Adele Avenue (Not Station Road!)

A Memory of Digswell.

The side road (foreground) was one of two streets in Digswell both called Station Road! To remove the confusion, this one was renamed Adele Avenue some time before 1937, after the lady of the only house in the street at that time (behind and to the left of the photographer). The street boasts a fine avenue of lime trees. Welwyn North rail station is off the photo to the right, and the booking office entrance is lined up perfectly with the avenue of trees. Ahead, centre of the photograph, is Taylor's Beehive Works (now a residential close), which distributed beekeeping supplies, especially hives manufactured on the premises, around the country using the adjoining railway. The Works closed in the mid-1980s and the site is now a residential close.