Watercress Beds
Beds fed by springs alongside the River Lea
Some older trees in Harpenden
Archive photos from the 1960s onwards
Businesses in Bowling Alley & Southdown
From the mid 19th century to the 1990s
The Straw Hat and Education
from the Parish Magazine August 1960
Ben and Clara Rowe
Married 60 Years in 1967- still busily working
Eric Brandreth
Late librarian and local historian
Harpenden Common
Grazing sheep, wartime farming, ponds - 1890s to 1940s
Akrill House - A Notable Building in Harpenden
Links to Maple's Furniture and National Children's Home
The Story of the Manor of Rothamsted
The manor house and its inhabitants
St Vincent De Paul Hostel
Young Offenders Hostel in Harpenden in the 1920s
Dreadful Fire
Fire and looting at Turner's Hall, Kinsbourne Green in 1826
A Harpenden Child
Growing up near Batford Mill in the 1890s
Harpenden Races
From the 1830s to 1914
Luton & St Albans Coach 1842
How to get to London for the day.
Eric Meadows (1924-2009)
Man focused on capturing our heritage
The Baa Lamb Trees
A house called Balaams
Meetings
Programme of meetings to be re-arranged for 2021-22, and links to reports of recent meetings
The Bells of St Nicholas
From three in 1552 to eight in 1990 - and two Oldfield bells
Harpenden in the 1860s, recalled in 1935
The Parish Church; the 'rope walk'; and village pranksters
St Helena's, 40 Luton Road
Harpenden Memorial Nursing Centre to Welfare Clinic
Hawes & Harris, stained glass window makers
Harpenden craftsmen made RAF memorial windows in Westminster Abbey
Harpenden's Railways
A Brief History, Compiled by Harpenden Railway Museum
Green Lawns, Kinsbourne Green
Garage and Country Club from 1920 to the 1940s
Hertfordshire Puddingstone
Almost unique to our area
August 1914
Billeting in Harpenden
Rothamsted Manor
Evolution of the house from the 16th to 20th centuries
National Children's Home
Moved to Harpenden in 1913 and offered employment training to orphaned boys and girls
Harpenden Cricket Club
Early history from the 1880s to the 1930s
Cricket on the Common
Memories from the 1880s to the 1920s
Justice in the 16th Century
John Hunt araigned for 'living incontinently' with his servant Joan Willeys
Basket Making at Batford
Willow canes were specially planted near the River Lea downstream from Batford Mill
Methodism in Harpenden
From cottages to four churches
Children's Country Holidays
315 children from inner London parishes
Victoria Road Schools - 1897 - 1997
Harpenden's Board School - and new uses when the school moved to Manland
Harpenden Free Library
From the Red House to Harpenden Hall
The Avenues
Sale of land for development on the St Nicholas Estate
Harpenden's Oldest House?
From Local History Society Newsletter No 1 1974
Anscombes of Harpenden - Past and Present
A short history published by Stephen Egarr in 1982
The Maple Convalescent Home
From "The Lady's Pictorial" June 12th 1897
Waverley Mills
Letter by Miss J Lawrence
Batford added to Harpenden
Boundary Extention - 1935
Rothamsted Park
From private to public park
School Days in the 1930's
Memories of St Nicholas, Victoria Road and Manland schools
The Nickey Line
Harpenden to Redbourn & Hemel Hempstead
Burial Mound in the Lea Valley
Romano-British sarcophagus found in the 1820s
St Margaret's Crossway
An orphange for "friendless little girls"
Insanity
Harpenden Hall Asylum - an early advertisement c1848
Cloak and Dagger at Rothamsted Manor
Top Secret activities in the Second World War
Royal Visits to Harpenden
From Prince Regent to Elizabeth II
The Institute, Southdown Road
Harpenden's Lecture Institute and Reading Room
Rose Cottage, High Street
From general drapers to dental surgery
First Aid Post, Vaughan Road
Memories of a Red Cross volunteer in the Second World War
The Great Northern Railway Station
From Harpenden direct to London in the 1860s
Jarvis the Builder
13 Vaughan Road - 1909-1974
HMS Harpenden
Commissioned in February 1918
Harpenden: the growth of a village (2)
A changing community - the 20th century
Harpenden: the growth of a village (1)
From the coming of the railways to the early 20th century
Sir John Bennet Lawes
Pioneer of Rothamsted Experimental Station
The Reformation comes to Harpenden
Henry VIII's permission to the people of Harpenden to bury their dead 1537
Harpenden British School
from W L Rogers Report on Social Conditions in Harpenden in 1858
George Coburn and Sons
Joiners, Builders and Contractors, 58, Cowper Road
Annables Donkey Wheel
Dink the Donkey replaced by a mechanical pump
Harpenden Glider Tragedy - 1931
Captain Thomas Eaton Lander, Harpenden glider pioneer
Harpenden's Cinemas
From three to none
The Sewage Works
From cesspools to modern disposal
Harpenden in 1905, by Arthur Mee
"A little piece of the countryside that has grown into a town"
Drunkenness
according the Drunkenness Act of 1606
Exhibitions
Programme of quarterly exhibitions in Park Hall