EPW034808 ENGLAND (1931). Watford High Street, Benskins Brewery and environs, Watford, 1931
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| Title | [EPW034808] Watford High Street, Benskins Brewery and environs, Watford, 1931 |
| Reference | EPW034808 |
| Date | 27-January-1931 |
| Link | |
| Place name | WATFORD |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 511421, 196009 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -0.3892612686691, 51.651351588463 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ114960 |
Pins
 
Brentford Nylons 1983 - not tried them myself, understand their sheets were stuff of legend. |
 ordinarybloke |
Wednesday 8th of March 2023 05:25:10 PM |
 Pondesrosa Restaurant (early 80s) & Hard's the Hobby / toy-shop (mid 1970s) were both about here. |
ordinarybloke |
Wednesday 8th of March 2023 05:23:07 PM |
 Woolworths High St/ Corner of Queens Rd Watford 1970s. Would lock my boyhood bike to those railings |
ordinarybloke |
Wednesday 8th of March 2023 05:18:41 PM |
Swann's Leather Goods and Stapleton Tyres were about here in the 70s I hope I have location 'Pinned' correctly - Swann's sold my parents a top grade leather breifcase for my schooling. |
ordinarybloke |
Wednesday 8th of March 2023 05:12:44 PM |
ordinarybloke |
Wednesday 8th of March 2023 05:09:42 PM | |
| Beechen Grove Baptist Church |
Craig |
Thursday 27th of February 2020 05:22:10 PM |
| Original Watford Workhouse (I think). Three storied building erected in 1721/22, still in use, albeit for other purposes into the beginning of the 20th century. |
LyndaB |
Wednesday 19th of June 2019 09:47:26 AM |
| Geo Ausden Ltd |
Brad |
Saturday 8th of October 2016 09:50:33 AM |
| Clement's Store |
The Laird |
Saturday 11th of July 2015 02:34:36 PM |
| The Pump House |
Guy |
Monday 13th of April 2015 08:49:02 AM |
| Hit or Miss public house |
Tim |
Sunday 18th of May 2014 04:31:47 PM |
| Albert Rd and Clifford St |
 Pdadme |
Saturday 10th of May 2014 03:00:39 PM |
| Watford Place, where Dame Elizabeth Fuller, founder of the old Free school later to become the Grammar schools lived in 1704
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Pdadme |
Saturday 10th of May 2014 02:58:35 PM |
| Watford Town Mill. to the left and downwards towrds the pylon you can see the river which used to flow there. This was the ancient Mill Race, which has now gone.
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Pdadme |
Saturday 10th of May 2014 02:52:42 PM |
| Watford Town Mill. to the left and downwards towrds the pylon you can see the river which used to flow there. This was the ancient Mill Race, which has now gone.
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Pdadme |
Saturday 10th of May 2014 02:52:39 PM |
| Watford Fields House |
M Canton |
Wednesday 30th of April 2014 12:38:48 PM |
| One of the early network of pylons and power lines which would become a familiar landmark during the interwar period across the whole nation, following the Electricity Supply Act of 1926. This network of lines for the transmission of energy at high tension was commonly known as the Grid. |
 John Swain |
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 11:02:05 AM |
| St.Michael's Methodist Church on corner of Derby Road and Queen's Road, demolished in 1967. |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:56:11 AM |
| St.Mary's Parish Church |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:54:09 AM |
| Holy Rood RC Church |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:53:25 AM |
| Watford High Street Station |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:51:30 AM |
| Watford-Rickmansworth Branch Line Railway (London Midland & Scottish). |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:49:37 AM |
| Former Watford Brewery buildings alongside the River Colne |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:48:11 AM |
| Benskin's Brewery |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:46:37 AM |
| Watford Fields |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:45:21 AM |
| Watford UDC Water Works |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:44:13 AM |
| Watford Gas Works |
John Swain |
Thursday 1st of August 2013 08:41:38 AM |
| Frogmore House - 18th century former Merchants House |
LyndaB |
Monday 10th of December 2012 10:18:31 PM |
User Comment Contributions
 Benskins Brewery in Watford High Street. The Brewery is long gone, but the office building still exists. |
Roy Cousins |
Wednesday 28th of May 2014 08:01:52 AM |
A classic view, looking almost due north along the line of Watford High Street, of this traditional market town in its pre-World War II heyday (population 56,799 in 1931 census). |
John Swain |
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 10:51:03 AM |
Watford had overtaken St.Albans as the premier town in Hertfordshire in the 1880s and would retain this pre-eminence until a century later, when the rapidly growing New Towns of Hemel Hempstead and Stevenage edged slightly ahead. In 2001, the census returns showed Hemel top with 82,074, followed by Stevenage (80,973) and Watford in third place with 79,726 people. This will have changed again a decade later, with Watford's population estimate of 90,301 just higher than the figures for its principal rivals. |
John Swain |
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 10:51:03 AM |
All past and present inhabitants of SW Herts should be able to identify with this image of Watford in its prewar heyday. |
John Swain |
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 02:19:14 PM |
Any group featuring Watford and SW Herts should readily appreciate this image looking up the main axis of the old, prewar town, namely Watford High Street. |
John Swain |
Sunday 4th of August 2013 01:39:38 PM |