J H Buckingham - "St Albans Looking Up Holywell Hill From The Bridge"

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

1981.3797

View looking up Holywell Hill from the bridge over the River Ver towards St Albans town centre with St Albans Abbey in distance and figures on foot and horseback. Note open field on the right hand side of the road. Buckingham's rough and ready work shows the approach to St Albans up Holywell Hill, a sight which horse and driver alike must have dreaded (extra horses could be hired for the ascent). Fortunately he never 'tidied' his scenes, and so we see the traffic as it must have been, with pedestrians, horses, cattle, carts and carriages using the road at random.

PH8523 Holywell Hill

120 transparency

1) Photo Studio

Holywell Hill, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 4 (blue).

Herts Before the Car, 2001