St Albans' Own East End
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Rescue mission 1

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 As long-standing readers of this blog will recall, I try to remind readers occasionally of landscape features which at one time existed som...
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Saturday, 21 March 2026

Cover pictures 3

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The Camp public house This week's post features the Camp PH on the centre of the top row of the book's first volume cover. Striking ...
Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Cover Pictures 2

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  This week's visit to the St Albans' Own East End book cover is represented by  a former turnpike milepost, this one at Fleetville ...
Monday, 23 February 2026

Fleetville is ...

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 Yes, Fleetville is busy; the district is crowded and expensive.  If you have children and you would like to enrol your child to one of the ...
Monday, 16 February 2026

Barriers ahead

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Cover images on Volume one.  I have often been asked whether I had specific reasons for the choice of photographs displayed on the front cov...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

Slimmon, Boyes and Muskett

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 Continuing our occasional ambles around the calm and picturesque  Hatfield Road Cemetery I have enjoined three farmers whose lives paused i...
Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Roll Them Out

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 It is unusual to re-tell the account of a blog post from years back – in this case twelve years.  Indeed you could say it is quite unnecess...
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About 'St Albans' Own East End'

Mike Neighbour
St Albans' Own East End is an exploration in two volumes, of the city's eastern districts, with feature chapters on the landscape, hamlets, and human transformations during the last millennia. The core of the book is a chronological survey of everyday life from 1880 to 1960. Volume 1: Outsiders, published March 2012. Volume 2: Insiders, published in 2013. Note: both volumes are currently out of print. www.stalbansowneastend.org.uk
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