The making of the Lamb Alley Mural - the artist Ant Steel creates a Mediaeval soldier.
- Tim Boatswain
- 2 days ago
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The artist, Ant Steel, commissioned by Conservation 50, creates a Man-at-Arms from the First Battle of St Albans in 1455 during the Wars of the Roses. The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and captured King Henry VI. The leading Lancastrian, the Duke of Somerset, was cornered at the Castle Inn and, after a vicious fight, hacked down. His death is mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II. The St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural & Archaeological Society has installed a plaque at the corner of Victoria Street, though the exact site of the Castle Inn is disputed.
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