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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

Heritage

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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.

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Alan Davies

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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.

Heritage

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

Alan Davies

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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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Sylvia Hurcomb's father Charles Coombs.

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Untold history of St Albans during WWII revealed in new book

Laura Bill

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The unveiling of St Albans' war memorial in 1921.

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

Sheldon Ringrose

Marlborough almshouses

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In the footsteps of St Albans’ first female superstar

John Morewood

A portrait of Samuel Ryder as Mayor of St Albans.

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God, gardening and golf: the story of Samuel Ryder

Lin Keen