In recent years I have participated in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch every January. My results always reveal a very healthy environment for birds in Fishpool Street with above average species recorded.

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,