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This website serves Smallford residents and provides information about Smallford’s past, present and future. Smallford and its surrounding areas are steeped in history, including the aerodrome at Hatfield, De Havilland’s airplane manufacture, the world’s first jet airliner (the Comet) and much more.
Station Project
Welcome to the Smallford Station & Alban Way Heritage Society homepage. On this site you will find all the latest information about the society, workshops and associated activities in one handy place. If you’d like to get involved or find out more, click the button below!
SRA
Smallford Residents’ Association (incorporating Sleapshyde) announcements and information will be posted on this website. Please check it frequently for important news and updates. Here, you will find information about planning proposals, objections, and much more that concern the local community.
We are thrilled to have received the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and are confident the project will support many local people in following and developing their interests in a wide range of areas – e.g. researching, interviewing, creating videos, designing exhibitions, developing a website, writing stories. We are particularly excited at the thought of finding people who recall the station and branch line when they were operating and capturing their memories for posterity!
Jeff LewisLatest Smallford News
Latest news for the local community of Smallford
Board Member – John Henry Dillon
John Henry Dillon 1819 – 1877 Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans Railway Company: The Minute Book records that he was one of the seven who attended the second Board meeting, on Friday 17th April 1863, the first time all seven sat together. His last...
read moreBoard Member – Sir Andrew Fairbairn
Sir Andrew Fairbairn, M.P., J.P., M.A. 1828 – 1901 These two pictures were taken from www.gracesguide.co.uk under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. Copyright © 2014 Smallford Residents'...
read moreContractor and Board Member – Francis Rummens
Francis William Rummens 1811 – 1893 Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans Railway Company: Submitted tenders of £52,000 for a double line and £47,000 for a single line, to the Board meeting of 22nd April 1863. A further tender was requested, as per the...
read moreCompany Secretary – Alexander Forbes
Alexander Forbes 1834 – 1880 Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans Railway Company: Alexander Phorbes was appointed Secretary at the second Board meeting, on 17th April 1863. Life Highlights: Born on 31st October 1834 at Artillery Barracks, Woolwich,...
read moreCompany Secretary – Major Charles Lomax
Major Charles Lomax 1850 – 1916 Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans Railway Company: M.C. Lomax was appointed Secretary at the Board meeting of 29th July 1880, in place of the late Alexander Forbes, whom he had assisted. He signed newspaper notices as Major...
read moreThe Alban Way
The Alban Way The Alban Way is a footpath and cycleway which follows the course of the former Hatfield and St Albans Railway. At the Hatfield end, it starts close to where the branch line diverged from the East Coast main line, from London to the north and Scotland,...
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