Hatfield

Hatfield is where i grew up. I was 7 when we had to move here. Initially we hated it as it was all so new back in the early 60s. We had moved from a village and us 3 kids didn’t want to leave our idyllic setting. My parents came here for work and so,Hatfield became home. It was hard to begin with. In those days, if you had a foreign-sounding name (I guess it was the same all over England back then)the kids gave you a hard time. Somehow, we weathered the storm and even made a few friends. I did a stint selling the Evening Standard outside Hatfield railway station – brrrr! cold evenings a lot of the time. I remember going to the markets well, with my mum and the library. We lived on the “wrong side of the tracks”, the poorer side of town. That’s ok. It helped to form us kids as to the people we are today. Used to love going to Stanborough swimming pool and walking in the grounds of Hatfield park. What can one say. Hatfield was a part of my growing up years and I’d love to go back one day and have a good look around.

Been once it was enough

I am leaving Hatfield and am moving to Spain for a year which is a bit of a godsend to be honest. This town is not a nice place to live as has nothing in it and is filled with lots of litte children who dont care about the law or anyone else but themselves. They are one problem i have seen that has developed in the 11 years i have been living here. It also has nothing to offer apart from the university which is nice and most of it new.

The new hatfield (millions being spent on schools, hospital, new town centre, improved housing) will be a considerable improvement but it is only because it has got so bad it is in need of an overahul.

Overall, dont come if you can avoid it, give it 5 years

A small town, nothing special to visit, yet great University and Student Life !!!

I am in my fourth and final year at university of hertfordshire, which since 2003, is all in hatfield.

shame to leave but i cant say il miss the town.. actually i am convinced it is THE worst university town in the country.

which makes me smile