Two of the regular frustrations of life in Berkhamsted collided on Thursday night and almost brought a public meeting to a standstill. One is Dacorum Borough Council’s treatment of Berkhamsted electors. If not cavalier disregard, then at least a certain carelessness characterises the borough’s dealings with the town. And DBC has a hand in the […]
Dacorum’s Tourism Partnership looks forward to a busy winter and spring 2016 as it steps up its bid to boost visitor numbers – in the borough in general and to Tring in particular. Ben Marston talked about plans for Tring under the heading Destination Tring. He pointed out that he was involved in three businesses […]
It’s been quite an autumn for shoppers in Hemel Hempstead with big names opening at Riverside. Clarks has followed Topshop and Topman into the retail mall. And Toys ’R’ Us opened in the week after Hemel Hempstead Living’s winter issue went to press at the start of November. David Robinson, centre manager at Riverside, said […]
A novice photographer has won this year’s top prize in the annual Box Moor Trust photo competition. Stuart Scott beat more than 135 other entrants to win this year’s competition, and his beautiful shot of the sunrise, looking east from Hardings’ Moor, will now take pride of place in the Trust’s prestigious 2016 calendar. The […]
A co-educational Pre-Prep school at Lockers Park opened its doors in early September, marking a new phase in the 141-year history of Lockers Park Preparatory School. A Lockers Park old boy officiated at the opening: Jonathan Trower, now the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, unveiled a plaque and declared: ‘I was honoured to have been invited […]
Preliminary design plans for a multi-storey car-park on Lower Kings Rd, Berkhamsted, envisage a structure 13m high, ‘lower and no greater than the adjacent Waitrose building’. This enigmatic comparison relates to a scheme of seven half-levels and bays for 324 vehicles (and eight disabled spaces). The existing car-park has room for 112 cars. The designers […]
The Old Mill in Berkhamsted had a Bank Holiday weekend of events, featuring on Saturday 29 August a Fun Dog Show in aid of Chiltern Dog Rescue. Our thanks to the Darrington family, whose dachshunds must have walked away with several categories. The dachsies are, from the left, Diddy, Lincoln, Timmy and Maisie. More at […]
Cllr Laurence Handy issued a chilling warning at the annual Berkhamsted Town Meeting last Thursday (12 March): Berkhamsted could reach the borough’s 2031 housing target within the next few years. ‘The [borough] planning officer, when I mentioned this, reminded me that a target is not a ceiling,’ he said. Cllr Handy was winding up his […]
Congratulations to Ella Dowling, winner of the latest Oakman Inns/Little Bike Company colouring competition. Ella, 5, was fitted for her prize in January and collected it a week later – a Frog bicycle worth £185 from the Little Bike Company. Having won a colouring competition, she chose one in her favourite colour – purple. The […]
Tring’s Neil Thubron has won what may be the world’s toughest and coldest race, the 300-mile 2015 Yukon Arctic Ultra. Neil won in six days and 19hrs, hauling a 20kg toboggan for 16-24hrs a day. He was competing to raise money for Humanity Direct, a charity that funds medical operations for children in developing countries. […]
You may have noticed that the Berkhamsted sign hanging from the Town Hall has been spruced up. Who did the Town Hall go to when it felt this important symbol of Berkhamsted was looking past its best? Well, it seems unlikely that any of those other publications with Berkhamsted in their titles will know, so […]
It’s not the piazza Berkhamsted Living wanted. It’s not the Bridewell Gardens we mocked up in Photoshop in the autumn 2013 issue. But most of all, it’s very far from being the community space that almost 1,000 Berkhamsted residents wanted. When the former police station disappears from the corner of the High Street and Kings […]