"Batchwood Hall, St Albans City Council."

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2006.5912

Monochrome postcard showing Batchwood Hall, St Albans. No postmark. Batchwood Hall was designed and built by Sir Edmund Beckett, later Lord Grimthorpe (1816-1905) as a his own residence. Lord Grimthorpe was a barrister and amateur architect and is best known for his controversial restoration work on St Albans Abbey, St Michael's Church and St Peter's Church, St Albans. St Albans Council purchased Batchwood Hall and grounds in 1935 for use as a restaurant and 18-hole municipal golf course, and the hall is now used as a nightclub.

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Amy Cooke

3) MoStA Archive Room

Photograph by Eric Wilson, Doddinghurst, Essex.

Batchwood Hall, Batchwood Drive, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 5XA.

16/01/2006