdP9cnB-c-eIG0xPzPTXA-dpcaVF01CibsyfFYj8wXmJr-XeVdw8POR2PFsaA/s786/family.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eleanor Vyse, Lorna Annie Jarman (nee Messenger), Daphne Helen Jarman" border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoawlr_KpoDqbqIBfNmC-c2W6YW8sVI1h80Fx0hVDC7LR5m2XgbyWy6E001FHEcCaDefbI1G07EySUr7ghh61oqx-fFR4T4uEbksVnBPH1WxfRckxuG_rglfi_cRUTMwdP9cnB-c-eIG0xPzPTXA-dpcaVF01CibsyfFYj8wXmJr-XeVdw8POR2PFsaA/s16000/family.jpg" title="Eleanor Vyse, Lorna Annie Jarman (nee Messenger), Daphne Helen Jarman" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Eleanor Vyse (left), with Lorna Jarman and Daphne Jarman</b><br /><i>Photographed by R Kingdon in the 1950s - Images of North Mymms Collection</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
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The following tribute was paid to Eleanor Vyse by local author and historian, the late Dorothy Colville.
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<i>Born more than 88 years ago her early childhood was spent in the Water Splash area of the parish. She attended the Girls' School at Water End where the principal subjects on the curriculum were the 3 R's, the Church Catechism and Needlework — subjects which had a great influence on her life.
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Quiet and reserved she had a dry sense of humour and was a keen judge of character. She did not suffer fools gladly.
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During the early days of the School Meals Service, she served in one of the then newly built shops in Dellsome Parade, she was one of a small group of volunteers who served the meals and supervised the children during their midday 'break'.
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An even smaller group did a weekly 'mend and button replacement' for the men at the American Hospital at North Mymms Park. For this the American Red Cross bestowed a Certificate of Loyal Service to each.
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A staunch member of the W.I. her needlework was shown in London at one of the exhibitions organised by the Federation. During the 1939-45 War the W.I., by the collection of waste paper, was able to give a small money gift at Christmas to every serving man and woman in the parish. Miss Vyse walked miles delivering the gifts and making sure no one was forgotten.
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Apart from these activities her life was devoted to the service of her family and the friends she gathered around her.
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May she rest in peace.
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<b>D. Colville</b></i>
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brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Welham Green, UK51.73473 -0.21695123.424496163821154 -35.373201 80.044963836178852 34.939299tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-5619281445316195932023-05-26T21:16:00.011+01:002023-05-28T07:05:07.552+01:00Welham Green when "everyone just about knew everyone else"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZjJ8U5lg1GaxIQTxit6mAsmJ3nSeqNefE2CTKdpbQ7KwvuiDqcUYCPgrEfWuv_DfGTIxBA04LIgvPdxFIYpym6cqk-aPkAmn8nNQTIVhPnATun9pGo-aXOuQRuoiUNCyt_Q0IzpOnoW8_bnT9L6G3MLW4JmMY4xl8B8Spd9LlWkDFiQ3tN6T4-xn1A/s550/watercourse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Water Cross, Welham Green 1900s" border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZjJ8U5lg1GaxIQTxit6mAsmJ3nSeqNefE2CTKdpbQ7KwvuiDqcUYCPgrEfWuv_DfGTIxBA04LIgvPdxFIYpym6cqk-aPkAmn8nNQTIVhPnATun9pGo-aXOuQRuoiUNCyt_Q0IzpOnoW8_bnT9L6G3MLW4JmMY4xl8B8Spd9LlWkDFiQ3tN6T4-xn1A/s16000/watercourse.jpg" title="The Water Cross, Welham Green 1900s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Water Cross, Welham Green 1900s</b><br /><i>Photograph by G Knott, part of the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Washing clothing by hand with water from a brook, freshly made bread baked daily and delivered door-to-door, welcoming evacuees during WWII, and the day a bomb landed near to the North Mymms cricket pitch shattering a stained glass window in St Mary's parish church - just some memories shared by a local resident who lived in Welham Green when it was a small village where <i>"everyone just about knew everyone else"</i>.
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<blockquote><i><span style="color: #274e13;">This collection of memories of Welham Green during the first part of the 20th century (1920-1950) is just one of several recollections collected over the years by the former North Mymms Local History Society (NMLHS). Many are published on this site. The memories (below) were written by Lorna Jarman (nee Messenger) who was born in 1919 in Welham Cottages. </span></i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #274e13;">The original written memories have been shortened and comments have been added by the North Mymms History Project (NMHP), which appear in italics and enclosed in parentheses. These additions are in order to add information. Throughout the piece we have added relevant maps, images, and links where we felt appropriate.</span></i></blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Memories of Welham Green<br /><i>by Lorna Jarman</i></h3>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPc3uX4I1lsNtQLHAJnwRrZ8uKZ3Nbj9yv5WNSpegSa_EMcPi0ruKROCMLG_4w7EQqJjFfJ-R8tMtWQjDYqLHeqiVY7Aqyoh2ZR1CBfNxfI-0USPj9CJ5azVLxDXXZfn-ZPX_g2k66hz7KUsDgAT2srOhRg7Jqg9-TtBFvSmyDvOhQoaBkfkLzwYMC2g/s550/water.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Water Splash looking south - 1900s" border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPc3uX4I1lsNtQLHAJnwRrZ8uKZ3Nbj9yv5WNSpegSa_EMcPi0ruKROCMLG_4w7EQqJjFfJ-R8tMtWQjDYqLHeqiVY7Aqyoh2ZR1CBfNxfI-0USPj9CJ5azVLxDXXZfn-ZPX_g2k66hz7KUsDgAT2srOhRg7Jqg9-TtBFvSmyDvOhQoaBkfkLzwYMC2g/s16000/water.jpg" title="The Water Splash looking south - 1900s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Water Splash looking south - 1900s</b><br /><i>Photograph by G Knott, part of the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Our little history starts at Paine's Cottage near the Water Splash.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR4Fz2X3biY7mgdRik7pqP8bRjoKkFtwG1LlXvLJIj8zyMSN4QYRIjec3bxGLjGC-_kbAJAMFn-tK8ySDI2ZT87hh7e_Q0EE7acwySUdXEx9EX48FIhsnnJCKt-Pe8RffBqyN2jmixidI3cReSclrl0P-zNL5-qnNVMcJwACUAV8xycHiEA8oG25c_FQ/s550/Paines.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Paine's Cottage, Station Road - 1958" border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR4Fz2X3biY7mgdRik7pqP8bRjoKkFtwG1LlXvLJIj8zyMSN4QYRIjec3bxGLjGC-_kbAJAMFn-tK8ySDI2ZT87hh7e_Q0EE7acwySUdXEx9EX48FIhsnnJCKt-Pe8RffBqyN2jmixidI3cReSclrl0P-zNL5-qnNVMcJwACUAV8xycHiEA8oG25c_FQ/s16000/Paines.jpg" title="Paine's Cottage, Station Road - 1958" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Paine's Cottage, Station Road - 1958</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<i>(Water Splash, or Water Cross, were the names used for the spot on Station Road south of the Catholic church where there was a ford and a footbridge - before the road bridge was built - location - <a href="https://w3w.co/boot.yoga.report">https://w3w.co/boot.yoga.report</a>, and which is sometimes flooded after rain and is</i><i> still referred to as 'The Watersplash' because of the nearby house of the same name)</i>.</blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRugFWuZQc4D73vQtxRUsoLF6pzh0xCsDKRhYIs7gIyRFxg9AP5gPxyZbbmqIvKZXwhZT9pNx7Ru4_MfeVebp6wFM-OQV-Rp8hGR25DObDIX4fsa3lxmMOD1MJURicGn6xyVPNykSG3vOIN8PyYgqb7Otj3Q7hjs3Ue0P0kSoD3n3VQ41GI5ySP7jtA/s550/watersplashfooding.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Flooding at 'Water Splash' on Station Road 1966" border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRugFWuZQc4D73vQtxRUsoLF6pzh0xCsDKRhYIs7gIyRFxg9AP5gPxyZbbmqIvKZXwhZT9pNx7Ru4_MfeVebp6wFM-OQV-Rp8hGR25DObDIX4fsa3lxmMOD1MJURicGn6xyVPNykSG3vOIN8PyYgqb7Otj3Q7hjs3Ue0P0kSoD3n3VQ41GI5ySP7jtA/s16000/watersplashfooding.jpg" title="Flooding at 'Water Splash' on Station Road 1966" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Flooding at 'Water Splash' on Station Road 1966</b><br /><i>Image from the former North Mymms Local History Society (NMLHS)<br />From the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
A lane ran alongside the old cottage where the Paines lived towards the railway line and alongside the brook which flowed to the road named the Water Cross. Houses have now been built on this ground but in the 1900s it was an open lane with another old cottage where the Vyses lived and was known as Vyses Lane.
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<i>(The lane mentioned in Lorna Jarman's account no longer exists. Instead, a public footpath follows part of the route from Station Road to the <a href="http://www.nmycc.org.uk/" target="_blank">North Mymms Youth & Community Centre</a>. Up until 1996, that public right of way, which is North Mymms public footpath 34, ran east from the cottage then continued south of the football pitch to steps leading up to a pedestrian crossing over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" target="_blank">East Coast Main Line</a>. This footpath was diverted by Hertfordshire County Council for safety reasons. This is not Vyses lane, referred to in the piece, Vyses/Wises lane exists elsewhere.)</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-wOp6B-mB7HZhGeH2piUnErUM2MDmA2W_8pqw7if-etTaJHxPKOZ2ygYrtyPW5ywmgswlMTPVKZkwblP07aRQBc4U_P3mSU_ux1aK2XmoSR8G1Xan7pkEbcATPC3B8HTcokQDLSZ06gnhsqwoGbnbnsCrN0SZGB0rYJlwVQGTKSrN2z2YXKyxd4as3w/s3614/oldmap.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Ordnance Survey 25-inch map revised in 1922 and published in 1924" border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTKjAT1mHUuQ6S5Ch8HGYQn76akxrchV02PXH3Yphkpb66mnBDgzNdxqBTxmMiTSWBMry0W2b0ykp7A4Qnb71TWNYA2SX_RFv-W5LcpPdohIzCUdix2vbA--U67Z1rucuD7isdR_de1pWpjAMxtW_IQmR0QUdIAPpOaiyPDvfAI3279pcumkB6cWZPQ/s16000/oldmapsmall.jpg" title="The Ordnance Survey 25-inch map revised in 1922 and published in 1924" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Ordnance Survey 25-inch map revised in 1922 and published in 1924<br /></b><i>Image courtesy of the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201446" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a></i><br /><i>Click on map for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJKyk2Aqpu3zGOdyCI_GvQDUHgWipwJyeqE_o7gtGmu-4vNR6ZLzvwo5oATXS12A1AA6C_LiILQUcGitnRHSqzSQ8knnbLe_1jdw28iv0QxtMvgS6dKeSZmGYClinkAoamsbOnc6hNwLwLdUhIj195fosxvJbaKi9_pZCusLiUqcKzXvxgEe8-ub1kA/s550/crossing.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Children waiting to cross the East Coast Mainline - 1963" border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJKyk2Aqpu3zGOdyCI_GvQDUHgWipwJyeqE_o7gtGmu-4vNR6ZLzvwo5oATXS12A1AA6C_LiILQUcGitnRHSqzSQ8knnbLe_1jdw28iv0QxtMvgS6dKeSZmGYClinkAoamsbOnc6hNwLwLdUhIj195fosxvJbaKi9_pZCusLiUqcKzXvxgEe8-ub1kA/s16000/crossing.jpg" title="Children waiting to cross the East Coast Mainline - 1963" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Children waiting to cross the East Coast Main Line - 1963</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<i>(Paine's cottage was demolished and houses built on the land in the 1960s next to The Watersplash cottage which is still there and which has the datestone C.C.S. 1884. The C.C.S. stands for Coningsby Charles Sibthorp who also built <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2023/05/the-history-of-welham-cottages.html" target="_blank">Welham Cottages</a> at the junction of Dellsome Lane and Station Road.)</i>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrIlu0H_8CHiGHxHBhz9BX4m4QbhukOvLZje6wdi_0H4fBL5SfkenF9xJhQZta2Gcu-erZnO41YOtroqMqCP-F7jSdMorTI5ItxUPfgfrhfhOlm_MULWPhebVZUNHSTN5odku8drSzYbKM4oDFzVcdinADfu7vPoZmgnS0ixpstv6Z96DZFk-xOq9R3Q/s550/watersplash.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Waterspash cottage, Station Road, Welham Green 1960s" border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrIlu0H_8CHiGHxHBhz9BX4m4QbhukOvLZje6wdi_0H4fBL5SfkenF9xJhQZta2Gcu-erZnO41YOtroqMqCP-F7jSdMorTI5ItxUPfgfrhfhOlm_MULWPhebVZUNHSTN5odku8drSzYbKM4oDFzVcdinADfu7vPoZmgnS0ixpstv6Z96DZFk-xOq9R3Q/s16000/watersplash.jpg" title="The Waterspash cottage, Station Road, Welham Green 1960s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Waterspash cottage, Station Road, Welham Green 1960s</b><br /><i>Photograph by Charles Saunders, gifted by V Gascoyne<br />From the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Mr Bill Papworth told me that this lane went across the road now known as Station Road, and through <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/potterells.html" target="_blank">Potterells</a> farm land to Warrengate Road, Water End. People of Welham Green would often walk to Water End "across the park" as we called it; actually we were walking along Vyses Lane if this is the case.
<blockquote><i>(Bill Papworth was a local postmaster and parish councillor. The lane that Lorna Jarman is referring to, could either be North Mymms public footpath 8 which heads SW from Station Road towards Water End, see the blue line on the map below map below, or it could be the route of an unofficial path alongside the north edge of the brook which runs west from Station road at the edge of a field, see yellow line on the map below.)</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUZ3TwxMN2xPP0jlJpsfTXiiPHmQV225Q-PafY-9P4IGwpO-bP7SXki8llfJwrbpAOrOy5HGEOLnMC4KNU9cROZzVEuAji1mPH2kD5uCB00LkHtiownxK8yPjx_4s8UDYLSxoOBRE5fhtZ-Rk4WD52e3269G99O8HGo9_0EcwU0jfzLveFf4NJ3k1mw/s2538/yellowb.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The routes mentioned in Laura Jarman's account" border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1_Rcf1xf1Q-3pd8-wDmFg0koSJYEYDCv3geyAl0Vyb4tOZIc6Vneej051L7f8Jx4_dPuUbLEkv5WbnFXfKrPsOPG9WW8Mg6K6kxy-tKGsR27DXQQDEsP4DTaQ9OYBB3grkuOYaXATNrbkJoWXDmdOhF-rAptZ-dQ-CBqmQp-ggRjQrTl6Ru_yRrzjA/s16000/yellows.jpg" title="The routes mentioned in Laura Jarman's account" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Some routes mentioned in Laura Jarman's account</b><br />Footpath 8 (blue), footpath 34 (green), diversion (orange), footpath 33 (lilac)<br />Possible route of what is referred to as 'Vyses Lane' in yellow<br /><i>Image created on MapHub by the NMHP - click on map for larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
My great great grandfather, George Vyse, is believed to have lived in this little cottage in Vyses Lane. He is buried in the St. Mary's Churchyard, North Mymms. My great grandfather, also named George Vyse, lived in the old cottage. He married Julia Tyler and they raised their family there.
<blockquote><i>(The North Mymms History Project has been unable to identify the cottage mentioned by Laura Jarman in her account.)</i>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xwQKqLsj5UldThwWpimmYJ-E7ghsYYpXzqU_ersQtLoXT-l5Ges1CgzZnEbcrEM-me4XgMYGPpZT5dhQ-R9RYWImbtSSX_hdtoG_hBBvnMKW6Q5lKk9sBHnt15oVkOVvlDYY2xcgXLezmpfq9PZIQpDwXeGov-KwbbifObjkO2ijI3Kkioz3GsCxKA/s550/collectingwater.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A woman collecting water from 'Water Splash' in the early 1900s" border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xwQKqLsj5UldThwWpimmYJ-E7ghsYYpXzqU_ersQtLoXT-l5Ges1CgzZnEbcrEM-me4XgMYGPpZT5dhQ-R9RYWImbtSSX_hdtoG_hBBvnMKW6Q5lKk9sBHnt15oVkOVvlDYY2xcgXLezmpfq9PZIQpDwXeGov-KwbbifObjkO2ijI3Kkioz3GsCxKA/s16000/collectingwater.jpg" title="A woman collecting water from 'Water Splash' in the early 1900s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A woman collecting water from 'Water Splash' in the early 1900s</b><br /><i>Photograph by Charles Saunders, gifted by V Gascoyne<br />From the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Great grandmother Julia and her daughter Lydia did washing, I presume for money, and the boys of the family, Alfred, Fred and George, had to carry water from the brook because no water was laid on to the cottage.
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A house was built on land behind the old cottage which faced the road and is known as the Water Splash house. Eventually the old cottage was demolished. I do not know how many years they lived there but four more children were born there.
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My grandfather was a professional hay binder but in off season would work on tree pruning or planting, he planted the orchard there. The Water Splash house eventually went up for auction, grandfather wanted to buy it but the price went too high for him. He was however able to buy Welham Cottages consisting of semi-detached houses in the village centre.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWW0Fuv04pGdL4aFW-aYdVpsbE2aGe_D2DC4kphPUGWVsBw7E4kjtTIldjvbQIUn-YdfaGsZGnk8tFKTlQ-6fwE8eY3Pw6ixDE6cqiMEYE6Txti6SU6pR90qgvJYfaKu4YBKxq33Uwda3ckeL8TquXTuabGw8uqM96qOSye-jwtIiU8ivxIbePW7CjrQ/s550/wgc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Welham Cottages, Welham Green" border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWW0Fuv04pGdL4aFW-aYdVpsbE2aGe_D2DC4kphPUGWVsBw7E4kjtTIldjvbQIUn-YdfaGsZGnk8tFKTlQ-6fwE8eY3Pw6ixDE6cqiMEYE6Txti6SU6pR90qgvJYfaKu4YBKxq33Uwda3ckeL8TquXTuabGw8uqM96qOSye-jwtIiU8ivxIbePW7CjrQ/s16000/wgc.jpg" title="Welham Cottages, Welham Green" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Welham Cottages, Station Road, Welham Green - 1982</b><br /><i>Photograph from the former NMLHS<br />From the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Both properties were built by Coningsby Charles Sibthorpe, the small plaque on Welham Cottages reads C.C.S 1872. I was born in 1919 in 1 <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2023/05/the-history-of-welham-cottages.html" target="_blank">Welham Cottages</a>, Welham Green which was one of two cottages owned by my grandfather Alfred William Vyse.
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The roads past the cottages in 1920 were unmade gravel. A heap of large stones was kept on the grass triangle in front of the houses for the council to fill in the holes which from time to time appeared. Welham Green in those days was a small village where everyone just about knew everyone else.
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u5a26Zfwzro/WmseRu_nqXI/AAAAAAAByzg/iWhSk8bvfLY9nt_NsOMEtME-Cf7-eUClgCLcBGAs/s1600/Chuck_delivery_s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Photograph of Jonah Chuck starting his round from his Dellsome Lane bakery with wife Beatrice looking on from behind the gate. Image c1900 by G. Knott gifted by P.Grant" border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="550" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u5a26Zfwzro/WmseRu_nqXI/AAAAAAAByzg/iWhSk8bvfLY9nt_NsOMEtME-Cf7-eUClgCLcBGAs/s1600/Chuck_delivery_s.jpg" title="Photograph of Jonah Chuck starting his round from his Dellsome Lane bakery with wife Beatrice looking on from behind the gate. Image c1900 by G. Knott gifted by P.Grant" /></a></td></tr>
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Wife Beatrice looking on from behind the gate<br /><i>
Image c1900 by G. Knott gifted by P.Grant, part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr>
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There were two grocery shops and a bakery where bread was baked daily by Mrs Chuck and delivered warm in a lightweight cart by Mr Chuck.
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mOSKNhIl01s/Wmsf1MjeBbI/AAAAAAAByz0/3v0QABWc7IEZA9jFWyCzhrsd7dk7zmH6ACLcBGAs/s1600/chuck_delivery_Water_End.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Photograph of Chuck the bakers delivery trap 1900s Image from the former North Mymms Local History Society" border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="550" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mOSKNhIl01s/Wmsf1MjeBbI/AAAAAAAByz0/3v0QABWc7IEZA9jFWyCzhrsd7dk7zmH6ACLcBGAs/s1600/chuck_delivery_Water_End.jpg" title="Photograph of Chuck the bakers delivery trap 1900s Image from the former North Mymms Local History Society" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chuck the bakers delivery trap 1900s </b><br /><i>Image from the former North Mymms Local History Society<br />From the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr> </tbody></table>
Milk could be fetched from either of the two farms, Seymours or Crawfords, at milking time. Fruit and vegetables could be grown in gardens and allotments, and imported fruit and other commodities bought from Hatfield, three miles away.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHczTXeB3inFHYfWuoUMms45XULjeN_zD7OJmSeLWztOqOwlE1dAWnLtVEqTO4xhap9jULdvP-kPEyJLSe70nwY4uCBYKr3usth2_UPmwopyTsTimuIXVwpMnw8_aVIZqpJ_CFn5Q4Ja1KSlXEG41wasuvXCx-WKIAvWzwaWeijjUpYnwvFQ7eyP87oA/s550/pf.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Potterells Farm stables with Memorial Hall to the right - 1966" border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHczTXeB3inFHYfWuoUMms45XULjeN_zD7OJmSeLWztOqOwlE1dAWnLtVEqTO4xhap9jULdvP-kPEyJLSe70nwY4uCBYKr3usth2_UPmwopyTsTimuIXVwpMnw8_aVIZqpJ_CFn5Q4Ja1KSlXEG41wasuvXCx-WKIAvWzwaWeijjUpYnwvFQ7eyP87oA/s16000/pf.jpg" title="Potterells Farm stables with Memorial Hall to the right - 1966" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Potterells Farm stables with North Mymms Memorial Hall on the right - 1966</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote><i>(Seymours was Potterells House Home Farm, and Crawfords was Potterells Farm in Welham Green.)</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gZkqDMuTn4AkFFMI8FXxkdiFd79w-qal8w2tKGs8HqoFMotM9Z3e4mROwnXcPfnHC3YjoJPNthlG9OibKJk7IiQe8x8eC9aE6p651uvg67EaXQyZwSib5sM4DNvMm1Ysvu5bvh_zNHrm0HgL_LdD1-JGPUGNCYG-JuOhxg3HWqlh_eTS3HQVRzpsnw/s550/po.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The post office in Dellsome Lane in 1966" border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gZkqDMuTn4AkFFMI8FXxkdiFd79w-qal8w2tKGs8HqoFMotM9Z3e4mROwnXcPfnHC3YjoJPNthlG9OibKJk7IiQe8x8eC9aE6p651uvg67EaXQyZwSib5sM4DNvMm1Ysvu5bvh_zNHrm0HgL_LdD1-JGPUGNCYG-JuOhxg3HWqlh_eTS3HQVRzpsnw/s16000/po.jpg" title="The post office in Dellsome Lane in 1966" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The post office in Dellsome Lane in 1966</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
There was no butcher's shop, but I know in the 1930s a Hatfield butcher would deliver weekly, our family used this service. The post office in the 1920s was kept by Mrs. Goodman in Holloways Lane, and I think it was after she remarried that it moved to Dellsome Lane.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQL-nw_kZrGh5-rmShMsKxRFpul0L7fvhOclkkeGvoJE_ZmuCKvIibvWvw4mhGTdd2D19QEyjXyAe00U6HcDle94OB_oYZaXj9gvy6qeohOSXeqbSYksdlhjx7lVZbKUe7_muINuHwPgjfYJLvC2o-8IsPsH66ZX8XGjbCMogNMJ44pq-o_8He65Xk3w/s358/HRDC.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQL-nw_kZrGh5-rmShMsKxRFpul0L7fvhOclkkeGvoJE_ZmuCKvIibvWvw4mhGTdd2D19QEyjXyAe00U6HcDle94OB_oYZaXj9gvy6qeohOSXeqbSYksdlhjx7lVZbKUe7_muINuHwPgjfYJLvC2o-8IsPsH66ZX8XGjbCMogNMJ44pq-o_8He65Xk3w/s16000/HRDC.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Coat of arms granted to Hatfield Rural District Council 14 May 1945</b><br /><i>Source - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hatfield_Rural_District_Council_coat_of_arms.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia / Wikimedia</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
There were two areas of gardens allotments where a nice size piece of ground could be rented from the council (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_Rural_District" target="_blank">Hatfield Rural District Council</a> operated from 1894 to 1974</i>), which was in Hatfield in the 1920s. One area was across the road from Welham Cottages, the other in Dellsome Lane where some of the shops are now built.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcmAfcDZwQs1bst8GZ0KdEAYiSq3HvF8bAwl0SZ94BYx3ty0FBcFYC9vr1ug4egjjL014dze_QEUIHbSyT01XOPGu7EXNVcW-l1OpBU0FdClNxNrQYtJX3jOPu8KT5BRIHSGRdLxaYl_OObLYGxZWplbdkoA3yvuLcgG750hotTLwwvD6qMn8cFO8KA/s550/WelhamGreenSchool.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Welham Green Parochial School 1930s" border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcmAfcDZwQs1bst8GZ0KdEAYiSq3HvF8bAwl0SZ94BYx3ty0FBcFYC9vr1ug4egjjL014dze_QEUIHbSyT01XOPGu7EXNVcW-l1OpBU0FdClNxNrQYtJX3jOPu8KT5BRIHSGRdLxaYl_OObLYGxZWplbdkoA3yvuLcgG750hotTLwwvD6qMn8cFO8KA/s16000/WelhamGreenSchool.jpg" title="Welham Green Parochial School 1930s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Welham Green Parochial School 1930s</b><br /><i>Image E Bailey, from the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The school (<i>in Dellsome Lane - location <a href="https://w3w.co/tables.drum.hope">https://w3w.co/tables.drum.hope</a></i>) was for boys; girls went to Water End, but both schools eventually took small children of both sexes.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdwhHmzMPdR_2yrJGX8cpuCGJE0D-r_AF6P0M-rPRBSu_Gz7KhVH9zfY9X71rjNQcymb8bvnRViNnq4o_VBg-fbY_-Te12ptkDGv0NLOvIh4HxsCMXW3tSmiO-0EKnPIR4KSVcWOigRJTzQzu-E5TsQ7bnIPkRpjqBl_QiE0gpgJe4KE437DzzWWlhA/s550/wegs.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Water End School being converted to a house in August 1966" border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdwhHmzMPdR_2yrJGX8cpuCGJE0D-r_AF6P0M-rPRBSu_Gz7KhVH9zfY9X71rjNQcymb8bvnRViNnq4o_VBg-fbY_-Te12ptkDGv0NLOvIh4HxsCMXW3tSmiO-0EKnPIR4KSVcWOigRJTzQzu-E5TsQ7bnIPkRpjqBl_QiE0gpgJe4KE437DzzWWlhA/s16000/wegs.jpg" title="Water End School being converted to a house in August 1966" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Water End School being converted to a house in August 1966</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The headmistress was Miss Simons, assisted by Miss Clark and Miss Crelling. Sunday School was always at Water End but about 1937 it was started by Mr. Buxton in Welham Green. In Mr Buxton's time I helped with the Sunday School for many years. In the 1920s Mr. Ward was vicar, Mr. Buxton in 1930s-1940s, and Mr. Hamel-Smith 1940s-1950s.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwT4Sp9Jdb8F5njr6R0vd-1Sb9ejik2xLl4-pc_RGMDRnTKyEZbkGVhx4RpgO8uiZIeF62uNHF87WIGU4vjY5AZmuSR1UNu19x9x6fspZ3SMoYbHOPQm6JLu5ZaZZhxjuyAo1770Z2ZmVw_vtzJl86JLEEjhB3G5dQ4d5PPrLxfaiSR2wAvzTOMSfUw/s550/us.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="1st USA General Hospital, North Mymms Park 1940s" border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwT4Sp9Jdb8F5njr6R0vd-1Sb9ejik2xLl4-pc_RGMDRnTKyEZbkGVhx4RpgO8uiZIeF62uNHF87WIGU4vjY5AZmuSR1UNu19x9x6fspZ3SMoYbHOPQm6JLu5ZaZZhxjuyAo1770Z2ZmVw_vtzJl86JLEEjhB3G5dQ4d5PPrLxfaiSR2wAvzTOMSfUw/s16000/us.jpg" title="1st USA General Hospital, North Mymms Park 1940s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>1st USA General Hospital, North Mymms Park 1940s</b><br /><i>Photograph by J Clayton part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
After America joined hostilities (<i><a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate" target="_blank">during WWII</a></i>) a hospital for American soldiers and personnel sprang up very quickly on North Mymms Park Estate. This was taken over after the war by the council and used for housing. Part of North Mymms Park house was used as a convalescent hospital for British wounded servicemen and personnel.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1-eaYdEmjanK65zFqdWXqKQaFHmRlrcynwgr42DQf9NVBf0BZFdb7op_Bzkdxx0KTLBHGjzu1aHMdZwemY10_Bb1VwhU5CIBuPQV-O7G3X5xRHvQFUrkbMbJVmuFl87jMKkzZ-LJ3PFk9T60mYXc5TPIyq190AjQkZMDeNOPgCxnUA7kfZ9pW80cAQ/s550/ward.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A ward in the WWII hospital in North Mymms Park house - 1940s" border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1-eaYdEmjanK65zFqdWXqKQaFHmRlrcynwgr42DQf9NVBf0BZFdb7op_Bzkdxx0KTLBHGjzu1aHMdZwemY10_Bb1VwhU5CIBuPQV-O7G3X5xRHvQFUrkbMbJVmuFl87jMKkzZ-LJ3PFk9T60mYXc5TPIyq190AjQkZMDeNOPgCxnUA7kfZ9pW80cAQ/s16000/ward.jpg" title="A ward in the WWII hospital in North Mymms Park house - 1940s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A ward in the WWII hospital in North Mymms Park house - 1940s</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
There was no resident doctor; Dr Briton or Dr. Holmes came from Hatfield and if medicine was prescribed the doctor made it up which meant a three mile trip to collect it. Chemists did not make up prescriptions in the 1920s, anyway there was no chemist shop in Welham Green.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzd8QQfPoFDA4-aYn81Zu4sVnzjjLoaFUJjdrIRZNObzgRJTwaytn7BIymsi6N4QdJz-IcCFgCOaKDR9qB_YOYiFLMWrDNDXRhmYSeBmcJ7NrJua0L95MktXMo08hTWHUrQ2OQ2CQa6C77hwII3eg6DaueJG2uVqqBZ9mJt3KzEXdcu_3aGVBoeG0uDw/s550/ns.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nurse Sadler on her retirement with Mrs Burns" border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzd8QQfPoFDA4-aYn81Zu4sVnzjjLoaFUJjdrIRZNObzgRJTwaytn7BIymsi6N4QdJz-IcCFgCOaKDR9qB_YOYiFLMWrDNDXRhmYSeBmcJ7NrJua0L95MktXMo08hTWHUrQ2OQ2CQa6C77hwII3eg6DaueJG2uVqqBZ9mJt3KzEXdcu_3aGVBoeG0uDw/s16000/ns.jpg" title="Nurse Sadler on her retirement with Mrs Burns" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Nurse Sadler on her retirement with <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/08/the-burns-family-of-north-mymms-park.html" target="_blank">Mrs Burns</a></b><br /><i>Image R Papworth part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Nurse Sadler was our district nurse, she got around on a bicycle and she had a large area to cover. The nurse lodged with Mrs. Childs in the row of houses known as
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There was no gas or electricity in the 1920s, oil lamps and candles were used for lighting and the kitchen range for cooking and heating with a coal fire. I think it was in the early 1930s that gas was laid on into the village and anyone who wanted it could have it connected free of charge to their property. Many took advantage of this offer.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjcqnRp5JwyYyf8JIrKsVrkpVDOAPIwJdwD5_Xwrpiq1mNLQvjTHqhAAQQU2630PE_OYvO-L-QpSHJOrcgIgYorp_mGHzTfPKdBty10IghC-Cg61K5uWI0dObrpTmG7MzPl-XHY9azQ2EEI6uNWRO1i7OT0XwFrMtri6zYjUVB_aTUh-t3ytLXXSCgQ/s550/bus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The 303 bus on The Great North Road at Bell Bar - May 1966" border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjcqnRp5JwyYyf8JIrKsVrkpVDOAPIwJdwD5_Xwrpiq1mNLQvjTHqhAAQQU2630PE_OYvO-L-QpSHJOrcgIgYorp_mGHzTfPKdBty10IghC-Cg61K5uWI0dObrpTmG7MzPl-XHY9azQ2EEI6uNWRO1i7OT0XwFrMtri6zYjUVB_aTUh-t3ytLXXSCgQ/s16000/bus.jpg" title="The 303 bus on The Great North Road at Bell Bar - May 1966" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 303 bus on The Great North Road at Bell Bar - May 1966</b><br /><i>Photograph by Ron Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
A reliable bus service ran along the Great North Road hourly between Barnet and Hatfield and if you missed the bus to come home from Hatfield you could walk as far as Redhall signal box, cross over the field and railway line, and get into Travellers Lane then walk through to Marshmoor siding, or go through the fields to Pooleys Lane, coming out at Frowick. There were none of those warehouse buildings alongside the railway line in 1920 it was open country.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRlpU-nNxDyW4OgcXze8J7EJo4eeGHgyQTvIcZLAMTNzmGBNLoYQBBHTv3JuNHnECHokb28kLT5RUHwdZiA6T55ZGUd8wVKrD3xmkKU30mLBYY8-6mwvOPS9RiERjwaU4ljG3iI_P3NzD7MCvpl0izsqooyXBM8ji0HdoLBIPuVE5rwIgXXBPTNG4_Q/s550/NMG.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="North Mymms Guides 1936" border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRlpU-nNxDyW4OgcXze8J7EJo4eeGHgyQTvIcZLAMTNzmGBNLoYQBBHTv3JuNHnECHokb28kLT5RUHwdZiA6T55ZGUd8wVKrD3xmkKU30mLBYY8-6mwvOPS9RiERjwaU4ljG3iI_P3NzD7MCvpl0izsqooyXBM8ji0HdoLBIPuVE5rwIgXXBPTNG4_Q/s16000/NMG.jpg" title="North Mymms Guides 1936" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>North Mymms Guides 1936</b><br /><i>Photograph gifted by J Knight, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Miss Seymour from Potterells started the 1st North Mymms Girl Guide company, of which I became a member, in 1929. After Miss Seymour left North Mymms this was taken on by Marjory Shepherd of Frowick House, and later by Hannah Buxton and Bess Albury. Nora Shepherd, Marjory's sister started the Brownies. I was lieutenant for the Girl Guide company but when Bess Albury finished I was not able to carry on alone, so the company closed.
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There was a long wooden building known locally as The Scout House in Dixon Hill Road, it was the meeting place for much of what happened in Welham Green. Women's Institute, Girl Guides, Women's British Legion, Young People Fellowship meetings to name a few. Also, baby welfare, whist drives, jumble sales, dances and any money making effort - all were held in the Scout House, there was nowhere else to go. It was burnt down, I know no details.<br /><br />Welham Green had <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/brookmans-park-evacuees.html" target="_blank">London evacuee children</a> at the start of the 1939-45 war, most returned after a few weeks and the few who stayed joined in our village life.
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Welham Green had one bomb - it came one Sunday lunch time, the only damage was a large hole in the road between Marshmoor siding and the end of Travellers Lane.
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Water End had one bomb on the cricket field - this one was the cause of damage to the beautiful stained glass window of the church.<br /><br />
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Welham Green, UK51.73473 -0.21695123.424496163821154 -35.373201 80.044963836178852 34.939299tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-10496654112822962232023-05-16T14:14:00.008+01:002023-05-26T10:46:33.262+01:00The history of Welham Cottages<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWW0Fuv04pGdL4aFW-aYdVpsbE2aGe_D2DC4kphPUGWVsBw7E4kjtTIldjvbQIUn-YdfaGsZGnk8tFKTlQ-6fwE8eY3Pw6ixDE6cqiMEYE6Txti6SU6pR90qgvJYfaKu4YBKxq33Uwda3ckeL8TquXTuabGw8uqM96qOSye-jwtIiU8ivxIbePW7CjrQ/s550/wgc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Welham Cottages, Welham Green" border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWW0Fuv04pGdL4aFW-aYdVpsbE2aGe_D2DC4kphPUGWVsBw7E4kjtTIldjvbQIUn-YdfaGsZGnk8tFKTlQ-6fwE8eY3Pw6ixDE6cqiMEYE6Txti6SU6pR90qgvJYfaKu4YBKxq33Uwda3ckeL8TquXTuabGw8uqM96qOSye-jwtIiU8ivxIbePW7CjrQ/s16000/wgc.jpg" title="Welham Cottages, Welham Green" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Welham Cottages, Station Road, Welham Green - 1982</b><br /><i>From the Images of North Mymms Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
In 1890 a pair of cottages at the junction of Dellsome Lane and Station Road, Welham Green, went under the auctioneer's hammer. The highest and final bid of £340 was made by Alfred William Vyse, a local haybinder.
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The semi-detached cottages, which were called Welham Cottages at the time of the sale, were owned by Coningsby Charles Sibthorp of <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/03/north-mymms-park-short-history.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Park</a> who had a vision for building "a model village" at Welham Green. Welham Cottages, which were built in 1872, were part of that plan. A datestone with the original owner's initials C.C.S. is on the front face of the premises.
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According to Dorothy Colville, writing in her book '<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/north-mymms-parish-and-people.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Parish and People</a>', Coningsby Charles Sibthorp was for many years the principal landowner in North Mymms. She described him as "<i>generous in his subscriptions to any local good cause</i>", including contributions to local schools.
<br /><br />Sibthorp <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/03/north-mymms-park-short-history.html#NMP" target="_blank">owned the manor and house of North Mymms Park</a> from 1870 to 1889 when the Bruce family held it for four years before selling it to Mr. and Mrs Walter Hayes Burns in 1893.
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Below is a letter written in June 1890 confirming the sale of the cottages to Alfred William Vyse and inviting the new owner to travel to St Albans to complete the payment in cash.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpTWEXzFlSqS5UdkDn0ZlIZNTGA_ed1oCET27JIHEKCYyBWpk34nNbXAk7p6a-a_YsS9yVEuZ8tt4I4eq0f_0vHOHg7lJok09YB4DgAMaUCL6Lyi4nET1gV_H_0dbzDMCWWqW8G9bEkC5k0QL9CCxxCIthKoqbXmgS_VzAdmJVrcFYhSEBvWaLvhGIBA/s1954/letterbig.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbR6LkTKLsKjAXLTxr7C-o4HLeHFT_LD-ys4Fk-0vKe1DKNzFPSLeCgrZDS5thOL8NDVq8N3h5-Z5JAqsPNM0C72itxMYWt9seQ56D-l1r9cWRpgNddimhS-00JkfIuo9aLfuVmTsdk-3CNnAbVswKawOVsASvOCGyaUvboIxJKo3EAeFevHyylVLjw/s16000/lettersmall.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Copy of the sales letter for Welham Cottages</b><br /><i>Click on the image to enlarge</i><br /><i>Letter courtesy of the Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Old OS map of Welham Green</h3>
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Welham Green was a much smaller village when the cottages were built, as the Ordnance Survey (OS) <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201449" target="_blank">25 inch to the mile map of the area</a>, which was revised in 1896 then published in 1898, shows.
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The two cottages are visible at the south-east end of a triangle of land where Dellsome Lane meets Station Road. You will notice a small building behind the cottages - more about that later.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj440g5QSU9p6gT-_UTJV8tUWNT9FbBlIRLoCVs69wkslFvu01lx6G6bE53ToUxuZZMEx0YadBl35BNbigs3xhH3_nRgw2XOcsmb1V9jCJMP7p8jb_dnmyxZUo9pQxthTt_LYwcCYok_MXWXerEBBT2R1dR5hn3z_80Nqi13NI_Pa6tTu2BSJFRclpENA/s3084/osbig.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="OS 25 inch to the mile map of Welham Green" border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKwGi5HLnbLG3Y8thN2l9FOke-ix912WP-_bxQv_cYxulWLoDyF5vfAiNJsDq_gXzxDjZaNn26iuvutpIFvvQgS0sgciGM9l8ta5lTu7cMGbZq9RTddp9gX3gRLXzbf_CkJfYPC9vV7eiB9brvYxED9oHz8TJEskWaFHTCNa_8xSmm5yZlJgLqQCjFw/s16000/OSsmall.jpg" title="OS 25 inch to the mile map of Welham Green" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>OS 25 inch to the mile map of Welham Green - published 1898</b><br /><i>Click on image for larger version<br />Image courtesy of the National Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Alfred William Vyse and family</h3>
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The 1891 census was carried out a year after Alfred William Vyse bought Welham Cottages. Below are the census details for Alfred, Hannah his wife, and their six children.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsb6dH5gzkPHWs19lczS5JdRLQL23dK4SqiT_FIOenc3YZCwi4W3t7pprdJKlGQgOl_lVBa3_iYEFf_7jgC1C8yJRAlj_CgIYMQ3GrLEET7uJr7h0WLudTuhj1Bo6vSEafTKmkU4SH_4Se3etxOkIf5GtD6bSjYUbU2a3VL12KDcUQkqf6VNKSM5HMVA/s622/census%201891.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Screenshot from a page on www.familysearch.org" border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsb6dH5gzkPHWs19lczS5JdRLQL23dK4SqiT_FIOenc3YZCwi4W3t7pprdJKlGQgOl_lVBa3_iYEFf_7jgC1C8yJRAlj_CgIYMQ3GrLEET7uJr7h0WLudTuhj1Bo6vSEafTKmkU4SH_4Se3etxOkIf5GtD6bSjYUbU2a3VL12KDcUQkqf6VNKSM5HMVA/s16000/census%201891.jpg" title="Screenshot from a page on www.familysearch.org" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Screenshot from a page on www.familysearch.org</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
Alfred was described as a labourer haybinder in the census. In 1890 <a href="https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/the-working-classes-and-the-poor" target="_blank">the average wage for a labourer in the London area</a> was 20 to 30 shillings (there were <a href="https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/journal/history/pounds-shillings-and-pence/" target="_blank">20 shillings to the pound</a>). However the wages of a labourer outside London <a href="https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/the-working-classes-and-the-poor#:~:text=A%20labourer%27s%20average%20wage%20was,for%20him%20and%20his%20family." target="_blank">were thought to be much less than that</a>.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvsEWjH3Vvdtbt7aXoucE6KJ8Pn_S3TNR_NcGASmAYwsAwwzasRvFYrolwsIM9RH0gYjcNqhewAcPKPxNN_N61B-PxORHQKrkSp4qZySvJGDr7jKw2GsVPyRrmIt9jbZ2nCixG7LUDQSxQU5hbSW1_MHqe-8qUHceEpEAHReWXlgW3I4YcYcYVyyId7w/s550/farmingtop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Haymaking in 1898" border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvsEWjH3Vvdtbt7aXoucE6KJ8Pn_S3TNR_NcGASmAYwsAwwzasRvFYrolwsIM9RH0gYjcNqhewAcPKPxNN_N61B-PxORHQKrkSp4qZySvJGDr7jKw2GsVPyRrmIt9jbZ2nCixG7LUDQSxQU5hbSW1_MHqe-8qUHceEpEAHReWXlgW3I4YcYcYVyyId7w/s16000/farmingtop.jpg" title="Haymaking in 1898" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Haymaking in 1898</b><br /><i>Image G.G. Scott / P Nash - part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/" target="_blank">The National Archive has a neat currency converter</a> for finding out how much money was worth at today's prices. The National Archive calculator is set at 2017 prices, but it gives some idea of what the purchase price for Welham Cottages of £340 meant in terms of buying power.
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When remembering his life in Welham Green, James Chuck, who was born in June 1903, <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/james-chuck-my-life-in-village.html" target="_blank">recalled haymaking time</a> and working with "<i>old Mr Vyse</i>".
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<i>"Everyone came out for the haymaking, beer, lemonade, sandwiches in the field, same for harvest home. When they done the haymaking, they used to make a stack, not like it is today, baled up. Then after it was there a little while and the corn stacks and all, they were put up in stacks. My old Dad would get a big cartload of straw and make a great big heap of it, then wet it down well. Then he’d go along and do the thatching with straw.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"When they come along thatching, you’d pull this straw out and it makes six yelms to one bundle. Six yelms, as much as you could hold, and so they didn’t get meddled up, he’d put one, one way and one, the other and he’d carry six of them up the ladder lay ‘em on one side, take ‘em off and come down so much. Old Mr. Vyse used to make rick pegs with nuthazel. He lived in that old cottage across the green.</i>
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<blockquote><i>"I used to have to fetch a couple of bundles when they wanted ‘em, then they’d knock these in the corn and put the string round, what they called thatching. But it’s done away with now, they don’t have no ricks nowadays. In them days, it wasn’t like it is today with combines, they just go along with the combine and it’s finished. You used to make stacks of corn then thresh it in winter time when they hadn’t got nothing to do."</i>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Living in Welham Cottages</h3>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKp_geSzPA7bQ4VIQBZ02Eahop5rwcHE21qjeYQlANhnoYZgn26Z2RTZ1Ygbu2fIBOFa_CTdba2iB7Ax4yKRv5zF-rv9tmXhvGejRjA2Dgb80LDLa3Rt21tsQ220UNeFUVC9Lg8G_Rr7WLuBXoe80UxHL5DcSJEIdkToVdPvBF0LB3qRZPdBQQzAPzUw/s550/sign.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="What is thought to be the original nameplate for 1 Welham Cottages" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKp_geSzPA7bQ4VIQBZ02Eahop5rwcHE21qjeYQlANhnoYZgn26Z2RTZ1Ygbu2fIBOFa_CTdba2iB7Ax4yKRv5zF-rv9tmXhvGejRjA2Dgb80LDLa3Rt21tsQ220UNeFUVC9Lg8G_Rr7WLuBXoe80UxHL5DcSJEIdkToVdPvBF0LB3qRZPdBQQzAPzUw/s16000/sign.jpeg" title="What is thought to be the original nameplate for 1 Welham Cottages" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>What is thought to be the original nameplate for 1 Welham Cottages</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
Alfred and Hannah's granddaughter, Lorna Jarman, who was born in Welham Cottages in 1919, wrote about living there in a collection of memories shared with the then North Mymms Local History Society. In them she mentions her aunt, Miss Eleanor Vyse, having work done on Welham Cottages in 1938. That is the year that Eleanor's mother, Hannah Vyse, died. Her father, Alfred, had died almost 10 years earlier. So it seems Miss Eleanor Vyse continued to live in Welham Cottages after her parents died.
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The following are just a few of Lorna Jarman's recollections of living in Welham Cottages.
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<blockquote><i><b>Memories of Welham Cottages</b></i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>The two houses were bought by my grandfather Alfred Vyse in 1890 for 340.0.0 pounds.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>There were two large rooms downstairs with three bedrooms upstairs, no bathroom at all or inside toilet. The toilet was down the bottom of the garden and the pan was collected at night, the toilet seat was the scrubbed wooden type with two holes, one large and one small.
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<blockquote><i>For myself I cannot remember using this, (I was born in 1919) and I cannot remember the water being connected to the property but the flush toilet was put down the bottom of the garden in the brick end of the shed, which I remember being told at one time was built for a bake house, whether it was ever used for that purpose I don't know but there was no trace of an oven.
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<blockquote><i>In winter the flush toilet was a worry because the pipes would freeze and burst, then the plumber had to be called.
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<blockquote><b><i>The house</i></b></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>Three bedrooms upstairs, 2 of which had a small fireplace for a coal fire. No gas or electricity, we went to bed by candlelight, and the light downstairs was an oil lamp.
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<blockquote><i>The two downstairs rooms. The kitchen, as it was known, would not be recognisable now by my grandparents. I will try to explain, entering from the back door which was solid wood, 1st wall, on the left in the corner was the walk in pantry, right next to this were the stairs with a door to shut them off, then in the other corner another door, making an under stairs quite large cupboard - for brooms, brushes etc. no ironing board, in those days that was done on the large scrubbed kitchen table with flat irons heated in front of the fire.
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<blockquote><i>2nd wall. Only the door into the front room as it was called.
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<blockquote><i>3rd wall. Shelves from floor to ceiling covered with curtains, lower ones used for boots etc. cleaning materials, polishes, soap and hearth stone which was a lump of grey looking soft chalk like stuff which was wetted and rubbed over the hearth to whiten it. Higher shelves used for crockery.
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<blockquote><i>Next came the heating arrangements, the "grate" as it was called, it consisted of a small boiler with a tap, filled every morning with a bucket of water from the well outside and topped up during the day if much was used. Then the fire which was raised about 12 inches or so up, the ashes fell into this space, a cover fitted across the front. The fire part would be about 12 inches wide, with three fixed bars, and three bars joined which could be lowered to hold a saucepan or heat the flat irons, also roast chestnuts at Christmas. The fire box was lined with special fire bricks which had to be replaced sometimes.
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<blockquote><i>Next to this was the oven, the top of which together with the boiler formed 2 good hobs. Across the front of all this was the hearth which had to be whitened with the hearthstone and the whole grate had to be cleaned and polished with grate blackening. Having finished all this you lit the fire, with sticks put in the oven the night before to dry, some paper and small pieces of coal.
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<blockquote><i>Then you polished the steel fender with emery paper no stainless steel in these days placed the long fire poker and tongs on the fender and that was the first job of the day finished.
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<blockquote><i>On from the "grate" the next corner contained the copper, the big round kind with a wooden lid and every Monday a small fire was lit with wood in the little grate underneath to boil the week's washing, and every Friday or Saturday it was heated again for bath water, the water being drawn from the well outside, and the big galvanised bath brought in at night in front of the fire excellent idea in winter -everyone went to bed a bit earlier on bath night.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>Right next to the copper was the sink, a big shallow stone one with the cold tap. We didn't like this hard water for washing etc., so used the nice soft rain water from the well outside. The sink being shallow held no water so enamel or galvanised basins or baths (plastic was unheard of then) had to be used for everything and could then be emptied into the sink which had a plug hole through to the drain outside. Next came the windows and along to the back door.
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The 2nd downstairs room. The door to outside opened into the room. There were cupboards with doors on either side of the fireplace with two or three narrow shelves above on one side. The fire place in this room was the low sitting room type.</i></blockquote>
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I cannot remember the year the gas was put on, around 1930 would be a good guess. The gas company connected it free of charge for anyone who wanted it, most people did, we had it for downstairs lighting and cooking.
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In 1938 my Aunt, Miss Eleanor Vyse (Nell) had alterations done. Partitions put through both downstairs rooms, pantry moved and a large deep sink fitted. The stairs moved to go up from the front door and the pantry moved to the space left by the stairs removal. The copper and shallow sink were removed. Large doors fitted over the crockery shelves and lower shelves removed, electricity was installed.
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In 1950 the old grate was removed and the fireplace you have now was built. A section was taken from the large bedroom and a bath and toilet were fitted.
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The garden
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My grandfather loved trees, indeed pruning was a job he was sometimes hired to do. I can count now nineteen fruit trees large and small in the garden, plus seven espalier ones on the house. There were apple, pear, plum, greengage and cherry. we were never short of fruit in season, and the Blenheim apple kept until Christmas. After grandfather died many of the older trees were taken out and eventually all the espalier ones, no one knew how to manage them.
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The wells
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The one at the top between the two houses takes the water from the roof it is about 10 ft. deep, the one at the bottom in the next door garden was to take any overflow from the top well, there was never a great deal of water in it but occasionally it would be opened and both neighbours watered the bottom plants in their gardens, which were always watered with well water, we had no hoses and were experts at drawing a bucket of water from the well.
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The secret being that the bucket must be completely empty otherwise it will not turn on its side when you give the rope a quick flick.</i></blockquote>
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A builder told my aunt there is no partition through between the two houses under the roof at the chimneys, it is open right through. I have always been told the outside house walls were extra thick at 14 inches.
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<blockquote><i><b>The neighbourhood</b></i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>The roads past the cottages in 1920 were unmade gravel roads, a heap of large stones was kept on the grass triangle in front of the houses for the council roadmen to fill in the holes which from time to time appeared in the road. Welham Green in those days was a small village where everyone just about knew everyone else.
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<blockquote><i>There were two grocery shops to supply the housewife with the necessities she needed and a bakery where bread was baked daily by Mrs Chuck and delivered warm in a lightweight cart by Mr Chuck. Milk could be fetched from either of the two farms at milking time, Seymours or Crawfords respectively. Fruit and vegetables could be grown in gardens and allotments, and imported fruit and other commodities bought from Hatfield, 3 miles away.
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<blockquote><i>There was no butchers shop but I know in the 1930s a Hatfield butcher would deliver weekly, our family used this service. The post office in the 1920s were kept by Mrs Goodman in Holloways Lane, and I think it was after she remarried that they moved it to Dellsome Lane. There were two areas of gardens allotments where a nice size piece of ground could be rented from the Council. One area was across the road From Welham Cottages, the other in Dellsome Lane where some of the shops are now built.
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Eleanor Vyse (1887-1976), was, according to local historian, Dorothy Colville, nationally acclaimed for her sewing skills which are mentioned in Dorothy's book 'North Mymms Parish and People' where she wrote: "<i>North Mymms Women’s Institute was justifiably proud of the beautiful plain sewing of one of its members, Miss Eleanor Vyse. Her work has won a national award and has been exhibited in London.</i>"
<br /><br />Eleanor told Dorothy about her early life in Welham Cottages:
<br /><blockquote><i>"I left school at twelve and a half, having passed the 'Labour Examination'. For the next year I stayed at home to help my Mother as there was a lot to do with five children at home.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote><i>"My father was a hay-binder by profession and he carried his huge knife over his shoulder and it was 'mind this knife' as soon as he came in from work as there were usually three or four of us capering about. He also carried his twister and skewer and sometimes his 'stillyuds'. I was much older before I knew that this implement was a steelyard used for weighing the trusses of hay. The twister was used to make the hay-bands and the skewer, over a yard long and thick as a ringer, was used to pin the portion of hay being cut and drawn from the rick to make a truss. My father could tell how many loads of hay were contained in a rick by just looking at and around it."</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoawlr_KpoDqbqIBfNmC-c2W6YW8sVI1h80Fx0hVDC7LR5m2XgbyWy6E001FHEcCaDefbI1G07EySUr7ghh61oqx-fFR4T4uEbksVnBPH1WxfRckxuG_rglfi_cRUTMwdP9cnB-c-eIG0xPzPTXA-dpcaVF01CibsyfFYj8wXmJr-XeVdw8POR2PFsaA/s786/family.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eleanor Vyse, Lorna Annie Jarman (nee Messenger), Daphne Helen Jarman" border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoawlr_KpoDqbqIBfNmC-c2W6YW8sVI1h80Fx0hVDC7LR5m2XgbyWy6E001FHEcCaDefbI1G07EySUr7ghh61oqx-fFR4T4uEbksVnBPH1WxfRckxuG_rglfi_cRUTMwdP9cnB-c-eIG0xPzPTXA-dpcaVF01CibsyfFYj8wXmJr-XeVdw8POR2PFsaA/s16000/family.jpg" title="Eleanor Vyse, Lorna Annie Jarman (nee Messenger), Daphne Helen Jarman" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Eleanor Vyse, Lorna Annie Jarman (nee Messenger), Daphne Helen Jarman</b><br /><i>Photographed by R Kingdon in the 1950s - Images of North Mymms Collection</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Water supply and sewage</h3>
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The sewage issues at Welham Cottages, described by Lorna Jarman, were typical in the area at the time and are partially referred to the 1920 report by the Medical Officer for Health for Hatfield Rural District Council, Alaric C Ballance.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkviC9HonBPjszNlJXTNtLuDoUxSS0g0TcA81t0IKf5Krf1nhnQyUrlHWQRrhPPKqlL_jT523-G41eB6SFT8TYO5wi0WtG-AC8uNrbhPGjSewoHh99cRyUExKPAjk7kZi8vRJb4S7JclLuLTknYIzPAePfvx6Kj_TweyFkocUTzMkKm3dOX1oQt8IwA/s1536/reportbig.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Extract from Hatfield District Council health report 1920" border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilek0VBeSO_H1W6f1baaotVu1mgp7Fgu9r-SeMVGVx8WSSsceRa9DNS2Bg8_qrkwQVInvbBHmFaqBmwv5qQLDIanjZG-lratMs_fn6q5rKWLz5j2lCbaMHrtRKLWoPnDuFZEetmPA9VkZXXPPlOG3_ouopte16qg1b03UvmUULMe_VL6i5lhhVqoW6AA/s16000/reportsmall.jpg" title="Extract from Hatfield District Council health report 1920" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Extract from Hatfield District Council health report 1920</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of the Internet Archive - click on image to enlarge</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The officer reported that, at that time, North Mymms received its water supply partly from the Barnet Waterworks and partly "<i>from deep and shallow wells</i>".
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As for sewage, conditions were described as being "<i>in a satisfactory condition</i>" which were "<i>sufficient for their purpose</i>".
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A new sewage scheme for Welham Green was not operational at the time the 1920 report was written, which meant that the 431 houses in North Mymms were using earth closets or private septic tanks or cesspools.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTnEo53LpoQTAyIijDDOt8TvEhv9fl85lQzO7r1PalMAhVmNpwjCkhWSUr2vggPjjh8r85aKVP0hUnGT7maHsHOs2qPG0_jPLTsjLUCjTR5Y_Cssl75BXbjX45CVRIejgsUQRQlsswW02UVfxlWmg1h2gjVVf7sPubvWeA9XBBjP-a8BQUMr-IIe56g/s663/nightmen.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTnEo53LpoQTAyIijDDOt8TvEhv9fl85lQzO7r1PalMAhVmNpwjCkhWSUr2vggPjjh8r85aKVP0hUnGT7maHsHOs2qPG0_jPLTsjLUCjTR5Y_Cssl75BXbjX45CVRIejgsUQRQlsswW02UVfxlWmg1h2gjVVf7sPubvWeA9XBBjP-a8BQUMr-IIe56g/s16000/nightmen.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>'Nightmen' moving sewage in Victorian times</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of <a href="http://djwl.co.uk/blog/brief-history-septic-tanks/" target="_blank">DJ Wilkinson</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table>
In other areas of the district '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_scavenging" target="_blank">scavengers</a>' (or 'nightmen' as they were also known) were contracted to move the excreta, using brooms and tin plates, into baskets which they carry to dispose at locations sometimes several miles away. The report stated that it was "<i>arranged that this should be carried out similarly in North Mymms</i>"
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It seems Alfred Vyse rented the cottage on the Dellsome Lane side (the north side) out to tenants, because in July 1906 John Capes and his wife Rosanna were living there when their daughter Kathleen was born.
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The house they lived in had three bedrooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs. There was an open fire with an oven on each side. Baths were taken in front of the kitchen fire, and rooms were lit with oil lamps and candles. The toilet was in the garden. A gas supply was connected in the early 1930s.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Old photographs of Welham Cottages</h3>
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We have been able to find some old photographs of Welham Cottages from the <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/images-of-north-mymms.html" target="_blank">Images of North Mymms Collection</a> and the Peter Miller Collection.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwb4hVytzbz1MWA9ql-oTbpBk5jt6K-2FC5idwiP8gcIzZfiypwWvCWGMO_Eps304Wm0Q5ATzj_hJa2HXEFd9lxrmejfKVDJVKXSWgu__1G6DzKPp-tqcp8rbwKGIR1GpjwFCaF1w4P945LkxG_Bs2rGzYNHAK1iFg5DJdEf-cwN00oZ7_ZaV4-jEhqw/s550/c1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Postcard 1960s from the Peter Miller Collection" border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwb4hVytzbz1MWA9ql-oTbpBk5jt6K-2FC5idwiP8gcIzZfiypwWvCWGMO_Eps304Wm0Q5ATzj_hJa2HXEFd9lxrmejfKVDJVKXSWgu__1G6DzKPp-tqcp8rbwKGIR1GpjwFCaF1w4P945LkxG_Bs2rGzYNHAK1iFg5DJdEf-cwN00oZ7_ZaV4-jEhqw/s16000/c1.jpg" title="Postcard 1960s from the Peter Miller Collection" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Postcard 1960s from the Peter Miller Collection</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoZEPGN89dWUYVGQPnO_0UZ7dfymETKnD4xtPp2DmWXoZXPn4UEId2zOeyEFAfYleVmxgIJNDr2L80dW8TTAQjwtcd1d0ilvGcl-diTU47VD6511Er1vyZR6UefrUPcS_mJpd3HegDCMwqbbkvlmhK7gd9Bfjqn3jVPUTM7CNrKQQHspqEaxwR7JsSA/s550/c2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="1982 - North Mymms Local History Society" border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkoZEPGN89dWUYVGQPnO_0UZ7dfymETKnD4xtPp2DmWXoZXPn4UEId2zOeyEFAfYleVmxgIJNDr2L80dW8TTAQjwtcd1d0ilvGcl-diTU47VD6511Er1vyZR6UefrUPcS_mJpd3HegDCMwqbbkvlmhK7gd9Bfjqn3jVPUTM7CNrKQQHspqEaxwR7JsSA/s16000/c2.jpg" title="1982 - North Mymms Local History Society" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>1982 - North Mymms Local History Society</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5ikccrW5Y-w3_EAqzr1ojS7oG4Kwa-8fLdbOJAbWKwxhi3ZqYRRhBl-GP-U609n-7Fax73kw_34AmBzUjfzm4vC1GbJkJ0VCUZv0fVqLoyCggyJkoPN1VPWZaj4XBo9t15dYlDbyYrA7XUxz4Oip93V58DYW5Np5JKHwkHyThuDyVPR8EsyJPwesbQ/s550/c3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="1979 - North Mymms Local History Society" border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5ikccrW5Y-w3_EAqzr1ojS7oG4Kwa-8fLdbOJAbWKwxhi3ZqYRRhBl-GP-U609n-7Fax73kw_34AmBzUjfzm4vC1GbJkJ0VCUZv0fVqLoyCggyJkoPN1VPWZaj4XBo9t15dYlDbyYrA7XUxz4Oip93V58DYW5Np5JKHwkHyThuDyVPR8EsyJPwesbQ/s16000/c3.jpg" title="1979 - North Mymms Local History Society" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>1979 - North Mymms Local History Society</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitdkGAnYjAKDfY23dOI8SyYFgK0dA4IctrremWhEi42JWZyXMNJIV93e1h8ltuvaCAm5f1FoL0HCB26OVv43mfe4Xg2JXFTG6FCKpufrMwH-nNx94ruGvenJoPsdH56DYl4t42fdSQxIHeQSF1mcMznr8sU9aEnBC6zXXxMJg6q4tS-CeFsggU240gnA/s550/c5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="950s - A. Matthews from North Mymms Local History Society" border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitdkGAnYjAKDfY23dOI8SyYFgK0dA4IctrremWhEi42JWZyXMNJIV93e1h8ltuvaCAm5f1FoL0HCB26OVv43mfe4Xg2JXFTG6FCKpufrMwH-nNx94ruGvenJoPsdH56DYl4t42fdSQxIHeQSF1mcMznr8sU9aEnBC6zXXxMJg6q4tS-CeFsggU240gnA/s16000/c5.jpg" title="950s - A. Matthews from North Mymms Local History Society" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1<b>950s - A. Matthews / North Mymms Local History Society</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i5BLz0XMLA9j45Xjhse3thIY1w5fzJ3UxjfDmQOD-XdeTlhPfyv34f8vnIsHHE8ssXlp_W7pMt1mi7rTtj8hy5K9FF44cO2Tbl6
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Restoration work</h3>
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In her recollections of Welham Cottages (above), Lorna Jarman mentions the well in the back garden of the cottages on the Station Road side. That well was uncovered in January 2023 when the cottage was undergoing major restoration work. The new owner of the property has kindly shared some pictures of the renovations with the North Mymms History Project.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1-A_i64jWthL1UwR57kb00bqzKzbn95WvEJSh2mruyykXK7CvRvcOFRbher5wdCsb3Q0G54F50-K568CSF_-ClFI-QSwwN5dk1WE0t8Ox5xSwkl3Vljp56PtjcoxHawVyyByYl8s3McqarsEahTfqeFMxt7_a7AsHEVsOTP3bvIBW_64d6VpnZOx9g/s550/well.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Opening up the well at the back of Welham Cottages" border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1-A_i64jWthL1UwR57kb00bqzKzbn95WvEJSh2mruyykXK7CvRvcOFRbher5wdCsb3Q0G54F50-K568CSF_-ClFI-QSwwN5dk1WE0t8Ox5xSwkl3Vljp56PtjcoxHawVyyByYl8s3McqarsEahTfqeFMxt7_a7AsHEVsOTP3bvIBW_64d6VpnZOx9g/s16000/well.jpg" title="Opening up the well at the back of Welham Cottages" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Opening up the well at the back of Welham Cottages</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of Alex Sarson</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioj05lqkya_5a2VcTu0fiwlIvqp0aeFX64F5Cg4ecpXEVox1El813xlwpKIgTnpzpwgEk-1KQWzDNHL9fGIPbRGcrpj3BC9ESZ3_1bptBOoMPUSzvTwHGQduQoQfcQjS3E2tzEmn7EB8BTMDzROqubxTCrDHLduwZIo3l4c0x0uy5iNvaqP8NOwxNjw/s550/restored.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Restoration work underway on well at the back of Welham Cottages" border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioj05lqkya_5a2VcTu0fiwlIvqp0aeFX64F5Cg4ecpXEVox1El813xlwpKIgTnpzpwgEk-1KQWzDNHL9fGIPbRGcrpj3BC9ESZ3_1bptBOoMPUSzvTwHGQduQoQfcQjS3E2tzEmn7EB8BTMDzROqubxTCrDHLduwZIo3l4c0x0uy5iNvaqP8NOwxNjw/s16000/restored.jpg" title="Restoration work underway on well at the back of Welham Cottages" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Restoration work underway on well at the back of Welham Cottages</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of Alex Sarson</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
One of the wells has been restored (see images above), a second, which was under the new foundations, has been filled in.
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The shed that Lorna Jarman mentioned is still there. Lorna said that it had been for an outside toilet and perhaps a bakery.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvCr5arpJ6yc8XkkWhs5i2Agt74G7yAs0ha95IAxakjWXu--5_UzvrwrQNvvYUd9yJ_k2mzb9_EE_mIoFigpTlslFdUWuRJ4CZ7Di094OSQB8e5j4hvJ1m0-DnTGh5p4PK1RqK08RYYd1N8Bx9t8r3PnGO-_3bjsikulpPiKdYWC_HDr0p-wCUzZMbw/s550/shed1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The shed at the back of Welham Cottages" border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvCr5arpJ6yc8XkkWhs5i2Agt74G7yAs0ha95IAxakjWXu--5_UzvrwrQNvvYUd9yJ_k2mzb9_EE_mIoFigpTlslFdUWuRJ4CZ7Di094OSQB8e5j4hvJ1m0-DnTGh5p4PK1RqK08RYYd1N8Bx9t8r3PnGO-_3bjsikulpPiKdYWC_HDr0p-wCUzZMbw/s16000/shed1.jpg" title="The shed at the back of Welham Cottages" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The shed at the back of Welham Cottages</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of Alex Sarson</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
A resident of one of the cottages says that when they bought their house the 'shed' was shared and there was a cistern in the north-side cottage half of the outbuilding. They also say that the well was shared and, originally, there wasn't a fence between the two rear gardens because the cottages were occupied <i>"by two sisters who shared the well and the orchard behind both properties"</i>.
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The restoration work has involved steel and concrete piles being put under the left-hand cottage, hacking off old rendering and cutting out old pointing then repointing with "breathing lime mortar", and rebuilding and repointing the chimney stack.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfbeeOrpg-O7P6GDREv8zfZzc12fNU6ptg-2VXjX2eXOjiZjUILJPP5S_4mtbSMi6rW3o1io-1MzCtg6cb0jkv8oRcHq4wV0pEMrjuA0UU5wapgqEzTHB7QjAqcrrDDs5xFDVHoClosWohgfBLhx6UHtmbx2YzhxMJ9DahKTDy00l8fcz2nONGvUXOw/s550/before.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The back of Welham Cottages before renovations" border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfbeeOrpg-O7P6GDREv8zfZzc12fNU6ptg-2VXjX2eXOjiZjUILJPP5S_4mtbSMi6rW3o1io-1MzCtg6cb0jkv8oRcHq4wV0pEMrjuA0UU5wapgqEzTHB7QjAqcrrDDs5xFDVHoClosWohgfBLhx6UHtmbx2YzhxMJ9DahKTDy00l8fcz2nONGvUXOw/s16000/before.jpg" title="The back of Welham Cottages before renovations" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The back of Welham Cottages before renovations</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of Alex Sarson</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaOOOuHTw_mG-IUqNCSbVpZdW3cLDXUJ4SqYZfnXh8pNl6S1l1luIuyr-Letp3wQQEsV84GOmt9QVEWgsqKYGfqeFOJdU9fScaCSUugks_mnP-p0yg0pEXbIOeg5PjRa7biM1QPQKnCp-Z7GEYRf3nC2byUR6txAx-FkKE5gDXc_ojSuwcWCvSosggVg/s550/before2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The front of Welham Cottages before renovations" border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaOOOuHTw_mG-IUqNCSbVpZdW3cLDXUJ4SqYZfnXh8pNl6S1l1luIuyr-Letp3wQQEsV84GOmt9QVEWgsqKYGfqeFOJdU9fScaCSUugks_mnP-p0yg0pEXbIOeg5PjRa7biM1QPQKnCp-Z7GEYRf3nC2byUR6txAx-FkKE5gDXc_ojSuwcWCvSosggVg/s16000/before2.jpg" title="The front of Welham Cottages before renovations" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The front of Welham Cottages before renovations</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of Alex Sarson</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-rLZ2_GtSZrHDy8avWbyJ2msc0BO8W6kxob9HxFvshNqEHvwoHJeCw7notgOZDpVevyBCxJxHQ27bWpwx0QlF6eeEWUBpy97LX0Tt-qXOuVNFw3sg8XdtBPPU37xvisLFQnE_SE8BEZnaxeYqKcUr0WUz_xmQZNtXKGPOdyv25S76Ko538d9lw4sVw/s550/foundations.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Work on the foundations from the outside" border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-rLZ2_GtSZrHDy8avWbyJ2msc0BO8W6kxob9HxFvshNqEHvwoHJeCw7notgOZDpVevyBCxJxHQ27bWpwx0QlF6eeEWUBpy97LX0Tt-qXOuVNFw3sg8XdtBPPU37xvisLFQnE_SE8BEZnaxeYqKcUr0WUz_xmQZNtXKGPOdyv25S76Ko538d9lw4sVw/s16000/foundations.jpg" title="Work on the foundations from the outside" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Work on the foundations from the outside</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of Alex Sarson</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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Having discovered more about the history of Welham Cottages the new owner is considering <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/apply-for-listing/" target="_blank">applying to Historic England to have the building listed</a>.
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<br />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com011A Station Rd, North Mymms, Welham Green, Hatfield AL9 7PN, UK51.733097500000007 -0.215791251.727781574118964 -0.22437426884765624 51.738413425881049 -0.20720813115234374tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-59855396199458903902023-05-10T20:24:00.009+01:002023-05-11T12:36:28.503+01:00Sheepsheadhall along Bradmore Lane<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdy6tRFVtJAqnkibmHCtqhj0wpK-Thchs6iA9OrZfhQptdPKA0auMLqWaime2E9euVvuLiW47S5H4vIeE3p4RPCCW8cNYIBdzXb5Ogd9kKnkrc0gVHtaSGNrrRtu_vFVmhGcqfgmCszZyM-FDl6d5qOVSsGYSeEfKB85gan6uYO7IzVhClzGoLD9jGw/s550/sheepsheadhall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sheepsheadhall Cottage, Bradmore Lane" border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdy6tRFVtJAqnkibmHCtqhj0wpK-Thchs6iA9OrZfhQptdPKA0auMLqWaime2E9euVvuLiW47S5H4vIeE3p4RPCCW8cNYIBdzXb5Ogd9kKnkrc0gVHtaSGNrrRtu_vFVmhGcqfgmCszZyM-FDl6d5qOVSsGYSeEfKB85gan6uYO7IzVhClzGoLD9jGw/s16000/sheepsheadhall.jpg" title="Sheepsheadhall Cottage, Bradmore Lane" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sheepsheadhall Cottage, Bradmore Lane</b><br /><i>Photograph A Nott / G Knott part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
A small, wooden-faced brick cottage "s<i>et in neat gardens</i>" on what was described as "<i>an excellent holding</i>" once stood alongside Bradmore Lane on the edge of Brick Kiln Wood. Now the site is overgrown with the adjacent woodland having reclaimed the land.
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The spot where Sheepsheadhall Cottage once stood (location - <a href="https://w3w.co/gloves.head.every">https://w3w.co/gloves.head.every</a>) is a third of a mile west of the junction with what is now Station Road.
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The compact <i>"brick, timber, and tiled</i>" cottage, with a "<i>parlour, living room, and scullery</i>" downstairs and four bedrooms upstairs, stood at the point where the woodland meets a field. There were "<i>good gardens</i>" and a "<i>well of water</i>".
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The descriptions of the cottage, set out above, were taken from an auctioneer's brochure from July 26, 1922 <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/10/sale-of-outlying-portions-of-north.html" target="_blank">when 800 acres of the North Mymms Park Estate went under the hammer</a>.
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The land up for sale was divided into 20 lots. Sheepsheadhall Cottage was part of lot seven, which is shaded in pink on the map from the auctioneer's particulars below.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfA_LTkt19qQjCMueW5tNnctRbh1iAVGoPz8MSdC2oQfLtw88ZccI7beada6XkteLTbw__VZH9fZqtcGwyAmdOcqyOsOD9C_rsFkWpRQeoHiK1hCDuu-KX1ht64x6zUThufTD11wmzKNNxRdt_b57XcqM1796HSr03eDUmhaStBWmE9Eu50yHekx42Aw/s640/nlsmapsmall.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Map from a section of the "particulars, plan, and conditions of sale"" border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="640" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfA_LTkt19qQjCMueW5tNnctRbh1iAVGoPz8MSdC2oQfLtw88ZccI7beada6XkteLTbw__VZH9fZqtcGwyAmdOcqyOsOD9C_rsFkWpRQeoHiK1hCDuu-KX1ht64x6zUThufTD11wmzKNNxRdt_b57XcqM1796HSr03eDUmhaStBWmE9Eu50yHekx42Aw/w640-h366/nlsmapsmall.png" title="Map from a section of the "particulars, plan, and conditions of sale"" width="550" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Map from a section of the <i>"particulars, plan, and conditions of sale"</i></b><br />Sheepsheadhall (all one word) is middle top of the pink section<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVsaZe3ppvBJfKJc7IU8P7w5sLyNE1pfSS4-t02kb97aMkPWhesxw70WRDssiaZwI3RVORjL4S9b1DzP3TkUedBtjCtGATPecPMPOQQnRUY0BGUMt_2p3O20y8bMrG20Xf7Aq1svEKGogzfsSn2xD0c2qfQACtsCA7mWqxPQOay10QXOGgC3HC48eWg/s2634/nlsmap.png" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version</td></tr></tbody></table>
The brochure produced for the auction described the land as <i>"an admirable site for the erection of a country residence"</i>. More than 100 years on and there is no evidence of what was Sheepsheadhall Cottage and the "<i>country residence"</i> was never built on the "<i>excellent holding"</i>.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymkJg7LNr4Njt23Qae3EHXXREuLt1fsv2_7EdM7K5kzd5m0qfPAK66PNPMejksyeutfhhswG0mYs1nSQKsfeUXV2H_UWQehBQsCFaA0OA_2lczw7TiLiFiILgbXYlNGLtJ-RCaaz0dr2m4NCkqaxwJV3W76Xe7u5OTptAXhiTO_0hkh1tAFA1gGsFsg/s1134/brochuredetails.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Section of the "particulars, plan, and conditions of sale"" border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1134" height="517" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymkJg7LNr4Njt23Qae3EHXXREuLt1fsv2_7EdM7K5kzd5m0qfPAK66PNPMejksyeutfhhswG0mYs1nSQKsfeUXV2H_UWQehBQsCFaA0OA_2lczw7TiLiFiILgbXYlNGLtJ-RCaaz0dr2m4NCkqaxwJV3W76Xe7u5OTptAXhiTO_0hkh1tAFA1gGsFsg/w640-h517/brochuredetails.png" title="Section of the "particulars, plan, and conditions of sale"" width="550" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Section of the "particulars, plan, and conditions of sale"</b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPlIhwECcIb95ZvZX_Y3FE-MsDHmJbdsIOAfkvIfBc_3Bt5wo-8AaNswwF93nfGcq9g3aqDWX7BUu6JBPfdqeEDI3q8wjURY3A9DQxX7RTPrP1UvX1gklHiY6wKnoFZMA5mS_4rnQV6wbmTeKMUskWET2pgMRk8-4U96O5xi5u6tkbCU3p7tiPISvLw/s2256/brochuredetailslarge.png" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version of the auction details</td></tr></tbody></table>
According to a copy of the particulars (above) published in 1922, Sheepsheadhall Cottage was let to Mr S Long for £10.8s a year, with the rest of the land, totalling <a href="https://lochista.com/understanding-acres-perches/" target="_blank">105 acres, 2 roods, and 9 poles</a>, let to Mr James Crawford for £60 a year.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBbEiqGyPLwclQztFBdzsMckD_BoAJcFXxTIgmZLq0HFd5a6H0crON05MRcU39OLGSKu4cNZo417o_xLCREO9yndU0UuQOlreRTp9zZQzpmldAWTh2-YrtTyL1POYGCu_2i2EDmzsvViKKhOod_7qzU5JXjl5Ha4Q8tll8ZhNjBB8BR0g35VKSOGRRw/s640/Sheepheadhall%20OS%201936.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Ordnance Survey (OS) map for 1936 shows Sheepsheadhall centre top" border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="640" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBbEiqGyPLwclQztFBdzsMckD_BoAJcFXxTIgmZLq0HFd5a6H0crON05MRcU39OLGSKu4cNZo417o_xLCREO9yndU0UuQOlreRTp9zZQzpmldAWTh2-YrtTyL1POYGCu_2i2EDmzsvViKKhOod_7qzU5JXjl5Ha4Q8tll8ZhNjBB8BR0g35VKSOGRRw/w640-h446/Sheepheadhall%20OS%201936.png" title="The Ordnance Survey (OS) map for 1936 shows Sheepsheadhall centre top" width="550" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Ordnance Survey (OS) map for 1936 shows Sheepsheadhall centre top</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201833" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a> (NLS)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SefUGGM3iNmv-mZvxxnvRBil3l6J5ASQ_DQBu6tdLB2cZTLUexGoSX1KE7eTUXWd22sPNL6gQxuTENDM49vvtD50QaNSEcUTRFkL0WDZMozwGc_5QrxRXUzeKY_Zi1K-T1mcgACGg5MBBrMebBCtRZYXxsb5HuhQAnX1ziO3-Sw1r8fT0yG3pzTeNQ/s2600/Sheepheadhall%20OS%201936%20big.png" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The cottage has gone by several names over the years. It's been known as Sheepshead Hall, Sheepsheadhall Cottage, and, on the <a href="http://www.duryandrewsmapofhertfordshire.co.uk/" target="_blank">Dury & Andrews</a> map of 1766 (below). it's named as <i>'Ships head Hall'</i>. The map also shows two buildings on the site, one larger than the other. There are also two buildings on the next bend to the west, and two more buildings at the junction of Bradmore Lane and what is now Station Road. This was Bradmore Farm, home of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Young_(agriculturist)#Farmer_and_writer" target="_blank">Arthur Young, the famous agriculturist</a>.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7gno7Nwj9rbyF_A9qshwwz29ix5TIJhhX_ashNUwe2UWXYWQHma0QRzajDu8H6mvMk0x5HgvCTNCCSIuoiRN_KmOajzoma4kZjezxQonWJ575kwzUvDC8hTPB1kyQ-Ui4fkEIsVmWR4-md-60DCArRKmbUphY0ZJGTV4b-KuXajK3wwwRgdlTUt22PA/s619/damapsmall.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Dury & Andrews1766 map showing 'Ships head Hall' on Bradmore Lane" border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="619" height="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7gno7Nwj9rbyF_A9qshwwz29ix5TIJhhX_ashNUwe2UWXYWQHma0QRzajDu8H6mvMk0x5HgvCTNCCSIuoiRN_KmOajzoma4kZjezxQonWJ575kwzUvDC8hTPB1kyQ-Ui4fkEIsVmWR4-md-60DCArRKmbUphY0ZJGTV4b-KuXajK3wwwRgdlTUt22PA/w640-h535/damapsmall.png" title="The Dury & Andrews1766 map showing 'Ships head Hall' on Bradmore Lane" width="550" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The <a href="http://www.duryandrewsmapofhertfordshire.co.uk/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Dury & Andrews</a>1766 map showing 'Ships head Hall' on Bradmore Lane</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
On the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cary" target="_blank">John Cary</a> map of 1786 (below) the cottage goes by the name <i>'Shipshead Hall'</i>.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6ZJVcqzP-Rjtc8IpyjIUJmuVe0-xkhpn2BJcaRc7Xb7VBU9mFvD_IqzRLUKwhr8TkoF-t3AlnPIYUzYMKsY2zKdmzg7mOH12gn0o7g-2N5DJKcy7IiFaZzGHQoRFFkwpmuc9JW2-wum8NFBpdSu8K8NGnzZaswP44ydzFgGI3Ebl0aZMTUhpFm0rwg/s923/jcmap.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The John Cary 1786 map - Peter Miller collection" border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6ZJVcqzP-Rjtc8IpyjIUJmuVe0-xkhpn2BJcaRc7Xb7VBU9mFvD_IqzRLUKwhr8TkoF-t3AlnPIYUzYMKsY2zKdmzg7mOH12gn0o7g-2N5DJKcy7IiFaZzGHQoRFFkwpmuc9JW2-wum8NFBpdSu8K8NGnzZaswP44ydzFgGI3Ebl0aZMTUhpFm0rwg/s16000/jcmap.jpg" title="The John Cary 1786 map - Peter Miller collection" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The John Cary 1786 map - Peter Miller Collection</b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkB6_S60Fvf50PkamL2NeFyhcBY71sLp4YbXDAj-h9o-t71OBRHoqZvyGDwK11f0pjkvRSOHHdjrzaBOh1IDe8o0UFlxLn8i9Qd8D65k2R41mVNyi0tJqLEdhQPco519KhaTN4n5qnUoYbnIwijmnzyA1phpMu0fCS0AxStSuHernYKGuQDq6zmq4ijA/s5272/J%20Cary%20Map%201786.jpg" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version</td></tr></tbody></table>
The North Mymms History Project has not been able to establish why the name changed so much, perhaps the cartographers had a problem with the local dialect. When such maps were created, those gathering the information would have relied on conversations with locals in order to establish place names.
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But, thanks to records from the Peter Miller Collection, we have been able to go through the census information for the house between 1841 and 1911 in order to find out the names of some of those who lived there over the years. We can see that the cottage was the home of various agricultural labourers and gamekeepers over the years.
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<b>1841</b><br />
Joseph Gower (70) Agricultural Labourer<br />
George Gower (20) Agricultural Labourer<br />
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<b>1851</b><br />
John Bitchener (36) Agricultural Labourer<br />
Rachel Bitchener (36) Wife<br />
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<b>1861</b><br />
John Burr (37) Gamekeeper<br />
Sarah Burr (30) Wife<br />
Samson (11) Scholar<br />
William (9) Scholar<br />
Ellen (5) Scholar<br />
Arthur (4) Scholar<br />
Susannah (2)<br />
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<b>1871</b><br />
William Knott (40) Gamekeeper<br />
Rebecca Knott (42) Wife<br />
William David (14) Undergardener/Domestic (Tom Nott’s father)<br />
Harriett (10) Scholar<br />
George James (6) Scholar (Later to become the photographer of North Mymms)<br />
Eliza Kate (4) Scholar<br />
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<b>1881</b><br />
William Knott (50) Gamekeeper<br />
Rebecca Knott (52) Wife<br />
Eliza Kate (14) Scholar<br />
Mary Matilda (7) Scholar<br />
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<b>1891</b><br />
William Knott (60) Gamekeeper<br />
Rebecca Knott (62) Wife<br />
Mary Matilda (17)<br />
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<b>1901</b><br />
Noah Smith (52) Gamekeeper<br />
Sarah Smith (53) Wife<br />
Frederick (22) Gamekeeper<br />
Lavinia (20) Laundress<br />
Bernard (17) Builders Labourer<br />
Ernest (15) Gardener/ Domestic<br />
Kate (13)<br />
Ethel (8)<br />
Leslie (6)<br />
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<b>1911</b><br />
Noah Smith (62) Gamekeeper<br />
Sarah Smith (64) Wife<br />
Bernard (27) Bricklayer<br />
Ernest William (25) House Painter<br />
Kate (23) Laundress<br />
Ethel Margaret (18) Laundress<br />
Albert Leslie (16) Gardener<br />
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The location of Sheepsheadhall Cottage is edged in green on the map below.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvjVKAUCiR45Ug0p0qACJo4kEMdpiG8ssZpk4BCRYool3lQe2izYcCtJeY2QrZD8J6CtA3mIFPwh4Nv7eG3p-Xh4UhVSCFGS8t6Wj80nTkYz3-hMEIoUpQ8s15A0wgBtWQ3_AgNAtDRB_iYTaWoNizC5zVqguJ1xitH-jfGkBLY3ocqK2NRiLNDGVBw/s550/shhsmall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The site of Sheepsheadhall Cottage is edged in green" border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvjVKAUCiR45Ug0p0qACJo4kEMdpiG8ssZpk4BCRYool3lQe2izYcCtJeY2QrZD8J6CtA3mIFPwh4Nv7eG3p-Xh4UhVSCFGS8t6Wj80nTkYz3-hMEIoUpQ8s15A0wgBtWQ3_AgNAtDRB_iYTaWoNizC5zVqguJ1xitH-jfGkBLY3ocqK2NRiLNDGVBw/s16000/shhsmall.jpg" title="The site of Sheepsheadhall Cottage is edged in green" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The site of Sheepsheadhall Cottage is edged in green</b><br /><i>Map created on Maphub by the NMHP © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap © Maxar<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3Dsfp99lbPQDSzTmfl4XPJWdzlg0iSX3Q4ZTerXZ-pirq9VmX1tgSXAE6Qaf2LXEY5StvVNRDazlfCN2VVa6JtCJpJxQe8QNhvETliHrCN_vTQTeZtRwkZfKPJriJIFv1BIKtcZ896g7pLPW3HlF-3vR1DRbBNyUy6d0-Pbfjc-FzVN9CO6V8ZtozA/s2618/shhbig.jpg" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
We can get an idea of the size and layout of Sheepsheadhall from this drawing courtesy of the Peter Miller Collection.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">William Knott of Sheepsheadhall - gamekeeper at Potterells</h3>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM3GIPDPEVFOfLwC141B_4032hP9rjOz_26T4qSrD3lz-UWN3CXGoC2giBX7sB69GiWlDuzxUapruZRy6Al1dZ7eb8ZMGmG7A80GWS-vC3_gJZeufBcV1Sfb4OTqH_Hw7cad1u57xbX_nK642NAI2fZF67z05xr9-8YwPPxK6H-5DKbiUgLJbgwQK5mA/s550/family.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM3GIPDPEVFOfLwC141B_4032hP9rjOz_26T4qSrD3lz-UWN3CXGoC2giBX7sB69GiWlDuzxUapruZRy6Al1dZ7eb8ZMGmG7A80GWS-vC3_gJZeufBcV1Sfb4OTqH_Hw7cad1u57xbX_nK642NAI2fZF67z05xr9-8YwPPxK6H-5DKbiUgLJbgwQK5mA/s16000/family.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Knott family outside Sheepsheadhall in the late 19th century</b><br /><i>L-R standing William David, Eliza Kate, Mary Matilda, George James<br />Seated William and Rebecca</i><br /><i>J.P. Stephen / Peter Miller Collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Local resident, Tom Nott, <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/reminiscences-of-my-childhood-in-north.html" target="_blank">wrote in 1975</a> about how his grandfather, William Knott, who lived in Sheepsheadhall (see census information for 1871 above) came to be appointed as the gamekeeper at the nearby sub-manor of <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/potterells.html" target="_blank">Potterells</a>. <i>Tom Nott was one of a large family, half being known as Nott and the other half as Knott. Tom can recall no reason for this, but thinks it may be because his father appeared as Nott in a magazine in 1893</i>:
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<i>“My grandfather told me that when he was married, he was gamekeeper at High Cannons, Shenley, next door to the Old Guinea pub at Ridge. He had two sons and three daughters. In due course he heard Mr. Cotton Curtis at Potterells, North Mymms, needed a gamekeeper. He applied, was accepted, and came to live at Sheepshead Hall, Bradmore Lane.
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“His sons were educated in an old workhouse which stood on the same site as the present boys’ school; then the older one worked in the gardens for Mr. Cotton Curtis under the head gardener, Mr. Farren, while the younger George J Knott started as a waiter, later becoming the first photographer in North Mymms.”</i>
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William was a generous man when it came to family and there was always room for one more in Sheepsheadhall. His grandson Tom continues:
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<i>“When the older son was twenty he met the cook at Moffats House, Moffats Lane, and they were to become my parents. My father naturally wanted to better himself before marriage, and so answered an advertisement for a head gardener in Caterham Valley Surrey. He was accepted, and they were married at Croydon Parish Church. A house went with the job, but with certain conditions: Not too many children, and no washing to be hung out in view of the carriage drive.
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“First a son was born, followed by a daughter, then another son, so my parents, to keep the job, brought the baby to his grandparents to be brought up at Sheepshead Hall. But two more daughters came along, so they got notice to quit.”</i>
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William's employer, Cotton Curtis, was a London banker. According to various reports he welcomed locals to visit Potterells at certain times. This from ‘<a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/03/gleanings-of-north-mymms.html" target="_blank">Gleanings of North Mymms</a>’...
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<i>“Many church and Sunday school treats took place in one of their fields, weather permitting, and each child returned home tired but happy, clutching an orange in one hand and a bag of sweets in the other. Beatrix Potter (journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-97) recalls a delightful visit by pony and trap from <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/03/camfield-place-estate-auction-brochure.html" target="_blank">Camfield Place</a>, while staying with her grandparents, to take tea with Mr. and Mrs. Cotton-Curtis.”</i>
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William Knott was good at keeping his growing family busy. Tom Nott remembers how as a small boy his grandad was always keen to enlist their help as unofficial gamekeepers.
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<i>“Grandfather used to send my brother all round Bradmore Fields to drive the pheasants back and report if any poachers were about. Then he would meet up with him at the top of Bradmore Lane.
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“One morning, my brother told him. "Grandad, there’s a man in the pond down there". "You get off to school lad - you don’t want to know anything about that," said my grandfather, and continued down the field.
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“Before reaching the pond he met Mr. Crawford’s shepherd and said, "Bill, there’s a man in the pond, what are you going to do about it?" He replied, "You found him, so you’d better tell the police."</i>
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According to Tom Nott, the dead man was thought to be a jeweller from London who was wearing a gold watch and chain, <i>“but it was not proved and the watch never found, although the pond was drained, so he was buried in the churchyard as an unidentified person.”</i><br /><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDvZT35CSnQb8wtezWnASrbr7wfsy8z5TwYN1dIUb9DZV7j7dqINdOMJF0NqlhzoKrM_VNtCKcEnFDnqZ5UsbW5dWYKyld-ONHwhVV69uCU2kzfJDsx6-GIubyEhxbaqBMiEGey6mzmXR9sEhQZzsA0Or8gSbuQwgWtG9hB6e8XsLKAaksStSZ7Ouow/s830/oldnoah.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Noah Smith of Sheepshead Hall in the 1900s" border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDvZT35CSnQb8wtezWnASrbr7wfsy8z5TwYN1dIUb9DZV7j7dqINdOMJF0NqlhzoKrM_VNtCKcEnFDnqZ5UsbW5dWYKyld-ONHwhVV69uCU2kzfJDsx6-GIubyEhxbaqBMiEGey6mzmXR9sEhQZzsA0Or8gSbuQwgWtG9hB6e8XsLKAaksStSZ7Ouow/s16000/oldnoah.jpg" title="Noah Smith of Sheepshead Hall in the 1900s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>William Knott of Sheepshead Hall in the 1890s</b><br /><i>Image A Nott / G Knott part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Noah Smith of Sheepsheadhall - gamekeeper at Potterells</h3>Noah Smith was one of the last gamekeepers to live at Sheepsheadhall. Like his predecessor, William Knott, Noah sported a lion’s mane beard, wore a bowler hat and breeches, and had his gun dog by his side.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-OmlLth3eMemAZ0Zoh-pauyuVX_hjnUc1Y-HWdNii9Ya829paMTKBA39jlL-ITpzL8YVHQgKmM6mMuIfqXljQGgp4SbcU0g3rYyEM7w4AUfmt2BaNKl-n_5uPLbbNMHL7PlQz7RmpVXzkCo0A3en4kzoYw33ELjWR0J_q3W2QbeemxlmPeRN2GqRmw/s718/noahsmith.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Noah Smith outside Sheepshead Hall in the 1900s" border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-OmlLth3eMemAZ0Zoh-pauyuVX_hjnUc1Y-HWdNii9Ya829paMTKBA39jlL-ITpzL8YVHQgKmM6mMuIfqXljQGgp4SbcU0g3rYyEM7w4AUfmt2BaNKl-n_5uPLbbNMHL7PlQz7RmpVXzkCo0A3en4kzoYw33ELjWR0J_q3W2QbeemxlmPeRN2GqRmw/s16000/noahsmith.jpg" title="Noah Smith outside Sheepshead Hall in the 1900s" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Noah Smith outside Sheepshead Hall in the 1900s</b><br /><i>Image A Nott / G Knott</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Noah, too, had a large family as can be seen in this picture below with Noah, seated, in the middle.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5msfQlM1xfrkICsJfcFQoHiPw5Du0gZmrVlOK1oZGjx1A9et42clNWGVAVlmsGUuKZxWs_3vYO8CW2sY2OlDJdQUH8_PO4JpSOK_zLFEBjDKopu88A2m00rtDbQZhX_N9lTbm1uf27nqkfEztmxRprzwRj3N8wd4IF_00YCzD-KDiUSRoudkvTh8eA/s550/Smithfamulyt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Smith family at Sheepshead Hall c 1900s." border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5msfQlM1xfrkICsJfcFQoHiPw5Du0gZmrVlOK1oZGjx1A9et42clNWGVAVlmsGUuKZxWs_3vYO8CW2sY2OlDJdQUH8_PO4JpSOK_zLFEBjDKopu88A2m00rtDbQZhX_N9lTbm1uf27nqkfEztmxRprzwRj3N8wd4IF_00YCzD-KDiUSRoudkvTh8eA/s16000/Smithfamulyt.jpg" title="The Smith family at Sheepshead Hall c 1900s." /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Smith family at Sheepshead Hall c 1900s. </b><br />Back row: Charles, William, Emma, Nell, Lavinia, Frederick, Bernard. <br />Front row: Kate, Noah, Leslie, Sarah, Ethel<br /><i>Image A Nott / G Knott part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">The decline of Potterells and Sheepsheadhall</h3>
According to archaeological historian John Brushe, Potterells emerged around the fifteenth century as a sub-manor of Brookmans and continued to be attached to Brookmans until 1632 when the reversion was sold to Thomas Coningsby of <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/03/north-mymms-park-short-history.html" target="_blank">North Mymms Park</a>.
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The Coningsbys sold North Mymms Park in 1658, when Potterells became their family seat. In 1792 Potterells was left to Justinian Casamajor and was described as <i>“a small estate of some 200 acres”</i>.
<br /><br />In 1908 Potterells was bought by Hugh Francis Seymour. The Seymours remained at Potterells until 1933 when the house was sold. The house was sold again in 1965 and was demolished in the 1990s.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8HDxJmtnZcaN5T64eddfoTPylgyNCmLhV5KPk8v1MVE-Q4EGK67dHZEfxRXUvy-_jtULSSFuDxaVh4Nk5Ind0GeRoUc1ieCGoKqvapOifAy--c9PPEhctEbb6N01xUUM4io44ZjV7Or-mYZtd2uhyoGiknVKLYiRNji94egsUpntc-tP-hHHIJFICQ/s550/potterelsruins.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Potterells house in ruins in 1970" border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8HDxJmtnZcaN5T64eddfoTPylgyNCmLhV5KPk8v1MVE-Q4EGK67dHZEfxRXUvy-_jtULSSFuDxaVh4Nk5Ind0GeRoUc1ieCGoKqvapOifAy--c9PPEhctEbb6N01xUUM4io44ZjV7Or-mYZtd2uhyoGiknVKLYiRNji94egsUpntc-tP-hHHIJFICQ/s16000/potterelsruins.jpg" title="Potterells house in ruins in 1970" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Potterells house in ruins in 1970<br /></b><i>Image by V Barnard part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The rebuilt lodge at Potterells, now much extended, is now the Potterells Medical Centre on Station Road. Existing outbuildings have been converted into private residences.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFSXFEAgfSqy4Kt3nb4KivufNo9kaUSfTjBW4HsRyq0fU485AP2-I91xLhW-Y80ynU2IM5ZkA9MHgRlVAVD73_W72o0t0b5vXILjrDfa2jpyIRfHE6neeF9yJ7OK2X9CFb62waOqYHs9rhtaJr5hvvAZnT8Aqw1uI_I72nBpE1TgkIJtduPsdJOEukQ/s550/potterellslodge.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Potterells Lodge, replaced by the Seymour family in 1906-08" border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFSXFEAgfSqy4Kt3nb4KivufNo9kaUSfTjBW4HsRyq0fU485AP2-I91xLhW-Y80ynU2IM5ZkA9MHgRlVAVD73_W72o0t0b5vXILjrDfa2jpyIRfHE6neeF9yJ7OK2X9CFb62waOqYHs9rhtaJr5hvvAZnT8Aqw1uI_I72nBpE1TgkIJtduPsdJOEukQ/s16000/potterellslodge.jpg" title="Potterells Lodge, replaced by the Seymour family in 1906-08" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Potterells Lodge, replaced by the Seymour family in 1906-08</b><br /><i>Image courtesy of P Grant / G Knott part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Sheepsheadhall Cottage was demolished in the 1950s. Now, the land where the cottage stood is overgrown. You will find the spot if you head west down Bradmore Lane. The site is a third of a mile from the Station Road junction at the point where the lane bends left, see fist image below.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPcHNf-IsvgRK7YbYF7AuHmxYYOB7mWFwH2sdnVU3JgYC1LD4yW4OBDKEGVZ-W4qhOx5r5v94QRVnxbE-lTKeRyKkqq7cjfakHiuaz3akToZKGcEVl7r5YbBIcYGIF8dDQZ-2voMRqbyPS2_01f0V_UebGVYf0Moh8JTht1AxkY8GP98mE9iGcEtezbg/s550/lane1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sheepheadhall Cottage would have been on the left at the first bend heading west Image by the NMHP part of the Images of North Mymms collection" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPcHNf-IsvgRK7YbYF7AuHmxYYOB7mWFwH2sdnVU3JgYC1LD4yW4OBDKEGVZ-W4qhOx5r5v94QRVnxbE-lTKeRyKkqq7cjfakHiuaz3akToZKGcEVl7r5YbBIcYGIF8dDQZ-2voMRqbyPS2_01f0V_UebGVYf0Moh8JTht1AxkY8GP98mE9iGcEtezbg/s16000/lane1.jpg" title="Sheepheadhall Cottage would have been on the left at the first bend heading west Image by the NMHP part of the Images of North Mymms collection" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sheepsheadhall Cottage would have been on the left at the first bend heading west</b><br /><i>Image by the NMHP part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWePM05VanSKswqm8kGlwxmbEVMV88hQa5IHXAoldUo47A3ZiFauoTfoUmTVaYe6H7WiI-xcN-ZtuAZ1ikBL0ra4WPyVCpVpLZ5CTJbxQ8UiL5UCyBUqJmKq22Gtozfp4Tulbm4FfF48sJhkLqz8uGckB92OhYOvpBtJbNDcZmHmxw1xz_jd7J9CfOQ/s550/lane2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWePM05VanSKswqm8kGlwxmbEVMV88hQa5IHXAoldUo47A3ZiFauoTfoUmTVaYe6H7WiI-xcN-ZtuAZ1ikBL0ra4WPyVCpVpLZ5CTJbxQ8UiL5UCyBUqJmKq22Gtozfp4Tulbm4FfF48sJhkLqz8uGckB92OhYOvpBtJbNDcZmHmxw1xz_jd7J9CfOQ/s16000/lane2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The cottage would have been on the right at the final bend heading east</b><br /><i>Image by the NMHP part of the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Bradmore Ln, Brookmans Park, Hatfield AL9, UK51.7232729 -0.214102823.413039063821152 -35.3703528 80.03350673617885 34.9421472tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-30580026753192893812023-03-07T08:29:00.006+00:002023-03-07T10:01:28.700+00:00Photographs of Gobions brick bridge wanted<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_xXwkjUC5xFUJK8xbMNcMBSFT6tQkrqYLuBPrhpvg3Jb_1B-XB7nGB2GSMPRPHX5qOvG0Zzo5MLUln1ywVC4jDRSCCA5pL9GdoxqDpo1QDYL74lAOV276bmW8vRtFjqtyhp0KrNjUFWD8Boe8sJQ1Cwx-Ef_hPJFC7knNU7Q4oiMcIbQ2Oiv5FuoZg/s550/gobions_bridge.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The bridge at Gobions in 1986 - NMLHS" border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_xXwkjUC5xFUJK8xbMNcMBSFT6tQkrqYLuBPrhpvg3Jb_1B-XB7nGB2GSMPRPHX5qOvG0Zzo5MLUln1ywVC4jDRSCCA5pL9GdoxqDpo1QDYL74lAOV276bmW8vRtFjqtyhp0KrNjUFWD8Boe8sJQ1Cwx-Ef_hPJFC7knNU7Q4oiMcIbQ2Oiv5FuoZg/s16000/gobions_bridge.jpg" title="The bridge at Gobions in 1986 - NMLHS" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The brick bridge at Gobions in 1986 - NMLHS *</b><br /><i>Photograph from the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
Do you have any old photographs of the brick bridge in Gobions Wood, taken before its current ruined state? If you do they might help in the restoration of an important part of the history of North Mymms.
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It's possible the bridge might be restored at some point and it would be great to have some pictures showing what it looked like before it started to crumble.
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We are particularly interested in images pre-1980. We have pictures taken since then, see photograph at the top of the page, but they don't look much different from how it looks now.
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What we are looking for are photographs showing the bridge in a much better state of preservation - which would have to be pretty old.
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The <a href="https://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/" target="_blank">Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust</a> (HMWT) is considering whether (or how) they can repair or restore the bridge and has contacted the <a href="https://hertsgardenstrust.org.uk/" target="_blank">Herts Gardens Trust</a> for advice.
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What's needed now is evidence of how the bridge might have looked when first constructed.
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Unfortunately, all the photographs the NMHP has are of the bridge in its current ruined state - which has been the case for a considerable time.
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If you do have any photographs pre-1980s that show the bridge in a better condition please let us know by using the North Mymms History Project's <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/p/contact.html" target="_blank">contact form</a>. We can then arrange to borrow them, scan them, and pass them on to HMWT.
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Your photographs might help restore an important part of the our local history which dates back to about 1840.
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* The caption of the top of this article mentions the NMLHS, which stands for the former North Mymms Local History Society which folded at the turn of the century.
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Gobions Wood Nature Reserve, Brookmans Park, Hatfield, UK51.715571 -0.182733623.405337163821152 -35.3389836 80.02580483617885 34.9735164tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-80656182666575090092023-03-04T21:30:00.136+00:002023-03-05T07:18:29.599+00:00Maps of south-west North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/101454730" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qz4SxeH5elfJflJ8aLy6TYsTTTeLChTSumhzEMtBQSHhsgHFARUswUcITSWxJ1uRjKuva-LGTcrlIbRVfJYaj_8dAwotG8nD4GO8K9eAFLsO7MBR4l67oqhGf6HTr9dP734mtNSBx2MtIAHNR22JyLia6vmZbJymdalZcJPe9yFmUSjBoN6W8y88_Q/s16000/SWNMtop.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of the North Mymms Park area of the 1899 OS map of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
These three maps are of the south-west area of North Mymms, which include North Mymms Park and the area north of South Mimms, were published in 1899, 1920, and 1938.
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/101454730" target="_blank"><img alt="The south-west of North Mymms on the OS map for 1899" border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcQGFt1iWV3r8YTzhFXYL2S24aIaNJ2RruegWBC2bf_r2ySELpRZ07itOkq4GT34Eiy81znatPbd6cdDwLCHg_upgS_z9boHhoaGXNf6atu1ftwlqWPAxJeaj-73NgoTpFX94s7WGbwjB2teQ0GY-KmbY8nx8Ea_nglncTNwFw3hnfoL4UziY6j-LLQ/s16000/SWNM1898.jpg" title="The south-west of North Mymms on the OS map for 1899" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The south-west of North Mymms on the OS map for 1899</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click on the map to view a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-36264543875432869112023-03-04T21:30:00.135+00:002023-03-05T07:18:05.802+00:00Maps of south-east North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/101454733" target="_blank"><img alt="Detail from the 1898 OS map of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hVXsQfsh72k2SxhSjlt_jmBrcBnJGemJljdf59iJcKbhuf1WnpsRJngUQoh8xk-IlxEUGJDO1u2er8aXL-S_Z2WESRgRQkcPFonmVD1Yx4UC6HNzkMmcgycJ8yTSJoZ5V2VVVzyUSR7V7EUHA4yZ1Hl-43W2tL9JGn1xY7tY7U2Nfl1L59F3yYh8xA/s16000/SENMtop.jpg" title="Detail from the 1898 OS map of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail from the 1898 OS map of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
These four maps are of the south-east area of North Mymms including the area just above South Mimms were published in 1898, 1919, 1938, and 1946.
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-26623388163397753122023-03-04T21:20:00.007+00:002023-03-05T07:04:51.401+00:00Maps of north-west North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/101579655" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9tdspDGwbwnzo94K1NmMv0qczPLpcA5fP3i-azmNGW5L7mszzgvF9qtRTF8JhWu2s0vPt_9FSwY3XO1d6W-OkXAEpZ1y21q2jupC7y4AngrgHGJhYlhImQMP-XcUT8Xl9pRtk51vBE7on7YIssI3iHzqIq-a_rbJmIQJbGO4-sSYxOEYSsmUBrY0J7A/s16000/NMNWtop.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of the Colney Heath area of the 1899 OS map of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1944</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1947</h2>
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These three maps are of the north-east area of North Mymms including Welham Green, Marshmoor, and Bell Bar. They were published in 1883, 1899, and 1925.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1883</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1899</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/101579661" target="_blank"><img alt="The Welham Green area of the 1889 OS map of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7qdfkVo_SbDVsx9UUsN9-CyDamg9jpqFj48zpYdyI3dNHuWBh4mI88KH0zgYCYFnXZC_CvqJJnjYdSEjw37YKLyfKhoclup6zDkvClyHemeN8gIZdpvKOFH69ireSM42orYdJGv6euABUjKPZt6sjwLWKMcQPm0XI9YPeG-MwW63WPKvSw-ioGXdQg/s16000/WGNE1889.jpg" title="The Welham Green area of the 1889 OS map of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The north-east of North Mymms on the OS for 1899</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click on the map to view a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1925</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1902-1906</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1940-1947</h2>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-62374811637343360962023-03-03T12:28:00.008+00:002023-03-04T13:07:14.639+00:00Maps of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657319" target="_blank"><img alt="Detail of the 1935 OS map of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBQ35ZQOvjC0qYzSKRrEagfkEgDidZN6u6Ho3MssO6sb0pVItRxBB-vCtVv2Sh7jXPID-29ZS3mFM9v5l-rfe2pXG7-PrArz5CLIHXn63Msmf8CwV-B3OtECoPNh6FA_IZpDEtBhmaD1G6yZyPpb_PDCjhDIEGZAo8ogYYC8MCHNMeSN97hO_0ocllfw/s16000/mimmshall.jpg" title="Detail of the 1935 OS map of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of the 1935 OS map of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
These four maps are of the south-west area of North Mymms including Redwell Wood and Mymmshall Wood. They were produced in 1896, 1898, 1914, and 1935.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1896</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657319" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1896 OS map of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDjikP2c1VZELNtBeB2MBa64KAP-8VP8ZvTDu6o0oE0Ha2xYkRPM5gBqqx_P8DqURUmgnef-dx-zOOKJhirnub7EYwNnNsUghTCQGgrnoPYJJmS7zvoi-V5HAxiJcMeX8NFSb_appkvns9_tYECcIKXQ1Tv3DpYVv6LEwk5mDgU3vXD8WARZIcG8-ENA/s16000/mh1.jpg" title="The 1896 OS map of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1896 OS map of the Mimmshall Wood area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click on the map above for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1898</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1914</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1935</h2>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Mimms Hall Rd, Potters Bar EN6, UK51.69771 -0.20849623.387476163821155 -35.364746 80.007943836178839 34.947754tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-76096570586530759442023-03-03T12:17:00.014+00:002023-03-04T12:52:56.154+00:00Maps of the Roestock area of North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201404" target="_blank"><img alt="Detail of the 1897 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixYZMLq5AjGHEVGPVmZl8pSW7YIa3EEEE4_Tnzynv4CB06BPkc9cz1VucQGiHBHjaRUmRBfhVY_dpccrjkyytpi2NDY20UkBSklUYua7uK2w5Ba8vdny_fRn9AiRzbanRoKa7vvztKbcVi80FHt0HhsU8pM6t-Eks8Q39Cl9p2-1zYDOWqMEqbsnMpKQ/s16000/rt.jpg" title="Detail of the 1897 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of the 1897 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />These three maps are of the Roestock area of North Mymms. They were produced in 1897, 1924, and 1937.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1897</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201404" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1897 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhccikIRBXrtVftPPH8UIhRk8YSjnM6NbLZZrZbaycmh1_GtSnMBXxoj51Gk0ACGgbzcpw0EAdBVXRzAumIZLZker3xcvxfXUKwG0dofoqdbJY-b-D_adcPXa4U2oBfGW9d_l2cVwJFO_AOwD4tPFyAUiOJM1J4Ifb_cBjLtRfVfyM6OGz8C8iRzWayyw/s16000/r1.jpg" title="The 1897 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1897 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click on the map above for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1924</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201401" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1924 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBBKPvXkFL8gQk3nUbmsTPaEviKsjEFTjM1wTpkpkZiepE2PW077gKnw_dU4rocbI0fZBNIU_N9yJfMoiSTKBZxicSnGsmvzgLqtCcy5reR4Tk9aVklOjUecBZVso5Jla-OfUxpRupp9p6ct9X19eUFqPIBCGI_P5mJNNZzyv8ll0FwVWjBQZFk9anxA/s16000/R2.jpg" title="The 1924 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1924 OS map of the Roestock area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click on the map above for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1937</h2>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0Roestock, St Albans AL4 0PP, UK51.739660000000008 -0.2524223.429426163821162 -35.40867 80.049893836178853 34.90383tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-59725040043299812572023-03-03T12:12:00.008+00:002023-03-04T12:38:11.040+00:00Maps of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201440" target="_blank"><img alt="Detail of the 1898 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzQrwgvUNjgEfBlqvDWYJeoDCg3MWoKKnr9NziRhZxdp9xOWhr6hc_PhHqu8a0RnXU0O6jzaBuaEv4YKWZEwIO1xQV7ZAOH8C6RnChaOzPxZB68MHfAHOjal8HDbUN4_1HfuimsCukOiAnWePZHYjwuijNU7YXIU8YYs4MW-zwIsKrW8AHfYQgB-WVA/s16000/chtop.jpg" title="Detail of the 1898 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of the 1898 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
These three maps are of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms. They were produced in 1898, 1924, and 1937.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1898</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201440" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1898 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb39Fi2_mSIK6wcGzBhZcIzhoG_yPLBqL4PGHvIJMCrNcwlqLxuSVM48xfiB5z3zk7Lt9LQMTjSK957V6wmeVZbw35VirrzD8c_6RbvYWSZS5F-tpSKjO6QSg3e91lzrvyHYIZLCwNQRSzLHEYcR8yZpWdDXP5MYzPksJdK1b_3rPJL0PI59yrCRJhBA/s16000/ch1.jpg" title="The 1898 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1898 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click the map above for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1924</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201437" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1924 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoDeEy09hpj_mA45UITo0niSIv7Lb8HHck5lLS7AKgZEr-SAP7SOGc_aeaS8lulEB97eQFAstUYEAGBNCzZB4pH8sF12YSCQU9C15tLQcRNcSkWlmBucyTHT79uT3HOKWiQk5XaIq-x5Spa3Nq0vH-ZGbiHBfpzbXcoQWRS3OuHUrcEWKCwk-agm67hg/s16000/CH2.jpg" title="The 1924 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1924 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click the map above for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1937</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201434" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1937 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAK7pdC8P8Yvww7FKA7voBblmJfO_ZMw5XoezUKYgBCAmhFd4U_QeOepkQZwoziODlBVHb8nkFauSNYWHHnQmtGammxO3QfmZN-misYCtMR9Pjc94IlMFl7GlVvbGGG7pJERkpg-Wkq2Bp3iZt8jBHStl64S_bS3f2z6ysUdCaaEcRnJ_LdrLbgQROMw/s16000/ch3.jpg" title="The 1937 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1937 OS map of the Colney Heath area of North Mymms</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click the map above for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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These three maps are of the North Mymms Park area. They were produced in 1896, 1914, and 1935.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1896</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1914</h2>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/104201827" target="_blank"><img alt="The 1914 OS map of the North Mymms Park area" border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XLu2zToVR0JaS7x7rMvItkcDF7mEqSoDsJ61oFoF0erodij79AJ5M4NEKadxwgHcAFZsUrpctyo10OBHHlxlnCpqRBpfIO0iO3aKZ0Hn8D5ncFBkza3NDgwQlgAD5WkaiJ980y-MTlvSOxBD3MHBCCuXuro2AQEAAzoZm2sz6h0z6iqvVsWYnI6xuw/s16000/nmp2.jpg" title="The 1914 OS map of the North Mymms Park area" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1914 OS map of the North Mymms Park area</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland<br />Click on the map for a larger version</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1935</h2>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0North Mymms Park, Off Tollgate Rd, Brookmans Park, Hatfield AL9 7TR, UK51.7266761 -0.238450923.416442263821153 -35.3947009 80.036909936178844 34.9177991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-73926785493111990982023-03-03T11:57:00.012+00:002023-03-09T15:33:29.565+00:00Maps of the Little Heath area of North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphDxx4HgO-miq8nJpS3fjBfwbW4iE5_bOcp6AKMhnUWM5yMaPKnTB1-Zw2EAN3A_YOPKnCJchLYjLbS0EETmWJ_jzbWKmUOrXILEkF5ayM5S7gID5n0AdAZpImaWMyKmBD-MTKRH0N49FeKX-Rmp5uAfSAtkgRCrQSQsFi3JQTk2fTEsp-mDAYS23rg/s550/lh.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The 1935 OS map of the Little Heath area of North Mymms" border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphDxx4HgO-miq8nJpS3fjBfwbW4iE5_bOcp6AKMhnUWM5yMaPKnTB1-Zw2EAN3A_YOPKnCJchLYjLbS0EETmWJ_jzbWKmUOrXILEkF5ayM5S7gID5n0AdAZpImaWMyKmBD-MTKRH0N49FeKX-Rmp5uAfSAtkgRCrQSQsFi3JQTk2fTEsp-mDAYS23rg/s16000/lh.jpg" title="The 1935 OS map of the Little Heath area of North Mymms" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The 1935 OS map of Little Heath</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
These two maps are of the Little Heath area of North Mymms. They were produced in 1914 and 1935.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1913</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1914</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1935</h2>
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<hr /></div>brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0School Rd, Potters Bar EN6 1JW, UK51.7057574 -0.174677423.395523563821158 -35.3309274 80.015991236178849 34.9815726tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-38204308367769350172023-03-03T11:48:00.006+00:002023-03-04T11:49:01.680+00:00Maps of the Bell Bar area of North Mymms<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAnBQUBBmlLuJO-xnBFDaKqE-3ozH3NibxNyo-t8qmm9Z3w60DZRdtO0RJs8GqAxQtidXAd__9nITUn793GEBwDIKo6tORwvoSYRtBeoJEnr86WcB3nJoWBa8z2OL2gbJGfQ9LHapY386KRY6jav3Ri8yA2YUZFvCfqDOn0xWvQTdzVNWwaHYEnYLjbw/s550/bbtop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Detail of the 1898 OS map of the Bell Bar area" border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAnBQUBBmlLuJO-xnBFDaKqE-3ozH3NibxNyo-t8qmm9Z3w60DZRdtO0RJs8GqAxQtidXAd__9nITUn793GEBwDIKo6tORwvoSYRtBeoJEnr86WcB3nJoWBa8z2OL2gbJGfQ9LHapY386KRY6jav3Ri8yA2YUZFvCfqDOn0xWvQTdzVNWwaHYEnYLjbw/s16000/bbtop.jpg" title="Detail of the 1898 OS map of the Bell Bar area" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Detail of the 1898 OS map of the Bell Bar area</b><br /><i>Map courtesy of the Royal Library of Scotland</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1898</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1924</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1938</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1914</h2>
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These three maps are of the Brookmans Park and Water End area of North Mymms. They were produced in 1896, 1914, and 1935.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1896</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1898</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">1924</h2>
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<hr />brewerukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13449727123903424041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849220738921584766.post-44465458654609755102023-03-02T07:24:00.007+00:002023-03-02T07:27:59.061+00:00Welham Green Dixons Hill Road from 1899<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqJajUm63UVS7sFneSyC90DoI9vyblb40rdi6OUfbSZ8KjhHKLjUNKhZ7r6oHcj9wcOe2zNiJ6YRQECcWC12q5QuuS7R07F4SJD7mi8lJEUF6GcB8uHAzSC5zsyU55hJglPzBtWcsf9STkBggZ1nc3H6UFaQEzAS9hLU4tGNVVHIBRl3b9XFRN0NmFw/s550/Welham%20Green%20Roads.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Photographs of Welham Green Dixons Hill Road area since 1899" border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqJajUm63UVS7sFneSyC90DoI9vyblb40rdi6OUfbSZ8KjhHKLjUNKhZ7r6oHcj9wcOe2zNiJ6YRQECcWC12q5QuuS7R07F4SJD7mi8lJEUF6GcB8uHAzSC5zsyU55hJglPzBtWcsf9STkBggZ1nc3H6UFaQEzAS9hLU4tGNVVHIBRl3b9XFRN0NmFw/s16000/Welham%20Green%20Roads.jpeg" title="Photographs of Welham Green Dixons Hill Road area since 1899" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Photographs of Welham Green Dixons Hill Road area since 1899</b><br /><i>Slideshow created from the Images of North Mymms collection</i></td></tr></tbody></table>
The following slideshow is made up of 46 photographs from the <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/images-of-north-mymms.html" target="_blank">Images of North Mymms collection</a> recording the history of the area. This selection includes photographs of the Dixons Hill Road area of Welham Green dating back to 1899.
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The following slideshow is made up of 28 photographs from the <a href="https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/images-of-north-mymms.html" target="_blank">Images of North Mymms collection</a> recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of the roads in Brookmans Park dating back to the 1930s.
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