Growing up near Batford Mill in the 1890s
Frank and Anne Dowson owned the riding stables behind St. George’s School where the school boarding house (Crossthwaite) is now. ...
My early memories of Harpenden are idyllic. It was a tranquil Hertfordshire village, undisturbed by the bustle of London just ...
My Life in Southdown in the 1930s and 1940s
Memories of life at the N.C.H, Highfield Oval, in the 1940s and 1950s
‘Mr H A Bell’s 3″ square Lantern slides’ I first went up to Cooters Hill Farm in the late 1950’s, when ...
Frank Richardson's reminiscences in 1979
The printing school building remains there today; after extensive refurbishment which was necessary to make it weatherproof, it is used ...
John Olley Growing Up in Southdown
I began riding at Dowsons (or the Harpenden Riding School to give it its official name), situated next to St ...
My boyhood memories of the 1890s and 1900s
Fond memories of being a 'boarder' there!
Saturdays were always special days, for that was when we spent our pocket money. This was only a penny a ...
In 1935, when I was five, I started school at Victoria Road in Harpenden (until recently the Library). Even then ...
