Harlow, Essex

White Horse cottages

Just wondered if anyone could help me please. We live in Old Harlow and have recently been looking into the history of Harlow and where we live. We were wondering if anyone has any memories or photos, or just any information at all about what were The White Horse Cottages that were situated next to The White Horse pub in Old Road. Thank you.

THIS IS WHAT OLD HARLOW MILL LOCK LOOKED 47 YEARS BEFORE MY FAMILY LIVED IN THE LOCK COTTAGE

MY FAMILY MOVED HERE IN 1950 TILL 1961 MY DAD WAS THE LOCK KEEPER 1950 - 1961
SEE OTHER PHOTOS OF HOW IT LOOKED IN 1955  

THE BOATS WE LOOKED AFTER

While my family lived in the lock house 1950 - 1961, my father rented  the rowing boats out and also the fishing permits. This is only one place where they were moored. At various times they were both sides of the bridge and on both banks. On the left bank of this picture there was the swimming pool and on the right they built a boating club in the late 50s with kayaks & racing rowing boats from 1 to eight people.  Most of my childhood was spent either in the canoes, rowing boats or I was fishing, with my sister or mates .Finish this story later

Fishing and Swimming

I remember going down to the River Stort with my brother Steve and mates like Tommy Hughes to fish and swim  - wow, when I saw this photo it was like it was yesterday. I wish I could go back to happier times...
Barrie Brooks

Harlow Town and City Memories

Churchgate Street lay on the main route from London to Newmarket, Cambridge, Norwich and the North. Until early in the 19th century, travellers in horse-drawn carriages from London would see the welcome sight of the Queen’s Head and the spire of the church of St Mary and St Hugh in the background as they rounded the bend in the road. Stafford Almshouse, now privately owned, was originally the home of a priest until 1548, when it became an almshouse for ‘two poor widows to be given 20s for wood and 20s for clothing every year’. Anyone standing on this same spot now would find that Churchgate Street looks almost the same now as in the photograph.

Essex Pocket Album

Before the New Town was even a dream in a developer’s eye, a group of children pose for the camera in the quaint little old-world town, with the spire of St Mary the Virgin’s church on the left. This ‘village’, now known as Old Harlow, is just to the east of the New Town, which was started in 1947 to help relieve London’s congestion. With the development of the New Town, Harlow’s population mushroomed from a scant 4,000 to over 80,000.

Harlow Town and City Memories

The road to Harlow was a turnpike costing 1s for a coach and horses, and 1d for a horse. The eight daily coaches would have passed the Bull and Horseshoes at Potter Street, the Queen’s Head at Churchgate Street, the Green Man at Mulberry Green and the George at the end of the High Street. The road then led down to Harlow Mill on the Stort and the bridge into Hertfordshire.