St Albans' Own East End
Thursday, 19 June 2025

Rats: the fuller story

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 This summer many locals of Fleetville have been informed of the completion to the Rats' Castle public house upgrade, and an announceme...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Street Plates 6

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We begin the latest batch of street plate accounts with something which we do NOT know. That is what the street plate above is more brief th...
Monday, 26 May 2025

Ready for a Change?

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 You may have wandered around the quiet solitude of Hatfield Road Cemetery when your eyes glance across the grass to the serried, but someti...
Thursday, 15 May 2025

Ballito Anniversary 2

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 Last month this blog alerted its readers to the news that Fleetville's largest and most successful company would have been celebrating ...
Thursday, 8 May 2025

VE is Here

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 Imagine it is 8th May 1945: we will have been waiting for this day, known only as VE until now. So, until the Prime Minister Winston Church...
Monday, 5 May 2025

Long-Awaited Relief

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COPYRIGHT CURRENTLY UNKNOWN  As we have come to understand – and to recall if we were of an age to do so – there was huge anticipation. No-o...
Thursday, 1 May 2025

Street Plates 5

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 We have reached month 5 in our series on the east end's street plates of an imagined design, in which we summarise the meanings behind ...
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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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