Chapter 2
I go to Mexico. See a bull fight, a cock fight. And fly over a thousand miles.
As the train steamed on its way in the night I looked out on to the desert. In th...
history
Chapter 1
I leave for America. New York, Boston, Chicago and dates. A jazz movement. By the Los Angeles Limited. Utah. In the Film World.
16.12.29. On board the "Lev...
Preface
Travel and adventures of an English woman in Latin America
Violet Cressy-Marcks
(1895-1970)
Violet Cressy-Marcks was fearless when faced with physical threats...
When ‘God’ came to Watford?
CONTINUING WITH OUR LOOK AT THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF HAZELWOOD HOUSE, WE BRING YOU THE STORY OF ANOTHER FAMOUS RESIDENT - WHO TO SOME WAS GOD.
Hazelwood resid...
English Rose or English Spy? The Extraordinary life of Hazelwood’s Violet Cressy-Marcks
VIOLET OLIVIA CRESSY-MARCKS WAS BORN ON 9 JUNE 1895 AND LAID TO REST ON 10 SEPTEMBER 1970, AT LANGLEYBURY CHURCH - AND MY DID SHE DESERVE HER REST
Scientist, tr...
The fascinating history of Hazelwood House
Hidden away off Essex Lane in Abbots Langley is the Hunton Park Hotel. But prior to becoming Hunton Park, it was known as Hazelwood, and what an interesting pla...