Nice stuff but, according to staff, soon to close – about a month after they opened in the Market Place premises previously home to carphone warehouse (and Tie Rack before that). It’s a shame, but it’s not the only business I’ve seen open and close in recent months. There was the florists on London Road, which was previously a baby shop, Simply Gifts at the top of Folly Lane seems to have shut it’s doors in recent weeks, Laura Ashley disappeared over night not long ago and even the Pizza Hut at the top of St. Peters Street (ok, no loss there) has closed. Add to that a couple of high street travel shops and the home cinema shop in the Maltings, next door to where the Panasonic shop was before it closed and became a clothing shop that closed so fast I never saw it open and the furniture shop, opened by people who grew up locally, across from Blockbusters didn’t make it either. Then there’s the mirror shop on Holywell Hill which wasn’t open long enough to get it’s own sign and the old bookstore across the road that closed after something like 20 years.

That’s a lot of businesses closing recently. And it’s part of the reason I do this blog – I want to help people find the better businesses in St. Albans, particularly the individual, local businesses that make St. Albans special.

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