War Memorial Plaque attached to 34 and 36 Albert Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 2015. War memorial.

War Memorial Plaque attached to 34 and 36 Albert Street

WRENN ID
still-grate-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 2015
Type
War memorial
Address
War Memorial Plaque attached to 34 and 36 Albert Street, AL1 1RU
OS grid reference
TL 147 069
Coordinates
51.7491, -0.33916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The war memorial plaque, unveiled in 1920, is a rectangular stone tablet mounted on two small stone brackets and topped with a cross. It is set into the front wall of the dwellings at 34 and 36 Albert Street and features the names of twelve individuals who lost their lives in the First World War. The inscription on the plaque reads: ‘FOR REMEMBERANCE/ 1914-1918/ GEORGE CHAMBERLAINE/ARCHIBOLD W CORLEY/PERCIVAL CORLEY-ROBERT HOLDER/RICHARD DUNHAM-ERNEST DUNHAM/ROBERT GIBSON-EDWARD FOSTER/REUBENLAURENCE-HARRY SPENCE/DANIEL GOODCHILD-SILAS PAYNE/RIP'.

Local climate

War Memorial Plaque attached to 34 and 36 Albert Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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