Although Price claimed his birth was in Shropshire, he was actually born in London in Red Lion Square othe site of the South Place Ethical Society's Conway Hall.
He was educated in New Cross, first at Waller Road Infants School and then Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School At 15, Price founded the Carlton Dramatic Society [and wrote small plays including a drama about his early experience with a poltergeist which he said took place at a haunted manor house in Shropshire
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He set up a receiver and transmitter between Telegraph Hill, Hatcham and St Peter's Church Brockley and captured a spark on a photographic plate, though according to the most recent biography of Price by Richard Morris, this was nothing more than Harry writing a press release saying he had done the experiment as nothing was verified.
The young Price also had an avid interest in coin collecting and wrote several articles for The Askean, the magazine for Haberdashers' School. In his autobiography, Search for Truth, written between 1941 and 1942, Price claimed he was involved with archaeological excavations in Greenwich Park, London but in earlier writings on Greenwich denied he had a hand in the excavation.
an interview with Harry Price:
