Bowling Alley, now Southdown

1860s to 1930s

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For an account of the development of shops, businesses and churches in Southdown see a description drawn up in the 1990s in The Development of Harpenden.

Photo:Hodgsons Meadow Southdown Road - 1912? - watercolour by E Salisbury

Photo:Bowling Alley from the Common - 1868 - watercolour by Jane Gilbert

Photo:Plough and Harrow Southdown Road -1912? - Watercolour by Edith Salisbury

Photo:Watler's Farm Bowling Alley - Watercolour

Photo:Queens Road Cottages from Walkers Road - 1930's

Photo:St Johns Church, Crabtree Lane, known as the Paper Church - 1900. It was spectacularly consumed by fire in 1905. The new St John's Church was built facing the Common in St John's Road in 1908.

Photo:Southdown Primitive Methodist Chapel - built 1865. Rebuilt and rededicated in 1970.

Photo:Skew Bridge - building the additional span - 1891. Click on the photo for more about the railway line.

Photo:Laying main sewer in Southdown Road - 1930's8

Photo:Laying sewer in Southdown near Shops - 1930

Photo:Main sewer under Piggottshill Lane - 1930

Photo:Piggottshill Lane before widening - March 1930

Photo:Piggottshill near Aldwickbury April 1930

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