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- Category: Life and leisure
- Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre
- Home shopping after the war – Lil Day
- Category: Life in other countries
- Category: Post war economy
- Category: Pubs and clubs
- Category: River Ver
- Category: Schools
- Category: Shops
- Category: Sopwell Park
- Category: Sport
- Category: St Stephen's churchyard and field
- Category: Oral history
- Living in Holyrood Crescent – Val Goodyear-Burrow
- Wartime memories of living in Tavistock Avenue
- Park Street filling station – Sue Bentley
- Category: Adelle Stapleton
- Category: Anne Wares
- Category: Barry Bateman
- Category: Betty Cutler
- Category: Betty Terry
- Category: Bill Mackenzie
- Category: Brian and Brenda Gilson
- Category: Brian Welch
- Category: Denis Mardel
- Category: Dorothy Grummit
- Category: Evelyn Roberts
- Category: Fred Edwards
- Category: Gloria Morris
- Category: Grant Peerless
- Category: Jack Knight
- Category: Jasim Uddin
- Category: Jennifer Taylor
- Category: Jenny Huggard and José Sena
- Category: John Buckingham
- Category: John Church
- Category: Kathy Sinfield
- Category: Lil Day
- Category: Margaret Brown
- Category: Mary Myers
- Category: Melba Buckingham
- Category: Michael Clark
- Category: Mike Titchiner
- Category: Noel Godman
- Category: Rob Edwards
- Category: Roy Pinnock
- Category: Russ Bowman
- Category: Sandy Norman
- Category: Sue Bentley
- Category: Tony Picciuto
- Category: Tony Prior
- Category: Valerie Goodyear-Burrow
- Category: Valerie Robertson
- Category: Velma Richards
- Category: Winnie Jeffs and Betty Cox
- Category: People
- Sinking a borehole – Roy Pinnock
- Category: Blowers sisters
- Category: Butterfield family
- Category: Foster. Vic
- Category: Hart-Synnot, Rev.A.
- Category: Mercer
- Category: Pinnock family
- Category: William Longmire
- Category: Places and spaces
- Prefabs in Sopwell
- Category: Churches
- Category: Footpaths and stiles
- Category: Nunnery open space
- Category: Streets
- Category: Timeline
- Category: 17th century
- Category: 18th century
- Category: 1920s
- Category: 1930s
- Cottonmill area – Margaret Brown
- St Julian’s Estate – Margaret Brown
- Shops and deliveries – Margaret Brown
- Cottonmill Lane – Margaret Brown
- Sportsmans Hall and the stables in Cottonmill Lane – Margaret Brown
- Boleyn Drive – Margaret Brown
- Childhood – Margaret Brown
- Vesta Avenue shops
- Tar River and Flint Cottages – Denis Mardel
- Walking to Park Street via Sopwell – Denis Mardel
- Playing in the river Ver – Denis Mardel
- The building of Doggetts and Wilshere
- Fire at Sopwell Nunnery Farm
- Ladies Fashion shop at the Peahen – Jennifer Taylor
- Living in Leyland Avenue – Melba Buckingham
- Cottonmill Lane – Bet Cutler
- Early memories of Sopwell – Betty Cox and Winnie Jeffs
- Shopping – Betty Cox and Winnie Jeffs
- Leyland Avenue
- Watercress industry in Sopwell – Roy Pinnock
- Memories of my father – John Buckingham
- Memories of the 1930s – Dorothy Grummitt
- Memories of St Julian’s farm – Mrs Terry
- Memories of living in Vesta Avenue – Mrs Terry
- Living in Nuns Lane – Jack Knight
- Working as a postman in Sopwell – Jack Knight
- School memories – Gloria Morris
- More childhood memories – Gloria Morris
- Childhood memories – Gloria Morris
- Childhood memories – Noel Godman
- Working as a precision engineer – Noel Godman
- Cottonmill Lane – Kathy Sinfield
- Gasworks sports – Kathy Sinfield
- Tavistock Avenue
- Category: 1940s
- Sportsman’s Hall and Priory Park School- Frances Gordon
- Abbots Avenue Bridge
- Memories of the coalman
- Murder in the allotments
- Schooldays – John Church
- Living in Cottonmill Lane – Mike Titchiner
- Memories of the Westminster Lodge and Prospect Road area – Grant Peerless
- Beer and entertainment – Grant Peerless
- St Julian’s farm – Val Goodyear-Burrow
- Childhood in Tavistock Avenue – Sue Bentley
- Childhood play – Evelyn Roberts
- Sopwell House and New Barnes Mill – Mary Myers
- Boating on the Ver – Lil Day
- Blowers family – Bet Cutler
- Sportsman’s Hall – Bet Cutler
- Memories of St Peter’s school – John Buckingham
- Working life – Winnie Jeffs and Betty Cox
- St Julian’s Tavistock Sunday School
- A walk down Cottonmill Lane 2 – John Buckingham
- A walk down Cottonmill Lane 1 – John Buckingham
- Making shelters – John Buckingham
- Living next to the gasworks and railway lines – John Buckingham
- Wilshere Avenue childhood memories – Brian Gilson
- Category: 1950s
- Memories of Mandeville School by Peter Rodford
- Memories of the 19th cub scouts – Kelvin Callow
- Growing up on the Cottonmill Estate – Kelvin Callow
- Memories of Mandeville School – Kelvin Callow
- Memories of Mercer’s
- Prefabs – Tavistock Avenue
- Cottonmill Men’s Club
- Designing the clock face for St Albans clocktower
- Lydia Lightfoot of Holywell Hill
- Waterworks Pumping Station Holywell Hill
- Trainspotting – Mike Titchiner
- Sopwell Home Farm – Mike Titchiner
- Caddying at the golf course – Mike Titchiner
- Saturday morning pictures – Mike Titchiner
- Born and bred in St Albans – Jennifer Taylor
- Living in Pemberton Close – Brian Welch
- Memories of Sunday schools and dancing – Sue Bentley
- Thunderbolts in Nuns Lane – Evelyn Roberts
- Cottonmill Baptist Church
- The youth club in Leyland Avenue – John Buckingham
- Playing in the river – John Buckingham
- Childhood memories – Rob Edwards
- Memories of schooldays and work – Rob Edwards
- 19th St Albans Scouts – Tony Prior
- Living in Abbots Avenue West – Tony Prior
- Mandeville school
- New Barnes Mill
- Pearce’s scrap yard – John Buckingham
- Bonfire night – John Buckingham
- Memories of a milkman – Michael Clark
- Scout groups in Sopwell
- Housecraft lessons at St Julian’s school – Brenda Gilson
- Cottonmill Crescent childhood memories – Brenda Gilson
- Views from Wallingford Walk
- Memories of racism – Velma Richards
- Life in the 1940s and 1950s – Russ Bowman
- Working life in St Albans – Russ Bowman
- Postwar school days – Russ Bowman
- Prefabs in Lee lane – Russ Bowman
- Walking to Park Street – Bill Mackenzie
- Category: 1960s
- Church Lads Brigade – Mike Titchiner
- Roots in St Vincent – Adelle Stapleton
- Working on the Abbey roof – Brian Welch
- Working for the water board – Brian Welch
- 3rd St Albans Girls Life Brigade
- Cottonmill Club and the King Offa – Rob Edwards
- Living in Berners Drive – Rob Edwards
- Cottonmill Football Club
- From the USA to Ramsbury Road – Anne Wares
- Living in Ramsbury Road – Anne Wares
- Watling View fire station – Michael Clark
- Rev. Anthony Hart-Synnot
- Memories of St Stephen’s Vicarage and Rev. Hart-Synnot – Brian and Brenda Gilson
- Verulam Angling Club – Fred Edwards
- Stories of an immigrant family from Bangladesh – Jasim Uddin
- London Road station – Valerie Robertson
- History of St Peter’s School
- Category: 1970s
- Category: 1980s
- Category: 1990s
- Category: 19th century
- Category: 2000 -
- Category: Early 20th century
- Category: Middle ages
- Category: Post World War 2
- Category: Tudor period
- Category: World War 2
- Category: Uncategorized
- Category: Work
- Category: Agriculture
- Category: Domestic service
- Category: Factory work
- Category: Gasworks
- Category: Horticulture
- Category: Hotel work
- Category: Mercer's Chronometers
- Category: Mills
- Category: Railways
- Category: Retail
- Category: Ryder's Seed Merchants
- Category: Straw plaiting
- Category: Water company
- Category: Watercress industry
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