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Farms in and around Harpenden
... A selection of our photos – Home Farm, Cross Farm, Bamville Farm, Redbournbury Farm, Watler’s Farm, Upper Topstreet Farm (The Granary). Of these, only Cross Farm still survives at the southern edge of Harpenden. Please click on the small picture to see it full size, with a brief caption. Comments have been added about images 12 and 13 on The Granary. ...
Leyton Road - 1880s to 1950s
... A stroll southwards along Leyton Road from Church Green to Coach Lane. Please click on the small photo to see it full size, with caption. ...
St Vincent De Paul Hostel
Background to the case by Geoff Woodward The St. Vincent de Paul Society is a large Roman Catholic organisation in England and Wales, with the principal object of assisting poor and sick. Catholics and others throughout the world. At their annual meeting in Portsmouth Guildhall at the end of July/beginning of August 1931 they were to discuss the Society’s various social works, including the aftercare of youth, Borstal boys and girls, emigration w...
Harpenden Common
... Please click on the small picture to see it full size. ...
Stakers Lane - Station Road
... Please click on the small picture to see it full size, with expanatory caption . Stakers Lane was renamed Station Road in 1892, and shortly afterwards changed its appearance from village lane to urban street. By the 1920s it was a thriving shopping street. ...
Harpenden's Churches - before 1914
... Clive Hobbs Did this Methodist church become the Regent cinema? Any idea when that cinema closed? I'm thinking 59/60. ed Yes, the Regent cinema was here from 1933 until it closed in 1959 - see our page on Harpenden's three cinemas - https://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/page_id__68.aspx ...
Harpenden High Street - c.1890-1939
... Please click on the small picture to see it full size. This sequence of photos takes you from the Common northwards along the western side, from around 1900 to the 1930s, to the Old Red Lion (currently Billy’s Wine Bar), then across to the ‘Tollgate house’ and from 67 High Street southwards, to the corner of Vaughan Road. ...
Canon Longstaff Has Passed Away
Beautiful Church, a Lasting Memorial The very Rev Canon Bernard Longstaff, Rector of Harpenden’s Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes for thirty years, and its first Parish priest, died early yesterday morning while on holiday at Torquay. He was 69. Canon Longstaff whose health had not been good for some years, and more especially since his illness of two years ago, had an attack on Tuesday, and was taken to the convalescent home run by the Sis...
Akrill House - A Notable Building in Harpenden
In response to comments in ‘Forum’ – Harpenden Town Council’s Newsletter – about this distinctive building in Hollybush Lane, Audrey Deacon, a resident, then living in Akrill House, researched its origins. The following article, first published in ‘Forum’ in 1992, was an edited version of her paper of 1991, which also included short biographies of Sir John Blundell Maple and Charles Akrill. Maple Convalescent Home – c.1900 LHS archives, scan of H...
Eric Morecambe
Eric Morecambe Harpenden is proud of the fact that Eric Morecambe made his home here. The following extracts adapted from the Wikipedia pages on Eric, give just a brief outline of his association with our town. You may have memories that you would like to share, by adding comments. “John Eric Bartholomew OBE (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-w...
Leather-working tools
... This is just a small sample of tools used by shoe-makers and cobblers from our Museum collection. ...
The Director's House
While Sir John Lawes lived at Rothamsted Manor, his fellow Director, J. Henry Gilbert lived in a house between the Laboratory and Harpenden village centre. A painting by Lady Gilbert illustrates a view from the drawing room of the house. The present house occupying the front of the property at 1 West Common was designed in about 1923 by Lady Elnor Russell, wife of Sir John Russell who was the Director from 1912-1943. In Sir John’s autobiography, ...
Sir John Russell (1872-1965)
Creating a modern institution Rothamsted Experimental Station was in a sad state in 1902 after the deaths of the founders, Lawes and Gilbert. The new Director, Daniel Hall, did his best to fund and attract new staff, but the government of the day showed little or no interest in funding agricultural research. But in 1910 Lloyd George decided that agriculture needed revivifying, and £1m became available for research funding. Hall was appointed a co...
Sir Alfred Daniel Hall (1864-1942)
Saving Rothamsted for the Future After the deaths of Sir John Lawes in 1901 and Sir Henry Gilbert in 1902 Rothamsted was a moribund research institute with a couple of scientists and a few assistants and farm hands. Lawes had sensibly set up the Lawes Agricultural Trust to ensure that the work of the institute carried on after their deaths, and Daniel Hall was appointed Director. However the Trust funds were quite inadequate to provide any more t...
'Lost' pubs - 2
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The Story of the Manor of Rothamsted
Sketch of Rothamsted Manor – DS-HC 131 Two meanings have been suggested for the name: ‘red enclosed place’ and ‘homestead with rooks’. The remains of a Roman shrine have been found here and there may have been a settlement in Saxon times. In the early middle ages most of Harpenden and Wheathampstead, including Rothamsted, belonged to Westminster Abbey and the first recorded mention of Rothamsted is in 1212 when Richard de Merston is said to have ...
Luton Town Football Club
THIS PAGE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SITE SINCE IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 2015, AND WE ARE THEREFORE RE-PUBLISHING IT. ed. Brian Webb writes: I am researching Luton Town Football Club (LTFC) in the Victorian era. I am publishing my findings on my website thestrawplaiters.com You will see that there is an Ancestry button on my site to enable people to check if their ancestors played for LTFC or were on the committee. St. George’s School had a ...
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