Hemel

When I attended the long-demolished Fields End Primary School in Hemel Hempstead in the 1960s, its headmaster was a Mr Oxtoby.

Brownies are a fire hazard - Official 2008

When I attended the long-demolished Fields End Primary School in Hemel Hempstead in the 1960s, its headmaster was a Mr Oxtoby.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

All this talk of schools being closed in Hemel Hempstead because of the Buncefield oil depot fire takes me back.

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

All this talk of schools being closed in Hemel Hempstead because of the Buncefield oil depot fire takes me back.

Hemel Hempstead schools 2005

Via a MetaFilter topic on unusual traffic management systems: the Swindon Magic Roundabout (nice GPS exploration here) and similar ones in Hemel Hempstead and elsewhere.

Magic roundabouts and Celtic art Ray Girvan 2004

Via a MetaFilter topic on unusual traffic management systems: the Swindon Magic Roundabout (nice GPS exploration here) and similar ones in Hemel Hempstead and elsewhere.

Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004

"I can confirm that officials from the EU Commission conducted an inspection at our Retail Support Centre in Hemel Hempstead," said a spokesman for DSG, which owns Currys and PC World. "

Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

Anybody who has campaigned to save local hospital services as I have with people in Hemel Hempstead knows that it is the only way to offer real public influence over the local NHS.In contrast, the proposed reforms are tremendously unpopular with the public and experts.

NHS reforms: Listen to your party, Nick, or the voters will punish you 2011

Coming from Geordieland as you did, you could not believe that the three-storey townhouse my parents had in Hemel Hempstead was really a council house.

A letter to … Mick, who'd have been a grandad 2011

He left school at 15 and moved to England to live with aunt in Hemel Hempstead, where he began work at Woolworths.

Vince Power and the glory of music festivals 2011