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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
Bringing the History of Smallford Station to Life Project Exhibition Photo Gallery
On 22nd October 2014, the Bringing the History of Smallford Station to Life Project Exhibition was held at the University of Hertfordshire. The below pictures were taken during the event. [gallery type="rectangular" link="file"...
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Bringing the History of Smallford Station to Life Leaflet
Produced to summarise the 'Bringing the History of Smallford Station to Life' project, this trifold leaflet offers a glimpse into the project itself as well as the history of Smallford Station and the Hatfield to St Albans branch line it belonged to. Please click...
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Occupations: forwards from the 1920s
1911 is the most recent census available to us, as the records are retained in secret for 100 years. However, the gap between it and recent times is relatively small, and other data is available to us to summarise changes in employment more recently. The popularity...
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Occupations: 1911 census
From 1911 occupations became more varied still, with opportunities to travel away to work: bookbinders and printers in St Albans, and motor fitters and brewers in Hatfield. The motor trade also came to Horseshoes! William Sheppard was blacksmithing at Wilkins Green...
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Occupations: 1901 census
In 1901 was the first evidence of a school teacher, an author, a carman, bricklayers, woodman and an electrician. So the range of occupations was widening, and therefore the skill levels of a proportion of them. Some labouring occupations became more specialised:...
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Occupations: 1891 census
In 1891 the many straw plaiters and hat makers had gone – not a single one left; women instead became dressmakers, housekeepers and farm servants instead. The latter were probably employed in the dairy parlours on farms which had turned from mixed to dairy farms....
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