St Albans' Own East End
Saturday, 1 November 2025

Street Plates 11

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 This month's selection of east end streets is as varied as any so far in this series; we have six to ponder over in November. There are...
Monday, 20 October 2025

Finding A Way

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As a prelude to a new monthly series of posts on the rough-and-ready process of creating a community in our East End it might help to explor...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

65 and Counting

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 Are there any books written about St Albans?  Yes, I know of about 65 and there will be several others, not all will be available to buy, o...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Street Plates 10

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 Six more street plates around our East End to ponder over, perhaps as we sit on a boundary wall at the end of a road waiting for a friend t...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

A Gentle Family

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 Take an occasional ample through Hatfield Road Cemetery, glancing at names on headstone, and we recognise a name which means something to u...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Mammals, Leaves and Posters

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 London has its Open House Festival for two full weeks in September, and many towns and cities around the country have their Heritage weeken...
Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Next Generation of ...

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 In the early years of post-war St Albans three areas of land were being prepared for new purposes so that small industrial plots in the cit...
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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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