Nostalgic photos of Watford's High Street pond in 1975

Statues and rockeries have been added to it, a bridge has built over it, and it is approaching 50 years since a mum was pointing out another feature to her children which passing ducks were getting used to sharing the water with.

A Watford Observer photographer visited The Parade on January 14, 1975 to capture these images of the fountains operating in the pond.

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The new fountains attracted a few curious shoppers (Image: Watford Observer)

Although they were not reaching any significant height, some shoppers did stop to look at the water features at the Town Hall end of the high street.

The fountains were not operating at maximum power at first (Image: Watford Observer)

The fountains appear to have been part of a wider refurbishment of the pond during the middle of the decade, as workmen were pictured working on the stone border when our photographer visited the scene two weeks previously.

Ducks were having to share the water with a new feature (Image: Watford Observer)

Workmen putting a new stone border in place at the start of January 1975 (Image: Watford Observer)