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This frequently included news of Hertfordshire interest, often with useful engravings, at a time when pictures of any kind were virtually unknown in locally produced papers.
Gilston Park, 1851
Distructive Fire at Watford, 1853
Watford Horticultural and Floricultural Show, 1855
New Laboratory for J B Lawes at Rothamsted, Harpenden, 1855
Visit of the Shah of Persia to Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire, 1889
The following articles are known but have not been seen
| 1844 July 27th | 'Country News' includes Extraordinary and Shocking Accident at Aylesbury, death of a bull on the Tring Train |
| 1844 November 16th | 'Country News' with reference to John Richards aged 110 at the Tring Agricultural Association, a native of Broad Cliffs in Devonshire |
| 1877 June 23rd | Investiture of the new Bishop of St Albans. |
| 1889 July 20th | The Shah of Persia in England - ' The Shah at Earl Brownlow's - Ashridge House Berkhampsted Herts - - - Planting a Tree on the Lawn ' |
The magazine has been digitised and is available through subscriber organisations. [Link]
It is available online (in some cases from your home computer, in other only at library terminals) to members of many UK public libraries
If you can add to the information given above tell me.
Page updated April 2012
