London Road at eight forty five a.m Friday 4 December...

with true art deco panache the Odeon is right in the path of the rising sun - seen here as everyone is trekking off to school and work in St Albans. And looking up the other way the ghost of beautiful winter moon. What a great site for a cinema. We owe a combination of thanks to Thomas Telford for his bold sweep of road and to Melbourne Cooper for seeing the possibilities of what was probably then just a patch of steep scrub alongside the footpath down towards the river.