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	Picture source: Bob Bates
The Avenue Hotel was situated at 1 Padwell Road. This pub was present by 1869 when it was owned by Aldridges Bedford Brewery and C Burch was the publican. It was later transferred to Brickwoods Brewery and then Whitbreads.
This pub has now reopened.
Chris Gilbert (July 2014)
It closed for good in July 2015, with planning permission given for flats.
Bob Bates (June 2016)
From Archaelogy Data Services:
A building record to Historic England level 2 was made of the Avenue public house before its conversion to flats. The date of construction is not known, but Padwell Road did not exist in 1863. It is likely that building was at first a domestic dwelling, but it had become licensed premises known as the Avenue Hotel by 1869. Between 1897 and 1909 the lower part of the front elevation was removed and the ground floor frontage was extended towards the street by some 4 feet, creating a larger bar area downstairs in the main building. The main building on Padwell Road was fairly small, with four rooms downstairs and four rooms and a bathroom upstairs, but the 1870 OS map shows a large rectangular building in the rear yard of a similar size, linked to the pub by a covered way, and this may have been the main bar. No trace of this building has survived the subsequent re-modelings. The main pub has had some rooms partitioned and others knocked together, so it is now impossible to be sure how space was used when the pub was first built, and removal of dateable elements such as doors, architraves, dado rails, banisters, and skirtings prior to the survey has reduced the scope for dating the alterations. Upstairs would appear to have been the landlord's space, with a kitchen, a sitting room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom, so it is unlikely that it functioned as a 'hotel' in the sense of taking in paying guests.
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