St Albans has many faces. It's a vibrant, modern Hertfordshire city with attractive buildings and surprising architecture. It's a buzzing market town on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It's a cathedral city with the abbey at its heart, the Easter Pilgrimage that draws thousands of pilgrims from near and far, and the Alban Pageant with larger-than-life puppets that recreate Alban's story along its streets every June. A rich seam of history runs from the time of Julius Caesar and Roman Verulamium, through the time of King Offa of Mercia and the monastery built to honour Alban in 793 to the twelfth-century Sopwell Nunnery with its adventurous abbess, author of a book on fishing, thought to be the first book written in the English language by a woman. Yet there is the darker side with murder and mayhem at its core. Today's St Albans Registry Office was once a prison where hangings were carried out and prisoners allotted gruelling tasks. The extensive fifteenth-century traveller and chronicler Fynes Moryson found St Albans 'a pleasant towne, full of faire innes'. It is still that and much more. This book takes you on an alphabetical tour of St Albans through the ages.
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- Cover
- Introduction
- Abbey Gateway
- Alban – the First British Christian Martyr
- Bacon, Sir Francis
- Beating the Bounds
- Black Death
- Boudicca
- Breakspear, Nicholas – Britain’s Only Pope (Adrian IV)
- Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban
- Christina of Markyate (1097–c. 1155) and the St Albans Psalter
- Clarence Park and Sensory Garden
- Clock Tower and Gabriel
- Coaching Inns
- Cottonmill Lane
- Cycle Path
- de Havilland Aircraft Museum
- Duke Humphrey (Humfrey) (1391–1447)
- Earthworks
- Easter Pilgrimage at St Alban’s Cathedral
- Egrets and Herons
- Emmaus – Help for the Homeless
- Fishpool Street
- Football – Arsenal Football Club Training Ground
- Gorhambury House (Old)
- Green Lane Baby Killer
- Green, Muriel
- Hawking, Professor Stephen (CH CBE FRS FRSA)
- Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
- Hertfordshire Health Walks
- Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
- Hot Cross Buns
- Ice Cream – Darlish Persian Ice Cream
- Iron Age Ditch – Beech Bottom Dyke and Bernards Heath
- Jersey Farm Woodland Park
- Kubrick, Stanley (1928–99)
- Lady Chapel and Lepers
- Lee, Sir Richard (1513–75)
- Marlborough Almshouses – Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (1660–1744)
- Marshals Wick Murder
- Morris Dancing
- Museum – St Albans Museum + Gallery and Old Court House
- Naste Hyde Halt
- Nunnery – Prioress Juliana Berners
- Oaklands College
- Odyssey Cinema
- Orchid King – Mr Henry F. C. Sander (1847–1920)
- Ormerod, Eleanor (1828–1901)
- Peasants’ Revolt
- Plaistows Farm Airfield
- Prison and Porridge
- Puddingstone
- Queen Eleanor – A Love Story
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Quote from Shakespeare – Henry VI Part Two
- Railway Museum and Signal Box
- Roman Theatre at Gorhambury, St Albans
- Roman Town House in Verulamium Park
- Samuel Ryder (1858–1936) and the Ryder Cup
- Splash Park in Verulamium
- Suffragette Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer Lytton (1869–1923)
- Talking Newspaper
- Tankerfield, George (d. 1555)
- Tree Trail
- University of Hertfordshire Graduation Day
- Ulsinus – Sixth Abbot at St Alban’s Abbey
- Ver (river)
- Verdun Tree
- Verulamium Park – Walking on History
- Verulamium Roman Museum
- Verulum Writers
- Vintry Gardens
- Wars of the Roses (1455–87) – Battles of St Albans
- Watching Loft, St Alban’s Cathedral
- Watercress Wildlife Association
- Waxhouse Gate
- Xmas Carols, St Alban’s Cathedral
- Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Public House
- Zero Waste – Sustainable St Albans
- ZigZag – Double Agent Eddie Chapman
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
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