Web Sites of Interest

North Hertfordshire Museums

http://www.north-herts.gov.uk/index/discover_nhdc/art_culture_and_heritage.htm

Note: the original link has changed and the following description is no longer accurate

This site contains details of the Hitchin Museum and the Letchworth Museum.

The Hitchin Museum site has the following research resources

Local county and town maps 1607-1970

Local newspapers and scrapbooks

Photographic prints of streets, buildings and social gatherings

Other assorted information on local clubs, societies, religious groups, public utilities, local government, overseers rate books, diaries, educational history, pamphlets, prescription books, military and fire brigade documents.

It also has several downloadable files including the Hitchin entry of the 1794 Universal British Directory

Hollow Lane (buildings demolished in 1930's), Hitchin, by E A Phipson

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