Historic Hoddesdon - town centre walk

This is a walk around the historic inns of Hoddesdon provided by friends of the Lowewood Museum -

This circular walk of just under 1 mile starts in the garden at the rear of Lowewood Museum (there are car parks nearby at The Spotlight and to the south of Elsie House). Please be aware of traffic and take care when crossing roads. The walk looks at the homes of two of Hoddesdon’s prominent families, the Rawdons and the Warners, as well as some of the other people and places of interest in the area.

This is a showcase of a band of brothers (real brothers) who haven't performed for many years but have actually played in Hoddesdon at John Warner school hall and also in the Robert Barclay School hall. One of the brothers John is a longtime resident in Rye Park. The brothers discovering that the first rock and roll performers were influenced by American black gospel singers and guitarists in the middle years of the 20th century - promoted this music by playing it in a way that can be described as gospel skiffle - acoustic music you can dance to. This showcase from their 2 albums is set up as an audio showcase to show the potential for audio installations using echoes XYZ to showcase local musical talent. Hopefully we can feature more local musicians going forward. But for now enjoy the Woebegone Brothers; the albums will be put on Bandcamp if you would like to download them. There are even cassettes if you still have a player!

During the lockdown Dave and Mauveen Lee used to walk up to the tunnel which carries Spitalbrook underneath the A10 and sing songs they had learned from the church around the world. The tunnel is full of graffiti - the news was bad as the first wave of Covid raged. But the acoustics in the tunnel were amazing! A selection of the songs has been placed in a circuit in Barclay Park and up to the tunnel across the fields. If you want your own copy of the songs there are a whole CD of them which Dave and Mauveen are using as a fundraiser for the roof of St Cuthberts church in Rye Park. You can track them down on Facebook. Enjoy the tunnel songs of the lockdown. There is light at the end of the tunnel!

More than 1,100 Haileyburians were killed in both of the World Wars, and more have died in other conflicts since then. List of poems: In Memoriam by Anna Akhmatova (read by Freddie Baylis, Anastasia Tikhturova and Francesca Arici) The Messages by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (read by Cagla Eriuce) On Seeing a Poet of the First World War at Abbeville, Charles Causley (read by Lilibet Philpott and Hadrien Moortgat) Since they have died (1917) by May Wedderburn Cannnan (read by Pia Ganske) August 1914 , Isaac Rosenberg (read by Stuart Cuff) The Last Post by Louie Carvacho (memory of 2017 Remembrance Ceremony) Exposure by Wilfred Owen (read by Maria Giles) “There will come soft rains” by Sara Teasdale (read by Franziska Friedrich and Aniek Blok) The Soldier by Ruper Brooke (read by Alessio Yu) ‘Going Over’ by Charles G.D. Roberts (read by Honor Harding) To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley read by Dr. Lucy Johnson Setting out by Ernst Stadler read by Alex Ritter von Kempski In Flanders Fields by John McCrae(1915) read by Rosanna Parry Easter Monday (1917) by Eleanor Farjeon read by Costanza Lorini The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu read by Hannah Koon Tristes Guerras by Miguel Hernandez read by Mr. José Martinez Fragment by Rupert Brooke read by Zara Kolberg In Flanders Fields, John McCrae read by Mr. Fergus Hardy There will come soft rains by Sara Teasdale read by Giorgia Cocumelli and Karolin Vocke Easter Monday, Eleanor Farjeon read by Flora Salzer Death of Harry Patch by Andrew Motion read by Luca Baumgardt Fratelli by Giuseppe Ungaretti read by Guendalina Spigarelli Para la Libertad by Miguel Hernandez read by Mr. José Martinez To one dead by Francis Ledwidge read by Carolin Luisa Lange A Century Later by Imtiaz Dharker read by Elena Coppola Picnic (1917) by Rose Macaulay read by Amelie Garnies Last Post by Carol Ann Duffy read by Dr. Alan Bates

Inspired by my relationship with and time spent with Richard Demarco, who enlightened me on the concept of art as a journey. A Hertford walk to Teardrop Island. Get the best experience by downloading the walk. DIRECTIONS: Start on the brige in Mill Road. The indicator shows you your position. Walk into each bubble. All the music featured in this walk is available on various online platforms. Follow me: @aletiaupstairs on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter or email: music@aletiaupstairs.com. Donations:paypal.me/aletiaupstairs DIRECTIONS: Start on the bridge at the bottom of Mill Road, with Hertford Basin on your left, then follow the numbers in sequence. The indicator shows you your position. Walk into each bubble.

"Voice of trees" is a sound installation of poems in nature by Italian artist Giovanna Iorio. Enjoy a sound walk in Hertford Castle discovering poems in different location of the beautiful park, listen to the "Voice of trees" and find the ten poems one by one or enjoy all of them in the Moat Garden. The sound installation is also in Panshanger, near the Great Oak And on the River Lea, near the Willow Sound walk by Giovanna Iorio Poems by Giovanna Iorio English Translation by Marco Sonzogni Voice Charlotte Chadwick-Jones Music Lucio Lazzaruolo https://www.notturnoconcertante.it/ Images on covers: Voice Portraits by Giovanna Iorio https://voiceportraits.weebly.com/

A sound walk in Epping Forest listening to the voice of trees. Ten voices in 'London's great Forest' to celebrate trees. Ten poems from "Love poems for a tree" by Giovanna Iorio English Translation by Marco Sonzogni Sound Walk by Giovanna Iorio Voice Charlotte Chadwick-Jones Music Lucio Lazzaruolo https://www.notturnoconcertante.it/ Images on covers: Voice Portraits by Giovanna Iorio https://voiceportraits.weebly.com/