J H Buckingham - "The Michaelmas Fair, St Albans, 1852."

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

1981.3870

"The Michaelmas Fair, St Albans, 1852." pencil and watercolour drawings by J H Buckingham (1800-81). The view of St Peters Street shows a fair with stalls and booths, a ferris wheel and a coconut shy or 'Aunt Sally'. The two- and four-legged traffic includes donkey rides and a children's toy carriage drawn by a goat. The roadway is rough and wide, with no very clear demarcation between carriageway, pavement, and fair; the same could be said on market days. The old town hall was opened in 1831, designed in a neo-classical style by architect George Smith.

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St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 4 (blue).

Herts Before the Car, 2001