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St Albans 2022

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My daytrip to St Albans via Thameslink train from West Hampstead. Read about it on my blog: trailerfulloftunes.blogspot.com. For best viewing, click on the first photo and then use the "Next" button or the lightbox view button on the upper right.
IMG 0091-001-Market Place Shops

IMG 0091-001-Market Place Shops

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Seen from an upper floor room in the St Albans Museum & Gallery.
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IMG 0129-001-Anthropologie

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Market Place, St Albans
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IMG 0133-001-Built 1637

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Anthropologie, Market Place, St Albans
IMG 0142-001-Medieval Belfry

IMG 0142-001-Medieval Belfry

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The Clock Tower, High Street, St Albans. Built between 1403 and 1412. A mediaeval belfry, almost unique in England. It contains a large curfew bell dating from 1335. The adjacent French Row was occupied by the Dauphin's troops in 1216. In the Fleur De Lys Inn, King John of France was detained for a time in 1356.
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IMG 0140-001-Clock Tower 1

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St Albans' Clock Tower is the only surviving medieval town belfry in England and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The people of St Albans built the tower, which was completed by 1405 as a symbol of their resistance against the power of the abbot of St Albans. The Tower allowed the town to sound its own hours and, until 1863, the curfew. The Clock Tower's bell rang out for the first Battle of St Albans during the Wars of the Roses in 1455.
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IMG 0143-001-Clock Tower 2

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St Albans' Clock Tower is the only surviving medieval town belfry in England and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The people of St Albans built the tower, which was completed by 1405 as a symbol of their resistance against the power of the abbot of St Albans. The Tower allowed the town to sound its own hours and, until 1863, the curfew. The Clock Tower's bell rang out for the first Battle of St Albans during the Wars of the Roses in 1455.
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IMG 0150-001-Commit No Nuisance

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Door at the base of the Clock Tower (French Row side), St Albans
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IMG 0141-001-Eleanor Cross Plaque

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On the side of the Clock Tower, St Albans. Near this site stood the Eleanor Cross where the body of Queen Eleanor rested on night on its progress from Harby to Westminster 13 December 1290.
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IMG 0147-001-French Row

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St Albans
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IMG 0146-001-Fleur-De-Lys

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French Row, St Albans John, King of France was detained in a house on this site after his capture at Poitiers in 1356 and before his removal to Hertford Castle ... Between 1420-1440 an inn was built here by the abbey of St. Albans. Part of a window of the original building is in the County Museum, Hatfield Rd. The inn faced the market square and was a meeting place for farmers and cattle dealers. In the sixteenth century it was considerably enlarged and the courtyard was formed.
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IMG 0152-001-Corbel

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At the west end of a passage that runs between Christopher Place and French Row, St Albans. The wooden carving might be medieval.
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IMG 0153-001-Passage

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Between Christopher Place and French Row, St Albans.
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IMG 0158-001-Door with Tree

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Opposite the Verdun Tree, Waxhouse Gate, off the High Street, St Albans.
IMG 0159-001-Verdun Tree Plaque

IMG 0159-001-Verdun Tree Plaque

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Waxhouse Gate, St Albans. This is the Verdun Tree, grown from a conker taken from the last surviving tree on the battlefield. It was planted Sunday morning, 18th January 1976to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Verdun.
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IMG 0161-001-Verdun Tree

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Waxhouse Gate, St Albans. According to the plaque, "This is the Verdun Tree, grown from a conker taken from the last surviving tree on the battlefield. It was planted Sunday morning, 18th January 1976to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Verdun."
IMG 0166-001-Vintry Garden Gate

IMG 0166-001-Vintry Garden Gate

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Next to St Albans Cathedral
IMG 0172-001-Britain's Oldest Cathedral Tower

IMG 0172-001-Britain's Oldest Cathedral Tower

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St Albans Cathedral
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IMG 0163-001-Cathedral East Façade

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St Albans Cathedral
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