These images show a building site that has become one of Watford’s busiest roads used by thousands of cars every day.
They were captured by a Watford Observer photographer on August 13, 1965 and were taken from the building site beyond where the Vicarage Road to Market Street section of Exchange Road was being constructed.
The ruins that feature prominently in most of the images are of the Lecturer’s House, or more accurately the porch of it that was located between King Street and Market Street.
- A long lost viewpoint of a Watford church
- Memories of the supermarket beneath a nightclub
- Nostalgic snaps of a Watford road during harder times
The house it belonged to had been demolished in the 1820s.
It had been the home of the Lecturer, who originally preached a sermon on market days in Market Place.
The view along the road shows the entrance to Vicarage Road on the left and beyond that is Holy Rood Catholic Church.
An excavator can be seen in the centre while further back on the right is the telephone exchange.
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