Postcard Index

Postcards published by Valentine's Library, Harpenden

The following series of postcards of Harpenden were published by Henry Valentine, Stationer, High Street, Harpenden, (1912 Kelly's Directory), probably shortly before the First World War. His cards are not to be confused with nationally important postcard publisher, Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee.

The Parish Church

The distinctive back - published by "Valentine's Library, Harpenden" Ref D .601/1100 and printed in England

St John's Church

The Village Pond

The Village Pond in Winter (copy seen posted 1917)

Harpenden Common in Winter (posted 1918)

Harpenden Common

Another view of the Common

Hatching Green, Harpenden
Known posted in 1904. There is a monochrome version of this card, with a less decorative back - posted in 1910

Thatched Cottages at Hatching Green, Harpenden

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The above card, of sheep on Harpenden Common, was posted in 1904. It is labelled "H. Valentine's Series" - presumably Henry Valentine, of Harpenden, as the major postcard publisher later known as Valentine and Sons, simply marked their cards "Valentine Series" at this date.

Similar format  "H. Valentine's Series" postcard of the Parish Church used 1908?

The Village Pond, Harpenden
No publisher - early format card posted 1908
(another version seen - colour and full area -  posted 1905. Yet another explicitly published "H Valentine Series")

The following cards have a later RA Series back

St George's School

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