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Scotsbridge House and the connection to Admiral Lord Nelson.

Scotsbridge House from the garden 2015 Article taken from the Yorkshire Post. Wednesday November 13 1901. Mrs Charles Bagot’s Reminiscences When Colonel Charles Bagot of Levens Hall in the Lake District married, he induced his wife to destroy a journal she had kept of her early days. He seems to have thought that he had […]Read Post ›

William Penn, commemorating 300 years since his death – and the Rickmansworth connection

On a plaque outside Basing House in Rickmansworth, which is now the home of the Three Rivers Museum Trust, are the words. ‘HERE WILLIAM PENN (1644 – 1718) QUAKER STATESMAN, MAN OF VISION, FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA AND PLANNER OF PHILADELPHIA. FRIEND OF THE INDIANS, CRUSADER FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, DESIGNER OF EUROPEAN PEACE, RESIDED FOR 5 […]Read Post ›

Suffragettes take action in Croxley Green and Chorleywood

100 years ago, on February 6, 1918, the Representation of the people Act granted the vote to some women over the age of 30. At the time, women were unable to celebrate, as the First World War would continue for another nine months. Women had been flghting for suffrage for years. Throughout the 19th Century […]Read Post ›

Chartism- the Heronsgate Connection.

St John’s Church, Heronsgate In 1838, a People’s Charter was drawn up which had six demands: universal manhood suffrage, secret ballot voting, abolition of property qualifications for MPs, payment of MPs, equal electoral districts, and annual elections. The Charter was presented to the House of Commons the following year, having gained over 1.25 million signatures. […]Read Post ›

The Lion and the Eagle – Rickmansworth’s war memorial.

The First World War ended on 11th November 1918 and within three days the Rickmansworth Urban District Council were seeking ways to commemorate the dead. The routine Council meeting took place on 14th and there was immediate, extraordinary business because the local benefactor (2nd) Lord Ebury had died a day earlier. A letter of condolence […]Read Post ›

FAMOUS PEOPLE in Three Rivers HENRY WOOD b 1869 d 1944

Henry Wood was born on 3 March 1869 in Oxford Street, London, a short distance east of Oxford Circus, where his father ran a jeweller’s business. He took piano and organ lessons from an early age and enrolled as a 17-year-old student at the Royal Academy of Music in 1886. He began to build a […]Read Post ›

A Ragamuffin from Bedmond

BUT the only Englishman to attain the Ecclesiastical Heights – Pope Adrian IV Nicholas Breakspear was born c.1100 at Breakspear Farm in the hamlet of Bedmond in the Parish of Abbots Langley.  His father had become a monk in St Albans Abbey possibly to escape poverty farming in Bedmond.   Nicholas’ father must to have had […]Read Post ›

Salter’s – Brewers of Rickmansworth

The early days of any business more than a century old are always difficult to trace. The founders were too busy trying to make money to have time to record how and when they began their enterprise. Although Salter’s brewery provided beer to dozens of pubs in and around Rickmansworth for more than 170 years, […]Read Post ›

FAMOUS PEOPLE in Three Rivers : Charles Voysey

The Orchard – Voysey family home in Chorleywood Charles Voysey has rightly been called “An Architect of Individuality”. He was also one whose influence on the development of domestic architecture in this country is quite remarkable. His legacy is strong and lasting despite the relatively small number of buildings he produced during his career. Charles […]Read Post ›

A brief history of Moor Park

The site of the grand mansion of Moor Park near Rickmansworth has a history stretching back to the beginning of the seventeenth century and throughout that time has been home to a number of interesting occupants. It is set within several hundred acres of parkland which once belonged to Cardinal Wolsey’s grand Tudor palace of […]Read Post ›

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