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St. Peters Street, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3DQ

There has been a pub called The Cricketers at the head of St Peter's Street, where it divides into Harpenden Road and Stonecross, since the late 19th century, although beer had been sold on the site from at least the middle of that century. The name reflected the former cricket ground on Bernard's Heath, to the north of here. The present building dates from the 1938 and remained in use as a pub until 2005, when it was converted to an Indian Restaurant, called Devdas, but the cricketers sign remains above the front door. It is locally listed.

At the junction with Beech Road

Once a medieval thoroughfare, now a path running behind the former Cricketers pub and the Jolly Sailor, with its role as a road replaced by Stonecross. For many years nameless, research by Kate Morris of the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society led to the rediscovery of its original name and it was formally renamed in October 2006. The meaning behind the name is uncertain.

Heading through St Albans.

Looking along the northern part of St Peter's Street from outside the former Cricketers pub. On the right is the Seventh-day Adventist church (see Image).

Large Edwardian house at the start of Harpenden Road.

A Charles Wells hostelry, on Stonecross as it changes into Sandridge Road, with its own very good website here http://www.thejollysailorpub.co.uk/index.htm Just what a Jolly Sailor had to do with St Albans was a mystery until I read the website...!