"The Ruins, Gorhambury, St Albans."

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2006.53157

Monochrome postcard showing the ruins of Old Gorhambury, St Albans, the former home of the Bacon family, including Sir Nicholas Bacon, father of Sir Francis Bacon. No postmark. The Elizabethan house at Gorhambury was built in 1563 - 68 by Sir Nicholas Bacon. It was replaced by the present neo-Palladian house, built by the 3rd Viscount Grimston in 1777 - 84 to the designs of Sir Robert Taylor.

T3317 PX 3844.tif

CD 416

Amy Cooke

3) MoStA Archive Room

Published by H. W. Lane, Photographer, 43, St Peter's Street, St Albans.

Gorhambury Ruins, Gorhambury, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

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

26/08/2005