The Town Centre showing our walk

The top of St Peters Street

Market Place with a glimpse of the Cathedral

We started with a coffee in the Courtroom Cafe in the Old Town Hall and Gallery

Courtroom Cafe Ceiling

The various alleys are marked

The Old Moot Hall

The story of the Scandal

 "Sovereigns Way" Alley ie bribes available

The villains

But the women did not have the vote??

An old building in the Market Place, now "Anthropic"

Our Guide explaining the woodwork of Christopher Inn

The Christopher Inn, repurposed, along French Row

There were two Battles of St Albans

Parish Boundary Mark above on the Inn entrance beam. Important for the administration of the Poor Law

A Firemark showing the building was insured

Through to the Inn yard

Preserved famous injunction

St Albans is a days march from London

Soccubus

Enlarges

It was a Curfew Tower. (Damp down your fires!)

The Fleur de Lys  now "Tequila  Mockingbird"

The Fleur de Lys

On French Row in front of the Clock Tower

Looking down Wax House Gate

Looking along George Street

Many Inns only on the right as the Monastery Wall prevented Inn Yards on the left

The Kings Head

No coaches expected?

Private House

The Tabard Inn belonged to the Monastery

Romeland Street

Romeland Garden ex place of execution

St Albans School in pseudo ecclesiastical style to match the Gatehouse

The Abbey Gatehouse

It was a prison, school, guardhouse etc through time

In the Peasants Revolt they stole back their confiscated querns. The monks had a monopoly on milling grain.

Gate House Ceiling

The Cathedral's Victorian West End

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The Deanery

A door in the wall

The White Hart on Holliwell Hill

Was Sam Ryde'rs office

Back up Wax House Gate

Market Place

The Boot PH

Nearly back to the Corn Exchange

A Busker

Little Marrakech for lunch of very plain food.

An alcove

Back towards the entrance

They have majored on the decoration

Then I walked home.