Walking tour: Historic St Albans Revealed

Historic St Albans Revealed is a guided walking tour that sets off from St Albans Museum + Gallery on Sunday 8 November, and it's exactly what it sounds like: a walk through the city's old streets with a guide to point out the things you'd normally walk right past.

The tour meets at the Museum + Gallery, which is the city's museum and gallery, housed in the restored Georgian Town Hall on St Peter's Street. It's a building with a bit of its own history to hold onto — the old courtroom and the cells are still there, and it only opened in 2018, when it replaced the Museum of St Albans on Hatfield Road. That's where you'll gather before heading out on the walk itself.

From there, the tour takes you through the historic parts of St Albans, with the guide filling in the gaps as you go. It's a guided walk, so you're not just wandering on your own; you'll be following a set route and hearing the stories that tie the buildings and streets together. It's the kind of thing that makes you look at the city a bit differently once you've finished, noticing the details you've probably seen a hundred times without ever really seeing them.

It starts at 11:00 on Sunday 8 November and lasts about an hour and a half, so it's a morning thing that leaves the rest of your Sunday clear. You'll meet at St Albans Museum + Gallery, Town Hall, St Peter's Street, St Albans, AL1 3DH, and from there you'll be out on the streets for the rest of the tour.