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This book comprises a series of essays about highlights of the history of Herfordhsire from pre-Roman up till Ebenezer Howard's garden city movement. The chapter on Welwyn Garden City is just 2½ pages. There are about 60 photographs in the book of which only 4 relate to Welwyn Garden City.
The aspect of this book which really interests me is the description in chapters 14 to 17 of Brocket Hall and the love triangle between Caroline Ponsonby (later Lady Caroline Lamb), William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne and prime minister of Britain), and Lord Byron. I was born in Brocket Hall in 1945 just after the War ended when part of that building was being used as a maternity hospital. A number of the photographs in the book are of the house and grounds near the village of Lemsford which is adjacent to Welwyn Garden City.
Below is the author Rudolph Robert complete with teastain.
