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.....complete with cobwebs

A project for Harpenden U3A Local History group, March 2019

Transcript of a document in the LHS Archives - written in 1990s

My formative years before a lifetime in Africa

Ice houses, tunnels, cellars, chalk and lime pits, gravel pits and brickfields

Memories of school before the Great War

Past and Present

An artist remembers

The published work of St Albans and Harpenden WEA classes - 1970-75

Further reminiscences of Kinsbourne Green during WWII

More Reminiscences (written in 1989)

Reproductions of Paintings by Frank O Salisbury; text by Sir William Beach Thomas

1880s to 1930s

My granny (nee Willmott) lived in The Granary (the last two pictures in the...
By Jennifer Coville
On 10/09/2019

1880s to 1930s

The artist was my Auntie Ethel,  her maiden name was Wilmott. Can't...
By Jennifer Coville
On 10/09/2019

Summary of talk by Geoffrey Ackroyd

I remember Freeman Hardy & Willis. I got all my shoes for school from there...
By MELVYN COX
On 10/09/2019

The Red House, opened 1941

I was born in the Red House in 1956. My husband was born 8 days after me in the...
By Linda Bacon
On 28/08/2019

Summary of Cornelia Clutterbuck's 1945-1946 Diaries

I have only just come across this information, but was so pleased to see both...
By Trisha Parsons
On 28/08/2019

Summary of Cornelia Clutterbuck's 1945-1946 Diaries

I have only just come across this information, but was so pleased to see both...
By Trisha Parsons
On 28/08/2019

Compiled from the prospectus and notes in our archives

Michael Middleton Green. Salisbury Ave. Harp. Attended ME..1955 to 64. ...
By Michael Middleton Green
On 13/08/2019

Can you add any more names?

My Grandfather Albert (Bert - no.59) lived at 62 Westfield Road for many years...
By Lisa Ashurst
On 06/08/2019

Her years in Harpenden - 1868-1874

Following the discovery by James Bettley of Edward Godwin's sketches of The...
By Rosemary Ross
On 06/08/2019

1936, and again in 1986

Have been scanning old holiday photos and found 3 of the march, which I have...
By Cllr. Michael Edwards
On 21/07/2019

The White Horse from the 1920s

Do you know the exact date of the death of Percy Seabrook, husband of Lucy (nee...
By Chris Seabrook
On 16/07/2019

Those Hardenwick Policemen again

I remember the Hardenwick contribution as, much to my embarassment I was...
By George Wolfe
On 16/07/2019