Roys Harlow has reopened it's photo section at last, Roys Harlow Photos over 150 photos click here .
Below are 84 small photos from roysharlow.co.uk, these together with the links might give you an idea what Harlow is like.
Some pub photos are now on line, together with the Easter steam run photos click here |
Harlow Civic Society
The web site has many photos both old and new,you have to dig for them, the link above takes you to Harlow Civic Society Home page, to find the photos go to Resources, there you will find three videos where the subject matter is Harlow, plus two large picture galleries, featuring old photos and some from the 50's and 60's. |
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Wow! what a site, tucked away in the geography section are 127 photos and maps, they are old photos mainly of Old Harlow, before the New Town arrived, loads of information from the maps, I'll save you the dig, this is the link to Geography Department photos |
Great Parndon Today
Great site by Don Aaron, good navigation, I'd guess at about a hundred photos from Great Parndon, with a map. |
Church Photographs
Ian Rose began this site many years ago, he started with Harlow Churches and then expanded the area covered, the link above will take you to his home page where he links to the rest of the country, some of the links are dead, but with a bit of imagination you can still find most of the pages.
The next link takes you to Harlow Church photos |
Harlow Town .net
Out of all of the other about Harlow sites I think this one has the most informative photos, plus it has quite a bit of information, although it might be a little bit out of date. |
Wartime Airfields near Harlow
Lots of photos of old airfields, you might ask what has old airfields to do with Harlow today, some of the airfields are impacting on life today in Harlow.
Matching Airfield has provided extra storage facilities for local companies for many years, plus research testing.
North Weald airfield provides one of the largest weekend markets in the South East, plus it still has an operational airfield.
Hunsdon airfield is currently an airstrip for Microlights.
The largest WW2 airfield is 9 miles away although it's not covered by the Wartime Airfields site;
Stansted Airport London's third Airport, aircraft fly over Harlow every day providing noise pollution and employment.
Stansted Airport started life in 1942 as a USAAF bomber base during world war two.
British Airports Authority bought it in the 1960's, they developed the terminal in 1969 and extended it in 1972.
In 1984 the government gave Stansted airport approval for expansion to accommodate a larger number of passengers, it is now Britain's 4th largest Airport.
Additional link North Weald Airfield Museum |
Visit Harlow
A Harlow Council backed site, a few photos of Harlow in the gallery, loads of information though. |
Two photographic sites from Harlow
Harlow Photographic Society and Senior Snappers Photo Club |
| You Tube Videos from Harlow |
Route to Staple Tye video
This
takes you on the A414 in to Harlow from the M11 roundabout then along Southern Way to Staple Tye Harlow, judging by the traffic it was a very quiet day.
The authorities have just announced they are going to spend another £10 million widening the A414 into Harlow.
It's a bit of a shame they didn't do this a few years ago when they caused havoc working on the same bit of road.
On their new plan they want to remove the roundabout at the junction of Southern Way and the A414 and replace it with traffic lights. Map
We all know how well they work on the A414 (Edinburgh Way ) where over 1 mile jams are normal, caused by the two new sets of traffic lights.Map
Another example; the bus lane traffic lights on Second Avenue, (near Town Centre) causing traffic jams way back, reaching the M11. In 2008 they were switched off for months while modifications were made to Second Avenue, traffic flowed using the roundabout, slowly but it moved. Map
Older people might have memories of when the authorities put traffic lights on the Northern A414 junction with Hertfordshire at Burnt Mill roundabout. Map
The lights managed to cause traffic jams and chaos throughout the town, villages around Harlow suffered an increase in traffic as people found other routes in and out of Harlow.
Eventually the authorities had to recognize their mistake and removed them.
A costly mistake, lets hope they don't repeat it. |
Google Photos of Harlow
MSN Photos of Harlow
Yahoo! photos of Harlow
All of the above search engines list loads of photos from Harlow,one of my favorites is the photo of the new cycle track (2007) with all of it's signs, over 100! Click Here talk about Health and safety madness, Essex County Council who were responsible have now removed many of the signs, though the sign posts still remain, providing exelent "fly posting" positions along the road.
In my opinion you would have to be mad to use the cycle track using their directions and layout .
A bit further along from the photo, on Elizabeth Way E.C.C. direct cyclists a curb stone away (about 5 inches) from on coming heavy goods vehicles with a strong cross wind blowing from the fields and golf corse pushing the cyclist even closer!
I suppose two wheeled thrill seekers might obey the county council directions, me, if I was that desperate, I'd go to Rye House Speedway about 3 miles away and see if they'd let me have a go. |
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Photo sites around Britain |
My Home Town
This site has been around for many years, it is massive!
Think of a place you want to know about then look it up on this site.
A quote from the site "Websites featured on this site have been built and are run by local webmasters who live in their home town and have a wealth of local knowledge." |
Pictures of England
Another large site with loads of photos, I found it a bit strange on the geography though, I looked at a neighbouring town page to find Harlow wasn't listed with any of our neighbours, only towns miles away!
13 pictures from Harlow |
| If you know of a Harlow Essex photo site that I haven't covered please email me. |
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