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Watford Jubilee cookery book reveals recipes and memories from 1972 (opens the original)
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In 1972 there were numerous activities in Watford to mark the 50th anniversary of the town’s Charter of Incorporation as a Borough. But the Watford Observer devised its own unique way of marking the town's special event. The Watford Jubilee Cookery Book was compiled and written by Jean Groome, the popular columnist and contributor of her own recipes on the women's page. Today, the cookery book provides a unique glimpse of people in Watford, Bushey and Oxhey 54 years ago – together with their cho
Step back in time to Victorian Watford High Street and its lost shops (opens the original)
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I’m transporting you back to Watford High Street as it was in the last quarter of the 19th century. You'll be in for a shock - and that's apart from being able to view the fascinating centuries-old, long-lost buildings that have since been reduced to rubble. A pang of nostalgia will be inevitable as you ponder the traditional scene as it was 150 years ago. The experience of returning in Tardis-like fashion to the town centre will prove a revelation in terms of the evolution of fashion and typica
When Watford welcomed Buffalo Bill (opens the original)
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Over the years, the great and the good - as well as the not so great or good - have passed through Watford. Many left their mark on local history in one way or another. One American left a very big mark in 1903. Now, a short while since the 250th United States Independence Day, seems a suitable time to recall his memorable visit. In the Victorian times his name was almost universally known. He was Colonel William Frederick Cody or Buffalo Bill, a nickname from the American Civil War. He and his
Former boys' school once occupied site of today's Shirley Road (opens the original)
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In the Victorian and Edwardian times there were a large number of private schools in Watford. A leading boys' preparatory school once occupied the site of what later became the site of Cassio College in Langley Road. Now a residential estate comprising Colnhurst Road and Shirley Road, the latter name is the sole reminder of the school’s existence. At the dawn of the 20th century, Shirley House School first opened in Station Road, Watford. By 1903, it had moved to Little Nascot at what is now opp
Remembering Lott's Bricks the once significant employer in Bushey (opens the original)
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Today, the choice of toys is phenomenal. But let’s go back to a time when children were seen and not heard, and the choice of playthings was limited to items made of wood or tin. In the first half of the 19th century, Friedrich Fröbel, the German creator of the kindergarten system, invented wooden building blocks in cylinder, cube, and sphere shapes for children’s hands-on learning and creativity. Forty years later, F.A. Richter & Co. of Rudolstadt, Thuringia acquired the patent for miniature ‘A
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