Clutterbuck refers to ‘three other houses in Cock Lane …… forming 6 dwellings on the front of which is the ...
We’d all like history, motives and conservation to be neat and tidy matters, but they rarely are. The Marlborough almshouses ...
We all like a good anecdote whether it’s true or not. The story behind Roger Pemberton’s almshouse is that he ...
Just 11 years into the reign of ‘Good Queen Bess’, with its religious and political tensions, Richard Raynshaw wrote his ...
‘Robert Hodgkinson, late of this parish, by his last will and testament bearing date 2 August 1593 bequeathed £20 to ...
This establishment was probably never used as an almshouse in the traditional sense. A footnote in Victoria County History vol ...
Harriot Grimston married Major Poore at St Albans Abbey in March 1885. The Grimston family was prominent in the area. ...
It seems that there was an almshouse, or poor house, on the site of the present St Michael’s JMI school ...
The system for workhouses in St Albans was a success. One result of this was that in 1725 St Stephens ...
This organisation is not an almshouse charity in the traditional sense so much as an organisation helping with housing, subsidising ...
William Powell’s Charity owns and maintains two one bedroom semi-detached almshouses. The datestone on the building says ‘William Powell’s Trust ...
William Skipwith died in 1509. In his will he states, ‘I will that the three tenements adjoining my gate be ...
A few things I find most interesting about the town
Meet: Syeda Momotaz Rahim community activist and the First British Bangladeshi female Councillor in St Albans.
An attempt to revive an ancient custom ’the beating of the bounds’ in St Albans 1913. The picture shows the Mayor, ...
A suppliment to Abi's page
St Peter’s Church Choir around 1973 The names (I think) I can remember are: Top row: Colin Hyde, Michael Mills, Howard Slater ...
The Clock Tower of St. Albans is unique, the only town belfry dating to the middle ages in England. It ...
The First Battle of St Albans, on 22nd May 1455, marked the beginning of the Wars of the Roses and ...
The Devil is a common figure in folklore everywhere, and Hertfordshire is no exception. Besides featuring prominently in such tales ...