A baby clinic was initially held in Hatfield at St John’s mission hall. In 1959 the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) started a Mother and Baby Clinic at Hilltop. Jessie Axford describe the development of the clinic and the activities it ran:
First Christmas in a new house in new town Hatfield in 1960
First Christmas in a new house in new town Hatfield in the late 1950s
Starting up a new Pharmacy business in New Town Hatfield in the late 1950s
Setting up a business in the new town in the late 1950s
Shopping facilities in South Hatfield in the late 1950s
Working on the cleanup operation after the 1957 storm damage
Storm damage to the new town houses in Hatfield
Jessie Axford moved to Hatfield in 1956 with her husband, having previously lived in Surrey
Moving to a new house and building work
