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Harpenden's (and other) Butterflies in Verse
My 300 Years of Harpenden History - Part II: 1823 onwards
The Banana Republic of Elizabethan England
Orchids
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Changing Times - Harpenden 1981 and now
Remembering the Coronation of 1953
Salisbury Hall and the de Havilland Aircraft Company
Maritime Literature across the Centuries
Lawes and Gilbert: an unlikely Victorian agricultural partnership
Life in another world: Electron Microscopes at Rothamsted
My Dream Job at the BBC Natural History Unit
A visit to Gorhambury
Gorhambury through the Ages - 1771-2017
Treasures of the Hertfordshire Archives - The Amy Coburn Lecture
Harpenden, Batford and the Danelaw Boundary
Chocks away at Shuttleworth
Medieval churches in North Bedfordshire
Living on the Common: a landscape history of Harpenden Common
F. H. Crittall: Metal Windows and Modernism
The Clinton-Baker Pinetum at Bayfordbury
Sex, Crime, Punishment & Philanthropy: Everyday stories from the life of John Bennet Lawes as revealed by his diaries.
Being Prepared: A Brief History of Scouting
Before the Developers got at it: Harpenden 1945-1960
Visit to Redbournbury Mill
The Spy who is buried in Harpenden
Time Flies at Old Warden - the history of the Shuttleworth Collection
Everest:The First Ascent.The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible.
The Medieval Churches of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire
The Rothamsted Insect Survey: A national asset with a local history
Edward Wilson (1872-1912), Explorer, Naturalist and Artist on Scott's Polar Expeditions
Luton's Markets and Fairs
Pictures in the Museum of St Albans
Front Line Kent - Coastal Defences of the Kent Coast.
History Society Visits to Luton Hoo Walled Garden
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
Luton Hoo Mansion and Estate
The Life and Times of Charles Hill
Luton Hoo Mansion
From Pint Pot to Coffee Pot: Breweries and the Temperance Movement.
Delving into Harpenden Shops
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
Elmfield School
The Second Battle of St Albans - 17 February 1461
Frank Owen Salisbury 1874 - 1962
Batford Springs: Harpenden's local nature reserve
Childwickbury - a short history of the estate, the stud and its owners
Childwickbury Stud
From Arkwright to Mayor
The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire
The First Battle of St Albans
Maps in the last 300 years
The College of Arms
The Civil War in Hertfordshire - 1642-1647
Building the St. Albans Bypass (now 50 years old)
Roman Aqueducts - Did they reach Britain?
The "Time Team" at Norman Cross
Hertfordshire Transportations
Visit to Mill Green museum, July 2010
Hertfordshire Bridges
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Harpenden Local History - Summer events 2016
Recent Exhibitions
Harpenden in the Great War
Harpenden's smaller green spaces and the volunteers who inspired and help maintain them
The Home Front in Harpenden - 1939
Getting around in Harpenden - Transport through the Ages
Theodora Wilson's Travels
Exhibition of Geology in Hertfordshire, 2 March 2013
The Society's publications - 1973-2018
The Story of Harpenden from Village to Town
Harpenden Town Trail 1 - The High Street
Harpenden Town Trail 2 - The Common
Published in March 2013 - Two Trails
The Harpenden Races - 1837-1914
Theodora's Journals
Theodora's Journals
The story of Theodora's Journals
Monographs and reprints
Monographs and reprints
Other publications of local interest
The Story of Wheathampstead and Harpenden in 6 parts, with Index
Harpenden: A Village at War
Harpenden - The Postcard Collection
Life on the Home Front one hundred years ago
Hertfordshire's Historic Inland Waterway: Batchworth to Berkhamsted
Cholera in Victorian England
From Nationalisation to Privatisation
Recent publications by John Seabrook
Recent publications by John Cooper
Other recent local publications
"Searching for Grace"
The History of Wheathampstead and Harpenden in Six parts
Annual reports
Annual Report for 2013
Our Museum Collection
Leather-working tools
Mugs and Plates
Pencil drawing of "An Old Gentleman Reading, 1951", by John Frye Bourne
Straw plaiting and bonnet making tools
News about Society members and activities
David and Janet Keen
Armed Forces Day, 28 June 2014
40th anniversary of Harpenden Local History Society - donation of the "H J Joel Cup" by Harpenden Horticultural Society
Ernest Heasman's paintings of Hatching Green
Harpenden Carnival, 10 June 2017
Presentation of 'Theodora's Journals'
Town Council makes history awards
Welcome to "Theodora's Journals"
A big day for Harpenden Local History Society
Congratulations to the Society
Harpenden makes History
Harpenden's History needs a Home
Tributes to past members
Amy Coburn (1927-2016) - an appreciation
David Hinton - 1937-2011
Eric Brandreth
Les Casey - 1930 to 2017
Ronald Arthur Staines - 1929 to 2017
How to Explore and Contribute to the Site
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Introduction to Harpenden's History
Brief history of Harpenden & general articles
'Tommy' Shadbolt and The Everest Chain
Harpenden Development Association
Harpenden in the Abercrombie Plan
Harpenden Village Sign
Harpenden's 'Dry Valley'
Harpenden's Open Air Swimming Pool - opened in May 1960
Harpenden's Storm Floods - Sunday 21 June 1936
Harpenden, Batford and the Danelaw Boundary
Holes around Harpenden
Jesse Catton (1870-1949)
Ponds in Harpenden
Rothamsted and the Midland Railway Company
Sunday opening for Harpenden cinemas
The First Geophysical Survey to help establish Batford's History: March 2015
Unusual visitors to Harpenden
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 1: The east side from Sun Lane to Harpenden House Hotel (Welcombe)
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
An Introduction to Harpenden
Harpenden: the growth of a village (1)
Harpenden: the growth of a village (2)
Harpenden: the growth of a village (3)
Harpenden Census 1871 and 2001
Notes on the Growth of Harpenden
The Growth of Harpenden
Harpenden in 1905, by Arthur Mee
Cornelia Clutterbuck (1916 -1987), seen through her Scrapbook Diaries
Myrtle Cottage
The Kin - Harpenden's forgotten river?
The Slip
The Telephone comes to Harpenden
Hard winters
Hertfordshire Puddingstone
Rhymes from Hertfordshire
Alzey - twinned with Harpenden for 50 years
Maps and Plans
An 1868 Deed of Enfranchisement of copyhold land
The Saxon boundaries of the parishes of Wheathampstead and Harpenden
Ends and Greens
Farms identified on the 1843 Tithe Award Map for Harpenden
Station Road in 1878 and around 1914
Development Plan for Harpenden 1952
Notes on the Growth of Harpenden
The Growth of Harpenden
Walks about Harpenden
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 1: The east side from Sun Lane to Harpenden House Hotel (Welcombe)
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
A West Common Walk
Harpenden Town Trail 1 - The High Street
Harpenden Town Trail 2 - The Common
Harpenden's smaller green spaces and the volunteers who inspired and help maintain them
Lyddeker Park
Memories of old Harpenden around 1900
High Street and village/town centre
125 years of Barclays Bank
6 High Street, Harpenden
65 High Street, Harpenden
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 1: The east side from Sun Lane to Harpenden House Hotel (Welcombe)
A walk along Harpenden High Street in the early 1870s - Part 2: along the west side from Leyton Green to Kirkdale Road (then Church Wick) and back to the Silver Cup
Ben and Clara Rowe
Bowers House
Church Green in the early 1890s
Elm trees in Harpenden
Farmsteads on Harpenden High Street
From Kirkwick to Glen Eagle Manor Hotel
Gardener's cottage, Lydekker estate
Gibraltar Bar and "Rose Lane"
Harpenden in the 1860s, recalled in 1935
Harpenden Shops in 1963
Harpenden Town Trail 1 - The High Street
Harpenden Village Pond
Harpenden's Oldest House?
Harpenden's Post Office
Harpenden's Storm Floods - Sunday 21 June 1936
Henry Freedman; Founder of Slenderella
Inn on the Green
James Busby
Leyton Hall
Loss of a Family Friend
Memories of a Postal Officer and Postman
Memories of old Harpenden around 1900
Mr I S Smith's Preparatory Academy, Harpenden
My Aunt's 'Snaps'
Oggelsby's Centenary - 1873 to 1973
Old well in the High Street?
Prize for Harpenden Station gardens, 1949
Putterills' Garage
Railway Hotel - Harpenden Arms
Reads' Motors
Shops which closed in 1985
St Vincent De Paul Hostel
Sun Lane corner
T Simons Wine and Spirit Merchant
Thatched cottages in Harpenden High Street
The (Old) Red Lion
The Cross Keys
The Old Cock
The Putterill family
The Samwells Family in Harpenden
The Story of the New Public Hall
The White Lion
Tollgate Cottage - Tollgate Hotel
Victoria Road Schools - 1897 - 1997
Waverley Mills
The Common
2 Southdown Road
A West Common Walk
Bennetts and its inhabitants
Coach Lane Cottage, 39 Leyton Road
Cricket on the Common
Harpenden Cricket Club
Harpenden Public Halls
Harpenden Races
Harpenden Town Trail 2 - The Common
Jim Jarvis (1920s - 2012)
Living on the Common: a landscape history of Harpenden Common
No.2 Southdown Road, Harpenden
Orchids
Orchids
Orchids
Orchids
Orchids
Orchids
Park Hall
Park Stables in the 1960s
Rothamsted Park Gates
The Baa Lamb Trees
The Baa Lamb Trees
The Dene
The Dunkley Family (Harpenden Blacksmiths)
The Flora of Harpenden
The Old House, formerly The Bull
The Park Stables
The Racecourse, a Recollection
The Recently Constructed Pond on Harpenden Common
Welcombe
Yew Tree Farm - Prezzo
West Common
Auction of cottages on Leyton Road, behind the Silver Cup
Coach Lane Cottage, 39 Leyton Road
Eighty years of change to Jarvis houses in West Common
Flowton Priory
Jarvis houses of the 1930s on the West Common Estate, photographed by Jim Jarvis as they were built
Pimlico Place - Harpenden 1822-1972
The Director's House
Hatching Green
Ernest Heasman's paintings of Hatching Green
Francis Smith's Memories of Harpenden
Hammondsend
History of Hatching Green
Rothamsted Manor
The Lawrence Family at Hatching Green
The White Horse Inn
The Avenues
The Avenues
Rothamsted
A Brief History of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1843 to 1901
A Brief History of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1843 to 1901
Creekmouth Village
Lady Lawes-Wittewronge's bills - 1912-13
Lawes and Gilbert: an unlikely Victorian agricultural partnership
Marianne Sherman's Music and Dance manuscripts (1806)
Rothamsted Allotment Club
Rothamsted Experimental Station - 1914-18
Rothamsted Manor
Rothamsted Park
Rothamsted Park Gates
Royal Visits to Harpenden
The Lost Diaries and Accounts of Sir John Bennet Lawes
The Story of the Manor of Rothamsted
Station Road/Stakers Lane
Chestnut Cottage, Home Farm
Foster Yeoman Ladies' Wear
Harpenden's Post Office
Jarvis Brothers promotional brochure on Harpenden in the late 1930s
More from Station Road
Station Road shops in the 1930s
The History behind Numbers 24 and 26 Station Road
Manland - between Station Road and Ox Lane
Manland Beacon
Bowling Alley / Southdown
A Harpenden Butcher's Boy
Aldwickbury
Brauer's of Harpenden
Businesses in Bowling Alley & Southdown
Elizabeth Ashby of Piggotts Manor (1710/11 - 1743)
George and Ellen Roome of Cravells Road
Heath Road, Harpenden in the 1960's
Inspector of Nuisances
Living in Harpenden - from 1879-1939
Mary Constable - 1810-1912
Memories of Harpenden, 1903 - 1914
My Ancestor was a Straw Plaiter in Bowling Alley
My Early Harpenden Childhood
Myrtle Cottage
Oggelsby's - the Blacksmiths at Southdown
Oggelsby's Centenary - 1873 to 1973
Personal Memories
Pictures of Southdown (Bowling Alley) 1890, 1900 and 2007 compared
Southdown - Heath Road - We called it The Borough/Burrow
Southdown - Southdown Road
Southdown Methodist Church
Southdown Women's Institute Choir
The Plough And Harrow
The Rose & Crown - GONE
Weston's Grocery Store
Wilson Brothers garage, Southdown
Coldharbour and Westfield
Coldharbour and Westfield
Memories of Highmoor, Westfield Common in the 1920s and 1930s
Nurseries and Market Gardens along the Lea Valley
Over a decade living in Coldharbour Lane
The Methodist 'tin' church in Coldharbour Lane
The Mission Room (All Saints Church), Coldhabour Lane
Batford
A history of 'The Almagam'
Basket Making at Batford
Batford added to Harpenden
Batford in the 1950s and 1960s
Batford Memories
Batford Sports Club Ltd
Batford springs mid summer, 2015
Batford Springs: Harpenden's local nature reserve
Batford swimming pool
Batford swimming pool
E P (Pat) Wilson - 1910-1988
Electrocult Ltd
Extracts from the Memories of Mr Ernest Ackroyd - Batford, 1904-1914
Harpenden Corps of Drums
Methodists' 130 years at Batford
More Batford Memories
My Aunt's 'Snaps'
Some Memories of Harpenden East Station
The First Geophysical Survey to help establish Batford's History: March 2015
The Lines Family in the Lea Valley
Tribute to Sid Anderson - Quoits champion
Water Mills Along the River Lea
Watercress Beds
Kinsbourne Green
A landgirl remembers working at Annables
A landgirl remembers working at Annables
A letter from the Boer War - June 5th 1900
Dreadful Fire
From Natwest Banking to Scouting
Gibraltar Bar and "Rose Lane"
Green Lawns, Kinsbourne Green
Horse & Hound and Gypsies on Kinsbourne Green
Kinsbourne Green
Kinsbourne Green Common in the 1930s
Notes on Kinsbourne Green between the Wars
Notes on Kinsbourne Green between the Wars
The Kin - Harpenden's forgotten river?
The Wernher Room, Kinsbourne Green
Thrales End
WWI reflected in Connie Howard's "Kinsbourne Green: My Childhood Village"
Street by Street
Ridge House
Road Names of Harpenden
Roundwood Park from the 1920s to 2018 - Part 2
Roundwood Park from the 1960s to 2018 - Part I
The Development of North Harpenden
Aldwickbury Farm estates
Development of Aldwickbury Farm
Coleswood Road
Coleswood Road
Cravells Road
An Old House In Cravells Road
George and Ellen Roome of Cravells Road
Inspector of Nuisances
Living in Harpenden - from 1879-1939
Quoits clubs in Harpenden
Milton Road
51 Milton Road
After 'Rosemary'
Milton Road East Side
Milton Road East Side
Milton Road West Side
Park View Estate
Park View House
Report on Rosemary Hospital 1917/18
The Fishers at Milton Lodge
Moreton Avenue
8 Moreton Avenue
Proposal for new houses in Moreton Avenue, 1905
Station Road from Carlton Road to Coldharbour Lane
A walk along Station Road before 1914
Croft Nurseries, MacDonald, father and sons
More from Station Road
The Harpenden Ink Factory
William Sparrow, Harpenden builder
The Elliswick Estate - 1923
Townsend Lane Estate
Townsend Lane Estate
Townsend Lane Estate Gallery
People
"Dad's Story" - Tom Todd recalls his life in Harpenden
Cuthbert John Wolfe Lydekker
Harpenden memories
John James Bailey LDS RCS 1855 - 1941
My 300 Years of Harpenden History - Part II: 1823 onwards
Tribute to Ian Fulton (1934-2019)
Harpenden's MPs
Geoffrey Ernest Ackroyd - 1930-2017
Extracts from the Memories of Mr Ernest Ackroyd - Batford, 1904-1914
Charles Akrill (1840-1907)
The Anscombe family
Shepherd Arnold
The Diary of a Visit to Harpenden in 1962
Douglas Bader, RAF Hero
Douglas Bader, RAF Hero
Douglas Bader, RAF Hero
Dr William Henry Blake (1853-1933)
Ursula Bloom, cinema pianist
Sir John Blundell Maple (1845-1903)
Elizabeth Bowen - 1899-1973
Winifred Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883 - 1953)
Quaker Wilfred H. Brown
Arthur Jacob Buck (1869 to 1961)
Jesse Catton (1870-1949)
Cornelia Clutterbuck (1916 -1987), seen through her Scrapbook Diaries
Mary Constable - 1810-1912
John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham
Dr Edward Charles Davenport - 1871-1958
Albert Edward Dines (Ted)
The family of Albert and Agnes Dines
The Dunkley Family (Harpenden Blacksmiths)
The Elmes Family of Coleswood House
Percy English
Commander in Care
Major Esterhazy - "Count de Voilement"
Captain G E Forsaith
Judy Fryd
The Haddens of Harpenden Lodge
Frederick Arthur Harris - c1891-1962
Thomas George Harris - 1873-1957
Julius Harrison - 1885-1963
John Henshaw: A British Schools Headmaster
George Howard Herring - c.1891-1956
Dr Hester
Charles Hill - 'The Radio Doctor' - 1904-1989
The Life and Times of Charles Hill
Henry Tylston Hodgson of Welcombe
Henry Tylston Hodgson - 1843-1918
The Jarvis brothers - founders of a Harpenden building company
Jim Jarvis (1920s - 2012)
The Kiff Family
Harry Knight's Memories of Harpenden before 1914
Lady Caroline Lawes - 1822-1895
Lady Caroline Lawes - 1822-1895
Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge
Terry Lightfoot
The Lines Family in the Lea Valley
The Lydekker Family, 1650-1983
The Lydekkers of Harpenden Lodge - 1853-1979
The Lydekkers of Tollgate Cottage
Sub Lieutenant John Ryck Wolfe Lydekker
Eric Meadows (1924-2009)
The Montaubans and St George's
Eric Morecambe
Eric Morecambe
The Munt family of 30 Batford Road
Dr Griffith Pugh - 1909-1994
Everest:The First Ascent.The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible.
My WWII - What it was like for me, Peter Rayner
George and Ellen Roome of Cravells Road
James Quilter Rumball (1795-1872)
Adam Rutherford
Raphael Salaman - 1906-1993
The Salisburys of Limbrick Hall
Sir Edward Salisbury and Chrystel Lebas
Henry Salisbury - 1839-1923
The Samwells Family in Harpenden
Alec Shanks and 'The Three Minute Rule'
Dolphin Smith - 1879 - 1956
Dr Frederick Robert Spackman (1820-1892)
Walter Steabben, 1847 - 1932
Sir Halley Stewart Kt, F.K.C. J.P. 1838 -1937
Ellen Terry - the James Quilter Rumball connection
Ellen Terry (1847-1928)
Wilfred OttoThomas
Wilfred OttoThomas
Wilfred OttoThomas
Frederick Thurston - 1854-1933
The Weston family of Alma Cottage, Coleswood Road
Weston family
Edward Wilson (1872-1912), Explorer, Naturalist and Artist on Scott's Polar Expeditions
E P (Pat) Wilson - 1910-1988
I rang a doorbell in Colchester and a door opened in Harpenden.
Wittewronge connections in the seventeenth century
Winifred (Freda) Wyborn - 1899-1990
Artists
A Gallery of Harpenden, St Albans and Wheathampstead pictures by Anton Pieck
Ernest Heasman at Nedneprah, East Common
John Frye Bourne
Kate Richardson, Harpenden artist (1861-1941)
Pencil drawing of "An Old Gentleman Reading, 1951", by John Frye Bourne
Shepherd Arnold
John Frye Bourne (1912-1991)
Ernest Hasseldine 1875 - 1944
Ernest Hasseldine (1875-1944): Local Harpenden Artist of Distinction
Ernest Heasman - 1874-1927
Anton Pieck - 1895-1987
Frank O Salisbury
Frank O Salisbury's stained glass windows in Highfield Oval
Frank O. Salisbury's prophets
Frank Owen Salisbury
Frank Owen Salisbury 1874 - 1962
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
Frank Salisbury - The Passing of Queen Eleanor
In Praise of Flowers
In the Steps of Frank O. Salisbury, Portrait and Stained Glass Artist, 1874-1962
The Nativity - mural by Frank O. Salisbury
Scientists
A Passion for Plants
Joan Moore OBE (1920 - 1986)
Katherine Warington - 1897 to 1993
Margaret Holden ( c1922 - 1998)
Robert Warington FRS - 1838-1907
The Lost Diaries and Accounts of Sir John Bennet Lawes
Winifred Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883 - 1953)
Sir Frederick Bawden
Sir John Bennet Lawes
John Bennet LAWES jn - ornithologist?
Philip Herries Gregory F.R.S. (1907-1986)
Sir Alfred Daniel Hall (1864-1942)
Hans Kalmus
Basil Kassanis F.R.S. 1911-1985
Howard Latimer Penman F.R.S. 1909-1984
Norman Pirie F.R.S. 1907-1997
Sir John Russell (1872-1965)
Mike Westmacott and Griffith Pugh
Frank Yates FRS - 1902-1994
George Hogg & his life in China
Blades of Grass
George Hogg - 1915-1945
George Hogg (1915-1945) and St George's School - 1927-1934
George Hogg and Gung Ho
George Hogg and the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of China Gungho in 2018
George Hogg celebrations in Shandan, western China, 2 & 3 December 2015
More celebrations of George Hogg and the Gung Ho movement in China - September 2016
Rewi Alley's tribute to George Hogg in 1945
Topics - from Archaeology to Wartime
Archaeology & Geology
Burial Mound in the Lea Valley
Exhibition of Geology in Hertfordshire, 2 March 2013
Exhibition of Geology in Hertfordshire, 2 March 2013
Geology and Soils of the Harpenden District
Harpenden's 'Dry Valley'
Harpenden, Batford and the Danelaw Boundary
Harpenden, Batford and the Danelaw Boundary
Hertfordshire Puddingstone
Iron Age Burial in Harpenden
Roman Aqueducts - Did they reach Britain?
Roman Aqueducts - Did they reach Britain?
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
The First Geophysical Survey to help establish Batford's History: March 2015
Traces of Roman occupation
Archives and local history resources
Accounts of the Surveyors of the Highways for the Parish of Harpenden
An 1868 Deed of Enfranchisement of copyhold land
Edward the Confessor's Charter, 1060
London Livery Company Apprentices from Harpenden & Wheathampstead
Parish Chest
The Reformation comes to Harpenden
Buildings
2 Southdown Road
65 High Street, Harpenden
After 'Rosemary'
Akrill House - A Notable Building in Harpenden
An Old House In Cravells Road
Auction of cottages on Leyton Road, behind the Silver Cup
Bennetts and its inhabitants
Bowers House
Coach Lane Cottage, 39 Leyton Road
Coach Lane Cottage, 39 Leyton Road
Conservation of a 1910 Underground Water Storage System
Discovery Day 2014 - Promotion of the Society
Edward J Dodgshun - 1851-1927
Eighty years of change to Jarvis houses in West Common
Fire at the Red House - 27 August 1896
Flowton Priory
From Kirkwick to Glen Eagle Manor Hotel
Hammondsend
Harpenden Hall
Harpenden Lodge
Harpenden's Oldest House?
Harpenden's Post Office
Jarvis Brothers promotional brochure on Harpenden in the late 1930s
Jarvis houses of the 1930s on the West Common Estate, photographed by Jim Jarvis as they were built
Jim Jarvis's photos of 'Jarvis houses' in the 1930s
Loss of a Family Friend
Pigeonwick, Fallows Green
Rose Cottage, High Street
Rothamsted Manor
St Helena's, 40 Luton Road
Thatched cottages in Harpenden High Street
The Dene
The Director's House
The History behind Numbers 24 and 26 Station Road
The Maple Convalescent Home
The Old House, formerly The Bull
The Red House, auctioned in 1904
The Red House, Carlton Road
Tollgate Cottage - Tollgate Hotel
Tollgate Hotel, 65 High Street, Harpenden
Welcombe
Yew Tree Farm - Prezzo
Businesses, trades, employment
A history of 'The Almagam'
Bill Gaskin - Harpenden hairdresser
Brauer's of Harpenden
Claygate Orchards
Creekmouth Village
F.P.& C. SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB
Harpenden's Post Office
Henry Freedman; Founder of Slenderella
Jarvis Brothers promotional brochure on Harpenden in the late 1930s
John James Bailey LDS RCS 1855 - 1941
Loss of a Family Friend
Luton Road Sub-Post Office
Memories of the NCH printing school
Nurseries and Market Gardens along the Lea Valley
Oggelsby's - the Blacksmiths at Southdown
Oggelsby's Centenary - 1873 to 1973
Ox Lane Nurseries
Reads' Motors
Stained Glass in Harpenden - Geoffrey Harper's contribution
Straw plaiting and bonnet making tools
T Simons Wine and Spirit Merchant
The History behind Numbers 24 and 26 Station Road
The Laurels Guest House
The Park Stables
Thomas George Harris - 1873-1957
William Sparrow, Harpenden builder
Wilson Brothers garage, Southdown
Apprentices in 18th Century Harpenden
Apprenticeship in 1911
Basket Making at Batford
125 years of Barclays Bank
Batford Mill - 1850s and 1860s
Businesses in Bowling Alley & Southdown
Croft Nurseries, MacDonald, father and sons
Edwin Richard Billingham 1870-1961
Electrocult Ltd
George Coburn and Sons
Green Lawns, Kinsbourne Green
Harpenden Breweries
Harpenden Breweries
Hawes & Harris, stained glass window makers
Heathfield Works
Inn on the Green
Jarvis the Builder
London Livery Company Apprentices from Harpenden & Wheathampstead
Putterills' Garage
The Dunkley Family (Harpenden Blacksmiths)
The Elliott 401 Computer at Rothamsted
The Harpenden Ink Factory
The History of Paper Mills in Hertfordshire
The Jarvis brothers - founders of a Harpenden building company
The making of Vaughan Road
The Pathology Labs
The Putterill family
Water Mills Along the River Lea
Watercress Beds
Waverley Mills
Charities, Health and Welfare
A Hundred years work of the BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY in HARPENDEN
Books Galore - No More
Commander in Care
Community Meeting Point
Dr Hester
Field House
Fond memories of Highfield Oval
Harpenden Red Cross Society
James Marshall - 1661-1722
Ken's Kingdom
More Memories of Harpenden's Childrens Home
National Children's Home - Harpenden cemetery
Old Elmfield School member
Parish Chest
Raymond Diston
The Children's Sanatorium, Harpenden
The National Children's Home and Harpenden's twin town Alzey
The Red House
Harpenden Charities
The Lying-in Charity
Harpenden Paupers
Looking after the Poor
Insanity
Self-help in Nineteenth Century Harpenden
St Helena's, 40 Luton Road
Harpenden Memorial Hospital
The Maple Convalescent Home
Harpenden Branch of the National Children's Home - 1910-1985
National Children's Home
The Children's Home at Harpenden - A report on progress 1915
Percy English
St Margaret's Crossway
St Margaret's, Crossway - a child's view
Report on Rosemary Hospital 1917/18
Childhood
'The Third' have been Scouting since 1908
A Harpenden Child
An Appeal to the Ratepayers of Harpenden
An Appeal to the Ratepayers of Harpenden
Children's Country Holidays
Early Days at Batford Nursery School
Fond memories of Highfield Oval
Harpenden Branch of the National Children's Home - 1910-1985
Harpenden Schools Festival
Ken's Kingdom
Living in Harpenden - from 1879-1939
Memories of Harpenden, 1903 - 1914
Memories of The National Childrens' Home Sanatorium
Memories of the NCH printing school
More Memories of Harpenden's Childrens Home
My childhood memories of Harpenden
My Early Harpenden Childhood
National Children's Home
Oggelsby's - the Blacksmiths at Southdown
Old Elmfield School member
Old Time Harpenden Shopping (just before the first World War)
Park Stables in the 1960s
Personal Memories
School Feasts in 1869
Some Reminiscences of Harpenden in the 1920's
St Helena's College for Girls
St John's School
St Margaret's, Crossway - a child's view
St Nicholas Primary School outing 1955
The Children's Home at Harpenden - A report on progress 1915
The Early History of St Nicholas Church of England Primary School
The Straw Hat and Education
Were You a Farningham Boy transferred to Harpenden?
Churches and Chapels
A Hundred years work of the BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY in HARPENDEN
A Timeline of Harpenden's places of worship from The Reformation
Bellringers for the 1953 Coronation
Burglary at Bowling Alley, 1846
Canon Longstaff Has Passed Away
Crabtree Church
Harpenden's former Norman parish church
Methodists' 130 years at Batford
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Harpenden
School Feasts in 1869
Southdown Methodist Church
St Mary's, Kinsbourne Green
Sunday School Picture from late 1950's.
The Harpenden Chapel, Cradock, South Africa
The Methodist 'tin' church in Coldharbour Lane
The Mission Room (All Saints Church), Coldhabour Lane
Harpenden in the 1860s, recalled in 1935
Methodism in Harpenden
The Reformation comes to Harpenden
Harpenden Quaker Meeting House
The Bells of St Nicholas
Clubs and societies
75 Years of Red Cross in Harpenden
Allotments and Harpenden
Being Prepared: A Brief History of Scouting
Brambleton Model Railway Club at 70
Brief History of The Harpenden Corps of Drums.
Harpenden Carnival in the early 1980s.
Harpenden Corps of Drums
Harpenden Corps of Drums
Harpenden Gang Show - looking back 20 years
Rothamsted Allotment Club
Rothamsted Allotment Club Annual Dinner
The Conservative Club
The Verulam Auto Club
"Opportunity Knocks" for a Harpenden Choir
'The Third' have been Scouting since 1908
From Natwest Banking to Scouting
Grand Concert for Flood Relief
Harpenden Corps of Drums
Rifle Clubs in Harpenden
Southdown Women's Institute Choir
The Centre-Pieds and the Cobra Club
The Institute, Southdown Road
Sports Clubs
A brief history of Harpenden Town Football Club
Barnfield Tennis Club
Batford Sports Club Ltd
Cricket on the Common
Harpenden Cricket Club
Harpenden First Eleven Football Team - 1910
Harpenden Ladies Hockey Club
Luton Town Football Club
Quoits clubs in Harpenden
Sports team photos of schools and clubs
Tennis Court behind Barnfield Road
The Batford Football Team 1907-8
Tribute to Sid Anderson - Quoits champion
Crime and punishment
'Wild Westerham - Shooting affray in Kent' and 'St Albans Stationmaster's Tragic Death'
A Harpenden Tale from the Old Bailey
Body Snatchers on the Harpenden Road
Defamation, 17th Century style
Dreadful Fire
Drunkenness
Drunkenness in Harpenden
From The Folly to the Old Bailey
Giacomo Finaldo commits a crime at Old Rosen, St Albans Road, in 1858
Gleanings from Harpenden Races
Harpenden in the 1860s, recalled in 1935
Harpenden's last 'hue and cry'
Hertfordshire Transportations
Justice in the 16th Century
Murder in Harpenden
My 300 Years of Harpenden History - Part II: 1823 onwards
Punishments and Prisons
St Vincent De Paul Hostel
The Crimes of Poverty
Education
A Dissenting Grammar School for Boys - 1818-1839
A School at Lower Top Street Farm
Crowded Schools at Harpenden.
Early Days at Batford Nursery School
Early schools in Harpenden
Hardenwick School
Hardenwick School at Sandridgebury
Hardenwick School in the late 1940s
Harpenden British School
Harpenden British Schools: Origin, History and Present Position of the Schools - in 1891
Harpenden Free Library
Harpenden Hall
Harpenden Musicale
Harpenden Schools Festival
John Henshaw: A British Schools Headmaster
Let's Play The Game
More Photos of 1953 Coronation Procession
Moreton End School
Moreton End School in Wartime
Mr I S Smith's Preparatory Academy, Harpenden
Mr Wix in Brampton and Harpenden
Mrs Mercier's Ladies Schools in Harpenden
My memories of Hardenwick School
Park Hall
School Days in the 1930's
Some Reminiscences of Harpenden in the 1920's
St Dominic's School
St Helena's College for Girls
St Hilda's School
St John's School
St Margaret's Crossway
St.George's School
The Boys of Saint Hildas
The Early History of St Nicholas Church of England Primary School
The History of St Nicholas School
The History of the Williams Church Music Trust
The History of the Williams Church Music Trust
The Scholarship Examination
The Straw Hat and Education
Thomas Whitty, Schoolmaster in Harpenden in 1616?
Victoria Road Schools - 1897 - 1997
Walton House School
Walton House School
Entertainment
"Opportunity Knocks" for a Harpenden Choir
Harpenden Agricultural & Fanciers' Association
Harpenden Gang Show - looking back 20 years
Harpenden Public Hall
Harpenden Public Halls
Harpenden's Cinemas
Harpenden's heritage and archives in the Arts and Cultural Hub
Leyton Hall
Marianne Sherman's Music and Dance manuscripts (1806)
Sunday opening for Harpenden cinemas
The 1913 Harpenden Races
The Harpenden Drama League
The Masqueraders
The Racecourse, a Recollection
The Story of the New Public Hall
Events and Ceremonies
Admiral Sims comes to Harpenden
Alzey - twinned with Harpenden for 50 years
Bellringers for the 1953 Coronation
Bygone Harpenden
Coronation Party, Hatching Green
Discovery Day 2010
Grand Concert for Flood Relief
Harpenden Air Crash
Harpenden Carnival in the early 1980s.
Harpenden Glider Tragedy - 1931
Harpenden's celebrations of the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
International Matches Played in Harpenden
Jubilee and coronation celebrations in Harpenden
More Photos of 1953 Coronation Procession
Mr and Mrs Nott entertain "Amy"
Royal Visits to Harpenden
The Jarrow Crusade
The Racecourse, a Recollection
Week of Revelry at Harpenden - Festival of Britain 1951
Farms and Farming
A Brief History of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1843 to 1901
A Brief History of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1843 to 1901
Aldwickbury Farm
Annables Donkey Wheel
Claygate Apple Farm
Claygate Orchards
Emigration to Australia
Farming and Conservation at Thrales End - 1907-2007
Farms identified on the 1843 Tithe Award Map for Harpenden
Farmsteads on Harpenden High Street
Forty years at Hammonds End Farm - from the 1950s to the 1990s
Ox Lane Nurseries
The Annables Herd
The Demise of the Dairy Industry and Changes in Land Use in the Harpenden Rural area
The Pathology Labs
The Straw Hat and Education
Traces of Rabbits in Harpenden and Wheathampstead
Watercress Beds
Green Harpenden
Batford springs mid summer, 2015
Elm trees in Harpenden
Greenway Spinney
Hard winters
Harpenden's smaller green spaces and the volunteers who inspired and help maintain them
Holcroft Spring
Holcroft Spring
Rothamsted Park
Miscellany
Harpenden Clocks
Mr and Mrs Nott entertain "Amy"
Richard Lydekker and the First Cuckoo
Traces of Rabbits in Harpenden and Wheathampstead
Public Houses, Inns and Bars
Ernest Heasman's paintings of Hatching Green
Giacomo Finaldo commits a crime at Old Rosen, St Albans Road, in 1858
Harpenden Breweries
Harpenden Breweries
Inn on the Green
Railway Hotel - Harpenden Arms
The (Old) Red Lion
The Cross Keys
The Old Bell - refurbished June 2014
The Old Cock
The Old House, formerly The Bull
The Rose & Crown - GONE
The White Lion
'Lost' pubs - 1
'Lost' pubs - 2
Dolphin Smith - 1879 - 1956
The Foresters Arms
The Plough And Harrow
The Silver Cup - a pub since 1838
The White Horse Inn
Public services - fire, water
August 1914
George Howard Herring - c.1891-1956
Harpenden Fire Brigade and Auxillary Fire Service in WWII
Harpenden Gas Company
Harpenden Gas Lighting
Harpenden's Open Air Swimming Pool - opened in May 1960
Harpenden's Storm Floods - Sunday 21 June 1936
Harpenden's Street Lighting
Harpenden's sub-post offices
Harpenden's Water Supply
Inspector of Nuisances
Memories of a Postal Officer and Postman
Old well in the High Street?
The demolition of Harpenden's last Water Tower
The History of Harpenden Fire Brigade
The Sewage Works
The Telephone comes to Harpenden
Shops, shopkeepers and traders
A Harpenden Butcher's Boy
Anscombe's calendars - 1898-1904
Anscombes of Harpenden - Past and Present
Anscombe's 'Rapid Wire' Cash Railway
Reminiscences of Anscombes
Apprentices in 18th Century Harpenden
Arthur Jacob Buck (1869 to 1961)
James Busby
Ben and Clara Rowe
Bill Gaskin - Harpenden hairdresser
Bingham's Shop and Post Office
Broadway Hall: The Covered Market
Edwin Richard Billingham 1870-1961
Foster Yeoman Ladies' Wear
Harpenden's Post Office
Harpenden's sub-post offices
Luton Road Sub-Post Office
Old Time Harpenden Shopping (just before the first World War)
Rose Cottage, High Street
Shopping in Harpenden over a century ago.
Shops which closed in 1985
Southdown - Southdown Road
Station Road shops in the 1930s
The Story of 48 High Street
Walter Steabben, 1847 - 1932
Weston's Grocery Store
Transport
A Great Feat of Engineering
Building the St. Albans Bypass (now 50 years old)
Customer Service on the Midland Railway - 1883
From Nationalisation to Privatisation
Gibraltar Bar and "Rose Lane"
Great Northern Railway (GNR) at Harpenden
Great Northern Railway (GNR) at Harpenden
Harpenden Common
Harpenden East with South Beds Loco Club Special
Harpenden's Railways
Luton & St Albans Coach 1842
Motorways
Prize for Harpenden Station gardens, 1949
Rothamsted and the Midland Railway Company
The Coming of the Railways
The Great Northern Railway Station
The Harpenden & Hemel Hempstead Branch Railtour of Sat 11th May 1957
The Morning 'Nickey Train' at Roundwood Halt
The Nickey Line
Transport in and around Harpenden during the 1920s
William Hogg and his horsedrawn cab
Wartime - Boer, First World War in Harpenden (WWI)
'Life and Death during World War 1'
A War Memorial for Harpenden?
Armistice Day 1918 in Harpenden
Harpenden in the Great War
Harpenden's War Memorials
Harpenden's War Memorials
Hertfordshire Lad & Ypres survivor pays the ultimate sacrifice on the Somme
Honouring the men of Harpenden's parishes, St Nicholas, St John's and All Saints
John Hardy Hobart Woolston Sloane Fisher
Lyddeker Park
Memorial to the men of the Hertfordshire Regiment - 31st July 2017
My memories of Harpenden during the Kaiser's War
National Roll of Honour 1914-18
Robert Beeson of C Brigade, 5th Battalion, Notts and Derbys
St John's Parish Remembrance Sunday, 2018
Thomas Olney Luxon killed in WWI
Walter Henry Gill and the Gill family
Wilfred OttoThomas
Wilfred OttoThomas
Wilfred OttoThomas
A letter from the Boer War - June 5th 1900
August 1914
More troops in Harpenden - 1915
Harpenden's Roll of Honour, January 1915
The Sherwood Foresters billeted in Harpenden, 1914-1915
War Memorial on Church Green, Harpenden
War Memorials in Harpenden Churches
Harpenden War Memorial 1914-18
Army Hospitals in Harpenden in WW1
Rosemary Hospital
Report on Rosemary Hospital 1917/18
HMS Harpenden
Blackberries Galore!
Rifle Clubs in Harpenden
Rothamsted Experimental Station - 1914-18
Newspaper cutting (WW1)
WWI reflected in Connie Howard's "Kinsbourne Green: My Childhood Village"
Armed Forces Day, 28 June 2014
Wartime - Second World War (WWII)
"For Remember"
10 Crabtree Lane hit by a bomb
A child's memories of WWII
A German POW in Harpenden 1944-46
A landgirl remembers working at Annables
A landgirl remembers working at Annables
Albert Edward Dines (Ted)
Batford Prisoner of War Camp
Boxing in the Public Halls
Commander in Care
F.P.& C. SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB
Friends Provident Life Office in Harpenden during World War Two.
German POWs and their spare time occupations
Harpenden during WWII
Harpenden Fire Brigade and Auxillary Fire Service in WWII
Harpenden in WWII - A.R.P.
Harpenden's War Memorials
Harpenden's War Memorials
Keith Holland - 1920 - 1941
My WWII - What it was like for me, Peter Rayner
R.I.P. Harpenden's air raid shelters
The Curious Disappearance of Major Glenn Miller
Wartime Harpenden
War Comes to Roundwood
Air Raid Warnings in Harpenden
Harpenden`s WWII Air Raid Shelters
Cloak and Dagger at Rothamsted Manor
First Aid Post, Vaughan Road
Harpenden's Evacuation Scheme - WWII
Group photos of soldiers, including Harpenden men, 1940s
Harpenden Men freed from Japanese PoW camp
Harpenden Red Cross Society
Harpenden Red Cross Society
Harpenden War Memorial WWII
War Memorials in Harpenden Churches
John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham
'Woodlands' In Wartime
Memories of WWII - Soldiers' Billets
No 95 Batford Prisoner of War Camp
'Tom and Jerry' at Lower Luton Road, Batford - 12th May 1941
Scout Relief work in NW Europe
Some wartime memories
The Boys of Saint Hildas
Victory In Europe - 8 May 1945
Evacuees - Personal memories
Harpenden's Evacuation Scheme - WWII
Harpenden Evacuees 1939 - 1940
By bus from Enfield to West Common on the day war broke out - 3 September 1939
Evacuation from the South Coast
Evacuation, Facts and Stories
Harpenden - A wartime Haven
Harpenden, Hitler and Me
Some wartime memories
The Evacuee
Picture Gallery
A Gallery of Harpenden, St Albans and Wheathampstead pictures by Anton Pieck
Ernest Hasseldine (1875-1944) - drawings, sketches, family photos etc
Harpenden from the 1950s to 1981
Jarvis houses of the 1930s on the West Common Estate, photographed by Jim Jarvis as they were built
Jim Jarvis's photos of 'Jarvis houses' in the 1930s
Some older trees in Harpenden
Paintings and sketches of old Harpenden
Church Green - 1880s to 1950s
Harpenden High Street - c.1890-1939
Leyton Road - 1880s to 1950s
Rothamsted - from Manor to Agricultural Research
Sun Lane - before 1928
Stakers Lane - Station Road
Farms in and around Harpenden
Harpenden's Churches - before 1914
Harpenden Common
Harpenden Races
Harpenden's Fire Brigade
Hatching Green & Hammonds End
Bowling Alley, now Southdown
Batford
Miscellaneous pictures from our archives
Then and Now
Teaching resources for Harpenden history
The development of Harpenden over time
World War II
Victorian Harpenden
How can we look inside Harpenden's past?
The tragic case of Mr Bingham's daughter
School Projects
Roundwood Park School
Sir John Lawes School
St George's School
Following the George Hogg trail
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg - his significance
Mr Wix in Brampton and Harpenden
St.George's School
The Children's House, St George's School
The Montaubans and St George's
Wilfred OttoThomas
Wilfred OttoThomas
Wilfred OttoThomas
St Nicholas CofE Primary School
St Nicholas School History Exhibition - Saturday, 12 July 2014
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