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Topic ID 5968
12/05/2011 by Rachel
Doomsday
Here's what the BBC Doomsday project said about Hertford in 1986. I clicked on some of the written accounts, they are very dull! And obviously Spellcheck wasn't invented in 1986.
Anybody care to update it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-532000-210000
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Reply ID 81183
12/05/2011 by james
Spellcheckers were scarce in 1986, but ten a penny in 2011. It's Domesday.
Reply ID 81184
12/05/2011 by codek2
wow that site is brilliant, thanks!
Reply ID 81185
12/05/2011 by Rachel
Actually, maybe I was a bit harsh saying it was dull, I enjoyed this one. I moved to Hertford in 1986 but I don't remember this:
VE day plus 40 was celebrated
throughout Hertford on the 8th of May.
At the Salisbury Arms Hotel ,the
staff and management,invited people of
the towns services for a party.They
served boiled beef,carrots and beer at
10p a pint,as that was the price in
the second word war.All the staff and
management dressed in uniforms to
serve the food and drink.Coloured
bunting and a large banner decorated
the outside of the hotel.Places were
marked on ration cards and the menu
was displayed on a page from the Daily
Mirror of VE day. Among the guests
were the Mayor and Mayoress of
Hertford.The Mayor pulled the first
pint of the special brew.The party was
the idea of the Hotel Manager,Peter
Broderick.
Reply ID 81190
12/05/2011 by Arty
I love the bit in the section about Birchley Green Shopping centre:
It
is a popular development although some
shops have closed because of high
rents.A new bus station has been built
at one end of the precinct.
...25 years on, no change there, then!
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