For enquiries re Dacorum’s history, anything displayed on this site, or to submit an article, email: enquiries@dacorumhistory.net 

Please ensure you include your own contact details, and any other relevant information such as local history societies you belong to.

Or if you would prefer, use the form on the CONTACT page.


 

         

If you are knowledgeable in some aspect of Dacorum’s history & would like to submit an article for this website, please contact me via the Contact Page  with brief details, and I will mail you back with my e-mail & home  address, and telephone number.

 

Finished articles can be up to 3,000 words in length, and you may include several photos/images which can be submitted either electronically or by sending me a hard copy to scan. I prefer the text to be sent to me as a Word, or basic text document, but typed copy is also acceptable as I can easily scan it.  I regret for the time-being at least, I do not have the time to transcribe handwritten entries.

 

 

 I also request a photograph, preferably portrait, of the author, plus a short biography. (See my entry on Leverstock Green as an example). This is to ensure every aithor is given full and proper credit for their item, for whoch they retain full copyright.  No one's personal e-mail address will be published on the site, unless specifically requested, so as to reduce the likelyhood of spam and junk mail.

 

I shall look forward to hearing from you

 

Barbara Chapman 

 

 

 


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DID YOU GO TO WESTWICK SCHOOL, LEVERSTOCK GREEN?

 

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An on-line magazine of articles and other relevant information concerning the history of the Borough of Dacorum in Hertfordshire, UK. This website is being developed with the approval of Dacorum Heritage Trust, and is intended to compliment the Trust's own website. It is sponsored by the Friends of Dacorum Museum.

 

TO VIEW THE ARTICLES CLICK ON THE NAVIGATION TABS AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, OR SELECT "CONTENTS".

 

To ensure accuracy as far as possible, the articles are written by the Borough’s numerous local historians, archaeologists, archivists, or others with a keen interest in, and knowledge of, the area’s heritage.

 

 

In developing this site I hope to give the reader a taste of the very extensive and varied heritage to be found within the Borough of Dacorum.

 

To find out even more, there is large and varied number of volumes of books produced on the area’s history, many of which are still available for purchase, and most of which are available from the local libraries. Detailed lists of pubications can be found by clicking on the two Publications tabs above.

 

I would hope too, that Borough residents, on finding out more about their locality,  may wish to become more involved by joining one of the many Local History Societies, perhaps be encouraged to join The  Friends of Dacorum Museum , go on a Tour of our Heritage Store, or possibly volunteer to help in a practical way at the Dacorum Heritage Trust’s Museum Store, or by visiting and possibly volunteering at the Borough’s other heritage sites,such as the Apsley Paper Trail,Berkhamsted Castleand once it is up and running, Tring Museum.

 

My especial thanks to Mike Stanyon for his help in pointing out the odd error & omission (now corrected I hope!) and for several constructive criticisms, which I hope have led to improvements on this site.

 

                                             Barbara Chapman

 


CALLING ALL GRANDPARENTS!

 

In this year of the book, I decided to write a small book for my granddaughter telling her of what it was like when I was a little girl growing up in my case on the Isle of Wight and in Surrey.

 

I would like to challenge the Grandparents & Great-Grandparents of Dacorum to do the same, i.e. write a letter or short story for their Grandchildren telling them of what it was like growing up; what their town or village was like and the things they had and did which are different to now, and the items we have now and take for granted, which we didn’t have when we were young children.

 

[For example as a 4 year old I had a ration book for certain items, I played marbles in the gutter of our road with my friends (cars were few and far between), and the only persons I knew who had a telephone were our Doctor and Dentist. My paternal grandparents had a phone installed when I was about 4, and they had to share their phone line with someone else.  We had no car until I was about 7, and that was my grandfather’s ancient sit-up and beg Morris which he was no longer able to drive.  My mother didn’t have a washing machine of any kind until I was about 8, and that was a twin tub.  And we were the first of all my friends to have central heating installed just before the big freeze in the early 1960’s and prior to that I can remember having to get dressed, shivering, in front of the dining room fire of a morning, with my clothes draped over a clothes horse to warm them.]

 

Once you have written your letter or short story, and attached any relevant images to it, please post it to lghistorian@btinternet.com or enquiries@dacorumhistory.net together with your name, and contact details,  and I will then post it on this website.  Hopefully over time, this will then  build-up into a useful collection, painting a picture of life in Dacorum before our present high tech age and instant and mass communication.

                         Barbara Chapman (PS, yes its me in the pigtails!)


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