Around St Albans - Anne Wheeler (2001-1st) Hertfordshire History, England Images

INTRODUCTION - The photographs in this book have been selected from the collections of St Albans Museums. Built up over a period of more than 100 years, the service now cares for over 30,000 images on two sites - the Museum of St Albans in Hatfield Road and Verulamium Museum in St Michael's. The collection includes: photographs which have been donated by, or copied from, private individuals; work undertaken by the Museums Photographer, and material which has been specially commissioned. St Albans Museums are grateful to everyone who has donated or loaned photographs for copying. As a result, the collections are a mixture of professional and amateur photographs and vary enormously in style and quality. Together the photographs help to build a picture of life in the St Albans district over the past 150 years and highlight many of the huge changes the area has witnessed within that time. We have chosen to dedicate two chapters to two individual photographers who lived and wor.