Autumn festival off to a scary start!

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September 2025
The village Autumn Festival has opened with effigies starting to appear in front gardens. They mark the opening of ‘scarecrow fortnight’ in which residents have been invited to create their own version of a great British tradition, The event will run until Sunday October 12th when it will be celebrated with the Harvest Festival. Bring your autumn collections – fruit, vegetables, flowers, leaves, cakes or ale – to the paddock at 62, Piccotts End for all to admire and enjoy.  

Residents celebrate Ena’s 94th birthday

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August 2025
Ena Hartland, a long time resident of the Mill House In Piccotts End, had a wonderful 94th birthday tea last week with friends and neighbours from Riverbank, Pauline, Barbara, Melanie and Susanna.  Lots of good memories were shared of Ena’s time living in the Mill House with her late husband Stanley.  Ena now lives in St Mary’s care home near the Old Town.   Many Happy Returns Ena!  with very best wishes from everyone in Piccotts End. 

The day brickie Will gate-crashed The Dirty Dozen

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August 2021
Like the rest of Hertfordshire, Piccotts End abounds in beautiful flint walls. But there is just one problem with these iconic local building blocks. They keep falling off! You can always spot the fresh cement and slightly machined new flints where walls…

PiccottsvEnd Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is the icing on the Christmas cake

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January 2020
The festive season is over for another year and residents marked the Twelfth Night finale with a gathering at the Marchmont Arms. It was one of PERA’s best attended events with residents young and old, recent and longstanding, enjoying drinks and nibbles organised by our social secretary Annette Harrison.

Fireworks party is bang-on!

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November 2015
More than 70 residents enjoyed pork rolls and pyrotechnics at the annual village fireworks party. The event, which had to be postponed earlier in the month owing to bad weather, took place at Marchmont Cottage with fireworks provided by Fantastic Fireworks.

Tiny tots with candles make it a memorable Christmas carol concert

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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

Joyce comes out fighting on behalf of Hemel!

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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

How my old mower was put out to grass in Lithuania!

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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

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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.