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- Electricity was first connected in Stapleford Tawney in 1932 and most of the parish was supplied with water by the Herts & Essex Waterworks Co. in 1949. Electricity did not reach Stanford Rivers until 1951, although they did have a telephone service by 1926.
- In 1538 Thomas Cromwell Vicar-general to Henry VIII, ordered the keeping of parish registers to record all baptisms, marriages and burials in cities, towns and villages throughout the land. Source Thus he set in motion a priceless source of reference for genealogists and historians over succeeding centuries to the present day.
