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Mark from the states mark from the states it’s Mark from the United States good morning good afternoon good evening mark from the states how we doing today I’m doing fantastic I hope you are as well thank you so much for coming appreciate each and every one of you come sit with me requested video today it is our one of our favorites for

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His channel as always it’s really important that you go and support the original content creator and come sit with me and let’s take the take a look at where he’s going today shall We pip pip T ho jwes guides here in which I wander around London and tell you fascinating facts don’t forget to hit the Subscribe button if you like these videos will notify you when I upload a new video and you can even go to my website buy my book and all my tasteful

Merchandise which is on there now I know I normally walk around London but uh today’s a bit of a little outing out it’s like a day trip away from London we’ve come to St alans so um it might not be quite as in depth as some of my

London stuff but it’s more of like a a little touristy day trip away and we’re starting here outside the St orban’s registry office which you might recognize from por the TV series Simon look with Ronnie Barker That’s Her Majesty’s prison Slade that’s a slay prison Norman Stanley vetcher you have

Pleaded guilty to the crimes and it is now my duty to pass sentence I was really scared of that St Albin St Albin sounds so familiar to me um that has that Pub that we did a video on that uh was like going to close or did close

During the pandemic or because of the pandemic and then a lot of you said that it it had reopened but El you said it had the vicer that was interviewed that looked a lot like me right that’s the same place but gosh dang it I cannot for

The life of me think of the name of that Pub and I could hear you guys typing and shouting it but my stupid stupid brain is not recalling it right now hopefully he touches on that because that’s going to drive me crazy as a and now look at it it looks

Like an ideal English country house doesn’t It I could be totally maybe it’s not the same place but I believe it is I want to come down here cuz they’ve got this lovely little place where this this used to be a railway track to the some alburns to Hatfield Railway between 1865 and 1951

There trains going along here but now he’s just like a bicycle path and lovely walkway so I thought we should walk along here Sim there a nice little nice little spot still you can still probably walk all the way six miles long now it’s mostly joggers and cyclists and stuff

But I think it’s rather Pleasant route that’s why we’ve come around that way instead of going straight into the center look at this Simon look this is the old London Road station between 1865 and 1951 people would just standing here waiting for the train wow right yeah it’s a it’s beautiful

Isn’t it now it’s a nursery though so we shouldn’t hang around too long filming I’m glad that they didn’t turn into luxury Flats waiting for the train that never Comes I love when they do that I love when you they take a building that in this case the train station and they don’t tear it down here in the states we have a habit of just tearing stuff down all the time and building on top of it

Of course it’s you know but I just love seeing these old buildings that just get repurposed into something else and you can look at and go oh yeah that’s the same building and it’s just so such a cool feeling knowing that you know but you guys respect and honor history way

More than we do here in the states of course which just it’s always about the newest and greatest over here here building wise and you know just wipe it out start new um it’s not always like that but a lot of places especially something that they would deem probably not as

Historical historical landmarks of course are always protected but stuff like this just cool I mean there’s some lovely buildings along here that’s what I love about some you see all this old stuff um actually along here London Road this is this is where there used to be the past

The foods Factory where do you remember there was they did this thing I think it was panorama on the BBC they did this April Fool’s Day hoax where they pretended that spaghetti was growing on trees and and they sort was they were had all these people harvesting the

Spaghetti no it was filmed at the pasta Foods Factory down here but what I really like down here is this look this lovely round this little behind this hedge a second time and look you can see the Odyssey Cinema originally this was built in 1904 not in this sort of style

But there was a fell called Arthur Melbourne Cooper who was he was a pioneer of film making I mean he I think he developed some of the first stop motion films and anyway built this lovely Cinema here I think it went through a few few changes and everything

Throughout its existence it had a restaurant I think it had a swimming pool there 800 seats the Rolling Stones played there bow did the heavly brothers you know it was but ultimately it closed down as a cinema in 1995 after showing Water World I think a lot of I think that put

Pay to a lot of Cinemas actually for all the for all Water World it didn’t do very well you know is it Kevin CA the local Council here they wanted to flatten it they want to knock it down anyway luckily someone came in and said no we will refurbish it rest yeah

Restore it and now they’ they’ve restored it into a beautiful Cinema now so we we can go inside and have a look excellent so what’s your name again I’m June June excellent otherwise known as Barbie yeah and lots of other um characters that I’ve been I’ve been a

Catwoman I’ve been aiel I’m so annoyed that I missed you as Barbie That’s Such a Pity oh you going to tell me why is it called the odssey The Odyssey was named after Stanley KU 2001 Space Odyssey Stanley kuri is from St Orban is he yeah and we actually have his relative that

Comes in and watches the films as well oh brilliant wait a minute these are your own personal Barbies all my Barbies your Barbie collection yeah have over 300 that one is H the discontinued one um they didn’t think Barbie was appropriate for a a Barbie to be

Pregnant so she uh was quickly discontin but she’s in the she’s in the film isn’t she she’s in the film film yeah oh it’s amazing you’ve got all these and we’ve got Alan who um he’s Ken’s best friend oh that’s a proper one like in uh like

In Columbo when the guy puts the Penny on there somewhere and it drops off or something it’s James Hanway he runs the re in Burham and he rescued that c as well and a lot of people from St Orbin were slightly jealous that perid had its own Cinema so they campaigned and James

Rescued it through fundraising love goodness his only son he sent ass for to redress be not afraid only thing about St Alman there do seem to be a lot of busy roads going through it actually I mean that London Road that we went down just now that was

Originally the old Watling Street Roman Road the Battle of wling Street you remember Simon you know where um there was a famous battle of wling Street where queen queen budika or bodia she ordered for St Auburn well it was verium back then it was an old Roman town of

Verania and she ordered for it to be sacked and burnt to the ground um but look look at this a stink pipe excellent Let’s cross over actually this is Hatfield Road we’re approaching now cuz we saw that the railway that went from St Auburn to Hatfield didn’t we but look a

Stink pipe excellent that’s that’s wonder how old that paint is it’s probably original what do you reckon look at that Engineers ham Bakers and Co Westminster look at that made in Westminster anyway I do like a stink pipe points to me points to me but anyway yeah so as we

Approach the center of St orans we’ll probably notice more coaching ins and pubs and stuff because um St orans was the first uh major town I suppose um when you go north out of London and so a lot of the money they made here was through um through coaching sort of ins

And stuff like that that’s how they that’s how they earned their living a lot People marvelous yeah we in we’ve come down to Clarence Park here got lovely Cricket look at that lovely Cricket Pavilion over there that was the St Auburn’s crickets club or something they they that first saw a cricket match in 1875 and um behind me look this is I

Love these are Turn Style for some old FC they’ve existed since 198 but um I love these little grounds you know sometimes you see them in the FA Cup you know if they do particularly well and um but what was amazing is in 1989 there was a really famous match

That took place here because it was all these ex footballers ex- World Cup winners it was a charity game um instigated by Bobby Moore the England Captain who held the who held the World Cup aoft you know him and a guy called John Mitchell um they decided to do a

Charity football match uh between but it was on one side it was Arsenal and Tottenham sort of EX players and then they were playing against the Panini All Stars they had people like oard Alan Ball Martin Peters France beckan bow and Pat Jennings Kevin Keegan and Bobby

Moore brought out George best on a stretcher so he he came out on a stretcher to play but I think it was 65 to Tottenham and Arsenal 11 they were called marvelous eh marvelous jumpers for gold posts say Simon oranges at half time outside of the foot lovely top Corner Marvelous look the peacock they got the mermaid over there Simon yeah peacock here so there’s all these pumps and we should count how many pumps there are amazing for pub crawl did you used to do those well I I was a student down in Hatfield for a few years back in the

’90s we we’ve come up here so often bet there were more pubs back then oh of course there were there were more back there mermaid that sounds familiar look at look at that look A yes look I a got a beautiful a beautiful point of this a

Milestone a metal one so it’s not as not as old as those Stone ones you get but still eight miles to Watford oh you see this place coming up over here the Viara um Curry House this is where Tom Cruz is known to have gone in here and ordered Lobster and chicken

Tick Masala it’s true he’s famous he was spotted in there so it’s good enough for Tom Cruz it’s good enough for us yeah so I imagine he would have bought the the meal when he was shooting Eyes Wide Shut with Stanley curi really how do you know it wasn’t

When he was filming cocktail because I think I think I’m pretty sure that’s when he he was staying around here at the time look it’s right opposite These Arms houses arms houses always seem to look like that don’t they around a garden very spacious yeah I mean I suppose it’s significant that

They were built in 1734 there’s so many old things around here at Z or though as you will find out soon the go back read that Sarah Churchill Duchess of marbor politician local land had these alms houses built 734 36 Wow the Angels sing on Hill the Angels Sing to ouring and like I was saying there’s a lot of old buildings in St orans I mean this is St Peter’s Church I mean it’s under renovation at the moment so we can’t really go in but that was built in

948 it’s over a thousand years old I think some of the bits have been redone actually ancient Church look at that for several hundred years St Peter’s churchyard had a resident anchor us a religious recluse one in Residence in 1258 had a vision of an old man with a long beard

At the top of the tower crying whoa to all the inhabitants of the earth she then predicted the famine that followed the cell or Anchorage into which she was sealed to devote herself to a life of prayer is likely to have been close to this spot the East End of the church

Building look at her looking through the window the Anor that’s creepy a medieval anchoress but of course uh the most important thing about it is that it’s where bian and Ricky get married in East Enders oh for goodness sake and it’s setting lovely Gardens here I have to

Say I I do like it around look I know that juules guides is supposed to be about London but I’m sure that if you got aionion Air flight they would probably claim it was London I mean they claim Luton is London and Ryan Air and Luton is further away from London than to

Norburn so let’s have a look at the gardens here so nice and maybe climb a tree look at how that is a climbable tree If Ever I saw one look at that hey oh when I was younger I’d have loved a tree like that wouldn’t you do you think

It’s just begging to be climbed on isn’t it really is how come there’s no do It St Orbin is quite useful in Pub quizzes and things or when you’re watching pointless you know on BBC 2 or bbc1 or whatever because they always say oh name a city and and a lot of people don’t realize that St Orbin is a city it acquired City status in 1877 this is

That well the museum here this is their town hall and Courthouse actually you can go inside and still see they’ve turned it into a cafe it’s really cool sit where people have actually been condemned Norman Stanley Fletcher you have pleaded guilty to the offenses B against you it’s now my duty you’ll be

Led straight down from your cell straight up into the dock and wow have a cup of tea and a crumpet it was done neoc style but it actually built in 1826 as if you cared John Ball 1338 priest and leader of the peasants Revolt was tried on this sight in the

Presence of King Richard II before execution wow that’s a that’s awesome long here actually today is a Thursday so they don’t have the market but if you come back on a Wednesday or Saturday they’ve got a big Market here which has been going since like 1553 or so when think

King Edward I 6 he’s a son of King Henry VI he granted the people the right to hold a market twice a week yeah so since 1553 they’ve been doing it very kind of him do you know what fills me with joy Simon what you know a little part of me

Leaps with joy when I see an old building like that see Lloyd’s bank and it says Bank in the brick work you see what I mean nice that you know that that was originally a bank and it still is you just you don’t get that very often

And it looks like a bank it looks like a proper Bank sturdy strong classicism you name it’s got all the boxes Ticked so we’re back on London Road here but I’m pretty sure this is the one that goes all the way down to London it used to it used to be the famous Roman Road Watling Street which um I mean after the the Romans ultimately left in 450 ad but

Um but along London Road is one of the best picture framers in the world in the world and art gallery and I why because it’s marks and tilt it’s my friend Ralphs who he runs this place and what is more importantly is that Simon is doing an exhibition in here let’s go

Side hi Jo welcome to Marks and TS old CH hi um so yeah we’ve got a brilliant exhibition going on this evening it’s just the private view for Alex Edward also known as Simon your cameraman and these are his beautiful paintings original paintings of snowburn various views that’s just taking advantage of

Shapes that’s not even in color and contrast you did all of these yes I did okay we tell me about them then okay well these are these are oil painties that I I created for this exhibit here in St orans at Martin tilt and yeah hopefully people will come and see them

And like them and buy them all right so they can get them online and uh online get prints online all that so I noticed that there’s no people in any of these no it’s just that I don’t want people in my paintings I want people to see the

Environment and I want people to feel that they can join the environment so here is our little framing Workshop here’s some frames we’re working on one we’ve just finished it’s beautiful Ben on J my son who’s called James piece of stained Oak black stained Oak I really like that one because he’s

Tak the telephone which makes you which one is your favorite the public toilet feel like I could just I can use it you know you’ll be lucky only if you have a 20 P piece on you but you also do pictures of all other sorts of places I do indeed yes

I’m working on other places in the like H and Li switch and Woodbridge and frham so there’s a lot in the works at the moment people are always wondering about what you do when you’re not doing jewes guide [Laughter] Simon he’s talented here I mean this was completed in

145 they say it’s the only surviving medieval belfrey in England they’ve got a bell up there which is called Gabriel which like 600 years old it’s amazing I mean it still works and it it would have been the same one that they rang in the

Battle of St Alburn which is one of the wars of the Roses that’s like amazing that you could hear the same Bell being run quite incredible there used to be one of those you know I’m always going on about those Ellena crosses you know when King King Edward Long Shanks Edward

I first the guy out of Braveheart when his wife died and she was called elanar of Castile she died I think it was in Lincoln and when they brought her coffin to London that wherever they rested they built a cross and one of those the last

One is Charing Cross there’s one in wam cross anyway one of those crosses was presumably right here like where where that lamp post is or something at those I love those now they’re not gargoyles they’re grotesques aren’t they those things grotesques cuz they don’t have water coming out of them I think it’s

For Hobbits this commit no nuisance that means don’t pee against this gate for an idea of scale go that door is 6 foot by the way if anybody’s trying to get wow that’s how tall Julian is but they even had later on during the Napoleonic Wars they

Actually had a semore station here so if you get to the top of that it’s quite interesting because you can see all the way to think the next one’s in borm Wood apparently they could send a signal from the south coast well like semore yeah yeah yeah obviously on a sunny day it

Didn’t work but during Napoleonic times they could say look and they could send a signal from the south coast Portsmouth to the east coast in 15 minutes so this is the boot Pub so I think from like 1200 and something it wasn’t used as a pub it was used as a

Smokehouse so wonky isn’t it unbelievable so what you want to do there right is arure scaff an Acro get an Acro look at how not straight it is James hello what sort of stuff are you selling in here oh furnisher small antiques mixed gifts all sorts of things really oh have you been

Here long 70 years 70 years 70 D not you personally presumably yes goodness gracious I was eight when I came here we opened in 1955 we specialize now in old and in in determinate things of of whatever age but we concentrate on nice things that for the most part affordable as distinct

From fing it sort of wondrous things that look marvelous but no one could afford exactly that’s very sensible all hell to the days that Merit more praise than all the rest of the Year and welcome the nights that double Delights as well for the poor this is the famous

Verun tree verun is place in uh France or Belgium France I think I don’t know anyway in the first world war um it was the Battle of Verdan was one of the most bloody battles in the first world war in 1916 and they completely flattened the whole area well apparently one of the

Last trees standing at the Battle of vadan I think they obliterated all the trees yeah and one of the last conquers available was brought back here and planted if you plant a conquer does that grow a tree yeah really yeah that’s the seed of the tree don’t so this is

Related to one of the trees in they done fancy game of conquers look there you go oh no that’s a bit of a rubbish one that’s okay that’s your one Simon that one’s for you we’ll find one for me soak it in vinegar put it in the oven for a

Couple of hours no I know but but some people don’t even know what it is you p a shoelace on there and you have to smash the other person’s conquer do they play that in other countries is that done everywhere I I challenge you to a game all right we played conquer wasn’t

Actually that long ago Good Fortune attend each merry man’s friend I love the old post boxes Elizabeth yeah those are really neat when I go there I’m hopefully I’ll be able to see a bunch it’s whether or not I remember to look for them but uh I just there’s so

Many things on the walls like the plaques and stuff that just dot out historical stuff you know and and then like these type things you know the older post boxes that are just still left over and look for the cipher see the you know see if it had been changed

Yet you know and uh some of you were saying that there’s still some from Queen Victoria that haven’t been changed which would be pretty awesome to see and uh yeah just a lot of that stuff it be fun just to keep your eyes open right but the best he Allss who Samu is that owned by the guy who came second in the Eurovision song contest Samurai who I met different Samurai I’ve seen you meeting Samuel Ryder now this Samuel Ryder um founded the Ryder Cup which is still played to this day the gold that golden trophy go

Trophy but actually in his day job he worked from here as seed Merchant so he was the first person to put seed in packets post them all over the world I guess in the 1920s that building says 1911 I think he was working there well

So his office is just in the front of there still preserved today as part of the Hotel this is clearly an art deco building and it was a greenhouse what a beautiful greenhouse and this was here where he worked how about I imagine he had sort of quite a good uh sort of

Matchy Niblick shot beautiful building what about that building down there and that is apparently the oldest dwelling I think from 147 I know the chat he um it’s called crisping house and it we framed some of the original plans so it’s really old used to be a pub so he

He framed a picture of um it got smashed in by a truck rolled down the hill and went it was like a watling’s pub and it crashed into the front of the the building and knocked out all the windows but um yeah now it’s just a Residence look at that Simon that is St Alban’s Cathedral or Abbey I it used to be St orban’s Abbey I suppose became cathedral in 1877 when in St Orbin acquired its City status originally it dates the 8th Century although a lot of it is Norman I think

It’s had some repairs but I think most of it that you can see is probably from the uh 11th century now according to the venerable bead St Alburn is buried somewhere around here and St Oran well it started back in the 4th Century he he was a fellow who lived in verium which

Is the the Roman town the old Roman town which was around here and um he met this priest called amphibus who was fleeing persecution and St Alburn was so impressed by the piety of this priest that he decided to convert Christianity himself and when the soldiers came knocking looking for amphibus he said

I’ll tell you what let hand me a cloak I’ll pretend to be you so he daed the priest’s cloak and they arrested him instead and he refused to recant his beliefs and then he was executed they say that he I mean I don’t know if this

Is true but they say that the the fell the soldier he chopped his head off and his head rolled down the hill here and when it arrived at the bottom a spring sprung up they also say that the Soldier’s eyes popped out of his head as

He as he decapitated him so bit like in a in a cartoon he s went oh my gosh uh I don’t know how true those are but uh they’re great stories that’s one of one of the many uh that you hear but just a beautiful uh Cathedral uh Abby

Um yeah this is definitely making me want to to get out there um he didn’t mention how long it took to get there uh I know it’s not too far but uh I wonder do you go by car or do you go by train probably train be the

Easiest to do it I guess quickest maybe I don’t know you’ll have to let me know but it it’s just yeah that is that is pretty cool I me that’s apparently what they say happened I mean there there are many stories surrounding St Auburn but anyway they say he’s he’s buried somewhere

Around here and I mean don’t forget the most important part of this whole story is that uh it was inside this church that Johnny English was filmed when they tried to Crown John malkovich’s King you know John malovich he comes from France and Johnny have you seen Johnny English

R Atkinson it’s all ridiculous John malovich is getting very angry because he wants to become king of England and they’re about to crown him as king inside there i’ I’ve heard of these but I’ve never seen one this is from original 1660 poor box remember the poor please give Generously I I want to go back and read that I’m sorry this enormous pair of doors once stood at the main entrance to the church at the Far West End of the Nave they date from the 1400 when the church was at the C of England’s leading

And ABY doors were open wide for religious processions for everyday use monks and visiting Pilgrims use the small door within a door I see it there okay uh huge iron Nails in a pattern hold together the layers of Oak paneling wood was skillfully carved on the outer surface to create elegant decoration can

You find the large iron Rings which people use to pull the doors open how many are there I can’t see in the photo but do we see there Okay wow just so cool it says private probably shouldn’t go up here cuz it says private but anyway it does yeah it says private but it’s a lovely looking place look at that wonderful wonderful anyway look this is the great gateway to the monastery the monastery I

Mean I suppose sent Orban zones its whole existence to the monastery is one of the first places existed here this is from 1385 one of the last Benedictine buildings left here apart from the Abbey actually it was here that the hot cross bun was invented some people CL yeah

Yeah brother Thomas rockliffe he developed it 1381 they say he was a handing them out on Good Friday that was the same year as The Peasants revolts during which this was besieged and just next to it is it’s one of the oldest public schools in England this St Alburn

School members of the of the zombies went there some you know the band please don’t bother trying to find her she’s not there you know about the Way She Moves the way she acted the color of hair you don’t know that song and also Steven Hawkin actually originally went

To the girls school because they accepted boys for a while but then then he then he went here 948 one of the oldest schools but also the only the only school who have educated an English Pope a pope Pope Adrien IV who was the only Englishman to be Pope between 1154 and

1159 I always wonder about all these bits of graffiti on here yeah wonder how old these really are yeah some of them will be recent Steven Hawkings on somewhere yeah yeah like some of them will be from ages ago 1990 they should time put in the

Dates but look at it look at the stone look at the Flint there amazing look at all this stuff I love that just down here I’m not going to we’re not going to walk that way now you can if you like take a lovely stroll really nice walk beautiful old

Houses and uh you’ll wind up right at the bottom where we’re going to go but we’re going that way the All State now opens her gate and bids a free welcome to most the city like wise though somewhat precise so we’ve just walked the Hill from that’s that’s the

Place the old Fighting [ __ ] the old Fighting [ __ ] that’s right the old Fighting [ __ ] that’s the name of the place now it’s all coming back yes the Abby down towards St the park here it’s beautiful down here by the river you know I think this is the one

Where St Auburn’s head is the legend has it his head rolled down it’s sprung a spring here I guess anyway oh right right in front of this excellent old PB the old Fighting Cox actually claims to have been the oldest in England I think

It was one of the ones that claims to be I me there’s always people arguing about which is the oldest but there has been a pub on this site since like the 8th century is quite extraordinary yeah so I don’t know when all this part it’s Pro this part’s probably it’s all hobbled

And cobbled together Through the Ages yeah look fighting 17th 18th century big bowl of porridge anyway look it’s old all right this is where Oliver Cromwell is reputed to have stayed during the stabling his horse in what is now thought to be the bar area yeah they apparently they have tunnels that lead

From underneath here all the way over to the ABY look how crooked chimney out there it’s so good this reminds me of that poem there was a crooked man and he walks a crooked mile found a crooked six Sixpence by a crooked style he bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked Mouse

They all lived together in a crooked little house is that it the fella told me the other day that there were otter living in here baby otter Butz couldn’t see any of them so peaceful here be careful s you don’t slip here I think um I might just

Go paddle a little bit in here roll up my trouser legs get I have a little paddle it’s so boiling hot it’s so nice wish I could see the OAS though no no OAS oh yeah do you think it will make me young again uh I have to say though this

Is my favorite part of the walk I know all this history and everything is all wonderful but this is a beautiful park verying park is absolutely stunning and yet by report from City and Court the country gets the day more liquor is spent and better content to drive the

Cold winter away oh terrific I mean look this is just looks like a bunch of stones on the ground but this is the main gate of the of the city of Arium in uh well I think around 270 ad or so incredible isn’t it I mean you can

Bit the wall over there but look you can make out if you stand here you can see the shape here that was a bit the stuck out pedestrians would go through this bit between these two bits through an archway here and then and then the uh like bigger horses and carts and stuff

Would take animal and things through the Middle look you can see so you can see what it would have looked like there look so there were two big archers for animals and things here there and there pedestrians would go through a little kind of arch here this road this was the

Old the Watling Street that went all the way from DOA to London and up to Chester also known famous because they shot uh an episode of Grange Hill here as well which one was it which era was that I think the early ‘ 80s what so Tucker was

Like one of the no I think he’d left by then oh gch gch Garder was it no it wasn’t the young Z years zmo oh and Jackie I mean I was in love I was so in love with Jackie Z’s girlfriend what why were they here it’s just a field trip to

St orans yeah look at that so yeah I mean if you had a time machine and you had to transport yourself somewhere you could transport yourself here around 2,000 years ago and just walk through eight there salv salv kilus puam uh EST Omnibus not qu in

Cuchina now look at that look at that Julian lovely sight quiet as well peaceful no people yelling into Mobile phones spitting you know making deliveries a loaf of bread head beneath the bow a cup of wine a book of verse and thou singing in the wilderness they

Were doing some digging around here and they found this amazing Mosaic on the floor look check it out oh my goodness they found a hyper course it’s like an underground heating system and then this was like the floor that was laid on top of it so you can

See the sort of the heating system there it’s probably better than the ones we’ve got today wish we had those in our houses much more efficient they’ve got them in Korea in Scandinavia and stuff excellent isn’t it I me the amount of effort they put in in those days to bring a nice

Floor beautiful wow marvelous okay Splendid look we’ve come out of the park here yeah the other end and and just Yonder is the the verian museum so if you want to see lots of lovely finds that they found here and uh things relating to the old Roman town of verium

This was really the where the Forum was this is the the center of ran life in filum you can even see the corners here of where the Basilica was these kind of gray stones on the ground so this this probably was where the Main Street came through the

Town is that a Christmas tree of sorts amazing aren’t they it’s just outside St Michael’s Church here St Michael’s Church is a really quite significant Anglo-Saxon building from like 10th or 11th century wonderful place anyway the thing I like about it is the fact that inside is um a monument for Francis

Bacon Sir Francis Bacon you know he was like a scientist Statesman Renaissance Man VI count of St orans and also Lord Chancellor eventually died in 1626 and he’s the guy in my Highgate video who who died in in in Highgate there near pwn Square after catching a

Chill trying to prove that chicken could be frozen you know I don’t know if you recall he he invented the frozen chicken in a way um but he died by trying to prove to his friend that he went into the square and he stuffed snow into this

Chicken to prove that it would preserve the means unfortunately caught a chill and died anyway he asked to be buried here you need to go and check these uh markers out too cuz you know those are been there forever I it’s kind of a maob

Thing in a way kind of weird but not really I love these older Church cemeteries graveyards um because of the history there there most people aren’t being buried there anymore so generally the people that are there now have been there for a long time and if you can if

They’re still legible I’d love just kind of walking through and and reading them I don’t I I believe there’s a few of you who enjoy that as well I I don’t think it’s weird to to think that but I think uh it’s it is enjoyable for the you know

Historical value of it um just seeing how how old some of those gravestones are um just the church itself is beautiful um yeah I how far is St albums uh from uh Zan alvins from London and how what’s the quickest way to get there church or car or train I like this look at this wonderful this is from 140 ad this Roman Theater it’s different it’s very rare because it’s a theater rather than an Amphitheater so an Amphitheater is one that goes around in a whole oval but this is just a d

It’s half a half of an oval in a way Circle here there where that column is what do you reckon would be probably where the stage was and obviously this is where all the seating was I suppose they probably did things like frogs Aristophanes that sort of thing what do

You reckon were they famous then you see they going show it oh one pillar still remaining yes wonderful there we go that is so cool look at that back and um it would be absolutely stening with dressing room yeah kilus crossed the road with the slave

Girls whereupon he was in a state of being overpowered by the farmers dece Isen appar in green and January freshes May comes dancing along with a cup and aong to drive Winter away there we go it’s about 500 years old this P fantastic cheers everybody don’t forget to hit the

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Support Jules and his channel uh really important that you do so um this has made me want want to go um I I’ve I always want I remember seeing the video on fighting Cox uh Pub and I knew the name St album sound familiar when we’re talking about it I just couldn’t

Remember the name the fighting [ __ ] um and that it’s open again from what a lot of you have said so I’m excited I do want to do this and see how hopefully it’s not too far um because what a cool uh day out for sure um and if it’s close enough um

Seeing the Roman remains um just a lot of history there looks really cool really cool um yeah any other suggestions while in St albums yeah I know a lot of you uh who either had been to St Alin or lived in say albums I think a lot of

You see uh that you did uh uh what was it uh Pub crawls a s Alban pub crawl that would be fun too wouldn’t be driving there if that’s the case I would have to take the train uh thanks for coming appreciate each and every one of

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