Welcome to Deirdre and Jerome
January 2014
Village newcomer Deirdre O’Donohoe received a warm welcome by all attending the 12th Night drinks party at the Marchmont Arms.
Wall damaged by tree fall
December 2013
December gales brought down a large tree in the village, blocking the entrance to a house and damaging an old brick wall. The trunk fell across 158 Piccotts End, narrowly missing overhead powerlines. Fortunately no one was hurt but one of the brick piers bordering the entrance took the full force of the fall and broke off.
Tiny tots with candles make it a memorable Christmas carol concert
December 213
It’s Christmas Day and for the first time in many years there has been no snow this month. Remember about 4 years ago when Hemel came to a halt in mid-December and the snow stayed until January? Today has been sunny, mild and dry, just like most Christmases. Yesterday we went to the children’s carol service at St Mary’s Church. It was just as well
Plaque unveiled to commemorate life of Lord Corbett
December 2013
Residents and friends of Lady Val Corbett gathered at her home earlier this month when she was presented with a plaque to commemorate the life of her late husband Lord Robin Corbett.
Village couple head for the USA
November 2013
Vanessa and Ben McCormack, who have lived in Church House for the past 6 years, are bidding farewell to Piccotts End next month. They are heading for the United States
Joyce comes out fighting on behalf of Hemel!
November 2013
Hemel was in the news again recently, reprising a role with which it has become depressingly type-cast: Britain’s ugliest town. Yes, Crap Towns, that bible of all that’s pants in town planning, has been at it again. Hemel beat the likes of Luton and Hatfield in a poll of unidentified voters. But what’s this? A letter to The Times, no less, defending its
Death of former mayor
November 2013
Peter Benton, a former mayor of Hemel Hempstead and Piccotts End resident, has died.
Friends mourn passing of village veteran Sheila
October 2013
Sheila Pratt, one of the village’s longest-standing residents, has died at the age of 81. Sheila passed away in Watford hospital after battling
with a long illness.
How my old mower was put out to grass in Lithuania!
October 2013
Somewhere in Lithuania right now there is an old red lawnmower newly arrived all the way from Piccotts End! For nearly 20 years our Westwood ride-on had been keeping the grass down. We inherited it with the house when we moved here in 2003 and it proved to be a very reliable performer. However it finally gave up the ghost this month and
Murals prove a big draw
September 2013
Piccotts End’s medieval cottage, housing historic 15th century wall paintings, attracted dozens of visitors when they opened to the public for four days in September.