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"The Old Unitarian Chapel, Lower Dagnall Street, S. Albans"

"The Old Unitarian Chapel, Lower Dagnall Street, S. Albans" by Holmes Winter

Plate 59 of 100 from part 6 (number 7) of Holmes Winters' series of etchings "The Last of Old St Albans".
"The Old Unitarian Chapel, Lower Dagnall Street, S. Albans. Sketched Sep 24, 1898."
Note sign outside the building reads "Ryder [&?] Son Seed Merchants."
Drawn and etched by Holmes-Winter.
Mr Samuel Ryder, the founder of Ryder's Seeds, moved to St Albans in 1895. He started his seed business in the old Dagnall Street Chapel and when he later built his premises in Holywell Hill, the old chapel became a warehouse.