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The Peace Hospice
Image: © Tim Glover
Taken: 4 Feb 2007
0.02 miles
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Underpass, Watford - early morning
This large pedestrian and cycle underpass beneath Rickmansworth Road passes between Hempstead Road and the Parade and High Street. The underpass emerges on the south side close to the Pond
Image The building on the right is part of the Town Hall. The large building dominating the skyline is the YMCA building situated in Charter Place and housing a hostel and fitness centre. It was built, along with Charter Place in the early 1970s.
Image: © Cathy Cox
Taken: 15 Dec 2009
0.04 miles
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Watford Town Hall
The Town Hall's foundation stone was laid in May 1938, and despite the start of the Second World War it was formally opened in January 1940, having cost about £186,000 to build. Watford Borough Council's website is here http://www.watford.gov.uk/ccm/portal/
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 6 Apr 2008
0.04 miles
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The Peace Hospice, Watford
The Peace Hospice is run by a charitable trust and provides specialised palliative care for people with terminal illnesses in the South West Hertfordshire area.
The building was originally the Peace Memorial Hospital and the Hospital Records Database http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=739&page=68 has this to say about it:
The Peace Memorial Hospital in Watford began life as the Watford District Cottage Hospital in the 1880s. However, by 1917 the idea of replacing the cottage Hospital with a more modern hospital, as a memorial to those who had died in the First World War and as a permanent memorial to peace, was discussed. The project was financed on the whole by public subscription and donation. The Watford Board of Guardians bought the old cottage hospital and a new building was erected in Rickmansworth Road. The Watford and District Peace Memorial Hospital was opened in 1925 by Princess Mary. On 5 July 1948 control of the hospital passed to the North West Metropolitan Hospital Board and became known as the Watford Peace Memorial Hospital. In 1965 the hospital moved to a site in Vicarage Road on the edge of Watford and became a part of Watford General Hospital. In 1985 the remaining services in the original building were moved to the Shroedells (the old workhouse) site and in 1986 the buildings were demolished.
This last statement is patently untrue. The two wings and some of the clutter behind were demolished but the central building was restored and refurbished to accommodate the hospice which opened, originally as a day centre, in 1996, and then for inpatients in 2001 http://www.peacehospice.co.uk/
Image: © Cathy Cox
Taken: 8 Feb 2008
0.05 miles
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Watford Central Baths - The End
Watford Central Baths has finally been reduced to a heap of rubble.
Watford Library can be seen behind the trees in the centre of the photograph and the building to the right of the trees is the Horns pub.
Image: © Cathy Cox
Taken: 30 Jan 2007
0.05 miles
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Watford Central Baths
The demolition continues. The side walls are going and the trees flanking the north-east side of the building have been grubbed out. The blue pool cover, however, is still in place as is the PA system above it.
Watford Borough Council plans to replace the building with a new leisure centre with a pool, gym and sports hall http://www.watford.gov.uk/ccm/content/leisure-and-community/leisure-centres-in-watford.en
Image: © Cathy Cox
Taken: 24 Jan 2007
0.05 miles
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Watford Central Baths
As Watford Central Baths is dismantled, features such as this fine brickwork round the main window, hidden for forty years or more behind the offices built over the entrance hall, come into view for the last time.
Image: © Cathy Cox
Taken: 22 Jan 2007
0.05 miles
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Watford Central Baths
View of the front of Watford Central Baths. Opened in May 1933, it was reputed to be the first all-electric (i.e. electric heating as well as lighting) swimming baths in England - possibly in the world! In October 2005 it is no longer all-electric. It has been under threat of closure for many years but still provides bathing facilities for the people of Watford.
Image: © Cathy Cox
Taken: 29 Jul 2003
0.05 miles
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Watford Colosseum and Town Hall
Watford Town Hall was completed in 1939 and incorporated the Town Hall Assembly Rooms. In 1995 the assembly rooms were renamed the Colosseum and the building can be seen here from across Rickmansworth Road. The grey brick and glass facade is part of an extension completed in 2011.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 12 Jan 2022
0.05 miles
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Watford: The Pond
The snow has built up on the north side of the lamppost, the trees, the seats and the litter bin but not on the ground.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 6 Apr 2008
0.09 miles