IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Beechwood Close, HERTFORD, SG13 7HW

Heading towards Ware.

Looking along the A119 towards the Police Station from near to the junction with Fairfax Road. The houses along the south side of the road are set back with long front gardens and raised above street level. A London Country AEC Reliance with Park Royal body makes its way into Hertford on the 337 service from Buntingford via Standon, Puckeridge Wadesmill and Ware. This class of vehicles, the RP's, were introduced in 1972 to replace Routemaster coaches on London Country's Green Line express routes. But by 1979 when this photo was taken they were being displaced by coach bodied reliances like the one seen in the distance. This particular vehicle - RP31 - is quite rare as it was one of only three of the 90 strong type to be repainted in National Bus Company bus livery.

Stone post (plate lost) by the A119, in parish of Hertford (East Hertfordshire District), Ware Road, at junction with Fairfax Road, built into wall, on West side of road. Hertford stone, erected by the Cheshunt turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription once read:- (LONDON) (22) Hertfordshire HER & St Albans UAD. HHER Number: 11985 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MHT11985&resourceID=1008 Milestone Society National ID: HE_XX22

Part of the former Addis brush factory, now the offices of the local newspaper.

This pub with its elaborate entrance fascia, at the junction of Ware Road and Railway Place, has an interesting history. It was probably built as an ordinary house as the area north of Ware Road was developed on the building of the original Hertford East railway terminus at the end of the street in the 1840s. It seems to have been rapidly converted into a public house, with the ground floor extensions visible in the photo being built at that time, to live off the trade generated by railway users. It is a Grade II Listed Building.

The short section of railway track across the road is a remnant of a siding that used to run from the railway at Hertford East station to near the gasworks and to near Hertford Lock on the River Lee Navigation.

This was for King's Mead siding, serving the gas works. It was arranged to be most easily reached from the Hertford East - Hertford North (GE to GN) link line, now gone.