The bulletin

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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
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Vol. 77 No. 4011 (26 Dec 1956)
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The Bulletin  

“A WOMAN’S WORD -mge 20  

‘The Bulletin,” Vol. 77 No. 4011  

Wednesday, December 26, 1956  

Price 1/-  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

ST. ALBANS ANCIENT  

CLOCK TOWER,  

RARE MEDIEVAL SURVIVAL  

"DEW English towns can rival the  

-*■ historical associations of St. Albans,  

which, with its Saxon, Roman and British  

predecessors, can claim history going  

back 2000 years to the dawn of  

Christianity in Britain. It is the successor  

of the first City of Verulamium, which  

gained the distinction of being the only  

city in Britain to have conferred on it,  

by Rome, the dignity of Municipium,  

by which it became the centre of Roman  

civilisation in Britain with special rights  

of jurisdiction.  

Among the Roman legionaries stationed  

at Verulamium was Albanus, who  

adopted the Christian faith and during  

the persecutions which followed the Edict  

of Diocletian in a.d. 303, he sheltered  

Christian priest. He was denounced and  

brought before the Governor, who  

sentenced him to death after his asser-  

tion that “I, who was soldier of Ccesar,  

am now soldier of Christ.” After the  

most atrocious tortures which failed to  

move him, he was taken out to die on the  

scaffold. It was with the greatest diffi-  

culty that an executioner could be found  

finally condemned criminal at last  

consented upon promise of pardon  

and much gold to undertake the task.  

Immediately after dealing the fatal blow  

the executioner was struck blind and the  

Governor died miserably after long and  

agonising disease from which he could  

not be cured.  

The body of St. Alban, the first  

Christian martyr in Britain, was buried  

where he fell and later shrine was  

erected over his grave to which pilgrims  

thronged from all over Britain. "The  

shrine was followed by Saxon  

monastery and later by Norman Abbey,  

and around this ecclesiastical centre  

grew the medieval town of St. Albans.  

Still standing in the busy centre of  

the town is the Clock Tower, built  

between 1403 and 1412. It is constructed  

of flint and rubble with stone dressings,  

and is one of the few remaining medieval  

bellries in England. It contains  

14th-century bell which was sounded at  

four-o’clock each morning to call  

apprentices to work, and at eight-o’clock  

each evening it sounded the curfew.  

No. 329: the Homeland Series by the House of Seppelt.  

 

 

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SOLERO  

SWEET OK DRY  

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