These photos may be 45 years old but they capture an all too familiar scene of life being disrupted by works taking place in a residential street in Watford – but do you recognise which one?
A Watford Observer photographer captured these images in October 1981 when work had begun on replacing the pavement in the road a short distance from the town centre.
Judging by the images, the approach of the workmen – at a time when health and safety regulations were less strict – was seemingly to pull up all the existing paving slabs before replacing them with new ones or a different type of surface.
- The trendy Watford wine bar recalled for its big Humphrey Bogart picture
- Snapshot of a town in transition almost a century ago
These photos captured pavement works taking place in Denmark Street.
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