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Coronation Party, Hatching Green
... These are photos taken at the Coronation party, held at Plovers, Hatching Green in 1953. The young lady in the centre of the children in the lower photo is Harriet Tuckey (nee Pugh). Where are they all now? ...
Harpenden - twinned with Alzey since 1963
Alzey proudly celebrates its historical roots. In 1973 the town administration commissioned and published a book celebrating 1750 years of Alzey’s formal history, dated from a Roman altar dedicated on 22 November 223 to the nymphs guarding the Alzey waters. In 1977 the town celebrated the granting of its charter dated 1277 and its importance from medieval times, as the administrative centre of a palatinate state, with castle, town and jurisdictio...
The Nativity - mural by Frank O. Salisbury
The Nativity by Frank O Salisbury, St Nicholas Church, Harpenden Frank Salisbury had already mastered the technique of the large format canvas when he designed and painted the mural for the Nativity Chapel which was installed in 1913. It was painted in his studio at The Red Gables in Leyton Road on canvas and marouflaged to the stone wall with a wooden frame to fit the space allotted, measuring a little over 6 feet by 10 feet 6 inches. Marouflage...
Grand Concert for Flood Relief
Recently deposited in the Society’s archives by John Wyborn, one-time member of the Cobra Club: Concert programme and advertisements – BF 6.14. Announcement in the Herts Advertiser. Credit: LHS archives The Cobra Club, an organisation of young people in Harpenden who met for social activities and to raise money for local charities, organised a Grand Variety Concert in the Public Hall in support of the Lord Mayor of London’s Flood and Tempest Reli...
Winifred (Freda) Wyborn - 1899-1990
Recently deposited in the Society’s archives by John Wyborn: photograph and cuttings albums, covering his mother’s active public life. Winifred Wyborn was persuaded to stand as a Conservative candidate in the East ward of Harpenden Urban District Council in 1964. Her husband had died in 1962, and she was left with very straitened means. Living in Common Lane, she was sympathetic to the needs of the newly built Batford estate and she worked closel...
'Tom and Jerry' at Lower Luton Road, Batford - 12th May 1941
I had been taken to the Methodist service the evening before the Jerry incendiaries dropped on Batford. The air raid sirens suggested the blitzing of London again, but when the impact sound of bombs very close got me out of bed, it became clear we were a target. From our kitchen window Mum and I watched the fire in the Chapel roof, two doors away. Mum bucketted one of ‘our’ incendiaries, another knocked some guttering off – but basically we were ...
Delving into Harpenden Shops
Geoff Woodward spoke to the Society on 25 June 2013. This report first appeared in Newsletter 120. Salisbury’s Cycle Depot – 1890s – one of earliest photos of a shop For someone who doesn’t like shops and doesn’t like shopping, Geoff Woodward has nevertheless spent much time over the past forty years since the early days of the Local History Society in meticulously recording every scrap of information he could find on the origins and fates of som...
Frank O. Salisbury's prophets
From The High Street News, the newsletter of the Methodist Church, High Street, Harpenden, (issue 100, April 2013) and reproduced with the permission of the Editor. When High Street Methodist Church was last redecorated, four large oil paintings, in their ornate gilt frames, were removed and put into the caretaker’s store room. There they remained for several years, gathering dust. Three of the paintings depicted the prophets; Isaiah, the Nameles...
The Kin - Harpenden's forgotten river?
Bruce Campbell has started a debate about lost watercourses through Harpenden. Below, Les Casey and John Wassell comment on this proposition. Others are welcome to join the debate. Kinsbourne Green – The Common slopes gently down to the A1081 Harpenden residents will be familiar with the name Kinsbourne and the associated area lying to the north of our town. ‘Bourne’ is an old English word for a river in the chalk lands which flowed in winter tim...
Thrales End
... This photograph was taken in the 1920’s at Thrales End Farm near Kinsbourne Green but I do not know any of the men in the picture. Does anyone recognise these workers? ...
8 Moreton Avenue
Charles Rupert Clay and his wife Florence May lived at 8 Moreton Avenue from about 1910/11 until his death in 1956, Florence died the previous year. He was born in Manchester and his Father Charles was a hat trimming Merchant, Charles joined his Father in the business until his death in 1906. Charles Rupert is a distant relative of mine. I would love to know when they moved there. They got married in 1909 so must have moved there after that. ed. ...
In the Steps of Frank O. Salisbury, Portrait and Stained Glass Artist, 1874-1962
In celebration of European Heritage Weekend (12-15 September 2013), the Society arranged a series of visits to sites associated with Frank Salisbury, which participants found “immensely interesting” and “a very memorable day”. The programme was arranged by Margaret Pratt on behalf of the Society. Detail from self portrait Frank Salisbury was born in Harpenden, did his early training and built his first studio here. He and then moved to St John`s ...
Frank Owen Salisbury
From Lorimer Green’s account of the Salisbury Family, written in 1980, and edited, with minor amendments. Lorimer was a grandson of Henry Salisbury – and nephew of Frank. Frank was the ninth child of Henry and Susan (nee Hawes) Salisbury, born in 1874. He was poorly in health, but became the famous portrait painter. At an early age he was too delicate to go out to play with his brothers and when his elder brother James bought him some paints, he ...
The Salisburys of Limbrick Hall
Lorimer Green was a grandson of Henry & Susan Salisbury. In 1980 he wrote the story of the Salisbury families in Harpenden. This is an edited extract from a typescript in the Society’s archives – BF 19/15b). Limbrick Hall in 1929, from the Auction brochure You will quickly discover that I am no historian, but I hope I can interest you in some personal experiences and anecdotes of the Salisburys who have played their part in this history of our Vi...
Henry Salisbury - 1839-1923
From a manuscript by Jean Harrod in the Society’s archives, with minor amendments (BF 19/15h) Henry and Susan Salisbury, c.1910? One of the picturesque cottages in Batchelors Row, since replaced by a supermarket [in the 1960s], was formerly the home of James Salisbury. He was a retired meat-salesman of an amiable and generous nature, and popular with the children because of his ‘singing blackbird’ which he had trained to whistle a catchy hymn-tun...
The First 75 Years of the Harpenden Red Cross Society
On 1 June 2013, Harpenden Red Cross Society mounted an exhibition to celebrate its first 75 years.* This covered the wartime First Aid Post, Ambulance Division, many community services and support for national and international emergencies. The text below has been summarised from the exhibition displays prepared by Marian Donaldson, and illustrated with photos taken at the exhibition. Red Cross notice board in Lower High Street. Credit: Rosemar...
Walter Steabben, 1847 - 1932
A. Text from “Harpenden in Old Postcards Volume 2.” by Eric Brandreth. GB ISBN 90 288 6021 5/CIP Shop at Church Green, Harpenden with Batchelor’s Row on the left and Rothamsted Avenue on the right – Adrian Steabben Hepworth “In 1865 Walter Steabben, aged eighteen, started his butcher’s business somewhere behind the Old Cock Inn. In 1880 this shop was built, on the corner of Church Green and Rothamsted Avenue. He lived in the house behind it (Ivy ...
75 Years of Red Cross in Harpenden
The Red Cross established its first operational unit in Harpenden in 1938. To celebrate its 75 years of dedicated service an exhibition of medical equipment, documents and other memorabilia – much of it dating from the critical Second World War period – was staged in the town’s Park Hall last Saturday, in collaboration with Harpenden Local History Society. Seven members of today’s Harpenden Red Cross unit, which is based at the Seniors Club premi...
Harpenden War Memorial WWII
Town Second World War Plaque. Credit: Gavin Ross, April 2013 The names of 108 local servicemen and women who died in the Second World War between 1936 and 1945 are listed on a separate plate on the West side of the memorial. Compared with the First World War there are more officers killed, many being air force pilots and crew, or naval crew. G. Fisher was George Fisher, eldest son of Sir Ronad Fisher, the eminent statistician. D.R. Russell was th...
Harpenden's celebrations of the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Programme of events. Credit: LHS archives The programme of events concludes with the following note: “It will be a matter of interest to place on record that the cost of the Celebrations outlined in the foregoing Programme and the souvenirs for the children has been met by the allocation by the Urban District Council of the produce of a 1½d [approx. 0.5p] rate, amounting to £860, together with contributions from the residents of Harpenden as the ...
The Telephone comes to Harpenden
Further information from Geoff Woodward added in November 2016 and February 2017 The first indication of telegraph and later telephone services in Harpenden came with the Government’s intention, in 1893, “to erect telegraph or telephone posts through the village” (as reported in The Hertfordshire Illustrated Review, 1893, see Newsletter 60, p.7, February 1993). The Cock Pond, with telegraph pole – c.1894. Not surprisingly, this pole caused outrag...
Some Memories of Harpenden East Station
Harpenden East Station I recall many sprints to catch a train at Harpenden East station to visit relatives at Welwyn Garden City – passing through scenic woodland – or to go shopping in Luton. Twice I used the line as the alternative route home from London when St Pancras Station was closed. I had relatives living near Luton Hoo, and aged about four I slipped between the carriage and the platform at Luton Hoo station. This caused some panic but n...
War Memorial on Church Green, Harpenden
Dedication of War Memorial in 1920. Credit: LHS archives The War Memorial on Church Green, which was dedicated in 1920, has two engraved plates listing names of 162 servicemen who died in the First World War, and a further plate with 108 names of those who died in the Second World War. The lists are not complete as there are further names on memorials in St Nicholas Church and High Street Methodist Church. Mary Skinner has put together more infor...
Aldwickbury
Aldwick Manor House * The parish of Wheathampstead with Harpenden was originally a gift from Edward the Confessor to Westminster Abbey. The property on which Aldwickbury Park Golf Course was laid out probably originated as a manor created around 1300 as the Abbey parcelled out land to purchasers. The first owners were the Pigot or Picot family. As their coat of arms included three pickaxes the original pronunciation was ‘picot’ or similar. The na...
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