Welham Green From 1900-1953

Changes in half a century

by Mrs Rosie Simmonds written in 1953

The Village Institute, North Mymms 1900s
Image taken by G Knott, from the Peter Miller collection

I was born in Welham Green, left at the age of ten, and returned 52 years later. Our old house has been demolished and the site occupied by the Men's Institute. The fresh water tank is still there, having acquired a new lid. The well on the green, from which no doubt the village took its name, has been decapitated and its top covered by a concrete slab.