Left is one of the Keepsake Illustrations collection. For a 1920 view of the High Street see Redbourn Prints. Below is a section of Geof Webb photos of the High Street

Redbourn Village Hall is just off the High Street.

The majority of the Redbourn shops are in the High Street. See: Redbourn Businesses.

A number of Redbourn Pubs are on the High Street.

See: The Bull Inn, The George and also The Indian Nights Restaurant & Romanio Ristorante Italiano.

See also: Bygone Public Houses Of Redbourn, (The Cock, The Queen Victoria & The Saracens Head have their own page.)

Dr Henry Stephens lived at 38 High Street and also at The Bull Pub.

Henry Stephens

His father was landlord of The Bull Pub. He was apprenticed to Dr Wingfield at Markyate and later studied at St Thomas London, qualifying in 1816. He was a friend of John Keats. After being a Redbourn Doctor for a number of years he moved to London in 1828. As a Doctor he lived at 38 High Street and is also known for Stephen’s Blue Black Ink. He died on Farringdon Station in 1864.

Redbourn Library is in Lamb Lane just off the top end of the High Street.

Paper copies of the above information board outside Redbourn Village Hall are available from Redbourn Museum.

The High Street

• Geof Webb Collection:
  

Some more modern pictures at - http://www.harrow-middx.demon.co.uk/hertnew/p22.htm

For further Geoff Webb Photographs see: Crown Street, Dolittle Mill, High Street, Home Guard, Hopes Carpets And Flooring Ltd, Motorway Widening, Redbourn Cricket Club, Redbourn House, Russel Harborough, The Queen Victoria,

See also: Redbourn Village Hall, Redbourn Prints, Keepsake Illustrations, The Red House, The Priory House, Houses And Streets, Three Mills And Two Rivers Walk, Redbourn In Bloom, Geof Webbs Redbourn Collection The Cock Inn

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-- Martin Cleaver - March 2006