A-Z of St Albans: Places-People-History Turner Wendy
A-Z of St Albans: Places-People-History Turner Wendy St Albans has many faces. It's a buzzing market town on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It's a vibrant, modern Hertfordshire city with attractive…
Specifikacia A-Z of St Albans: Places-People-History Turner Wendy
A-Z of St Albans: Places-People-History Turner Wendy
St Albans has many faces. It's a buzzing market town on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It's a vibrant, modern Hertfordshire city with attractive buildings and surprising architecture.
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. 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. 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