'The Laboratory, Market Place and Victoria Road, Sl Albans.'

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2007.5361

Wood engraving illustration in blue ink showing Ekin's pharmacists shop, Market Place St Albans. Caption reads 'The Laboratory, Market Place and Victoria Road, St Albans.' Arthur Edward Ekins (1852-1912) trained as a chemist and took over a shop at 12 Market Place in 1876, becoming distinguished in his profession. Mayor of St Albans in 1901, he personally supervised arrangements for those infected by smallpox during the outbreak in St Albans in 1901-2. He was also Conservative, a Freemason, a churchwarden at Christ Church, a director of the temperance Coffee Tavern in Market Place, a member of the Workhouse Board of Guardians, a director of the St Albans Building Society and had developed the Beaumont Avenue and Marlborough Road residential areas.

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Amy Cooke

4) Verulamium Archive Room

12 Market Place, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 42 (green).

07/03/2007