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  • A Village Grows
  • Estates & Roads
    • A Stroll Down New Road >
      • Introduction
      • Odd Numbers
      • Census Interlude
      • Even Numbers
      • Appendix 1
      • Appendix 2
      • Appendix 3
    • Byewaters Estate
    • Council Houses
    • Cassiobridge Estate
    • Kebbell Housing
    • Durrants Estate
    • Highfield and Windmill Estate
    • Mayfare Estate
    • Nuttfield Estate
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    • Prefabricated Housing
    • Street Names >
      • Street Names
  • World Wars
    • War Memorial WW1
    • First World War 1914-1918
    • WWI Soldiers from Croxley
    • WW1 Centenary >
      • Community Club 03-10-2018
      • Celebrations 100 years 1918 -2019
      • Remembrance Day 11-11-2018
      • Residents Photographs 11-11-18
      • All Saints Memorial Doors
      • All Saints Memorial Doors Booklet
      • Peace Picnic 14-07-2019
    • Dickinson Memorial Cross
    • War Memorial WW2
    • Second World War 1939-1945 >
      • Civil Defence
      • Celebrations
      • Rationing
      • Croxley Mill
      • All Saints Rededication
      • Second World War Memories >
        • WW2 Memories - Glenn Kinnear
        • WW2 Memories - Jill Butler
    • WW2 Forces and Croxley Residents
    • War Memorial (Cleaning)
    • WW2 50th Commemorations
    • WW2 Secrets of Croxley House
    • WW2 Secrets of Redheath House
  • Schooldays
    • Children at Play
    • Yorke Road School >
      • Yorke Road School History
      • William Scorer - Architect of Yorke Road School
      • Leukaemia Research
      • Paul O'Reilly Builders
      • Grand Opening
    • Yorke Road Infants School
    • Yorke Road Girls School
    • The Old Boys School Watford Road
    • Harvey Road School
    • Durrants School >
      • Durrants Memories
      • Croxley Song Book
      • Croxley Song Book
      • Physical Education
    • Malvern Way School
    • Little Green School >
      • Little Green School - Architects Journal
    • Rickmansworth School
    • Yorke Mead School
    • Oak House Private School
  • Institute / Guildhouse
  • Railway to Croxley Green
    • Memories of the Tube
  • Shops & Businesses
  • Celebrating
    • Golden Jubilee Queen Victoria 1887
    • Diamond Jubilee Queen Victoria 1897
    • Coronation Edward VII 1902
    • Coronation George V 1911
    • Silver Jubilee George V 1935
    • Coronation George VI 1937
    • Festival of Britain 1951
    • Coronation Elizabeth II 1953
    • Coronation Charles III and Camilla 2023
  • Churches
    • All Saints Church >
      • All Saints Consecrated
      • All Saints First Baptisms
      • All Saints First Wedding
      • Reverend Astley Roberts
      • Reverend Blois Bisshopp
      • Reverend C. E. H. Donnell
    • Baptist Church
    • Fuller Way
    • Gospel Hall
    • Little Chapel Chandlers Cross
    • Methodist Church New Road
    • St Bedes
    • St Oswald Church
    • Sarratt Graveyard
  • Public Houses
    • The Artichoke
    • The Coach and Horses
    • Duke of York
    • The Fox and Hounds
    • George and Dragon
    • Gladstone Arms
    • The Halfway House
    • The Plough
    • The Red House
    • The Rose
    • The Sportsman
    • The Two Bridges
  • Community Activities
    • Croxley Camera Club >
      • Croxley Camera Club - Early Days
      • Croxley Camera Club - Moving Forward
      • Croxley Camera Club - Reaching the Majority
      • Croxley Camera Club - Inflation & Deflation
      • Croxley Camera Club - A New Millennium
      • Croxley Camera Club - In Retrospect
      • Croxley Camera Club Calendar
      • Croxley Camera Club - Collaborations
    • Church Lads Boys Brigade
    • Croxley Green Society >
      • Croxley Festival 1951
    • Croxley Mummers
    • Croxley Week
    • Girls Brigade
    • The Revels >
      • Revels Chronicle
      • Revels Archives
    • Parish Council >
      • Croxley Green Parish Map
      • Croxley Green Main
      • CGPC Craft Fair
    • The Red Cross Centre - Croxley Green >
      • Red Cross Donations & 25th Anniversary
      • Red Cross Lease & Documents
      • 1970s First Aid Training
      • Kathleen Wilcox 100th Birthday
    • Scouts Brownies Guides >
      • Scouting in Croxley Green >
        • Scouting through the years
        • Scouting Terminology
      • Scouting Memorabilia
    • Wassail
    • Youth Club
  • Sports
    • John Dickinson Sports >
      • Dickinson Sports - Tennis Club
      • Football Team
      • Ladies Hockey
      • Rifle Club
    • Football
    • National Association of Boys Club
    • Old Boys School
    • Old Boys Football Club
  • Croxley at Work
    • John Dickinson >
      • Aerial views of the Mill
      • Coal Deliveries
      • Croxley Worldwide
      • Fire Fighters >
        • William Beauchamp (Fire Fighter)
      • The Mill Railway
      • The Mill Employees >
        • Charles Barton-Smith
        • Percy Barton-Smith
        • Charles Hope Little
        • Union of the House of Dickinson
      • Mill Photos
      • General Views
      • Plans of the Mill
      • Delivery Vehicles
      • 1896 Booklet
      • JD Booklet
    • Blacksmiths
    • Coal Deliveries
    • Croxley Commercial College
    • G H Browning Recovery
    • Sand and Gravel
    • The Windmill
    • Watercress Growers
  • Croxley Farms
    • Croxley Hall Farm >
      • The Bovingdon Family & Croxley Hall Farm
      • Croxley Great Barn
    • Durrants Farm Estate
    • Hollow Tree Farm
    • Killingdown Farm
    • Lovatts Whitegates
    • Stones Orchard >
      • Stones Orchard Excavation
    • Parrotts Farm
  • Census & Register
    • Census 1841
    • Census 1851
    • Census 1861
    • Census 1871
    • Census 1881
    • Census 1891
    • Census 1901
    • Census 1911
    • Census 1921
    • 1939 Register
    • Population
  • Publications
    • 1896 Booklet
    • 1896 Booklet 1
    • The Croxley Resident Archives
    • The Parish Pump Issue 1 to 26
    • Parish Pump Issue 27 to Current
    • Local Directories
  • Village Views
    • Aerial Photos
    • Croxley From Above
    • Before and After >
      • B&W / Recoloured
      • Original / Modern
      • Merged B&W / Colour
  • Famous Locals
  • Local Memories
  • Recorded Memories
  • Trees on the Green
  • Walking in Croxley
    • Historical Boundary Walk
    • Circular Walks
    • Around Croxley Common Moor
    • Village Walk
    • Wartime Walk in Croxley Green
  • Albert Freeman Diaries
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1915
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1917
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1918
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1919
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1920
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1921
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1922
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1923
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1924
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1925
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1926
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1927
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1928
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1929
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1930
    • Albert Freeman Diaries 1931
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Websites to Help in your Searches

Archive

archive.org ​Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Good for old magazines and books (FREE)

Census

www.ons.gov.uk/census The office for national statistics. ​The census asks questions about you, your household and your home. In doing so, it helps to build a detailed snapshot of our society. Information from the census helps the government and local authorities to plan and fund local services, such as education, doctors’ surgeries and roads. (FREE)
 www.nomisweb.co.uk ​Nomis is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources. (FREE)
www.freecen.org.uk ThFreeCEN database is just a finding tool. Whilst they make every effort to ensure accurate transcription, errors exist in both the original census and the transcription. Please verify any result with the actual census at your local library or similar resource. (FREE)
pubwiki.co.uk/HertsPubs/CroxleyGreen/ Local pubs of Croxley Green with a good list of landlord names (FREE)

Colour Old Photographs

colourise.sg Upload a black and white photograph. Their deep learning model performs best on higher resolution images that prominently feature human subjects and natural scenery. We do not store images that you upload for colourisation. (FREE) CURRENTLY NOT WORKING BUT WE HOPE THEY WILL START AGAIN

Crime Maps

police.uk/pu/your-area/hertfordshire-constabulary/rickmansworth-and-district/  View current and historical crime data in your area. (FREE)
www.ukcrimestats.com/Postcode Search current and historical crime data via postcode (FREE)

Directories

forebears.io/news/kellys-directories-project-complete Kellys Directory. ​Forebears have completed a project to digitise one edition of Kelly's Directory for each county in England and the directory for South Wales. Most of the selected directories were published around the year 1900. Slater's Directory of North & Mid Wales has also been digitised, as Kelly's did not publish a directory for this area. Forebears will shortly commence a further digitisation project focusing on a different time period. (FREE)
specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4 Kelly's Directories The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history. (FREE)

Family Trees

www.ancestry.co.uk UK's largest family history site. Start discovering today. Search Census Records. Search Your Surname. Build Your Family Tree. Marriage Records. Immigration Records. Billions of records. 14 Day Free Trial. Start Searching Today. Death Records (Paid for but sometimes have free weekends)
www.findmypast.co.uk Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more. (Paid for but sometimes have free weekends)
(www.thegenealogist.co.uk Great place to search for your ancestors and the details of their lives. (FREE)
www.familysearch.org FamilySearch. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and is closely connected with the Family (FREE)
www.freereg.org.uk Search Parish registers (FREE)
​www.freebmd.org.uk Search Births, Deaths and Marriages (FREE)
AUSTRALIA
www.naa.gov.au National archive of Australia (FREE)
IRELAND
www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ The website is now home to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office. These records join the Indexes to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths that were already available on the website. (FREE)

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ ​Census of Ireland 1901/1911 and Census fragments and substitutes, 1821-51 (FREE)

www.johngrenham.com Ability to search by name, place, or just browse Irish history (FREE)

www.irishnewsarchive.com Irish newspaper archives (FREE)
NEW ZEALAND
www.archives.govt.nz National archives of New Zealand (FREE)
SCOTLAND​
www.scottishindexes.com/ Great website for searching Scottish family records (FREE)

www.nrscotland.gov.uk/ Helping with family searches (FREE)

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Searching family records. Free to search but paid for to view (Jan 21 30 credits / 6 views £7:50)
USA
www.archives.gov Explore the nations history through documents, photos and records (FREE)

​tinyurl.com/mzw6wxe Guidance to search through USA census records (FREE)

GROUPS

www.local-history.co.uk/Groups Y​ou will find links to the websites of 654 local history and related societies, with contact details for a further 561 societies.

HALS - Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

https://tinyurl.com/ychlq2kp  houses the former Hertfordshire Record Office and the former Hertfordshire Local Studies Library. It collects and preserves archives, other historical documents and printed material relating to the county of Hertfordshire and the Diocese of St Albans from the 11th to the 21st century. HALS is located in Hertford, in the Register Office Block adjacent to County Hall. (FREE)

Hertfordshire Regional Planning Report 1927

cashewnut.me.uk/WGCbooks/web-WGC-books-1927-1.php ​Hertfordshire Regional Planning Report 1927 by Alan Cash. An excellent point of reference for town planning that was produced less than 20 years after the act came into effect. (Town Planning Acts of 1909-1925)

History of England

historicengland.org.uk/sitesearch ​400,000 of the most historically and architecturally significant places in England. The most important historic places in England are listed. The List includes buildings, battlefields, monuments, parks, gardens, shipwrecks and more. (FREE)
historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/images-of-england Historic photographs of England (FREE)
www.british-history.ac.uk/search?query=croxley ​British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. We aim to support the learning, teaching and research of our users from around the world. (FREE)

MAPS

maps.nls.uk ​In our Map images' resource you can access and view all the maps we have scanned as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between 1560 and 1964 and relate primarily to Scotland. We also have maps of areas beyond Scotland, including maps of England and Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, and Jamaica. (FREE)
maps.nls.uk/view/102345925 Croxley Green 1868
maps.nls.uk/view/104202091Croxley Green 1898
maps.nls.uk/view/101579871 Croxley Green 1899
maps.nls.uk/view/104202088 Croxley Green 1914
maps.nls.uk/view/101579868 Croxley Green 1921
maps.nls.uk/view/101579892 Croxley Green 1938
maps.nls.uk/view/101579865 Croxley Green 1947
maps.nls.uk/view/189258470 Croxley Green 1960
maps.nls.uk/view/103191409 Croxley Green 1961
maps.nls.uk/view/189258467 Croxley Green 1966
www.archiuk.com/search ARCHI UK is the database of more than 200,000 British Archaeological Sites covering the whole of England, Scotland and Wales. It is regularly updated with 10,000 new additions made to the database every year. The map slider to mix the old and new maps is excellent.
https://tinyurl.com/y4oso74d Victorian map of Croxley Green
https://tinyurl.com/y6o7e894 1950s map of Croxley Green
Hertfordshire Enviroment Record (HER) Viewer This viewer provides access to resources relating to archaeological sites, finds and historic monuments within Hertfordshire.

MILLITARY

astreetnearyou.org T​his personal project is just an attempt to explore the local legacy of the First World War, but at a global scale. At the heart of it is the legacy of those who died in the conflict, and especially the scale of the imapct that that would have had on their local communities, it would also never have been possible without the significant legacy created by those who remained, from the families who sent in photographs of their loved ones and which formed the Imperial War Museum's founding Bond of Sacrifice Collection, through the people who diligently compiled official records in the early 1920s and which formed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's records, right up to the modern-day professionals, volounteers and individuals who have shaped these records, shared them, and also significantly increased and enriched them, especially under the guise of First World War Centenary projects like Lives of the First World War (FREE)
www.forces-war-records.co.uk ​Search From More Than 23 Million Military RecordsFill in the form below to search our unique database of more than 23 Million records. Get information on your ancestors, and the military unit they served in. Learn about the battles they fought and what life was like for them. (Basic search is free but paid for)
www.cwgc.org Commonwealth War Graves. ​The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) honours the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, and ensures they will never be forgotten.(FREE)
www.greatwar.co.uk Great website for researching WW1. There re also some links to other websites. Worth visiting if you are researching WW1 (FREE)
www.theworldremembers.org A non-profit Canadian company, based in Toronto, Canada, whose sole purpose is to build and facilitate The World Remembers. (FREE)
www.iwm.org.uk/memorials The IWM is compiling the War Memorials Register - the comprehensive national register of UK war memorials and the names of the individuals they commemorate. (FREE)
www.everyoneremembered.org More than one million Service men and women gave their lives in the First World War so that future generations could live theirs.The Royal British Legion is committed to ensuring their sacrifice is never forgotten: search those remembered and continue to commemorate their lives by leaving a short message of remembrance.
www.navylistresearch.co.uk  ​This website enables research on Serving, Retired and Deceased Commissioned Officers of the ROYAL NAVY, the ROYAL MARINES, the QARNNS, and the former WRNS.(FREE)

NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM

http://www.nam.ac.uk ​​​Connecting people with our collections is at the heart of what we do. The Online Collection showcases a growing selection of our objects for you to explore and discover. (FREE)

NEWSPAPERS

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ​The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. (Paid for)
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper ​Trove - The National Library of Australia, in collaboration with Australian State ... runs the Australian Newspaper Digitation Program with the aim of making as ... News is published on the Trove home page and then moves to our news archives. (FREE)
www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress USA has lots of information and viewable newspapers FREE

PHOTOGRAPHS

www.flickr.com ​Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world (FREE but account needed)
​www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia?  ​Animate the faces in your family photos with amazing technology. Experience your family history like never before! (FREE) but need to create an account

WW1

www.ww1cemeteries.com WW1 Cemeteries. The original idea behind this site was to record our visit to all 940, 1914/1918 Commonwealth cemeteries with 40 or more burials in France and Belgium. In all it took us six years to complete the task that we set ourselves back in 1998. ​(FREE)
freepages.rootsweb.com/~worldwarone/military/WWI/HomeFront/BestWarTimeRecipes/BestWarTimeRecipes.txt WW1 Recipes (FREE)
www.bl.uk/world-war-one Supported by over 500 historical sources from across Europe, this resource examines key themes in the history of World War One. (FREE)
ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings, a substantial collection of learning resources available for global reuse. ​(FREE)

WW2

www.ww2cemeteries.com WW2 Cemeteries. The original idea behind this site was to record our visit to all 940, 1914/1918 Commonwealth cemeteries with 40 or more burials in France and Belgium. In all it took us six years to complete the task that we set ourselves back in 1998. (FREE)
bombsight.org The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London (including Croxley Green) WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. (FREE)

Other Bits

Rickmansworth Sanitary Conditions 1900 to 1913 ​https://tinyurl.com/3k9h5axa tinyurl.com/3k9h5axa
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