The land was purchased in 1783, which included Hartley Farm which was later demolished, and Hartley Old Road was closed, so that it would not go to […]
Want to know how your street used to look? You can compare old and new maps of the HADRA area HERE.
The character […]
“The Asylum for Fatherless Children” was founded in 1844 by Rev. Andrew Reed, an English Congregational minister and hymn writer, who became a prominent philanthropist and social reformer.
Rev […]
The farms of the area, now no more, were situated either on the slopes of the dissecting valleys, or in the bottom of the valleys themselves avoiding the plateau. As […]
This article lists some of the streets in our area, together with a few notes on the origin of the names. The most common name source is a descriptive physical […]
On Thursday the 26th of July the Bourne Society unveiled a Blue Plaque on the wall of the flats at the top of Station Approach Road, to mark the site […]
2018 is 100 years since the end of the First World War and the Royal British Legion are launching a ‘Thank You Movement’ from 8th August to run through 100 […]
On the 15th of April 2017 the Grange Park Centenary Field Plaque was unveiled. This will mean that Grange Park will never be built on and will remain a space for […]
