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Under Construction - details of more shops to be added |
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The Parade, Watford - W [Valentine] 60961.Photographed 1908.
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Fire Station, Watford B & D Kromo No 21096 Posted 1906 |
Market Place, Watford - Harris, 20 St Albans Road, Watford .Circa 1903.
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The shops on the right (1902 Kelly's directory) are:
Samuel Carter, Essex Arms Hotel, 69 High Street.
John Pearce Taylor, tailor, 67 High Street
Lloyds Bank Ltd, manager William Henry Cooke, 63 & 65 High Street. (Listed as Bucks Oxon Union Bank Limited, with manager W. H. Cookes, in 1896)
Rogers & Gowlett Limited, iron monger. wine bin manufacturers, hot water, electric light & bell engineers, gas and range fitters, 61 High Street (also upholsters & furniture dealers 49 High Street)
The same shops can be seen from the other direction on the left of the postcard below:
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The shops on the right are: to be added
The following view is taken from a similar position (Rogers and Gowlett are the building on the left.)
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High St, Watford, after the
Great Storm, July 22nd,
1907 |
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Peacock's 1896 directory listing of properties in the High Street, in number order, is reproduced on the back of the South Watford & New Bushey OS map of 1896, as reproduced in the Godfrey Edition reprint. In 1896 the properties on the left of the picture were:
R Rookby, 109a (Tobacconist in 1890, not
listed 1912)
Eight Bells Inn, 111 (H. W. Randall - inn listed in 1890
and 1912)
London and County Bank, 113 (tall, brick, typical bank building)
Messers Kempton Bros 115 (with blind - grocers in 1890, not listed in
1912)
In 1896 the properties on the right of the picture were
J W Ellis, 122 (John William Ellis, linen draper in
1890, William S Wilson, motor and electrical engineer, in 1912.
[See
HEDGES, 122 High Street, Watford, mid 19th century]
J Smith, 124 (Jonathan Smith,
fishmonger and game dealer in 1890)
J Smith, 124 (Jonathan Smith,
fishmonger and game dealer in 1890)
T. Mullett, oil and colour dealer, 126 (Mrs Louisa Mullett
and Sons, home decorator, in 1890, Thomas Mullett, hardware dealer, in 1912. The
objects hanging at the front of the shop are galvanised iron baths.)
H Tipple, 128 (nor 1890 or 1912, ?= Horace Tipple,
butcher, 38 Sotheron Road in 1890)
Kings Arms Beerhouse, 130
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The card is taken from almost exactly the same position as the previous one and confusingly has been given the same reference number. This one must be later as part of a garage sign can be seen. The double-decker bus in the distance is similar to the horse bus illustrated in Watford at the turn of the century |
References to 1890 and 1912 relate to the Kelly's Directories for Hertfordshire (on the ArchiveCDbooks compendium). By selecting intermediate years (not available to me at home) and even better looking at Watford Street Directories for the period (in Watford Central Library) a more precise dating of the photograph should be possible.
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Watford High Street Hartmann card posted 1904 |
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High Street, Watford [Blum & Degan] No 8118.Posted 1907 (earlier in B&W, numbered 3691, with very wide white strip) |
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