St Albans' Own East End
Monday, 29 June 2020

Into Long Field

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Hatfield Road looking west with the cemetery on the left. c1914. The gap at the distant flag at half mast is where the Social Club is today,...
Friday, 19 June 2020

Another Field Built Over

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In recent posts we have explored how the Farm Field of St Peter's Farm came to be the beginning of the new east end of St Albans.  So fa...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

A Boundary Road

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Hatfield Road passes St Peter's Farm and bends right after passing the pond in 1879.  This is pre-park and there is no sign of Clare...
Tuesday, 2 June 2020

New Home in Hatfield Road

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Last week we discovered the laurel shrubbery behind St Peter's Farm and the consequent naming of the short cut-de-sac.  This week we wil...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Laurel

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The ladder roads on the north side of Hatfield Road, those between Harlesden and Blandford, are well-recalled by name, but there one other l...
Monday, 18 May 2020

Useful Retail Trade

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Near the junction with Sandfield Road this Hatfield Road premises was built c1905 and occupied by builder and joiner James Andrew.  You may ...
Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Not Easy to Smile

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This Friday and Saturday is the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe, in the closing stages of the Second World War.  8th May for m...
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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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