This site is now part of Watford’s main shopping centre but for around a century it was home to a building associated with learning.
The Watford Observer is delighted to share pictures from the Watford Museum archive and this week we remember a college building in Queens Road.
The museum’s volunteer archivist Christine Orchard said: “A Public Library and School of Science and Art began in Queens Road in 1874, and later was added the School of Music. The library remained here until a new one was opened opposite the town hall.
“As far as I can tell further education classes continued in this Queen's Road building. Eventually it became Cassio College which I understand was here until the late 1960s.
“By 1972 the site was redeveloped and Sainsbury's opened a new supermarket. The site was later redeveloped and formed part of the Harlequin shopping centre, now known as Atria.”
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