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The Home Front in Harpenden - 1939
Exhibition of Geology in Hertfordshire, 2 March 2013
Theodora Wilson's Travels
75 Years of Red Cross in Harpenden
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The Story of Harpenden from Village to Town
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Published in March 2013 - Two Trails
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Recent Talks & Visits
Before the Developers got at it: Harpenden 1945-1960
Being Prepared: A Brief History of Scouting
Chocks away at Shuttleworth
Everest:The First Ascent.The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible.
F. H. Crittall: Metal Windows and Modernism
Harpenden, Batford and the Danelaw Boundary
Living on the Common: a landscape history of Harpenden Common
Medieval churches in North Bedfordshire
Sex, Crime, Punishment & Philanthropy: Everyday stories from the life of John Bennet Lawes as revealed by his diaries.
The Clinton-Baker Pinetum at Bayfordbury
The Medieval Churches of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire
The Spy who is buried in Harpenden
Time Flies at Old Warden - the history of the Shuttleworth Collection
Treasures of the Hertfordshire Archives - The Amy Coburn Lecture
Visit to Redbournbury Mill
Edward Wilson (1872-1912), Explorer, Naturalist and Artist on Scott's Polar Expeditions
The Rothamsted Insect Survey: A national asset with a local history
Front Line Kent - Coastal Defences of the Kent Coast.
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
Frank Salisbury - Artist in Stained Glass
Frank Owen Salisbury 1874 - 1962
Pictures in the Museum of St Albans
The Life and Times of Charles Hill
Luton's Markets and Fairs
Luton Hoo Mansion
Luton Hoo Mansion and Estate
History Society Visits to Luton Hoo Walled Garden
Delving into Harpenden Shops
From Arkwright to Mayor
Batford Springs: Harpenden's local nature reserve
Childwickbury - a short history of the estate, the stud and its owners
Childwickbury Stud
Elmfield School
From Pint Pot to Coffee Pot: Breweries and the Temperance Movement.
The Coin Hoard from St Albans
The Second Battle of St Albans - 17 February 1461
The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire
The First Battle of St Albans
The College of Arms
The Civil War in Hertfordshire - 1642-1647
Maps in the last 300 years
The "Time Team" at Norman Cross
Building the St. Albans Bypass (now 50 years old)
Roman Aqueducts - Did they reach Britain?
Hertfordshire Bridges
Visit to Mill Green museum, July 2010
Hertfordshire Transportations
The Society's publications - 1973-2015
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 Wilson's Travels
Theodora's Journals
Theodora's Journals
The story of Theodora's Journals
The History of Wheathampstead and Harpenden in Six parts
Monographs and reprints
Monographs and reprints
Other publications of local interest
"Searching for Grace"
Cholera in Victorian England
From Nationalisation to Privatisation
Harpenden - The Postcard Collection
Hertfordshire's Historic Inland Waterway: Batchworth to Berkhamsted
Life on the Home Front one hundred years ago
Other recent local publications
Recent publications by John Cooper
Recent publications by John Seabrook
News and Comments
40th anniversary of Harpenden Local History Society - donation of the "H J Joel Cup" by Harpenden Horticultural Society
Amy Coburn (1927-2016) - an appreciation
Annual Report for 2013
Armed Forces Day, 28 June 2014
Ernest Heasman's paintings of Hatching Green
Harpenden Carnival, 10 June 2017
Harpenden's History needs a Home
Presentation of 'Theodora's Journals'
The Old Bell - refurbished June 2014
The Society's Committee
The Story of Harpenden from Village to Town
Town Council makes history awards
Welcome to "Theodora's Journals"
A big day for Harpenden Local History Society
Congratulations to the Society
David Hinton - 1937-2011
Eric Brandreth
Harpenden makes History
Our Museum Collection
Leather-working tools
Mugs and Plates
Straw plaiting and bonnet making tools
Introduction to Harpenden's History
Brief history of Harpenden & general articles
'Tommy' Shadbolt and The Everest Chain
Harpenden Development Association
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
Rothamsted and the Midland Railway Company
Sunday opening for Harpenden cinemas
The First Geophysical Survey to help establish Batford's History: March 2015
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
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
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
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
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 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
Park Hall
Rothamsted Park Gates
The Baa Lamb Trees
The Baa Lamb Trees
The Dene
The Dunkley Family (Harpenden Blacksmiths)
The Old House, formerly The Bull
The Park Stables
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
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
Lady Lawes-Wittewronge's bills - 1912-13
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 Story of the Manor of Rothamsted
Station Road/Stakers Lane
Chestnut Cottage, Home Farm
Harpenden's Post Office
Station Road shops in the 1930s
Manland - between Station Road and Ox Lane
Manland Beacon
Bowling Alley / Southdown
A Harpenden Butcher's Boy
Aldwickbury
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
Coldharbour and Westfield
Coldharbour and Westfield
Memories of Highmoor, Westfield Common in the 1920s and 1930s
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
Water Mills Along the River Lea
Watercress Beds
Kinsbourne Green
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
Kinsbourne Green
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
Road Names of Harpenden
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
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
The Harpenden Ink Factory
William Sparrow, Harpenden builder
The Elliswick Estate - 1923
People
Blades of Grass
Dr Edward Charles Davenport - 1871-1958
Extracts from the Memories of Mr Ernest Ackroyd - Batford, 1904-1914
George and Ellen Roome of Cravells Road
Harry Knight's Memories of Harpenden before 1914
More celebrations of George Hogg and the Gung Ho movement in China - September 2016
Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge
Sir Edward Salisbury and Chrystel Lebas
The Diary of a Visit to Harpenden in 1962
The Kiff Family
The Lydekker Family, 1650-1983
Winifred Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883 - 1953)
Harpenden's MPs
My WWII - What it was like for me, Peter Rayner
Charles Akrill (1840-1907)
Shepherd Arnold
Dr William Henry Blake (1853-1933)
Ursula Bloom, cinema pianist
Sir John Blundell Maple (1845-1903)
Elizabeth Bowen - 1899-1973
Eric Brandreth
Quaker Wilfred H. Brown
Arthur Jacob Buck (1869 to 1961)
Cornelia Clutterbuck (1916 -1987), seen through her Scrapbook Diaries
Mary Constable - 1810-1912
John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham
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
George Howard Herring - c.1891-1956
Charles Hill - 'The Radio Doctor' - 1904-1989
The Life and Times of Charles Hill
David Hinton - 1937-2011
Henry Tylston Hodgson of Welcombe
Henry Tylston Hodgson - 1843-1918
George Hogg (1915-1945) and St George's School - 1927-1934
George Hogg and Gung Ho
George Hogg celebrations in Shandan, western China, 2 & 3 December 2015
George Hogg - 1915-1945
George Hogg - 1915-1945
The Jarvis brothers - founders of a Harpenden building company
Jim Jarvis (1920s - 2012)
Lady Caroline Lawes - 1822-1895
Lady Caroline Lawes - 1822-1895
Terry Lightfoot
The Lines Family in the Lea Valley
The Lydekkers of Harpenden Lodge - 1853-1979
The Lydekkers of Tollgate Cottage
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.
James Quilter Rumball (1795-1872)
Adam Rutherford
Raphael Salaman - 1906-1993
The Salisburys of Limbrick Hall
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)
Frederick Thurston - 1854-1933
The Weston family of Alma Cottage, Coleswood Road
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
Kate Richardson, Harpenden artist (1861-1941)
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 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
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
Topics - from Archaeology to Wartime
Archaeology & Geology
Burial Mound in the Lea Valley
Geology and Soils of the Harpenden District
Harpenden's 'Dry Valley'
Hertfordshire Puddingstone
Iron Age Burial in Harpenden
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
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 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
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 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'
Claygate Orchards
F.P.& C. SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB
Harpenden's Post Office
Henry Freedman; Founder of Slenderella
Memories of the NCH printing school
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
The Park Stables
Thomas George Harris - 1873-1957
William Sparrow, Harpenden builder
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
75 Years of Red Cross in Harpenden
A Hundred years work of the BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY in HARPENDEN
Books Galore - No More
Commander in Care
Field House
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
Children's Country Holidays
Early Days at Batford Nursery School
Harpenden Branch of the National Children's Home - 1910-1985
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)
Personal Memories
School Feasts in 1869
Some Reminiscences of Harpenden in the 1920's
St Helena's College for Girls
St Margaret's, Crossway - a child's view
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
Bellringers for the 1953 Coronation
Burglary at Bowling Alley, 1846
Canon Longstaff Has Passed Away
Harpenden's former Norman parish church
Methodists' 130 years at Batford
School Feasts in 1869
Southdown Methodist Church
Sunday School Picture from late 1950's.
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
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
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 Ladies Hockey Club
Quoits clubs in Harpenden
Sports team photos of schools and clubs
The Batford Football Team 1907-8
Crime and punishment
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
Punishments and Prisons
St Vincent De Paul Hostel
The Crimes of Poverty
Education
A Dissenting Grammar School for Boys - 1818-1839
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 Free Library
Harpenden Hall
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 Margaret's Crossway
St.George's School
The Boys of Saint Hildas
The Children's House, St George's School
The Early History of St Nicholas Church of England Primary School
The History of St Nicholas School
The Scholarship Examination
The Straw Hat and Education
Thomas Whitty, Schoolmaster in Harpenden in 1616?
Victoria Road Schools - 1897 - 1997
Walton House School
Entertainment
"Opportunity Knocks" for a Harpenden Choir
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 Masqueraders
Events and Ceremonies
Alzey - twinned with Harpenden for 50 years
Bellringers for the 1953 Coronation
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
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 Orchards
Emigration to Australia
Farms identified on the 1843 Tithe Award Map for Harpenden
Farmsteads on Harpenden High Street
Ox Lane Nurseries
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
Hard winters
Holcroft Spring
Holcroft Spring
Rothamsted Park
Miscellany
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
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
Anscombes of Harpenden - Past and Present
Apprentices in 18th Century Harpenden
Arthur Jacob Buck (1869 to 1961)
Ben and Clara Rowe
Broadway Hall: The Covered Market
Edwin Richard Billingham 1870-1961
Harpenden's Post Office
Harpenden's sub-post offices
James Busby
Old Time Harpenden Shopping (just before the first World War)
Reminiscences of Anscombes
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)
From Nationalisation to Privatisation
Gibraltar Bar and "Rose Lane"
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 Great Northern Railway Station
The Harpenden & Hemel Hempstead Branch Railtour of Sat 11th May 1957
The Morning 'Nicky 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)
A War Memorial for Harpenden?
Hertfordshire Lad & Ypres survivor pays the ultimate sacrifice on the Somme
John Hardy Hobart Woolston Sloane Fisher
Memorial to the men of the Hertfordshire Regiment - 31st July 2017
Robert Beeson of C Brigade, 5th Battalion, Notts and Derbys
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
Albert Edward Dines (Ted)
Batford Prisoner of War Camp
F.P.& C. SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB
Friends Provident Life Office in Harpenden during World War Two.
German POWs and their spare time occupations
Harpenden Fire Brigade and Auxillary Fire Service in WWII
Harpenden in WWII - A.R.P.
My WWII - What it was like for me, Peter Rayner
The Home Front in Harpenden - 1939
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
Blades of Grass
George Hogg - 1915-1945
George Hogg - 1915-1945
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg - his significance
George Hogg (1915-1945) and St George's School - 1927-1934
George Hogg and Gung Ho
More celebrations of George Hogg and the Gung Ho movement in China - September 2016
Mr Wix in Brampton and Harpenden
St.George's School
The Montaubans and St George's
St Nicholas CofE Primary School
St Nicholas School History Exhibition - Saturday, 12 July 2014
Queries - Can you help? Can we help you?
A Bronze Buddha found in a Harpenden Garden
A Bronze Buddha found in a Harpenden Garden
Batford Memories
CHALKLEY FAMILY
Diver's End
Douglas Bader, RAF Hero
George Gregory
Group photos of soldiers, including Harpenden men, 1940s
Harpenden First 11 Football Team 1910
Luton Hoo walled garden and NCH children
Luton Town Football Club
Murder in Harpenden
My Ancestor was a Straw Plaiter in Bowling Alley
Rose Ellingham & Albert Saunders
St John's School
Sunday School Picture from late 1950's.
Tennis Court behind Barnfield Road
The old barn
The Pocock Family from Harpenden
The Tyler Family
Thomas Whitty, Schoolmaster in Harpenden in 1616?
Weston family
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