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St Albans

Rosy Day

  These beautiful gardens are easy to access by car (just off M25) and are a 45 minute walk from the centre of St Albans.  The open season is short […]
Rosy Day

Great City

“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women” – Walt Whitman So, I thought I’d show you a view of my home city!   Copyright Debbie Smyth, […]
Great City

Grotesque

Gazing out across St Albans from its medieval town belfry, the Clock Tower, are a couple of grotesque faces. In the early fifteenth century, some time between 1403 and 1412, the […]
Grotesque

Nesting Herons

The grey herons that visit St Albans every winter are doing very nicely, with at least six of the nesting couples now sitting on eggs.  They keep pretty well hidden […]

TV Blocking the View

This morning’s Eucharist service in St Alban’s  was shown live on the BBC, but the presence of their vehicles meant that the Abbey itself wasn’t shown quite so well. Though […]