IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Old London Road, ST. ALBANS, AL1 1TZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Old London Road, AL1 1TZ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (151 Images Found)
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Old London Road
A terrace of Victorian coottages in Old London Road. Locally listed.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 2 Oct 2011
0.01 miles
2
Old London Road, St Albans
The C11 abbey cathedral rising in the distance
Image: © Bikeboy
Taken: 8 Mar 2014
0.03 miles
3
Former school, Old London Road, St Albans
Now flats, the stone in the wall tells us that this was founded in 1900 as the St Albans School Board's Priory Park Boys School.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 14 May 2017
0.03 miles
4
Kingdom Hall, Old London Road
Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Old London Road.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 2 Oct 2011
0.04 miles
5
Lower Paxton Road
Late Victorian terraced housing, designed by local architect H E Hansell in 1898.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 8 Jun 2019
0.05 miles
6
Old London Road
Cottage in Old London Road. The plaque on the front gives the name "Sopwell Mount" and a building year of 1908. Locally listed.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 2 Oct 2011
0.05 miles
7
St Albans: Paxton Street
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.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 6 Jul 2009
0.05 miles
8
Paxton Road
Late Victorian housing, started in 1897.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 8 Jun 2019
0.05 miles
9
St Albans : Riverside Road
Looking along Riverside Road.
Image: © Lewis Clarke
Taken: 4 Oct 2018
0.06 miles
10
St Albans: Former Odeon cinema
Fourteen years after its closure in 1995 the Odeon survives but its Art Deco façade is slowly crumbling and its fate, as far as I know, is uncertain, with various plans afoot to demolish it and build flats.
What is certain is that there is a lot of vehement public affection for the place, and also that the site is an important one in the history of British cinema. This is not just any old Odeon site but the location where the British cinema pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper (1873-1961) opened his Alpha Picture Palace in 1908, one of the first cinemas in the country. Showing pictures that included those from Melbourne-Cooper's production studios over the road, the original cinema sadly burnt down in 1927. Melbourne-Cooper was supposedly the person who originated the idea of having sloping floors in cinemas too.
The current building here in London Road dates from 1935, and its closure left St Albans without a cinema at all.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 6 Jul 2009
0.06 miles