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What's the future Queen doing in a sandpit in Hertfordshire?

Princesses Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret playing in the sandpit at St Paul's Walden Bury

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A picture of the future Queen Elizabeth II as a young girl playing in a sandpit in Hertfordshire features in a new educational interactive story map.

This painting could be the first confirmed artwork which depicts Elizabeth Steward, Oliver Cromwell's mother

Arts & Culture

Painting could be first 'genuine' portrait of Oliver Cromwell's mother

Will Durrant

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The reopening of St Albans’ historic Clock Tower has been delayed to allow for emergency repairs.

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Reopening of St Albans' Clock Tower delayed 'for emergency repairs'

Alan Davies

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A train makes its way through Smallford station while travelling the Hatfield to St Albans railway l

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Remembering the lost railway line between Hatfield and St Albans

Dan Mountney

The cremation urn discovered during excavation work in Verulamium Park.

Roman discovery during excavations in Verulamium Park

Laura Bill

Stacey Turner unveils a blue plaque to Dr Nathaniel Cotton alongside Professor Tim Boatswain

Blue Plaque to St Albans mental health pioneer unveiled in city

Laura Bill

Make-up artist Mark Coulier's Oscar, which he won for 'The Iron Lady', and the BAFTA he won for 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

Film | Video

6 Oscar winners with links to Hertfordshire

Alan Davies

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Edward Burns as Private Reiben, Tom Hanks as Captain Miller, Matt Damon as Private Ryan, Max Martini and Tom Sizemore

Film | Updated

9 Oscar-winning movies filmed in Hertfordshire

Alan Davies

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A crowd of people watching a tug of war match during the opening of a new sports ground at Elstree, 1949.

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Apply for Historic England's new £25k heritage grants

Alan Davies

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Helen Mirren as Queenie in Fast & Furious 9.

Film | Video

9 movies filmed on location in Hertfordshire to watch this week

Alan Davies

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Filming of Netflix series The Crown at St Albans cathedral.

Film

13 movies and TV series filmed on location in St Albans

Alan Davies

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The de Havilland DH88 Comet racer in action on Saturday. Picture: Neil Jackson

7 things you could do in Hertfordshire in the 90s that you can’t do now

Pearce Bates

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The cannonball from the Second Battle of St Albans.

Long-lost cannonball from Second Battle of St Albans is rediscovered

Matt Adams

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Chicago's has closed its doors for the final time

Nostalgia

5 Hertfordshire nightclubs the county has lost over the years

Pearce Bates

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Tony Robinson in a reconstructed Romano-British village in Tony Robinson’s History of Britain on Channel 5.

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St Albans features in Tony Robinson's History of Britain on Channel 5

Alan Davies

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St Albans Abbey before restoration. Where the Army Council met.

St Albans and the killing of a king

Dr John Morewood

Undated Handout Photo of Brecon Warehouse Oak Stratex Flooring, £44 square metre, Woodpecker Floorin

5 things to think about before fitting new bathroom flooring

Sam Wylie-Harris

According to legend, the St Albans witch Mother Haggy crossed the River Ver in a kettledrum.

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Who was the witch of St Albans?

Matt Adams

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The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle/aka Catwoman.

Visit Hertfordshire

Lights, camera, action! Turning film fantasy into Herts tourism reality

Alan Davies

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St Albans Clock Tower.

Careers advice for St Albans children in centuries gone by

Sheldon Ringrose & Elizabeth Walden

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reunites Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint

Film

Harry Potter's links to Hertfordshire ahead of Sky's Return to Hogwarts

Alan Davies

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A meteor during the Perseid meteor shower seen over Happisburgh lighthouse, Norfolk.

First meteor shower of 2022 to light up the night sky in early January

Casey Cooper-Fiske

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The opening of Clarence Park in St Albans.

You can't take it with you - the philanthropists who transformed St Albans

Sheldon Ringrose

Simone Taylor has been running Fashion 'n' Fabrics since 2018.

St Albans haberdashery store celebrates 50 years

Matt Adams

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The unveiling of St Albans' war memorial in 1921.

Nostalgia

For Remembrance: the First World War street memorials of St Albans

Sheldon Ringrose

Marlborough almshouses

Nostalgia

In the footsteps of St Albans’ first female superstar

John Morewood

Volunteers Martin Bull and John Hutton with Kevin Phillips (left) at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum.

Heritage

Divers drop in to see bouncing bomb at de Havilland Aircraft Museum

Alan Davies

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Current members of Wheathampstead WI celebrate the institute's centenary.

Village Women's Institute celebrates 100 years of community life

Laura Bill

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The Highball restored and now under the DH Mosquito B Mark 35 at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum.

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Scuba divers to tell how they raised 'bouncing bomb' from bottom of a lake

Alan Davies

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