Author: Hemel Hempstead Local History and Records Society
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
History of Hemel Hempstead
Author: Hemel Hempstead Local History and Records Society
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Hemel Hempstead History Tour
Author: Eve Davis
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445641879
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
A guided tour of this historic town, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445641879
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
A guided tour of this historic town, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries.
Hemel Hempstead
Author: Eve Davis
Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780752401676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This excellent collection of over 400 old photographs of Hemel Hempstead was originally published as two volumes in the popular Archive Photographs Series and is now available bound as a single volume. The fascinating sequence of photographs forms an important pictorial record of the town's streets, buildings and people as they experienced the changes of more than eighty years, from the nineteenth century to the late 1960s.
Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780752401676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This excellent collection of over 400 old photographs of Hemel Hempstead was originally published as two volumes in the popular Archive Photographs Series and is now available bound as a single volume. The fascinating sequence of photographs forms an important pictorial record of the town's streets, buildings and people as they experienced the changes of more than eighty years, from the nineteenth century to the late 1960s.
History of Hemel Hempstead
Author: Susan Yaxley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Hertfordshire Valley
Author: Scott Hastie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952863106
Category : Hertfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952863106
Category : Hertfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Boy From Treacle Bumstead
Author: Ken Sears
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471113582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors. Ken Sears was born in 1934 to a poor farming family in Hertfordshire - the fifth child of what would be eleven. He learns how to fend for himself at an early age. His boyhood life coincides with wartime, evacuees and American GIs arriving in his home town of Hemel Hempstead (the 'Treacle Bumpstead' of the title). At the age of nine he is caught stealing eggs and accused of killing a chicken (which he denies to this day) and is sent to reform school for five years. So begins a punishing existence, but it breeds a tough teenager, and after learning the trade of bricklaying he is called up to do his National Service in 1952. So begins his adventures in the Army, in Europe and Korea, where the ever-plucky Ken - who has an eye for the ladies and is always landing himself in trouble - finds not-always legal ways to make life that bit easier. After the Army he comes back to England and sets up a building business. From there he sees his home town change out of all recognition. The story is a characterful testament to the resourceful generation of the men who did National Service, fought wars, built towns and stood up to everything in their way. Ken's story reads like 'Commando Comics meets Fred Dibnah'.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471113582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors. Ken Sears was born in 1934 to a poor farming family in Hertfordshire - the fifth child of what would be eleven. He learns how to fend for himself at an early age. His boyhood life coincides with wartime, evacuees and American GIs arriving in his home town of Hemel Hempstead (the 'Treacle Bumpstead' of the title). At the age of nine he is caught stealing eggs and accused of killing a chicken (which he denies to this day) and is sent to reform school for five years. So begins a punishing existence, but it breeds a tough teenager, and after learning the trade of bricklaying he is called up to do his National Service in 1952. So begins his adventures in the Army, in Europe and Korea, where the ever-plucky Ken - who has an eye for the ladies and is always landing himself in trouble - finds not-always legal ways to make life that bit easier. After the Army he comes back to England and sets up a building business. From there he sees his home town change out of all recognition. The story is a characterful testament to the resourceful generation of the men who did National Service, fought wars, built towns and stood up to everything in their way. Ken's story reads like 'Commando Comics meets Fred Dibnah'.
History of Hemel Hempstead
Author: Hemel Hempstead Local History and Records Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780950274317
Category : Hemel Hempstead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780950274317
Category : Hemel Hempstead (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Endless Web
Author: Joan Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dickinson (John) & Co. Ltd
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A history of a firm of paper makers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dickinson (John) & Co. Ltd
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A history of a firm of paper makers.
A Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles Gross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Newtown Naughty Boy
Author: Richard Blackshire
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326289683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A mix of social history and the funny, wild adventures of a boy growing up in the new town of Hemel Hempstead through the post-war 1950s to the disco era of the 1970s: anecdotes about how things were then. Discover what our schooling was like then, how he played freely in the open fields, who the odd numbers were, and why he had an obsession with science fiction and airguns. These are the Salad days of the Newtown Naughty Boy.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326289683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A mix of social history and the funny, wild adventures of a boy growing up in the new town of Hemel Hempstead through the post-war 1950s to the disco era of the 1970s: anecdotes about how things were then. Discover what our schooling was like then, how he played freely in the open fields, who the odd numbers were, and why he had an obsession with science fiction and airguns. These are the Salad days of the Newtown Naughty Boy.