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Avenue Road, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3QQ

Such damage could be called friction. It occurs everywhere between vehicles and the urban fabric; gate pillars are especially susceptible – but cars are not to be confined, are they?

Mainly Edwardian houses in Avenue Road.

A former house (no 11) in Avenue road, now converted into flats. Both the original part and the building beyond (no 9) are locally listed.

Development of 15 flats built in the 1990s combining the former nos 11 and 13 Avenue Road, a pair of Edwardian houses which were retained as the two outside wings of the block.

A Charles Wells hostelry, on Stonecross as it changes into Sandridge Road, with its own very good website here http://www.thejollysailorpub.co.uk/index.htm Just what a Jolly Sailor had to do with St Albans was a mystery until I read the website...!

Early 20th century houses in a road forming part of what was described at the time as "St Peter's Park". Many of the original houses, including these (nos 18 and 19) are locally listed.

A pair of Edwardian houses in Avenue Road. Slightly hidden beyond, with the dormer window, is no 15, one of the few houses on the road shown on the 1898 25 inch map.

At the junction with Beech Road

An independent girls school in Townsend Avenue, founded in 1889. The main building dates from 1908 according to carvings on the door surround (see Image). It was designed by Amian Champneys, son of the Victorian architect Basil Champneys. It occupies part of the former grounds of Hall Place, a mid 15th century house demolished in 1907, which reputedly was where Henry VI was held following the First Battle of St Albans in 1455. Although now single sex, in the past it also took boys up to the age of 10, with its most famous former pupil being Professor Stephen Hawking.

See Image This is the entrance to the main building, showing a building date of 1908.