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Berners Drive
Road developed in the c.1950s along with the rest of the area off Cottomnill Lane. The houses on the right would appear to be original, but although the area on the left is shown on the 1960 1:10,000 map as having also been built up, with individual detached houses set diagonally to the road, the ones here would appear to be a substituent redevelopment, dating from the late 1970s according to planning documents.
The tower of St Albans Abbey can be seen in the background.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 5 Aug 2021
0.03 miles
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Railway to St Albans
The line leads to Abbey Station. The cathedral can be seen in the distance.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 28 Feb 2020
0.06 miles
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St Albans: Christadelphian Hall
The hall is in Abbotts Avenue opposite
Image and its foundation stone was laid in 1952. For further information on the Christadelphian movement please see their website here http://www.godsaves.co.uk/index.htm
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 11 May 2009
0.06 miles
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St Albans Christadelphians
Church in Abbots Avenue built in the early 1950s as Cottonmill Baptist Church It closed in 1968 when the church merged with Park Street Baptist Church, but was taken over by the Christadelphians in 1976.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 5 Aug 2021
0.07 miles
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Masjid Ar Rahman, Abbots Avenue
Previously pictured as a Christadelphian Church
Image this is now a masjid (mosque).
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 25 Aug 2024
0.07 miles
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Cottonmill Lane
c.1950s housing in Cottonmill Lane. Although not developed until then, the route itself is much older, being the route from St Albans out to Sopwell from St Albans. In the left background the tower of St Albans Abbey can be seen.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 5 Aug 2021
0.08 miles
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Abbots Avenue
Looking along Abbots Avenue, with the bridge carrying the road over the Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey "Abbey Line" in the centre of the photo.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 5 Aug 2021
0.09 miles
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St Albans: Abbotts Avenue
Amongst the motley collection of street furniture on view here the postbox seems to be suffering from advanced psoriasis, Royal Mail Engineering please take note!
As ever "Abbotts" Avenue will generate complaints that it should be "Abbots". Indeed a Google search for "St Albans" and "Abbotts Avenue" currently gets 102 hits while the same combo with "Abbots" gets 844, and the Royal Mail, the Ordnance Survey and Streetmap all have Abbots. However the street name plate on the road has "Abbotts" so "Abbotts" it is!
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 11 May 2009
0.09 miles
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Abbots Avenue at the junction of Cottonmill Lane
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 22 Jul 2014
0.09 miles
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Wild flowers round the boxes
A few wild flowers taking advantage of the grass not being cut round these utility cabinets.
Abbots Avenue, St Albans.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 25 Aug 2024
0.10 miles