St Albans

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St Albans

 Europe » United Kingdom » England » Hertfordshire By Leeeeeee
May 22nd 2007
Lucinda Burfield Today we visited The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban. Very very big and very very old. St Alban died on the Abbey site early in the third century, he was the first person in England to die for Christianity. The first building was the monastery which was finished in 793 and inside that was the shrine of St Alban. A Church was then build around it, but most of it was pulled down after 1066. They have heaps of pieces of the old church inside the Abbey, they were all labeled and dated. It's amazing walking through it thinking about what went on there thousands of years ago.

After the Abbey we went for lunch at 'Ye Olde Fighting Cocks' said to be the oldest Pub in England. People must have been a lot shorter then because even I had to duck to get in there and the ceilings were very low. But the beer and food were really good. Then we went back through some parks and saw squirrels fighting in the trees. They are so small and just like in cartoons. Very very cute 😊

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The shrine of St Alban
This shrine dates back to some time in the 9th century.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks
This reads: This famous octagon was originally Medieval Pigeon house 1400 re-erected here as a house in 1600 on the site of St Germanis Gate part of the Monastery founded by King Offa of Mercia 793 it became the local centre for cock fighting in the 17th and 18th Centuries but re-named The Fisherman when the sport became illegal in 1849. Reputedly the oldest Public House in Britain.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks
Having lunch with my dad's cousins, Janette and Micheal.

Squirrels
It's a bad picture, but it's the only one of squirrels I have so far.