Caf? Rouge, 29 Holywell Hill, St Albans
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Caf? Rouge, 29 Holywell Hill, St Albans
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 20 Apr 2013
Grade II Listed seed hall. The Art Deco building was opened in 1931 as Samuel Ryder's Seed Company Exhibition Hall. It was built by Miskins to a Percival C. Blow design. Samuel was the Mayor of St Albans in 1905-6 and the founder of the Ryder Cup. After Samuel's death in 1952, his wife, Joan reopened the newly refurbished hall as the ‘Floral Hall’. It had a model golf green display stand in his honour. As next door, Ryder House, the building was taken over by the post Office from about 1971 to 1992 after that becoming the Café Rouge
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Image Location
Latitude
51.749432
Longitude
-0.340455