Lest We Forget

St Albans Cathedral is running a guided walk called Lest We Forget on Wednesday 11 November, from 10.30am to 11.45am. It's part of the Cathedral's Remembrancetide, and the whole thing is built around the war memorials that sit inside the building.

If you've spent time in the Cathedral, you've probably walked past a few of these without really stopping to look. The walk takes you from one to the next, so you get to see them in a row rather than just spotting them by chance. It's a good way to get a proper sense of how many there are and what they're for, and it puts a name and a story to the memorials you might have otherwise just breezed past.

There's a bit of a wider thread to the whole thing, too. The Cathedral itself is described as a building raised in honour of a brave man who died rather than give up his Christian faith, so the theme of remembering someone who stood their ground runs right through it. That fits in well with the Remembrancetide context, and it gives the walk a bit more to hold onto than just a list of monuments.

It runs on Wednesday 11 November, from 10.30am to 11.45am, at St Albans Cathedral, Sumpter Yard, St Albans, AL1 1BY. It's a morning session, so it's one of those things you can fit in before the rest of the day takes over.