 The Dignams were said to live at number 9; the property was, in reality, vacant in 1904.Both this road and Herbert Road were built across land which once belonged to Haigs' distillery and so it used to be called "Haig's Lane"; the foundations of the Avenue were constructed with stone which originally came from the Dodderbank Distillery.The distillery fields at this location featured in the sensational murder of the Reverend George Wogan in 1826.