The Courtroom

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St Albans Museum & Gallery

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Continuing her audio tour of St Albans Museum+Gallery, Sarah Keeling describes the famous Courtroom (now the cafe).  From the dock in this beautifully restored circular chamber, local thieves were sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for crimes as minor as stealing a cricket bat.   Here too, in 1851, the Bribery Commission found St [...]