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Email received Caroline
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Hi Dave
Been Google-ing. My mission in doing so was to determine if there is a path through the woods to the west of Goldings to the road so I can pick up some footpaths that go initially west and then north to Bramfield and onwards to Watton-at-Stone. Then I could make a linear walk I have done mostly down the River Beane Valley (passing through Stapleford, Waterford and Waterford Meadows into a circular walk starting and ending at Hertford North Station)
In the scheme of things chanced across your site purely by chance (if Google-ing could be called that). I must confess, having read some of the stuff that I have found myself touched by all the stories about the Goldings Dr Barnardo's Home - so wanted to register that with you. It seems a special website that you have created. I have seen the Goldings buildings (now Herts CC) and it is a lovely setting.
Anyhow - if anyone still retains the local knowledge (maybe even lives near Hertford still) it would be good to know if there is a path through the woods to the west - I feel certain there must be even if it isn't a registered footpath
Here is a streetmap link to show the bit of woodland I mean
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531500&y=214500&z=120&sv=waterford&st=3&tl=Map+of+Waterford,+Hertfordshire+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
Goldings is in the bottom right corner but you'll see the woods
Happy continuing reunioning Goldings old boys!
Caroline
26 January 2010
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Cliff Steele (Pop)
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THANKS
I really appreciated all the cards, telephone calls and messages received for my birthday. They certainly made my day. Thank you very much, keep well everyone, hope to see you all at the reunion in October.
Pop
25 January 2010
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bob and roma
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great front page, well done dave, keep it up,.life is hard at the top keeping up the good work
25 January 2010
- sunny bahamas
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Dave
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The word "Grogg" a common word used at Goldings which referred to tea or in earlier days any liquid, is a Royal Navy word from the early part of the 19th century.The sailors who were based in the West Indies were allowed a half pint of Rum a day,but Earnest Vernon who was sent out there by the Navy to improve the standard of it's sailors made them mix water with the rum to stop them getting so drunk,and he wore a coat called a "Groggan" so there after the sailors called it "grogg" So was this word introduced to Goldings from Watts Naval School?
23 January 2010
- Drinking my Grogg reading a Trashie
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Woody
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All the very best for today, and the many years ahead in the future, Pop.
23 January 2010
- Fenland
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