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Miscellaneous pages, etc, about St Albans |
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Miscellaneous pages, etc, about St Albans |
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Under Construction The St Albans pages are currently being reformatted and extended and the following information needs assessment and where appropriate integration into the new page structure. |
from Robert Walker's Map of Hertfordshire, 1746
Detail from Charles Smith's map of Hertfordshire (1808 edition)
Adjacent Parishes to St Albans Abbey Parish: St Michaels, St Peters, St Stephens. see also St Saviours (Bernards Heath)
St Albans Union consisted of the Abbey parish, and the parishes of St Peter, St Michael, St Stephen, Sandridge, Redbourn, Harpenden and Wheathampstead.
The St Albans Central Library, in the Maltings shopping centre, has microfilms of the local parish registers and censuses, and of the Herts Advertiser newspaper from 1858. It no longer keeps the City archives - which are now at HALS, but many of the more generally useful items are available on microfilm. Its holdings includes maps and other documents, a good collection of local books on the open shelves (and many available on loan), and a unique collection of mainly older books about the area in locked cases. There are street directories for St Albans and area for most years from about 1881 on the open shelves. The chief problem is that there is only one microfilm reader - which is frequently in use - so booking is absolutely essential if you are making a journey to look at the records
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Travelling south, via Dunstable, towards London, in 1697, Celia Fiennes wrote
Thence to St. Albans and so we enter Hartfordshire 12 mile: there is a very large streete to the Market place, its a pretty large town takeing all, the St Juliers [St Julians - a historic chapel in the parish of St Stephens] and that at one end and the other end is St Nicholas [error?? - she would have passed close to St Michaels], where is a handsome church; the great Church which is dedicated to St. Albans is much out of repaire; I see the places in the pavement that was worn like holes for kneeling by the devotes of the Religion, and his votery's, as they tell you, but the whole Church is so worn away that it mourns for some charitable person to help repaire it; there are several good houses about the town one [Holywell House] of the Earl of Maulberoug [Marlborough] and one of Mrs Gennings [Jennings] the Countess Mother.
The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited Christopher Morris, Cresset Press, 1947
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Census: 1881: St Albans Prison Staff
Directories: Election Bribery in St Albans in 1850 - includes poll book, etc
Education: St Albans Schools - St Albans used to illustrate the kinds of information available
Ephemera: Receipt relating to mortgage, 1809 (Thomas Smith, Edward Garrett, St Albans)
Map: Britannia Depicta - An example from this 1755 road atlas shows the road from St Albans via Harpenden to Luton and transcribed a brief history of St Albans.
Occupations: St Albans Brickmakers
Occupations: Silk Mill
Occupations: Suet Making: Wiles & Lewis, St Albans
Topics: St Albans Abbey: Early 20th century Post Cards
Topics: The St Albans Pageant of 1907
Topics: The Straw Hat Industry - St Albans was an important centre
For information about the Dagnall Street Baptist chapel see WATTS, St Albans, 1865-1880s
