Recent Updates
March 2017
March 2014
An advertisement for Coombe Hill School (1912)
November 2013
Memories of Kings Langley by Peter Ward Part 2
October 2013
Memories of Kings Langley by Peter Ward Part 1
May 2013
The Story of Rucklers Lane Village Hall
April 2013
Condition of Roads -addition to this page. Excerpt from 'Prelude and Fugue'
March 2013
Call the (Village) Midwife
Nurse Lucy Flora Weedon
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
Flora and Local History: a book review related to a local canal walk by John Prime
September 2012
The hamlet called Doolittle
August 2012
Britain from Above
Home Park Mills (1926)
Shendish Manor (1927)
Ovaltine (1927/1928)
Apsley Paper Mills (1930)
An important new Society publication.
By Alan Penwarden
Please see Publications Page
July 2012
Whatever became of Snatchup/s End?
June 2012
John Dickinson and Papermaking in the Parish
Also links to films of
"LUCK - Sixty ton engine plunges over bridge at midnight but driver & fireman uninjured!!" 1922
Four fold train crash near Kings langley in 1935
Previous updates
The Vestry Versus the Vicar. An account of sensational events in 1845 Kings Langley
Church and Chapel in mid 19th century Kings Langley. Surveys from 1847 and 1851.
A review of the book “RISING ’44" and the Barnes Lodge connection
Now on You Tube Keith Johnson has lived in Kings Langley all his life. This video includes some of his memories of growing up in the 1940s and 50s
When the Inspector called.....
Verbatim accounts of youth working conditions in local Paper Mills in 1841 and 1864
Now on You Tube
VE Day celebrations in Kings Langley
Home Park Paper Mill at Kings Langley
by Alan Penwarden.
Published by Apsley Paper Trail and available from Kings Langley Local History & Museum Society outlets.
Please see Publications Page.