St Albans: Paxton Street
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St Albans: Paxton Street
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 6 Jul 2009
Backland development may be regarded as a modern phenomenon, but Paxton Street is a circa 1900 example, where the four sides of the area that currently contains the houses were already developed. This is the terrace at the end of the street at the rear of Image Indeed the out of sight rear north-east corner of the nearest house in the terrace would have been very close, if not touching, the south-west corner of the original 1908 built Alpha Picture Palace, one of the first cinemas in the country.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.747524
Longitude
-0.332703