Topic ID 1930
Loved the new pictures.The one thing that stood out for me was that there was some fantastic buildings in Hertford all those years ago. The most obvious was the picture of Kingsmead school in ware rd before the police station was built. Must have been some brilliant Architects and builders in Hertford all those years ago.[:)]
Reply ID 24652
The old cinema looked great - just like a cinema should. I moved to the area only a few months before it was demolished so unfortunately never got the chance to visit.
Reply ID 24653
quote:It was the best cinema ever. I saw Sinbad, The Eye of the Tiger and Clash of the Titans there just before it closed.
Originally posted by Leo Densian
The old cinema looked great - just like a cinema should. I moved to the area only a few months before it was demolished so unfortunately never got the chance to visit.
Reply ID 24659
I think it's really depressing when one looks at the photo of Kingsmead School in its heyday and then compares that with the monstrosity that is the Police Station and the cramped conditions of Wheatcroft School that anyone in the council (district, town, county or whatever) saw fit to allow that building to be demolished. The other pictures also only go to show what Hertford was like in its prime before the planners started to rip out its soul (and I can see a difference even only having lived here for 12 years)....
Reply ID 24671
The sadist thing to happen to Hertford was Gascoyne way! It ripped through the heart of the town cutting many of the old roads (Queens road, London road, West street to name a few) in half and wiping out for many beautiful buildings (Houses, Inns, shops etc...) even the grave yard of All Saints suffered. It’s the price we pay for the modern times if suppose but I’d love to go back and see what it used to be like before, say 150 years ago.
Reply ID 24701
quote:Did anyone use to go to the cinema on a Saturday morning to watch the kids movies and shows..Brings back memories
Originally posted by Leo Densian
The old cinema looked great - just like a cinema should. I moved to the area only a few months before it was demolished so unfortunately never got the chance to visit.
Reply ID 24706
I did! It was great.
Reply ID 24757
quote:It was and it was one of the saddest too.
Originally posted by bec501uk
The sadist thing to happen to Hertford was Gascoyne way!
Reply ID 24766
quote:I can remember sitting with the girlfriend in the back row when I was maybe sixteen years old. Couldn't tell you what the film was about though[:I][:I]
Originally posted by hertford born and bredquote:Did anyone use to go to the cinema on a Saturday morning to watch the kids movies and shows..Brings back memories
Originally posted by Leo Densian
The old cinema looked great - just like a cinema should. I moved to the area only a few months before it was demolished so unfortunately never got the chance to visit.
Reply ID 24775
I saw "Jaws" and "Grease" at County Cinema when I was about 7 or 8 ! Was a sad day when they pulled it down. It looked, as mentioned earlier, as a cinema should. Ahh the nostalgia......
Reply ID 24895
I saw Clash of the Titans with about ten friends right down the front - Halycon days!
Reply ID 25020
I didn't live here at the time, but I was told that there was a delightful area to the side of Bluecoats with a little green and a chapel. Presently it appears to be occupied by a hangar full of competitively priced groceries.
Reply ID 25026
Whilst I feel it's appropriate to air what 'I've been told' (it saves having independent thought, yada yada). 'I was told' that the siting of Gascoyne Way required the re-siting of graves from, errm, St John's is it? churchyard. It deliciously evokes ideas of building a town on an old 'Red Indian burial ground'. That would explain the car park. Though where they get their ideas for their tariffs is probably from a seance..... Y...E....S....
Reply ID 25487
quote:You can see where All Saints grounds once started just by looking at the gate at the end of Church Street, Gascoyne Way has a gate on either side of it, clearly indicated that the road cuts through land once belonging to the Church.
Originally posted by Ian Ozenthroat
Whilst I feel it's appropriate to air what 'I've been told' (it saves having independent thought, yada yada). 'I was told' that the siting of Gascoyne Way required the re-siting of graves from, errm, St John's is it? churchyard. It deliciously evokes ideas of building a town on an old 'Red Indian burial ground'. That would explain the car park. Though where they get their ideas for their tariffs is probably from a seance..... Y...E....S....
Reply ID 25543
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Originally posted by Ian Ozenthroat
Whilst I feel it's appropriate to air what 'I've been told' (it saves having independent thought, yada yada). 'I was told' that the siting of Gascoyne Way required the re-siting of graves from, errm, St John's is it? churchyard. It deliciously evokes ideas of building a town on an old 'Red Indian burial ground'. That would explain the car park. Though where they get their ideas for their tariffs is probably from a seance..... Y...E....S....
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Originally posted by Steve
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Reply ID 25553
Do not feed the troll
Reply ID 25625
Message for Steve. Someone called Craig has posted on 'Wareonline' to show a picture of Crib Street in two stages - how it was then, and how it is now, using the exact same positioning. Do your creative talents extend to this? It would be great to see some of your old and new pictures in this type of format. For those who are confused as to what I mean, look at the link below and click the top left hand button within the picture to toggle between old and new. Very clever. http://www.wareonline.co.uk/in.pictures/tweeningphotos.html
Reply ID 25630
WOW!! Very nice use of Flash ..........