Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Vanishing of Old St. Albans


Old News
St Albans
We are not the first to worry about our heritage buildings being demolished. When Frederick James Worsell's shop was sold to Boots, the chemists, in 1899, F. G. Kitton, the artist who produced the above drawing, wrote a long piece urging the people of St Albans to sign a petition asking for the building's features to be preserved.

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