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

Edwardian house on the corner of Hall Place Gardens and St Peter's Street. It was converted into a doctors' surgery in the 1990s.

Late 1990s redevelopment of the former St Albans bus garage, consisting of 39 flats. The bus garage had opened in August 1936, designed by the firm Wallis, Gilbert and Partners who were responsible for many of the bus garages of that era, and thought by some to be their best design. Its demolition following closure met much local opposition.

Building towards the northern end of St Peter's Street, on the site of the former Townsend Farm. Its name was taken from a previous building further along the street which had been demolished for the new Post Office built in 1935 - see Image Maps back to the 1898 1:2,500 edition show a similar shaped building (other than later extensions) in the site named Townsend, suggesting that the naming as Thorne House was simply a renaming, with the building itself being late Victorian.

Age Concern are on the right.

Headquarters of the Trans-European Division of Seventh-day Adventists at 119 St Peter's Street, built in the 1960s. The statue on the front, "Three Angels of the Apocalypse", was created by the sculptor Alan Collins in 1963.

Built in 1627 in accordance with the will of Roger Pemberton, one time High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, following his death. He had ordered six almshouses to be built for poor widows, and had set up an endowment to provide the occupants with an allowance for food and clothing. He gave strict instructions on their behaviour, with the provision that they would lose their allowance as a first sanction, and their home if they failed to mend their ways. Tradition has it that Pemberton had shot a widow by accident, and it was in atonement for this that he had founded the almshouses. Although there would seem to be no historical basis for this story, there is an iron spike representing an arrow above the gateway - see Image Both the houses and the wall and gateway in front of it are grade II listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347160 and www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103050.

Headquarter building of the Trans European Division of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, dating from the 1960s.

Gateway to The Pemberton Almshouses (see Image). Note the iron shaft at the top of the gateway representing an arrow, commemorating the tradition that the founder of the almshouses, Roger Pemberton, had shot a widow by accident, in atonement for which he had founded the almshouses. The gateway is grade II listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103050. For close up of the plaque above the gate, see Image

Plaque on the gateway of The Pemberton Almshouses (see Image). It reads "These six Alms Houses were Erected & Endowed With Five Pounds Pr. Annum Each Out of the Mannor of Shelton in Bedfordshire By ROGER PEMBERTON of St. Albans Esqr. Who was bury'd in the Church of St. Peter Novr. 20th. 1627."

These almshouses were founded in 1627 by Roger Pemberton, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, reputedly as atonement for an accident when he killed a poor widow with a bow and arrow. The inscription in the white tablet at the top of the entrance arch reads: "With Five Pounds Pr. Annum Each Out of the Mannor of Shelton in Bedfordshire By ROGER PEMBERTON of St. Albans Esqr. Who was bury'd in the Church of St. Peter Novr. 20th. 1627" The road in the foreground is the A1081 St Peters Street, and the road to the right is Grange Street.