Lest We Forget, part 12: Adding the Second World War Names

Both towns added to their existing memorials rather than building new ones, and the results sit side by side w...

Lest We Forget, part 8: Private Edward Warner VC: The Straw Hat Maker from Cannon Street

The most famous name on the St Albans memorial belongs to a man who made straw hats before the war. Edward Warner was born at 36 Cannon Street, St Albans, on 18 November 1883.

Lest We Forget, part 7: The Street Memorials of the Abbey Parish

St Albans has something found nowhere else in Britain: a set of stone memorials built into the walls of ordina...

Lest We Forget, part 3: Harpenden in the Great War: Camp, Hospital and Home Front

Harpenden had no hospital in 1914, so the town's volunteers built one. When the Notts and Derbyshire battalion...

Lest We Forget, part 2: August 1914: Two Towns Go to War