* 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.

* the Haemele, ( Hemel Hempstead )

In early December 2005 the 2005 Hemel Hempstead fuel depot explosions occurred at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal.

One product, now largely defunct, was water-cress, based in Hemel Hempstead and Berkhamsted supported by reliable, clean chalk rivers.

In the past, clay has supplied local brick-making and still does in Bovingdon, just south-west of Hemel Hempstead.

Two feature films were made based on the series-the first was Till Death Us Do Part ( 1969 ), whose first half dealt with the younger Alf and Else during World War II, and whose second half dealt with all the Garnetts in the present day being moved from their East End slum to the New town of Hemel Hempstead, and the adjustments and changes that brought on the family.

Category: People from Hemel Hempstead

After Kings Langley and Apsley-the site of more former paper mills-the canal passes Hemel Hempstead and Boxmoor Common.

In the United Kingdom, the " Magic Roundabout " name has been given to large road traffic circulation systems with unconventional layouts-in Swindon and in Hemel Hempstead for example.

The Hemel Hempstead roundabout, with its large central roundabout surrounded by six smaller ones, is officially named the Plough Roundabout.

Berkhamsted () is a historic town in England which is situated in the west of Hertfordshire, between the towns of Tring and Hemel Hempstead.

Berkhamsted is located in the Chiltern Hills, Hertfordshire, in the wide valley of the River Bulbourne, to the west of Hemel Hempstead.

When Berkhamsted joined Hemel Hempstead and Tring in Dacorum the new Borough Council in Hemel Hempstead drew plans to demolish the site.

A number of local bus routes pass through Berkhamsted town centre, providing links to Hemel Hempstead, Luton, Watford and Whipsnade Zoo.

Settlers came the following year and named the area Hempstead, in honor of their home city, Hemel Hempstead in England.

Hertfordshire built four other new towns, two in the vicinity of Stevenage ( Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield ), a third to the north called Letchworth, and Hemel Hempstead to the east.

Joe ’ s step-brother, John Doyle ( 17 August 1925 – 16 November 2009 ), was also active in politics and was conservative Mayor and Bailiff of Hemel Hempstead in 1969.

Britvic has a large factory on Widford Industrial Estate while its headquarters at Britvic House in Broomfield Road closed in March 2012 relocating to Hemel Hempstead in order to facilitate better transport links for its staff.

* Humble, R. and Bergin, M. ( 1993 ) A 16th century galleon, Inside story series, Hemel Hempstead: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-7500-1339-7

The first part of the line between Euston Station and Boxmoor ( Hemel Hempstead ) opened on 20 July 1837.

In the United Kingdom, Grove Hill, one of the seven planned neighbourhoods in the Hertfordshire new town of Hemel Hempstead, was also partially designed using the Radburn model.

Mulisch often incorporated ancient legends or myths in his writings, drawing on Greek mythology ( e. g. in De Elementen ), Jewish mysticism ( in De ontdekking van de Hemel and De Procedure ), well known urban legends and politics ( Mulisch was politically left-wing, once signing a book " dedicated in admiration " to Fidel Castro ).

On 27 March 2010, it was confirmed that Blissett had signed to Hemel Hempstead Town as a coach.

Another opinion is that Hemel probably came from " Haemele " which was the name of the district in the 8th century and is most likely either the name of the land owner, or could mean " broken country ".

The first Bailiff of Hemel Hempstead was William Stephyns ( 29 December 1539 ).

Marlowes shopping centre and pedestrianised high street, the centre of Hemel Hempstead since 1952 when the New Town was built.

Initially there was much resistance and hostility to the plan from locals, especially when it was revealed that any development would be carried out not by the local council but by a newly appointed government body, the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation ( later amalgamated with similar bodies to form the Commission for New Towns ).

His view of Hemel Hempstead, he said, was “ not a city in a garden, but a city in a park .” However, the plans were not well received by most locals.

By the end of 1951, there was a waiting list of about 10, 000 wishing to move to Hemel.

In 1974, the government abolished the Borough of Hemel Hempstead and the town was incorporated into Dacorum District Council along with Tring and Berkhamsted.

Gadebridge Park also has an outdoor skatepark that was designed and supplied by local extreme sports fanatics " Hemel Skates " after earning ₤ 65, 000 through fundraising.

" By the eighteenth century the grain market in Hemel was one of the largest in the country.

In the nineteenth century, Hemel was a noted brickmaking, paper manufacturing and straw-plaiting centre.

In later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Hemel was also a noted watercress growing area, supplying 1 / 16 of the country's national demand — following development of the New Town, the watercress growing moved to nearby Berkhamsted and Tring.

In 1803 the first automatic papermaking machinery was developed in Hemel by the Fourdrinier brothers at Frogmore.

From 1967 to 1983, it was home to one of the most remarkable newspaper experiments of recent times, when the Thomson Organisation launched the Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo.

Hemel also was home of one of the first community based television stations West Herts TV which later became Channel 10.

This building was erected on the site of an earlier railway viaduct carrying the Hemel to Harpenden railway, known as The Nicky Line.

It was then temporarily reoccupied in 2006 after the Buncefield explosion destroyed Kodak's other Hemel offices.

He stood, and lost, as a parliamentary candidate for Hertfordshire West ( which included his former home town of Hemel Hempstead ) in the 1983 general election.

Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, lying on Watling Street, 3 miles from Harpenden, 4 miles from St Albans and 5 miles from Hemel Hempstead.

After a somewhat middling campaign in the Division 1 West the following season, a late surge saw Hemel promoted via the playoffs after a dramatic 3 – 2 win over Brackley Town, having been 2 – 1 behind until the 81st minute.

A long campaign took its toll as Hemel lost 3 – 1 in the semi-final to Team Bath.

In the playoffs, Team Bath won their semi final against Hemel Hempstead Town 3 – 1, and advanced to play Maidenhead United in the final.