Harberton Mead, Pullens Lane

Harberton Mead, off Pullens Lane

It was only in the early 1930s that Harberton Mead was fully developed, and initially it was not considered to be a road in its own right, but a continuation of Pullen's Lane.

In 1909 there were just three large houses in what is now known as Harberton Mead. To the west was Harberton House, occupied by Mrs Eales' and to the east were St Catherine's (occupied by Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, Fellow of Balliol College) and Winshields, occupied by Francis John Haverfield, Camden Professor of Ancient History

Kelly's Directory 1935

Pullen's Lane

Harberton Mead: South side

Barna Brow: Leonard Percy Lord
Ridgeway: Sir Alan William Pim, K.C.I.E., K.B.E., C.S.I
Grensward: James Leslie Brierly, M.A., D.C.L., J.P.,
Fellow of All Souls & Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy
Harberton House: Thomas Stuart-Menteath
Harberton House lodge: William Cadman
Julianstow: Thomas F. Hobson, M.A., F.S.A., J.P. and Miss M.G. HOBSON
The Cottage: Horace Smith, gardener to T. F. Hobson esq.

Harberton Mead: North side

St Catherine’s: Eustace Alex A. Joseph
Wester Ogil: Percy Comyn Lyon, C.S.I.
Thornhill: Edward S. Fry
Rusinurbe: Capt. Ernest K. Arbuthnot, D.S.O., R.N. (retired)

Most of the development of Harberton Mead took place in the period between the publication of the 1921 and 1939 Ordnance Survey maps that are shown below.

1921

Harberton Mead in 1921

1939

Harberton Mead in 1939