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unusual facts about St. Albans


Abbey Gateway

Abbey Gateway, St. Albans, the former gateway of the Benedictine Abbey in St. Albans, England


Beech Hill, Berkshire

The Camlet Way - the Roman Road which runs south-west from Verulamium (St. Albans) - joins the Devil's Highway at Fair Cross on Beech Hill's southern border and continues on westward to Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester).

Church of St. Peter, St. Albans

In the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, Ricky and Bianca's second wedding was filmed inside and outside this church.

Thomas Baskerfield's drawings of 1787 give an impression of what the church was like in its essentials for so many centuries.

There is some uncertainty about the dates other details in the writings of Paris, but there is little doubt that the church, together with St Stephen's and St Michael's churches, was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

Henry Barclay Swete

In 1881 he became examining chaplain to the Bishop of St. Albans, and the following year was appointed professor of pastoral theology at King's College London.

Hume and Hovell expedition

Within the Greater Melbourne area, monuments commemorating the route of the Hume and Hovell expedition can be found at Beveridge, Greenvale, St. Albans, Werribee and Lara.

John Abbott

Most of his legal practice was in corporate law; however, his most celebrated court case was the defence of, first fourteen, then upon release and recapture, four of those fourteen Confederate agents who had raided St. Albans, Vermont from Canadian soil during the American Civil War.

John LeClair

LeClair was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens with the 33rd pick in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft after graduating from Bellows Free Academy (B.F.A.) High School in St. Albans, Vermont.

John W. Olver Transit Center

Currently, Peter Pan Bus Lines and Greyhound Lines intercity bus service to Greenfield stops at the Olver Center and is a proposed passenger rail station on the rerouted Amtrak Vermonter line, currently serving communities from Union Station in Washington, DC to St. Albans, Vermont.

Liturgical drama

About the beginning of the twelfth century we hear of a play of St. Catherine performed at Dunstable by Geoffroy de Gorham, later abbot of St. Albans, and a passage in Fitzstephen's "Life of Becket" shows that such plays were common in London about 1170.

Ralph Creed Meredith

Subsequently in poor health, he accepted an offer from the Marquess of Salisbury to take over the Parish of Cheshunt, St. Albans, in Hertfordshire in 1932.

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins

Perkins was born on 15 November 1866 at Badminton, Gloucestershire and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, St. Albans – his father, Rev Charles Perkins, was the headmaster – and at Merchant Taylors' School before obtaining a scholarship in classics to Jesus College, Oxford in 1885.

Sashes Island

The island is believed to have been at the point where the Thames was crossed by a Roman road called Camlet Way, which ran from St. Albans to Silchester.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

Although there are now some questions about the exact date of its foundation (and the date of Abbot Ulsinus), it is reasonably clear that, together with St Michael's and St Peter's churches, the church was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

Vermont Creamery

Cows' milk is sourced from the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery in St. Albans, Vermont, while goats' milk is sourced from approximately 20 Vermont farms and and Hewitt's Dairy in Hagersville, Ontario, Canada.

William Frederick Fisher

He was married to a fellow astronaut, Anna Lee Fisher of St. Albans, New York in 1977.


see also

Archer Avenue Lines

The Montauk Branch through St. Albans already provides parallel service to Jamaica.

Canada Atlantic Railway

In 1879 Booth, with William G. Perley of Ottawa and J. Gregory Smith of St. Albans, Vermont, purchased the lines from the Macdonald group as part of an aggressive railway expansion plan.

Childwickbury Manor

The Lomax family bought the house in 1666 and lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.

Dave Brock

A Westone Spectrum LX since 1985 (custom painted by Alan Arthurs, with a portion of the Space Ritual LP cover), and previously had a Westone Paduak-1 from 1982 until 2008, custom painted by Guy Thomas after the St. Albans gig of the 1984 winter tour, with the Warrior on the Edge of Time LP cover.

Francis Vincent

Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet (1803–1880), English Whig politician, MP for St Albans 1831–1835

Frogmore, Hertfordshire

The village is mentioned in Daniel Paterson's travel guide of 1796, on the route from London to St. Albans.

George Kalmus

From 1945 till 1956 he was at St Albans County Grammar School (later renamed Verulam School).

Hatfield and St Albans Railway

There have been calls for the Hatfield to St Albans line to be reopened in order to provide a direct link between St Albans and Watford, and also permit the closure of St Albans Abbey railway station.

Hatfield railway station

The route of the St Albans Abbey line is now a public footpath, the Alban Way, while the closure of the Dunstable Town line has left Dunstable as one of the largest towns in England without a direct rail connection.

Hertfordshire County Football Association

In the early 1880s there were already 20 clubs operating in Hertfordshire and with interest continuing to grow, the Secretary of St Albans F.C., Mr R Cook called a meeting in 1885 which was to have been held at The Football Association's Headquarters, then at 51 High Holborn in Central London but on arrival they found the offices closed.

History of St Albans

Richard of Wallingford, a local landowner, who had presented demands to Richard II on behalf of Wat Tyler in London, brought news of this to St Albans and argued with the abbot over the charter.

Mac MacLeod

After Donovan's first UK tour MacLeod teamed up first with Dana Gillespie then with another regular on the St Albans music scene, Maddy Prior, to form Mac & Maddy.

Matthew Hann

He was sold to Eastleigh in 2007 when new St Albans City boss Ritchie Hanlon was unimpressed by him.

Richard Bingham

Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1764–1839), British MP for St Albans, Irish representative peer

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York

Henry's attempts at reconciliation between the factions divided by the killings at St Albans reached their climax with the Loveday on 24 March 1458.

Rock 105

WKLC-FM or "ROCK 105", a radio station in St. Albans, West Virginia

Ryan Harford

Ryan Harford (born 24 September 1982) Hailing from the Tremorfa district of Cardiff, Ryan James Harford played for the city's St Albans club at junior and youth level, coached by former Welsh International Mark Ring.

Shikari

Enter Shikari, a post-hardcore punk rock band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK

St Albans Council election, 2008

Following the election the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg came to St Albans to celebrate the results.

Torrs Pony-cap and Horns

Though no actual comparable finds have been made, some parallels have been suggested in representations of similar caps, including a figure of the mythical horse Pegasus on a coin of Tasciovanus, the largely Romanized chief who ruled the Catuvellauni from Verlamion (St Albans) between about 20 BC and 9 AD, and was the father of Cymbeline.

Watford Cheetahs

With some outside help, the team developed and they played their first friendly on November 30, 1986—a 0–9 defeat to the St Albans Kestrels played at the home of Chesham United football club in front of 1800 spectators.

Women's Australian rules football

VIC Seniors: Michelle Dench (Melb Uni), Elizabeth Skinner (Melb uni) Shannon McFerran (St Albans), Debbie Lee (St Albans) Meg Hutchins (Deakin), Lauren Tesorilero (Yarra Valley), Janine Milne (Darebin).