2-879-511 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

A composite image showing St Alban's Church at two points during the Covid-19 lockdown, the first with buds on the trees, and the second with the trees in full leaf. The Picturing Lockdown Collection was created during April and May 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During seven days the public were asked to submit photographs that they felt best represented their experiences of lockdown in England, and from these submissions one hundred representing all the different geographic regions were chosen to be archived with Historic England. Alongside these images, ten artists were commissioned to produce their own images over the course of five days, representing their lockdown experience. These were supplemented with images by Historic England’s own photographers. Together, the Picturing Lockdown collection forms a permanent visual record of this unusual time in history. This photograph is one of fifty taken by Historic England's staff photographers. The first image was taken on 11th April 2020, and the second image on 30th April 2020.