This well-known pub is now part of a restaurant chain and is located next to a major road, but rewind a century and both the building and its surroundings looked very different.
The Watford Observer is delighted to share pictures from the Watford Museum archive and this week we take a look back to how when the Three Horseshoes was a small house.
The museum's volunteer archivist Christine Orchard said: "This photograph shows the Three Horseshoes where St Albans Road meets Horseshoe Lane in Garston. At the time of this photograph, probably around the time of World War One, the pub was a small house owned by Salters Brewery.
"It seems to have been in existence long before this time though, as in a deed of 1757 'concerning the Three Horseshoes at Garsto', it mentions 'an orchard of 76 trees immediately surrounding it'.
"The pub was later rebuilt and enlarged."
Watford Museum is open Thursday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm.
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