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Reminiscences of a trainee nurse in the 1960s

Report of the talk given to the Society by Diane Hodgson following the Society's AGM held on 25 April 2017

Nicky return trip

James Leaning of Breadcroft Lane

Review of "A Life in Glass - Portrait of a Stained Glass Artist" by Francesca Stevens

Architect of a 'House at Harpenden' - Field House in Townsend Road

A Boys' Hobby Survives over a lifetime

Those Hardenwick Policemen again

and Patentee in 1888

Taken from Ernest Ackroyd's Scrapbook in LHS Archives

Local History stall attracts interest

Overseers accounts

Compiled from the prospectus and notes in our archives

I attended the school between 1949 and 1952. I don't know why my parents...
By Adrian Mandel
On 12/09/2017

and the Silver Cup Pond

I am also a descendant of the Archer family. I can only trace to c1851 Archer...
By Sharon
On 12/09/2017

Can you add any more names?

Albert Ashurst (no. 59) did indeed become a paid fireman. I worked with him in...
By Bernard Leddy
On 05/09/2017

From London's East End to the Wilds of Hertfordshire

I was at Harpenden from 1958 for a couple of years with my sister Pam and...
By Jacqueline Humphrey (short)
On 05/09/2017

Their Origins

No, there was no holly bush, or bushes at all in Holly Walk....
By dilys gray
On 05/09/2017

James Leaning of Breadcroft Lane

My father, Henry (Harry) Day, served and was wounded at Passchendaele. His...
By Duncan Day
On 17/08/2017

Illustrations from a talk by Judy Hamblin and Margaret Hewitt on 29 January 2013.

  Is there no information about when Elmfield was a school for...
By Heather Ward
On 08/08/2017

Their Origins

Any one know how Holly Walk got its name?  My home and my mother's...
By dilys Gray
On 08/08/2017

A Tribute to the Men who died in the Great War

Sheila Halliwell (nee Walthew) writes: the entry for John Syers...
By Diana Parrott
On 26/07/2017

Architect of a 'House at Harpenden' - Field House in Townsend Road

Geoff Woodward has contacted us to say that Field House was built by Charles...
By Rosemary Ross
On 25/07/2017

Station Road to Crabtree Lane

My great aunt, Mrs G Chaplin, lived at Yardleys, No16 Milton Road, with Mr and...
By Gavin Rowe
On 25/07/2017

and Patentee in 1888

If you look carefully at the Capelli shop front, and observe the two windows...
By Paul Dines
On 18/07/2017