epw025382 ENGLAND (1928). Hatfield Railway Station and Beaconsfield Terrace, Hatfield, 1928

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Title [EPW025382] Hatfield Railway Station and Beaconsfield Terrace, Hatfield, 1928
Reference EPW025382
Date November-1928
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Place name HATFIELD
Parish HATFIELD
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 523202, 208840
Longitude / Latitude -0.21450005220999, 51.764215770655
National Grid Reference TL232088

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Dr Burvill-Holmes surgery.

Joss
Friday 2nd of October 2020 03:30:42 AM
Hatfield House Gates

Class31
Saturday 4th of May 2013 10:08:46 AM
Open-top double decker bus waiting on the Great North Road near the station. The top deck is empty.

Chells809
Thursday 18th of April 2013 10:58:56 PM
Post-war this was the St Albans Co-op grocery shop; I can't say if that was its purpose at the time of the photograph.

ColinM
Friday 29th of March 2013 04:19:54 PM

ColinM
Friday 29th of March 2013 04:16:55 PM
Cecil Crescent

ColinM
Friday 29th of March 2013 04:16:26 PM
Main Station Building

kallaroonian
Friday 22nd of March 2013 09:57:18 AM

kallaroonian
Friday 22nd of March 2013 09:53:09 AM
Coaling Facility

kallaroonian
Friday 22nd of March 2013 09:51:58 AM

kallaroonian
Friday 22nd of March 2013 09:49:08 AM
Red Lion Hotel

DerekM
Wednesday 20th of March 2013 04:10:30 PM

BfA events
Wednesday 20th of March 2013 11:57:06 AM
What was Sherffef Mill?

kallaroonian
Friday 22nd of March 2013 09:58:28 AM
I believe that this should be "Sherrif's Mill", a corn mill.

ColinM
Friday 29th of March 2013 04:14:31 PM
Northcotts, VAD hospital in the first world war

BfA events
Wednesday 20th of March 2013 11:49:53 AM
Hatfield-St Albans branch line

ColinM
Sunday 3rd of March 2013 09:01:44 PM
The Wrestlers pub.

ColinM
Sunday 3rd of March 2013 08:47:43 PM
The Wrestlers Bridge (named after the nearby pub) carrying the then Great North Road over the railway. The bridge collapsed on 20 February 1966 and had to be completely demolished; it was never rebuild for road traffic but replaced with a pedestrian bridge.

ColinM
Sunday 3rd of March 2013 08:46:56 PM
Here's a Pathe report of the bridge demolition:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-njUGHyJM-A

ColinM
Saturday 19th of April 2014 04:18:00 PM

MB
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 09:26:26 PM

MB
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 09:25:44 PM
This is Hatfield No. 2 signal box

John W
Tuesday 6th of December 2016 04:36:26 PM
Locomotive at the head of what appears to be a train of coal wagons

MB
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 09:25:05 PM
Locomotive on turntable

MB
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 09:23:18 PM

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 08:14:05 PM

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 08:13:18 PM
Beaconsfield Terrace

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 08:12:36 PM
Statue of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury by Sir George James Frampton

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 08:11:10 PM

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 08:04:58 PM
The Great Northern PH

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 08:01:32 PM
Hatfield Motive Power Depot. This depot closed completely on 2 January 1961

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 07:40:21 PM
This field was the site of the new London Transport bus garage which was opened in 1959. This replaced the old 'National' garage over the road. It was a very modern garage and even had flowerbeds I seem to remember. The site is now a housing development.

Chells809
Thursday 10th of January 2013 05:26:25 PM
This is the bus garage operated by the National Omnibus & Transport Co. It was built in c1922 to run local bus services on behalf of the London General Omnibus Company. There's a single decker bus at the back of the garage. National Omnibus had a complicated history but basically it was absorbed into London General Country Services in 1932 and became part of the London Transport Country Bus and Green Line Coach Division in 1933. This garage was in use until 1959 when a brand-new garage was opened for London Transport (LT) almost opposite next to the railway. London Country Buses took over the London Transport services in 1970. However both bus garages are now history and the sites have been put to other uses. The 1959 garage site is now a housing estate. Anyone remember the old green RT double deckers on the 303 and 303A routes?

Chells809
Tuesday 16th of October 2012 09:50:06 PM

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Statue of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield 24/05/2014

Class31
Tuesday 27th of May 2014 09:19:16 AM
Hatfield is on the main east coast railway line, about 20 miles north of Kings Cross. The town was also on the line of the old Great North Road to Edinburgh. So here we see two major transport routes just a few yards apart (on the right side of the pic) In 1928 the town was a small country town in Hertfordshire though the pic shows what a large influence the railway had even in small communities for much of the 20th century.



Hatfield Station in this pic even had a private waiting room (if my memory is correct)for Lord Salisbury who lived in nearby Hatfield House (not on pic) and who used the train to go to London for his parliamentary business.



Hatfield in those days was grouped around the station and the Great North Road, but it was expanding in the area to the left of the main line. After the war it really grew in size as one of London's New Towns.



Also in this picture is the bus garage recently opened in 1922 by the National Omnibus & Transport Co on behalf of the London General. The General and National had entered into an agreement for National to develop services north of London on behalf of National. National provided the crews and General the garages and buses.



So, for me this picture is full of transport interest showing the influence of the railway and the emerging influence of the motorbus (the bus garage is not there on an equivalent pic of 1920)

Chells809
Saturday 4th of May 2013 10:19:17 AM
The photo also shows the Great North Road, a War Memorial and a statue together with more mundane features such as full washing lines which tends to indicate that the photo was taken on a Monday. So many steam locomotives and mainly coal wagons. The track layout has been much simplified today and power is mainly provided from the overhead electrical system. It is worthy of consideration.

Class31
Saturday 4th of May 2013 10:19:17 AM
This photo is remarkable for the number of steam locomotives which can be seen. There are at least ten in the photo. Can you spot them? Are there more?

Class31
Wednesday 13th of February 2013 07:54:46 PM