This is a chance for the people of Harpenden to play spot themselves. This is a photograph of St Nicholas Church Sunday School taken in the late 1950’s.
My wife, Carol BLAND, is near the back behind the REV. Her brother Malcolm is in the back row on the right side. Her youngest brother, Chris (Deceased), is just behind the REV. Her sister, Joan (Deceased) is near the back on the left. Her sister, Sylvia (Deceased) is seated to the right of the REV with a lad on her lap. She was a Sunday School teacher.
My Carol is not sure of the date or why the picture was taken. Maybe someone on this site can add this information.
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Gladys Smith was generally known as GAS because of her initials.
My mum, Jennifer Ruskin, is in this picture.
Ed – we have added your scan with the arrow showing her, with your caption.
Yes, agree it is Rev Veitch and Mr Lowe on LHS outside St Nicholas Church Hall. I am in next to back row, 4 children diagonally right back from the Rev.
By Christine Rice (nee MacLennan)
I think the young lady with a little boy on her lap at the right-hand end of the front row is my mother Janet Warner. Her maiden name was Gray. My grandfather Doug Gray used to work for Jarvis.
I have discussed the location of the picture with my wife and she is now of the opinion that it could be taken at St Nicholas Church.
Ed We have changed the title!
Surely this is St Nicholas’s Church Hall? I am in the third row of chidren, 2nd from the left. To my right is my younger brother, Dan and to my left my friend Michael Bentley. The Rector is Mr Veitch and to his right is Miss Gladys Smith who ran the St Nicholas Sunday School, then Tom Guyatt and (I think) Mr Lowe.
I can’t help much, but one thing that bothers me is the modernity of the building. I cannot remember that the old Coldharbour Lane Church had modern brickwork and windows. It was replaced by the new church in Station Road in the late 1950s or early 1960s, I think. The clergyman is Rev S N Veitch, who was Rector of Harpenden for many years. I think he had retired by that time, but he may have returned for a special occasion. He appears to be very frail and possibly sitting in a wheelchair.
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