Like many others who have moved here, Jewish people have integrated into the city, establishing families, homes, jobs and community organisations.

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A small Jewish community grew around the raincoat factory built in Fleetville, to the east of the city, by Alfred John Nicholson in ­1901. Nicholson built houses for his workers and employed several Jewish tailors, some of whom had escaped religious persecution in Europe.

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Many Jewish families who settled in St Albans during the 1930s and ­1940s were in the retail trade, as can be seen in this map of some businesses they established.

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During this period the first synagogue was founded in the city - the United (Orthodox) Synagogue. This was followed by the St Albans Masorti Synagogue in ­1990.