The Spinning Wheel (image courtesy Harris Digital Productions) The Spinning Wheel is a grade II listed building, and when first built in 1849, it was called the Italian Cottage, having a northern Italian and Swiss influence to its architecture. With its deep bracketed eaves and gabbles it is without doubt a lovely building an a rare example of what is known as a Swiss cottage stlyle. Mr. Septimus Warner... 

Hoddesdon Bank in 1876 Hoddesdon’s first Bank opened in the High Street, on the corner of what we know today as Brocket Road in the 1870s, as a branch of the Hertford bank of Tuke, Lucas and Seebohm.   Mr. Septimus Warner Mr. Septimus Warner was the first manager, followed by his son, Mr. Howard L. Warner (who in his time took quite a prominent part in town affairs), and then by the latter’s...