Henderson Hall and the High Street, early 20th century, with a horse and cart outside D.E. White's saddlery

Henderson Hall and the High Street today

High Street Archive · Recorded since 1756 Drag to compare

Every shop the street has known.

Butchers, bakers, undertakers, drapers and grocers. Drag across the photograph above to see Henderson Hall and the High Street then and now.

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Henderson Hall (built 1902) and its neighbours. Photographs from the Abbots Langley Local History Society collection and Shady Firs Photography, as printed in the Society's directory.

01 · About the project

The earliest trade in the Society's directory is the King's Head, recorded from 1756, and a butcher was working at no. 17 before 1800. Since then the same plots have carried butchers, bakers, ironmongers and undertakers through more than two centuries of village life. This site collects what survives of that record, one shopfront at a time.

02 · The map

Walk the street

Ten addresses with then-and-now photographs. Tap a marker or a name

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Markers show today's business at each address. Every other address is in the directory.

03 · The shops

Then & now

Occupants newest first, as recorded in the Society's directory. Hover a footnote for its source

04 · The directory

The whole street

Every address in the Society's directory of shops, by side of the street

05 · Two and a half centuries of change

1756The King's Head is recorded at no. 35

1826Simons, butchers, open at no. 17, trading until 1974

1902Henderson Hall is built

1920sShops built at nos. 39 to 53 on Busby's builder's yard

1958Causeway Parade is built

1982The Library opens at nos. 2 and 4

Today74 addresses in the directory