Harpenden Town Trail 1 - The High Street

A photo gallery with links to more information and pictures

By Rosemary Ross

Photo: Illustrative image for the 'Harpenden Town Trail 1 - The High Street' page

Our new Town Trails are available from Harpenden Town Information Point, Town Hall, Leyton Road; Harpenden Library; St Albans Tourist Information Office; hotels and B&Bs; or contact us. They can also be downloaded.

The first of our Town Trails, published in March 2013, features a selection of buildings along the High Street. There are more photos of the High Street in our Picture Gallery.

To enlarge the pictures and view them as a sequence, click on the first 'icon'. The captions summarise information on the Trail leaflet.

More information about the buildings mentioned will be added, and can be accessed through the links below, which, in some cases link to further pages:

1 - The George
2 - Kingston House
3 - The White Lion
4 - The Old Cock Inn
5 - The Old Red Lion
6 - Sun Lane corner
7 - Tollgate cottage/hotel 65 High Street

8 - The Foresters Arms
9 - Bowers Parade, Bowers House
10 - The Cross Keys
11 - Brewery House
12 - Vaughan Road, Pellants corner
13 - Home Farm, Station Road
14 - The Railway Hotel/Harpenden Arms

Town Trail 1 (625k)
Harpenden High Street

Photo:The George Hotel, in the 1930s, with Cherney's Garage alongside

Photo:6 High Street, site of Dr Kingston's house, which gave its name to Henry Salisbury's hardware store, built in 1912.

Photo:The White Lion pub, xx High Street, in around 1900. This is part of a larger view of Harpenden High Street

Photo:72 High Street, The Old Red Lion, in about 1900.

Photo:73-73 High Street - also showing the side of Tollgate cottage, 69 High Street

Photo:Sun Lane, before it was widened in 1928, involving the removal of the left hand/northern bay of 75 High Street, when the timbers became exposed

Photo:69 High Street - Tollgate cottage, with 63-65 behind the trees.

Photo:Bowers House, as seen on the sale catalogue in 1935, when it still overlooked the site of the Cock Pond.

Photo:Bowers Parade, built in 1936 - quite a handsome parade of shops and flats, but totally concealing one of Harpenden's more elegant houses.

Photo:The Cross Keys in around 1890. The adjoining cottages were the site of Putterill's first garage, with Harpenden's first petrol pumps on the green in front. To the right is part of Rose Cottage.

Photo:Brewery House, built in 1871 on the site of Peacock House, with brewery buildings to the south (right)

Photo:Vaughan Road was built following the demolition of cottages on the High Street. Pellants clockmakers stood on the new corner.

Photo:Ridleys' ironmongers c1910 - HSBC bank 2012

Photo:Home Farm, at the bottom of Staker's Lane, 1880s, with chestnut cottage alongside - opposite the chestnut which flowers early in the spring.

This gallery was added by Rosemary Ross on 29/03/2013.

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