A HIGHWAY LAID WITH WATER:
a history of the Grand Junction Canal

THE TRAIN NOW DEPARTING:
notes and extracts on the history of the London and Birmingham Railway

THE RAILWAY COMES TO TRING:
construction of the railway from Euston to Tring.

GONE WITH THE WIND:
windmills and those around Tring.

ROADS AND THOSE IN TRING:
the Sparrows Herne Turnpike and other local roads.

PUBLIC HEALTH COMES TO TRING:
the early provision of clean drinking water and sanitation.

BANKING COMES TO TRING:
a history of Thomas Butcher & Sons.

THE TRING SILK MILL:
a history of the premises in Brook Street built by William Kay in 1824.

THREE TRING INDUSTRIES:
Canvas Weaving, Brickmaking, Metalworking - by Wendy Austin.

TRING CHURCH MUSIC:

all about Music in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Tring.

THE HISTORY OF CINEMA IN TRING:
a history of the town’s long-forgotten cinemas.

THE MYSTERY OF THE TRING TILES:
they date from the 14th century and were made using a technique known as sgraffito.

THEY CALLED US TO ARMS:
letters to Tring from The Great War 1914-19

TRING GARDENS THEN AND NOW:
gardens of one sort or another than once graced Tring and the surrounding district

THE TRING WAR MEMORIAL:
notes on each of the servicemen whose names are inscribed on the WWI section of the Memorial

THE MILLER’S TALE:
the memoirs of Ralph Seymour, corn merchant, miller and clerk in holy orders.

WILLIAM LYNDWOOD:
(1375–1446)
Rector of Tring, diplomat, authority on canon law and Bishop of St. David’s

RECOLLECTIONS 1: RECOLLECTIONS 2:
RECOLLECTIONS 3:
short accounts by Tring residents of aspects of their lives and of past events.

THE TRING FLOUR MILL:
flour milling, Tring’s oldest continuous industry.

THE HAMLET OF DUNSLEY:
one of Tring’s forgotten villages.

THE ANCIENT MANOR OF BUNSTRUX:
a history by Sue Gordon.

TRING’S LOST SETTLEMENTS:
Tiscot, Betlow, Pendley, Bure, and Aldwick
by Sue Gordon:

GERALD MASSEY:
Tring’s poet - also a Chartist and researcher into the influence of ancient Egyptian beliefs.

MISCELLANEA:
An assortment of articles of historical interest.

TRING IN
1839, 1855, 1869, 1874, 1890, 1895, 1902, 1908, 1914,
1926 and 1937:
From editions of Pigot’s and of Kelly’s directories for Hertfordshire.

U3A presentations postponed due to Covid-19