Beside number 120 Fishpool Street lies a narrow alley connecting Fishpool Street to Mount Pleasant via Offa Road. Today it is known as Cock Alley and many believe it was named after the old Cock and Flowerpot Inn at number 120. However, older residents often referred to the alley as Cop Alley. Wilfred Grant, who lived at number 82 from 1934 until his death in 2004, insisted, in his Hertfordshire brogue , that it was ' Cop Alley '. Cop Alley looking towards Fishpool Street Ger

St Michael's Manor Hotel has joined St Albans School to offer residents alternative parking spaces during road resurfacing from Tuesday 27 May to Friday 30 May.

St Albans School has kindly offered to provide residents with 15 parking spaces within specially marked bays in the Upper Yard on the days they are required to relocate by the resurfacing.

Guidance on applying for planning permission to install solar panels in the St Albans Conservation Area has been published by the council.

A blue plaque has been fixed to the front of No 7 Fishpool Street in memory of cartographer Thomas Kitchin, the foremost engraver of his age

The beauty and spectacle of the garden at No 28 Fishpool Street has now been shared with garden-lovers everywhere on the front page of The English Garden  magazine.   And inside, a seven-page article guides readers around the garden’s numerous features, nurtured and developed by St Albans couple Jenny and Antony Jay over the past 20 years.   “With its 80-year-old box hedges, immaculate topiary and cottage garden planting surrounding a 17th century Grade II listed Tripe House,

George Street should be fully pedestrianised as trialled during the Covid pandemic, say a majority of residents polled in a Fishpool Street Residents' Association (FSRA) survey. With St Albans' High Street Recovery Pedestrianisation Trial coming to an end, Herts County Council will decide whether or not to reopen George Street to 2-way traffic, or keep a measure of pedestrianisation. So we asked Fishpool residents to indicate which of three outcomes they wanted the County Cou