Eleanor Marsh
Writes the long view: what a decision means for a place that remembers the last three attempts.
Eleanor Marsh is a pen name: one of the voices the The Harpenden Times newsroom writes in. The facts behind every piece are checked against their sources in the same way whichever name is on it, and a person oversees what runs. How the paper works.
Cocktail bar The Perch registers at The Meating Room's Station Road address
The Perch, a cocktail bar with a second venue in Berkhamsted, has registered as a food business at 5 Station Road, Harpenden. A late licence on that stretch would matter more than the paperwork.
Harpenden's High Street has one bank counter, shared five ways
Harpenden spent years without a single bank counter of its own. What it has now is a shared one at 35 High Street, open weekdays with a different bank on duty each day — modest, and a good deal better than nothing.
Toddler groups in Harpenden, day by day
Five mornings, four venues and one town with nowhere indoor when it rains. Where to take a baby or a toddler in Harpenden this term, checked against the operators' own pages.
Harpenden has two pools for baby swimming. Nobody tells you
The directories still send Harpenden families to St Albans and Markyate to teach a baby to swim. They need not go: Leyton Road and Aldwickbury both run lessons inside the town. Here is what each offers, for whom, and when.
