Victorian children playing out on Bunyan Road (spot the boy on stilts!) vs today 🏠 #thenvsnow #hitchin

OTD 82 years ago. Pilot Officer Gordon Thomas Manners Mitchell of Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, KIA serving with No.609 (West Riding) Squadron RAF(A). Buried in Willian, Herts, and remembered on Letchworth War Memorial. First of The Few. Remember Him.

Today: celebrating #SouthAsianHeritageMonth in Herts! An exhibition including a short film featuring the stories of six local British South Asians will be on display at North Herts Museum 🌈 until 28 August, showcasing Hitchin’s diverse heritage. Free!

HERMITAGE ROAD, HITCHIN 😍 (1955) #Hitchin Hermitage Rd & Co. Hermitage Rd.

Just received this old bus route window sign at Farley’s. A gift from a friend. Lovely bit of modern Hitchin history. 60’s to 80’s at a guess?

Nice little gang of BSAs outside Farley’s today on a pilgrimage to the site of Jimmy Lane’s bike shop where at least one of them was sold from!

#historyofNHbuildings 200 years ago the site of Hitchin’s Pitcher & Piano used to be The Red Lion Pub, captured in Samuel Lucas Snr’s ‘Hitchin Market’ (1840). After it was demolished in 1852, The Corn Exchange was built & spurred on Hitchin's development as a grain market.

Historic Hitchin. has anyone got any old pictures of the inside of the Hermitage Ballrooms? 🤷‍♀️

#archaeologytuesdays During excavations in 1980 on the north side of Portmill Lane, this half millstone was found wedged part of the way down a brick-lined well. What was it doing there and where had it come from? There might be a clue in the street name! #hertfordshire #hitchin

£4 standing in 1983 and you met the band at the stage door after… today it’s £275 for the so-called Early Entry Golden Circle which sounds like a metaphor for some strange carnal extra that DM’s management might give you before your mate 😆💷

So very sorry to hear of the passing of Terry Hall of The Specials, Fun Boy Three and many other musical projects today. Here he is with Fun Boy Three playing in The Regal Theatre, Hitchin in 1983. m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=I…

#objectoftheweek A recent donation of late 1980's photographs allows us to take a trip down memory lane, or in this case #Hitchin High Street, to take a look at Hitchin's #Woolworths. Hard to believe a generation of children have grown up without the pick'n'mix!

We don't think we've seen such an unusual engraving in a while! This is a view of a house in Hitchin being struck by lightening in 1771! ⚡⚡⚡ #Hertfordshire #Weather #Lightening #Hitchin Hitchin Library Historic Hitchin.

The Guild of Our Lady built its headquarters at The Brotherhood (2 Bancroft, #Hitchin) in 1475. More than a century later, it acquired ridge tiles at each end of the roof showing a horse and rider. The history behind them takes us back to Imperial China northhertsmuseum.org/archaeology-tu…

#footballfridays Calling social media detectives. This photo shows a celebratory meal attended by a number of football teams like Sutton United and Hitchin Town FC. We would love to know where this function took place. It seems to be a huge venue! ⚽️

Fantastic picture of Hermitage Road from Windmill Hill taken 1969/70. Showing with the demolition of the previous building, or the early construction of the building that stands today. Photo by Val Vallie

Although we all mourn the loss of ROTW, it wasn’t Hitchin’s first festival. 1980 saw Woodside Festival, Hitchin. Featuring the fantastic Budgie as headliner. With the awesome ESG way down in the ranking. Would love to know more about this 1 day-er…..

There will be no more posts from Historic Hitchin on Twitter/X. We no longer want to be associated with the open sewer it has become. New page opening on Facebook soon. Thank you.