"Clock Tower, St Albans"

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2006.5372

Monochrome postcard showing St Albans Clock Tower viewed from High Street looking towards French Row, The Greater Red lion Hotel and the Fleur De Lys, with horse-drawn vehicles in the street and Market Cross fountain in the foreground. The drinking fountain in front of the Clock Tower was designed in the 1870's by Sir Gilbert Scott and paid for by Mrs. Worley, a keen teatotaller. It was removed in the 1920's when it got in the way of traffic.The fountain has since been moved from in front of the Clock Tower to the rear of the Old Prison on Grimston Road. No postmark.

T3233 PX 3727.tif

CD 381

Amy Cooke

3) MoStA Archive Room

Published by Boots Cash Chemists, "Real Photograph" series.

Clock Tower, Market Place, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

From brown postcard album labelled "St Albans and Victorian" and "Photographic Collection Box 21".

09/08/2005