A Local History Quiz 2021
and now you can peek at the answers - in the downloadable document at the end!
126 Southdown Road
Read's Greengrocery Shop
John James Willis (1842-1911) and his family
Births Marriages and Deaths and other information
Notes on Kinsbourne Green between the Wars
My formative years before a lifetime in Africa
Thomas Olney Luxon killed in WWI
A bellringer remembered in 2017
Cuthbert John Wolfe Lydekker
His work in Kenya and life in Harpenden
Luton Town Football Club
Information wanted about players, and photographs from Victorian times
The Diary of a Visit to Harpenden in 1962
Abel Banwell visits his sister and brother 50 years after emigrating to Australia
Were You a Farningham Boy transferred to Harpenden?
You would be welcome at the reunion on 20 September 2016
Shops which closed in 1985
and other incidents recorded by Rodney Marshall from 1985-1987
Personal Memories
My Life in Southdown in the 1930s and 1940s
A Harpenden Butcher's Boy
George Pearce worked for the family business - then for Dunckleys
Gleanings from Harpenden Races
Reports from the contemporary press of incidents that came before the courts.
A Harpenden Tale from the Old Bailey
Robbed on his way home from Smithfield Market
A history of 'The Almagam'
Heavy duty hoses made in Batford
Commander in Care
The Story of Percy English and Harpenden St John's Ambulance Brigade
More Memories of Harpenden's Childrens Home
Memories of Two NCH 'Sisters' from the 1940s to 1960s
Ken's Kingdom
Memories of life at the N.C.H, Highfield Oval, in the 1940s and 1950s
F.P.& C. SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB
A firm settles into Harpenden in 1939 for the war years
Harpenden in WWII - A.R.P.
Air Raid Precautions: Volunteers Enrol At Public Meeting
10 Crabtree Lane hit by a bomb
The boy saved by sleeping under the stairs
Edwin Richard Billingham 1870-1961
Owner of a music shop in Station Road
Walter Steabben, 1847 - 1932
Butcher, Church Green, Harpenden
Harpenden Breweries
Two side by side in the nineteen century High Street
Harpenden Evacuees 1939 - 1940
The stories behind some newly acquired records
Field House
A short history
John Bennet LAWES jn - ornithologist?
An Ostrich, a Vulture, an Owl and a Golden Eagle
The Lines Family in the Lea Valley
Descendants of Emily Lines (b. 1875 in St Albans)
Ernest Hasseldine (1875-1944): Local Harpenden Artist of Distinction
Designer of the Harpenden War Memorial Cross and the original Harpenden Sign
Ernest Hasseldine 1875 - 1944
An appreciation by Pat Wilson and an obituary from a newspaper
Ernest Hasseldine (1875-1944) - drawings, sketches, family photos etc
Various items associated with the artist, who lived and worked in Harpenden.
Anton Pieck - 1895-1987
An 'under-appreciated' Dutch artist, who visited Harpenden
After 'Rosemary'
The many functions of 28 Milton Road
Rosemary Hospital
"Rosemary" (28 Milton Road), 1915 - 1919