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John Streeter's family home pages

We live in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Some brief historical facts about our city and its origins are listed below.
You can also see a map - we live in the neighbourhood nearly at the centre of the image!

·         Modern St Albans was founded on a hill overlooking the ruins of the Roman city of Verulamium.

·         Originally established in AD 49 on an older Celtic settlement, Verulamium was an important and wealthy civil centre in Roman Britain for over 300 years.

·         St Albans is named after Alban, a Roman citizen executed in the third century as the first Christian martyr in Britain.

·         The site of his martyrdom soon became a shrine, and was eventually enclosed within a medieval Abbey, now a Cathedral.  Over the centuries the shrine has been a major place of pilgrimage.

·         In the Middle Ages St Albans was also the site of two battles in the 'Wars of the Roses' as the town commanded the strategic route into London.

·         It is arguable that the Patron Saint of England should really be St Alban and not St George!

·         You can see some of the City if you visit the civic web site by clicking here.


 

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        My interests include:

·         The study of maps and map making, particularly the work of the Ordnance Survey and the many commercial British map publishers such as Bacon, Bartholomew's and Geographia. 

 

·         Also ephemera connected with maps, map cover art and maps published in travel and guide books, for example the long running series of Ward Lock Red Guides.  Links to relevant web sites are given below.

 

·         Genealogical research; I am compiling information on my family history with particular interest in the surnames Deveson, Foad, Streeter, Stainthorp and Waddleton.  More details are listed on the page that can be reached from here.  This also has a link to a 'RootsWeb World Connect' site where I have posted my searchable 'ancestor database'.

 

OS map sites on the web

Sites to visit if you are interested in the history of surveying, maps and map production
in Great Britain and Ireland ~ from the late 18th Century to the present day:

·         Click here to go to The Charles Close Society for the study of Ordnance Survey maps and the origins and history of the Ordnance Survey in the UK.

·         Or click here to go to the Ordnance Survey's own web site.


I am an architect.  My professional experience and other career related information is detailed on another page - which can be reached from here

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First constructed on Monday, April 10th 2000, latest revisions on December 27th 2000

 "Procrastination is the thief of time"

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