Waverley Road
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Waverley Road by Ian Capper as part of the Geograph project.
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Waverley Road
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 24 Jul 2020
A road first laid out in the 1920s which old maps show when built followed the original municipal boundary of the city of St Albans. The housing on the left, Pegasus Place, dates from the c1990s and replaced two industrial premises, marked on the 1924 1:2,500 map as "Waverley Works (Bleaching and Dyeing)" and "Acme Works (Electrical Engineering)", on the 1939 edition as "Waverley Works (Bleaching and Dyeing)" and "Acme Engineering Works" and on the 1964-5 edition both simply as "Works". Other references to the latter include "Adam Machine Tool Company Limited" in a 1948 document and "Horville Engineering" in a 1977 planning permission application.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.759991
Longitude
-0.339981