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A growing collection of books, features, images, documents, and maps, collected, curated, and presented by a team of local volunteers keen to preserve the history of North Mymms
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Welham Green when "everyone just about knew everyone else"

The Water Cross, Welham Green 1900s
The Water Cross, Welham Green 1900s
Photograph by G Knott, part of the Peter Miller Collection
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 "everyone just about knew everyone else".