St. Albans Abbey

Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans

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September 3rd 2009
Some Pictures for you 😊 Spent my birthday touring Hemel and the surrrounding towns, the home of my Friend Della's Parents. The town itself is a war town created after WWII, so not many very old residential areas, but we did go see Saint Albans Abbey, a very old, very ornate cathedral. Also went and saw a mosaic designed and created by the Romans in AD 180, officially the oldest thing I h ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more