People

Read about the people of Hatfield and their memories and impressions of the town.

A Hatfield Family
My parents, George Nelson Cross ( known as ‘Sandy’) and Mollie Adelaide Cross married in Hendon in 1933 and moved ...
A Schoolboy's Impressions of Mill Green and Hatfield For the years 1938 - 1943
By Reg Colman
Beatrix Potter in Hertfordshire
Beatrix's grandparents lived at Camfield Place in Essendon. Beatrix described Camfield as the "place I love best in....
Fred Titmus' sweet shop
Do you remember buying sweets?
Going Back (to Hatfield) by Jennie Stockbridge
Going Back Some time ago I returned to Hatfield after an absence of forty years. I decided to take a look ...
Happy Days
This photo was taken c.1950 on the front step at No.3 Dellfield Road. From left to right Keith Tott, Laura ...
Lieutenant Rupert Edward Gascoyne-Cecil
On the 11 July 1915, 2nd Lieutenant Rupert Edward Gascoyne-Cecil was killed in action....
Lord Salisbury's Secretary
Extract from "An Incorrigable Worker" Available in the Mill Green Museum Resources Room
Memories of Bryan McCoy
I have lived in Hatfield since I was 6 months old. I was in the Gun Cottage behind The Gun ...
Memories of Hatfield by Rosemary Marshall (nee Ewington)
Memories of Hatfield – 1931 to 1953 I was born in 1928 at the Corner House, French Horn Lane so the ...
Memories of Peggy Allcroft
Peggy’s background Peggy was born in 1933 in 2 Chapmans Terrace. When she was two, Peggy’s family moved to Crawford Road. ...
Rifleman Harry Ernest Ewington.
Harry joined the Herts. and Beds.Regiment in May 1916. He was stationed at Ampthill, Bedfordshire until he was....
The Coming of Age of Viscount Cranborne 1914
Up to the outbreak of war, the people of Hatfield were looking forward to celebrating the coming of age of ...
Vic in Haelleforsnaes
Well Here I am. thousands of kilometers from home with a whole family.Born in Bushey, and raised in Hatfield
When Hollywood came to Hatfield
The film also featured a well-known actor from Hertfordshire, Michael Hordern who was born in Berkhamsted....
Memories of Roe Green (2)
The first time we walked along Roe Green Lane in 1937 in search of a house to buy my eyes could not find