Having never made it to the top of St Albans' historic Clock Tower in 14 years of living and working here, it was impossible to ignore the invitation to attend this year's grand opening and finally take the challenge. And wasn't it worth it! On a beautiful spring day with nary...
For the first time, the city's Museum + Gallery is holding a special exhibition focused on one of the forgotten conflicts from its long history. The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), were fought between two rival branches of the Plantagenet family (the houses of Lancaster and York). The Second Battle of St...
St Albans-based mental health charity Youth Talk is appealing for the community to help raise £20K to enable them to furnish their new premises. The organisation, which provides confidential and free counselling to young people in the St Albans area, wants to double its service provision and reach 20 per cent...
Deborah Heath meets one of the district's most well-known local artists. It is hard to live in St Albans without seeing the work of talented Hannah Sessions, from her iconic Pubs of St Albans tea towels to her map of our city centre in the St Albans Visitor Guide. She is...
It's salad days for James Cameron at the Christopher Place eatery...
Around 100 AD, residents of Roman Verulamium could enjoy public baths with exercise facilities, hot water and beauty treatments. But it took another 1,700 odd years, as far as we know, before public baths were again available to the locals. That’s a long time without a hot bath. In 1877, however,...
In 1988, St Albans city centre ground to a halt following issues with the controversial one-way system recently introduced by the county council. A contemporary television news report - now available online - looked into the impact of the £750,000 computerised traffic system, which saw some motorists trapped in their cars...
Why is Herts county council ignoring good reasons not to sell the former Radlett airfield site for development as a rail freight terminal? That is the question at the heart of the latest round of legal arguments surrounding the Green Belt land, with fresh evidence suggesting the sale is unnecessary. Both St...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This time: retailer Emma Bustamante from the ever-popular Cositas on Holywell Hill. Who is your favourite St Albans musician or band? Easy! Jez who plays the saxophone by the Cathedral. I love...
The dance floor is empty, the music has gone quiet, and the drink long since stopped flowing. But although St Albans' iconic Club Batchwood no longer exists, what of the hall itself? Back in October 2021 the district council announced the lease was up for grabs on the vacant Batchwood Hall,...
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