Hertfordshire Postcard Artists, Photographers, Publishers, etc.

Postcards published by Valentine's Library, Harpenden

Postcards

Harpenden

  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")

 

Theses are examples of his cards, probably issued circa 1904.

 

ßThe Common in Summer, Harpenden

H. Valentine's Series

 

Harpenden Common

á Same image, later format

 

 

ßParish Church, Harpenden

H. Valentine's Series

 

 

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
 


Trees on Harpenden Common


The Village Pond
 

The Village Pond in Winter (copy seen posted 1917)
 
Sun Lane

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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Park Gates, Rothamsted, Harpenden
posted 1907 

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River Lea, Harpenden

 

The following cards have a later RA Series back

St George's School

 
October 2006   Page updated
April 2012   Reformated with biography