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Harpenden Clocks
By G. Woodward, 2004
Mr and Mrs Nott entertain "Amy"
From the Herts Advertiser and St Albans Times, November 27, 1931
Richard Lydekker and the First Cuckoo
Letters to the Times 1913
The Twin Towns' Shields on the Village (Town) Sign
In the post ‘The Village Sign’ Harpenden Village Sign | Civic matters | Harpenden History (harpenden-history.org.uk) (2015) it states that ...
Traces of Rabbits in Harpenden and Wheathampstead
Farmed for food for the gentry
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