IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Courtside, Townsend Drive, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5QY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Courtside, Townsend Drive, AL3 5QY by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (34 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
1
Townsend Drive
Developed in the 1930s or so, although the road is shown on late 19th century maps (as Townsend Road). On the left is part of Bernard's Heath.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 22 Sep 2011
0.07 miles
2
Townsend Drive
Road bordering Bernard's Heath (on the left), first marked on the 1898 1:2,500 map as Townsend Road, but with no development. The 1924 edition was similar, but the 1939 edition showed housing as here, and with the current name.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.08 miles
3
Waverley Road
c1930s housing on a road which old maps show when built followed the original municipal boundary of the city of St Albans.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.09 miles
4
Palfrey Close
c1930s housing built on what was previously allotments.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.11 miles
5
Palfrey Close
c1930s housing built on what was previously allotments.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.11 miles
6
Waverley Road
c1930s housing on a road which old maps show when built followed the original municipal boundary of the city of St Albans.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.11 miles
7
Pegasus Place
c1990s development on Waverley Road replacing 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.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.12 miles
8
Waverley Road
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.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.12 miles
9
Carlisle Avenue
Mainly c1900 houses. The one on the left, no 52, was added in the 1960s/70s in a previously vacant plot, but then much altered around 2017.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.12 miles
10
Waverley Road shops
A barber's shop, convenience store and pharmacy on Waverley Road by its junction with Normandy Road.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 24 Jul 2020
0.14 miles