J H Buckingham - "Crossing of Victoria Street and Marlborough Road"

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

1981.3798

Watercolour by J.H.Buckingham showing Marlborough Road where it joins what is now Victoria Street, with horses in the foreground and a pair of people in the road, one of whom is carrying buckets on a yoke. Marlborough Road followed the line of the Tonman Ditch, the medieval defence of the town which became the boundary. this shows as a slight rise in the picture. Caption reads: "St Albans: Sketch in meadow near Sweetbriar Lane (now Victoria Street) leading to the Marlborough Buildings - 1857. NB. The exact spot is now represented by the crossing of Victoria Street and Marlborough Road."

1857

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Amy Cooke

3) MoStA Archive Room

Marlborough Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

26/04/2006