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Childwickbury maps
Historic maps of Childwickbury and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Childwickbury maps
Childwickbury photos
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Drinking at Childwickbury
My father, Dennis Chappin, who was born in 1924, frequently refers to a pub in Childwickbury that he frequented in his youth. He seems to remember leaving Harpenden town centre to have a late drink at this mystery pub as it had later licencing hours. I live at Shafford Cottages, part of the Childwickbury estate, but have yet to come across anyone who knows about this pub. There seems to be no signs of any conversion of a property up on the Green, so I wonder if anyone can recall exactly where this pub was? Further investigation on Google throws up a reference to the 'One Bell Public House on Childwick Green' in the 1906 sales prospectus of the Childwickbury Estate. So, a pub was there in 1906, but no mention of it when the estate was re-sold in 1978. When did it close, and where exactly was it situated on the Green? Can anyone help?
Hertfordshire memories
The Pond on The Common
This pond used to be known as The Silver Cup Pond but I do not know where the name originated. Here was where children would sail toy boats or paddle. I have not yet come across a current photo or reference to this pond so I am wondering if it has survived health and safety strangulation. Would love to hear more about it.
Silver Cup Pond, Harpenden, Herts.
Having grown up in Harpenden I remember The Silver Cup Pond very well. Firstly, to answer the question posed, I'm sure that the pond was named after the pub that stands on the main road not far away, which in my time was the A6, in it's day the fore-runner of the M1. It is possible that the silver cup itself could have been a horse racing prize from the days when this sport could be seen taking place on the common. As well as the pond, there was also a sandpit nearby where we used to play. It was hexagonal, made of concrete, and had a short pillar in the middle, great for banging your head on! Having done the shopping, and after leaving Mary Ellen's tea rooms, where the ladies would sit drinking tea or coffee in their hats, our way home to Southdown took us not only past that pond, and the sandpit, but also the water regulating lagoons. These, our mothers assured, us were most dangerous,... Read more
Silver Cup Pond
This was filled in due to a scare of polio in the early 1960s. It was called the Silver Cup pond because it was opposite the pub of the same name.
Whitethorn Morris Dance at St Albans "Folk at The Festival"
One of the highlights of the Festival is the Festival parade and Day of Dance which traditionally takes place on the Saturday of each year's Festival.
The procession was led through the City Centre by the Abbey puppets and traditional local morris dancers, plus Trachtengruppe Kussnacht from Rigi, Switzerland. The climax of the parade was a massed display of dancing in the High Street watched by thousands and thousands of city centre spectators and market stallholders.
The dancing continued all day in front of the Alban Arena, in the Maltings and Christopher Place shopping centres, outside the Abbey and - as shpwn in this view -by the Clock Tower and Market Cross. The local police had thoughtfully closed off the streets so that the crowds of festival goers could walk safely in the roads!
One of the teams of dancers was locally based Whitethorn Morris from Harrow who looked splendid in their scarlet and blue kit, shiny black clogs and energetic dancing to... Read more
Whitethorn Morris Dance in Front of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks
Although this ancient inn is protected and little changed over the years, the surrounding landscape is now attractive with paving, seats and trees by the edge of the millstream which flows into the lake at the bottom of Fishpool Street. The new landscaping provides a good area for displays of morris dancing so it always features in the programme for St Albans annual Festival parade and Day of Dance each June.
The 2008 procession was led through the City Centre by the Abbey puppets and traditional local morris dancers, plus Trachtengruppe Kussnacht from Rigi, Switzerland. The climax of the parade was a massed display of dancing in the High Street watched by thousands and thousands of city centre spectators and market stallholders.
The dancing continued all day in front of the Alban Arena, in the Maltings and Christopher Place shopping centres, by the Clock Tower and Market Cross, and later in the afternoon on the lovely paving in front of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks.
St Albans And Rosemary
In 1965 I met a young woman at a dance in St Albans. I was on a working holiday from Australia and we were young. Her name was Rosemary Maule and she lived in Seymour Terrace, St Albans. She was beautiful. I wonder where she is now? Where are you, Rosemary?
