Welham Green Dixons Hill Road from 1899

Photographs of Welham Green Dixons Hill Road area since 1899
Slideshow created from the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 46 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes photographs of the Dixons Hill Road area of Welham Green dating back to 1899.

Brookmans Park roads since the 1930s

Photographs of Brookmans Park roads since the 1930s
Slideshow created from the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 28 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of the roads in Brookmans Park dating back to the 1930s.

Welham Green and Marshmoor railway history

Royal Lancer 60107 at the railway footpath crossing in 1963
Photograph by R.Kingdon, part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 57 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of rail traffic through Marshmoor and Welham Green.

Brookmans Park Station - opening and early use

Brookmans Park Station opening 1926
Image from the NMLHS part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 66 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of the opening of Brookmans Park Station in 1926 and some of the early rail traffic through the station.

Welham Green Station construction and opening

The first train at Welham Green Station on 29 September 1986
Photograph by R. Kingdon - part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 30 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of the construction and opening of Welham Green Station in 1986.

Welham Green schools - pupils and staff

Welham Green Boys School in the 1890s
Image P. Nash part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 54 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of the pupils and staff of schools in Welham Green dating back to the 19th century.

Welham Green schools - buildings

Welham Green Boys School in the 1930s
Image E. Bailey / P. Miller, part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 16 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of the schools in Welham Green over the last 100 years.

Buses and coaches serving North Mymms

London to Brookmans Park Cream Line route pre WWII
Image courtesy P Miller part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 56 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of buses and coaches serving North Mymms over the years.

North Mymms pubs

The Old Maypole, Water End 1960s
Photograph Peter Miller, part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 53 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection includes images of pubs in Bell Bar, Water End, Welham Green, and Brookmans Park.

North Mymms Bowls Club

North Mymms Bowls Club Women's team 1980s
Picture B. Duggan, part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of 18 photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection depicts the activities of the North Mymms Bowls Club which is still going strong today.

Women's organisations in North Mymms

North Mymms WI choir
Image courtesy of M. Lovell, part of the Images of North Mymms Collection

The following slideshow is made up of photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection depicts the activities of the various women's organisations in North Mymms in the late 20th century.

North Mymms Football Club

North Mymms Football Club 1900s
Image B Hickson - part of the Images of North Mymms Collection

The following slideshow is made up of photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection of 13 images depicts North Mymms Football Club over the years.

Farming in North Mymms

Haymaking in 1898
Image G.G. Scott / P Nash - part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection of 31 photographs depicts the farming over more than 100 years.

North Mymms Cricket Club

North Mymms Cricket Club circa 1910
Image courtesy of NMCC and is part of the Images of North Mymms Collection

The following slideshow is made up of photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection of 37 photographs depicts North Mymms Cricket Club over the years.

Amateur dramatics in North Mymms

WI Review "Daily Ladies" 1967
Image M Lovell, part of the Images of North Mymms collection

The following slideshow is made up of photographs from the Images of North Mymms collection recording the history of the area. This selection of 23 photographs depicts the various amateur dramatics groups in North Mymms over the years and features The Mimmers, the North Mymms Dramatics Society, and the WI Review.

Who Was Dixon of Dixon’s Hill?

Original route of Dixon's Hill
Ordnance Survey 25 inch to the mile map, revised 1896 and published 1898
Image courtesy of the National Library of Scotland 

Before the existing road layout and the construction of the A1(M), Dixons Hill Road used to continue along what is now Dixons Hill Close, and was formerly known just as Dixon’s Hill. When the A1(M) was constructed in the 1970s, a new flyover was built, and Dixons Hill Road was diverted to its current route, resulting in part of the old road becoming a cul-de-sac, and being renamed Dixons Hill Close.

Assessing the true age of Folly Arch

Is it 200 years older than previously thought?

The Folly Arch, Hawkshead Road, Swanley Bar, North Mymms
Image taken August 2018 by the North Mymms History Project
Released under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0

Folly Arch was thought to have been built around 1740 for Sir Jeremy Sambrooke of Gobions.

But North Mymms History Project archivist, historian Peter Miller, has questioned this and asks whether it could have been built 200 years earlier.

Discovering the 1527 altarpiece of Saint Thomas More

Local historians identify and track down early 16th-century mantelpiece 

The 1527 carved oak chimneypiece
Image from the Peter Miller collection

Introduction to an exciting piece of historical detective work

In 1930, a carved oak Tudor chimneypiece that originated in More Hall, North Mymms, the Hertfordshire home of the father of Sir Thomas More almost 500 years ago, was sold to a buyer in Birkenhead.

It’s believed the item once stood above a small stone altar in a room where Sir Thomas, who was canonised in 1935 as Saint Thomas More, the patron saint of lawyers, would pray.

Brookmans Park shops in 1994

Bradmore Green at the end of the 20th century 

The following slideshow contains 49 photographs of the shops in Brookmans Park as they were in August 1994. The pictures were taken by local photographer Norman Akers and were commissioned by the former North Mymms Local History Society (NMLHS). They are part of the Images of North Mymms collection. Click on the three dots below the slideshow to find the option to view full screen (recommended).

Welham Green shops over the past 100 years

A shopping trip down memory lane 

 

The following slideshow features photographs of some of the shops that have served customers in Welham Green from the early 20th century. They have been uploaded from the Images of North Mymms collection. Images that are not part of that collection are captioned accordingly. Click on the three dots below the slideshow to find the option to view full screen (recommended).