Carolyn Englert, a resident of the USA came across this little statue, labelled "Billiken", in her grandmother's china collection. The Billiken was first produced in 1909 by an American art teacher and illustrator, Florence Pretz  of Missouri, as a good luck charm.  Florence Pretz had seen a vision of this mysterious figure in a dream.   It […]

The Standon and Puckeridge Village Index used to live at SPEC – the Standon and Puckeridge Electronic Centre in Standon. The idea for the Index developed from a chance discussion during a meeting of the Amenities wholesale nfl jerseys Society Committee in 1998.  We had been talking about our two recent publications – the Village […]

This piece started life as a set of notes used for an informal talk presented to The Standon and Puckeridge Amenities Society in 1995. The backcloth used at that time was a mosaic of 1/1250 scale map sheets – the set produced by Hertfordshire County Council in 1984 – so much of the story was […]