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Salisbury Road, WATFORD, WD24 4DS

Complete with covid barriers.

Although it is out of character with the Victorian housing surrounding it this building, which is at the junction of Lowestoft Road with St Albans Road, has rather pleasing proportions. It dates from 1928 according to the carving high up on the parapet wall. It has been occupied since 2004 by Past & Present Woods http://www.pastandpresentwoods.co.uk/

The colourful Mediterranean Supermarket gets pride of place in this view of the west side of St Albans Road.

Christ Church in St Albans Road was built to the serve the growing community in North Watford that lived in the rapidly expanding area of late Victorian residential housing north of the railway line. This church was built by the local firm of Darvills and consecrated in 1905. It replaced a short lived iron church of 1896. Christ Church was originally a chapel of ease to Image, but became a parish in its own right in 1909.

The first major residential development in North Watford took place in Victorian times to the west of St Albans Road. Development to the east of St Albans Road was later and these terraced houses in Cromer Road are probably Edwardian.

Built in Leavesden Road, probably around 1890, to serve the rapidly expanding community in Victorian North Watford, the school has now closed and been converted into apartments.

Watford's Elim Church is here in St Albans Road and was formerly a Primitive Methodist Church, with quite elaborate architecture for a building of that ilk. The curtilage of the site stretches back from St Albans Road to Leavesden Road and looking at old Ordnance Survey maps it is evident that the first development on the site was a small chapel on the Leavesden Road frontage, shown on the map of 1899.

A couple of unexpected urns decorate the parapet of this shopping parade, that includes Woolworths, in St Albans Road. The shop on the left is Propulsion Design and Print.

Situated on the A412 St Albans Road WD24 5BD, this building was originally a Primitive Methodist Church which opened in May 1898 and became North Watford Methodist Church. However in 1971, it merged with Harebreaks Methodist Church, TQ1098 refers, and moved to that Church in Harebreaks a short distance away. Subsequently, it became Watford Elim Church, a Pentecostal Church. Early Service takes place here each Sunday at 9.00am, whilst Morning Celebration with Sunday School and Creche is held at 11.00am the same day. Evening Celebration is held here on Sundays at 6.00pm. The blue noticeboard has the following wording "EXPECT THE MIRACULOUS just one encounter with Jesus will change your life for ever".