Exhibitions
Programme of quarterly exhibitions in Park Hall
By Les Casey, curator
The History Centre is on the left - with a park bench below the window
Les Casey
The History Society has a room at Park Hall, Leyton Road, where artifacts and archival material are stored, including an extensive collection of historic photographs.
An exhibition of a selection of photographs and other items from the collection is held every quarter in the main hall, open to all. The History Centre is also open when there is an exhibition, and you are welcome to look at the archives and resources we have.
Exhibitions at Park Hall are usually open from 2.30 to 4.30 pm.
Les Casey, curator
John Olley
The NEXT exhibition WILL BE on
Saturday, 7 September - Watercolours in the Harpenden History Society collection
The Harpenden and District Local History Society's picture collection was started by the Lawes family and their friends, in the early 1900's, as the basis for a local museum. In 1927 Victor Tylson Hodgson gave the Hodgson Collection, including pictures by Dennis Wilson and the Wilson sisters of Rivers Lodge, and various artefacts to Harpenden Urban District Council, when he moved to Fort William. More paintings have been added since, and scans of many of them can be seen in the Picture Gallery on this website.
The collection and various artefacts were stored in a cupboard in the strong room at Harpenden Hall and came into the care of the Local History Society in 1974, at the formation of St Albans City and District Council.
Bookstall for the sale of Theodora's Journals and of the recently reprinted The Harpenden Races.
The following exhibition will be on
Saturday, 7 December - to be arranged
On 1 June 2013 Harpenden Red Cross Society put together a comprehensive exhibition covering 75 years of the Red Cross in Harpenden. We hope to feature this shortly on a separate page.
Some recent exhibitions are illustrated below:
Marion Donaldson with Les Casey, 75 Years of the Red Cross in Harpenden on 1 June 2013
Alan Bunting
The Red Cross team - Linda Black, Caroline Carden, unit leader Jean Leake, exhibition organiser Marion Donaldson, Marian Fooks, Karen Martin and Sonja Clarke.
Alan Bunting
Geology Exhibition, 2 March 2013 - specimens from Les Casey's collection
John Olley
Geology Exhibition, 2 March 2013 - Les Casey, centre
John Olley
Geology exhibition, 2 March 2013 - specimens of coal and minerals from Les Casey's collection
John Olley
Geology exhibition, 2 March 2013 - general display of stone used in buildings
John Olley
Jubilee exhibition - 2 June 2012 - display of fairy lights from 1935 Jubliee celebrations
John Olley. 2 June 2012
Jubilee exhibition - 2 June 2012
John Olley. 2 June 2012
Jubliee exhibition - the display of garments worn by Society Chairman, Gavin Ross, at the Coronation, June 1953, caused some surprise and amusement
John Olley. 2 June 2012
"On the Road" - 3 March 2012
John Olley
Selling "Theodora's Journals" , 3 March 2012
Rosemary Ross
Friends Re-united: Freddie Luck, John Olley and Shirley Olley nee Griffin, met while visiting the Exhibition of Maps, and exchanged reminiscences based on the 1924 map of Southdown.
Rosemary Ross, June 2011
Some of the many pictures illustrating 'Water', 26 November 2011
John Olley
