In pictures: St Albans Mummers continue Boxing Day tradition across city centre

St Albans Mummers performing on Boxing Day. Photo: Toby Shepheard

01 Jan 2025

Posted at 09:03 in St Albans

The St Albans Mummers were back out for Boxing Day, continuing a tradition first performed in 1967.

A group of friends from St Albans Morris Men chose a play which had been modified from an earlier text by “Neggy” Wilson, a schoolmaster in the village of Croxley Green, about 50 years before.

Since then the Mummers have been out every year, except for during the pandemic, when they had to make a video.

A number of venues around the city centre were selected for the original performances, and although some have remained in use ever since, others have changed as time has moved on.

This year they were at the St Albans Museum + Gallery, the White Hart Hotel, the west end of the Cathedral, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks and the Clock Tower.

Money donated at the performances is presented to charity.

All photos by Toby Shepheard.

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