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Post from the past
9:35am Friday 5th September 2008
Last week’s confirmation of the closure of Elstree post office forms yet another chapter in the turbulent history of the service in the area.
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8:39am Friday 29th August 2008
Straddling the border between Elstree and Boreham-wood, the popular Allum Lane Community Centre has been providing services to residents since 1951.
To the manor forlorn
8:46am Friday 22nd August 2008
With news that houses are to be built on the former site of a 150-year-old manor, JANAKI MAHADEVAN talks to the last owner of the historic building.
Working the land
3:45pm Tuesday 5th August 2008
Nestled between the main high street of Radlett and village of Letchmore Heath, lies 260 acres of land which comprises Battlers Green Farm.
A long way from home
7:49pm Wednesday 30th July 2008
More than 4,100 miles away, in Gallatin, Tenn-essee, former Elstree resident Dave Miller recently found some photographs from his past.
Crossing paths with history
9:22am Friday 18th July 2008
When refugees arrived in their thousands from war-torn Vietnam in the Seventies, Joyce Comber was working as a volunteer for the Red Cross group in Borehamwood.
Crossing paths with history
4:50pm Thursday 17th July 2008
When refugees arrived in their thousands from war-torn Vietnam in the Seventies, Joyce Comber was working as a volunteer for the Red Cross group in Borehamwood.
A trip down marathon lane
1:40pm Tuesday 8th July 2008
With the Olympics due to arrive on British shores in 2012 SARAH EDWARDS finds out about the crucial role Borehamwood, Elstree and Shenley played last time London hosted the games
Trouble under the bonnet
11:30am Friday 4th July 2008
The sound of clunking spanners and revving motor engines are noises people have come to expect at Borehamwood's oldest industrial estate.
The good doctor writes a thriller
11:29am Wednesday 25th June 2008
Dr John Marks autobiography charts his career from his graduation day in 1948 through to helping raise awareness of AIDS in the Eighties, as SURUCHI SHARMA reports
Fond memories on Fair Field's 50th
4:56pm Wednesday 18th June 2008
A Radlett primary school celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. JOSIE ENSOR finds out how its teaching methods have changed since 1958.
Keeping it green for decades
3:07pm Tuesday 3rd June 2008
The phrase Green Belt has rarely been out of the headlines since the term was first introduced in 1935.
A phenomenal 90 years
3:31pm Tuesday 27th May 2008
The Women's Institute (WI) has certainly moved on from its days of jam-making and handicrafts.
We'll meet again
5:34pm Monday 19th May 2008
When RAF veterans Norman Orbell and Jack Mendoza lost contact at the end of the Second World War, the two friends thought they were destined never to meet again.
In search of a Queen of Herts
9:46am Thursday 1st May 2008
With the May Day bank holiday approaching, people will be looking forward to a day of rest and recuperation and a break from the daily rigours of work.
If these walls could talk it would be a long chat
10:27am Tuesday 22nd April 2008
A building in Theobald Street that was recently left off a list of the boroughs important places has been home to several milestones. Bonnie Friend looks at the history of Borehamwoods first school
The grass roots of society
3:29pm Monday 14th April 2008
As spring struggles to emerge, Janaki Mahadevan looks at the blooming history of garden societies in the borough.
Historian remembers 'lost' post offices
10:26am Wednesday 19th March 2008
Rural post offices across Hertsmere will find out later this year whether they will be shut as part of a programme of closures nationally.
School goes back to the future
1:00pm Thursday 13th March 2008
This week Monksmead Primary School celebrates its 50th anniversary with a week of Fifties style events looking back at its development from an infant school built on cheap farming land to its current status as an award-winning primary.
Place of eternal rest disrupted
3:53pm Tuesday 4th March 2008
Elstree has been home to Allum Lane cemetery for more than 45 years, but vandalism has left it in a state never seen before by the families of those buried there.
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Petrol station stab victim named
Updated 1:52am Sunday 7th September 2008
A 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in the street has been named by police.
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