Thomas Ansell, William Trundell and William Andrews were caught gambling on the public highway.
Read more Charles Mole, of Braughing, was charged with assaulting P.c. Burrows.
Read more George Dunnage, 26, labourer, of Hertford, pleaded not guilty of feloniously breaking and entering a fishmonger's and stealing a quantity of fried fish and a fish tray.
Read more Magistrates take a compassionate view of deserted mother of five.
Read more An alarming fire broke out on Tuesday 12 September 1900 on the back premises of Messrs’ Westrope and Sons, Greengrocers of Market Place, Hertford.
Read more William Johnson charged with assaulting a police officer in Hertford
Read more Alfred Miles was charged with assaulting Herbert Lewes, landlord of the Diamond Inn, Railway Street, Hertford.
Read more Newspaper report on the need for new hammocks for the Tramps Ward at Ware. It was alleged the extra tramps were encouraged by the better diet than at Hertford. 1906
Read more Albert Elgood, a boot clicker, sneaked into the Ware Grammar School for Girls through an unlatched window. He stole a gold watch, a silver chain, a bronze medal and some money.
Read more Four different instances of how to break the law whilst in charge of a horse and cart. These court cases were all reported in the Hertfordshire Mercury in one week. We can see our local Constabulary had traffic and road safety problems to deal with, although in 1909, motor cars were rare and transport still relied heavily on horsepower.
Read more In the early hours of Thursday 7 June a fire broke out at Wallfields House, Hertford.
Read more PC Wright tried to stop a horse drawing a van which had bolted but was knocked against the wall.
Read more Woman charged with being drunk and disorderly and of assaulting PC Gatehouse
Read more Story and photographs of father and son both of whom served in Hertfordshire Constabulary in the late 19th century. The father lived until he was 81 while the son succumbed to T.B. at the age of 32.
Read more Mr Homewood, a Lodging House Keeper of East Street, Ware, was charged with assaulting one of his lodgers.
Read more Newspaper report of the deeds of Superintendent Reed in capturing a fraudster who passed a bad cheque, A burglar who stole a gold watch from the Railway Hotel and a man wanted across the county for theft of overcoats. 1913
Read more Albert Ebenezer fox (1857 – 20 May 1937) and Ebenezer Albert Fox (1857 – 2 October 1926) were identical twins, even identical down to their names!
Read more Peter Plumb, of St John Street, Hertford, was summoned for the malicious damage to holly trees.
Read more The story of William Pangbourne who was killed in 1867 when the cart he was driving overturned. A number of photographs and documents.
Read more The story of the career of Sydney Sayers from his arrival from Norfolk in 1930 until his retirement in 1955.
Read more As the war started, suspicion of foreigners, particularly Belgians and Germans, began to be reported in the local newspapers.
Read more Details of 1916 Promotion exam from Constable 2nd Class to Constable 1st Class. Did you know you had to have a License for a servant?
Read more What was it like to be a Constable in Bishop's Stortford in the middle of the First World War? The first volume of the Bishop's Stortford Archive has been prepared for digitisation (The logbook of Pc Elberton from July 1915 to April 1916)
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