"That on application of the owner Mr R. J. McConnell two new streets situate off Strandmillis Road be named St Ives Gardens and St Albans Gardens and that he be requested to submit another name instead of St Helens Gardens". (11th November 1896).
Saint Alban is considered the first recorded British Christian martyr and is believed to have been beheaded in the Roman city of Verulamium, which is modern St. Albans.