Digswell, The Post Office c.1960
Photo ref:
D223012
Photo ref:
D223012
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The post office and shop survived until about 1995, when the premises were taken over by Weddinghouse, a business selling and hiring wedding dresses and costumes. The post box still stands in the garden of the shop at the corner of Station Road and Woodside Road, but the telephone box, peeping into the left of the photograph, has disappeared.
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This photograph actually shows Adele Avenue off to the left and the road going down the Beehive is Harmer Green Lane. Just before the Beehive there is a road off to the right which goes under the railway bridge and passes the Cowper Arms. That is Station Road.
I lived in Digswell from around 1950 until 1968. My father, Walter Chapman, was the porter on the station for many years and was very well ...see more
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 ...see more
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