https://www.creativehertfordshire.com/listings/events/?archive=1&user=10620&view=rss Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/rickmansworth-historical-society/talk-rickmansworth-hertfordshire-s-industrial-heartland/ Chris Hillier will tell us about "Rickmansworth - Hertfordshire's industrial heartland?" as he explores boat building, sand and gravel extraction and the leisure industry,mostly through the history of Walkers of Rickman... Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/rickmansworth-historical-society/talk-business-as-usual-retail-busines-in-watford-in-ww1/ Food shortages, panic buying, blackout curtains, powdered egg and ration cards. Was this the Second World War? No, it was actually the experience of retailers and their customers on the Watford home front during the Firs... Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/rickmansworth-historical-society/talk-the-last-coal-to-croxley/ Nicholas Hill will tell us the story behind the last coal deliveries (by canal boat) to Croxley Paper Mill in 1970. The late 1960s saw the decline of commercial canal carrying, partly because industries like Dickinson... Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/rickmansworth-historical-society/talk-the-grove-of-watford-and-its-owners-1500-1700/ After the Society AGM, our chairman Dr Heather Falvey will trace and describe The Grove and some of its owners from medieval times to the start of the eighteenth century. Not so much archaeology, more social history...