The New Year is almost upon us! If you have eaten too much pud and want to get out and about experiencing St Albans life, consider these events;
Jan 1st - The
ANNUAL NEW YEAR CELEBRATION in the Abbey, performed by St Albans Symphony Orcherstra, at 7pm. This is an incredible feast of favourites to welcome the New Year. It includes Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture complete with church bells and cannon! Also enjoy Bruch’s Violin Concerto with local violinist Ellie Fagg. Tickets (selling fast) range from £1 – £20. see
www.saso.org.uk or phone 01727 762 855
Jan 2nd – IRON AGE AND QUEEN BOUDICCA at the Verulamium Museum at 3pm. Entry is free to St Albans residents.
Jan 2nd – SOME ANIMALS AND THEIR STORIES! Specialist tours by St Albans Cathedral Guides, at 3pm
(meet at the West End of Cathedral).
Jan 9th – FANTASTIC BICYCLES at the St Albans Museum, Hatfield Rd; for under 7s – Storytelling and Craft activities. Sessions at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.
Jan 10th – LOST RAILS – REMEMBERING HERTFORDSHIRE’S BRANCH LINES. Exhibition at the Museum of St Albans, Hatfield Rd, is on daily until Feb 27th 2011.
STALBANSLIFE wish you all a Happy New Year and peaceful 2011.
The local elections are set for 6h May 2010, and the general election seems almost certain to be the same day.
With the much higher turnout for the latter, the result of the former could be surprising. There’ll be a whole load of people who don’t usually bother voting in local elections, who are handed a voting slip to do just that, because they’ve turned up to vote in the general election. Who knows whether these unexpected local election voters will simply mark the same box on both papers, or vote differently on each.
On top of that, around 5000 residents of St Albans district are not UK citizens, so they can’t vote in the general election. But they CAN vote in the local election. They could add to the possible result that the local election poll looks very different from the national one.
Hoping to persuade voters to give them at least one of their crosses on the big day, the Greens have launched a campaign video, fronted by St Peters ward candidate Simon Grover. You can see it on the link below.
Help make St Albans a better place
13 May, 2009. Posted by: Nigel
Yes, I know, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy with my various projects and getting the site to work as we’d like. We need more content, so please send in your thoughts and ideas for the site and your comments about St. Albans! Maybe we should have an open forum? Perhaps…..
So what’s good about St. Albans. Big question, I’ve lived here for 14 years and still wonder. Good schools – if you can get your child into one of them! History? Yes, but you pay the price in the cost of houses, council tax etc. Location? Well, we are only 20 minutes from central London. Great if you work in London, but little use if you don’t. Especially at £14.50 for an off-peak Travel card!!!! Traffic is a nightmare. So what’s good?
Well, we do have quite a few good restaurants. Some pretty parks and lots of pubs ( we’re the home of CAMRA…). Low crime lots of nice buildings to look at.
So is St. Albans the place to be…….? Post your comments and tell us what you think.
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