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From home entertainment to early cinemas, public halls, fairs and racing on the Common.
"Opportunity Knocks" for a Harpenden Choir
All the excitement and bustle before they sang to their biggest audience ever, appeared to have little effect on the ...
Barbara Windsor with The Harpenden Corps of Drums.
The Harpenden Corps of Drums were playing at an event at The Luton and Dunstable Hospital where Barbara WINDSOR was ...
Harpenden Agricultural & Fanciers' Association
Grand Exhibition in 1901
Harpenden Entertainers
By Geoff Woodward, c2004
Harpenden Gang Show - looking back 20 years
49th show in January 1998 From the four-page tabloid-sized brochure and programme
Harpenden Public Hall
Bookings Registers 1938 to 1947
Harpenden Public Halls
Opened in 1938
Harpenden's Cinemas
From three to none
Harpenden's heritage and archives in the Arts and Cultural Hub
The Society's presentation to a Workshop about Sports, Arts and Culture facilities on 12 November 2016
Leyton Hall
"A spacious and comfortable hall"
Marianne Sherman's Music and Dance manuscripts (1806)
An insight into social gatherings around Rothamsted Manor
Sunday opening for Harpenden cinemas
Referendum in 1947
The 1913 Harpenden Races
From the Luton Times and Advertiser, Friday 16th May 1913
The Harpenden Drama League
'The Play's the Thing!'
The Masqueraders
Light Entertainment in the 1950's
The Racecourse, a Recollection by A W Boutwood
Transcript of an article by A W Boutwood in LHS Newsletter no. 24, 1981
The Story of the New Public Hall
Opened on 28 September 1938
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Wartime - Boer, First World War in Harpenden (WWI)
Wartime - Second World War (WWII)
