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Watford Football Club Watford. Early years and mids John Goodall became the club's first manager in Elton John and Graham Taylor Best known globally for his music, lifelong Watford supporter Elton John became chairman of the club in , declaring that it was his ambition to guide them to the First Division. The Pozzo era The purchase of the club by the Pozzo family in cued sweeping changes at Vicarage Road: Dyche was sacked in July and replaced by the Italian Gianfranco Zola , and the squad was revamped with a multitude of loan signings, many from either of the sister clubs, Udinese or Granada.
Stadium and training ground Vicarage Road has been the home of Watford since , but the club did not own the ground outright until as late as Heurelho Gomes 2. Daryl Janmaat 8. Tom Cleverley 7. Gerard Deulofeu Ben Foster 4. Craig Dawson Nathaniel Chalobah 9. Troy Deeney Daniel Bachmann 6. Adrian Mariappa Some of the significant residents who are identified from the tombs include members of some influential families from the town:.
Many of the people in the tombs can be traced back to coming from trade backgrounds and the size and quality of the tombs tells us they were wealthy individuals.
When John Dyson, the son of John Dyson Senior, who has been producing beer in the town since , was buried in , Watford had developed to be a very different town as roads and houses were built and farmland dug up to make way for water and sewage pipes. In fact, it was the early s which saw the biggest and most rapid changes to the town as the construction of the Grand Union Canal enabled goods to be transported quickly and made things a lot more accessible. Not only was the canal a significant addition to the town, but the opening of the railway in provided links to London and the West Midlands so it encouraged new industries including printing on a small scale which grew leading to Watford being an established industrial centre by the early s.
In the land was purchased by Watford Borough Council and is the largest public open space in Watford as it covers over acres. The park includes cycling paths, walking routes, fishing areas and the Grand Union Canal flows through it bringing lots of wildlife and is a beautiful place to explore on your doorstep.
The above sources raise a number of issues — Were Watford St. Was there an amalgamation or were Watford St. Why did Watford St. The Club consisted of not only a football club but cricket, tennis and lacrosse as well. West Herts clearly could not afford a grandstand so the subject was postponed until the end of the season.
The inference that Watford St. At the first match of the season persons paid for admission, and at the second Seeing that they have been going from bad to worse, losing all their matches, the gate was in danger of diminishing to vanishing point. Perhaps they will fare better now. Properly worked, the Watford people ought to be able to support a good professional team.
The press were not allowed at the talks between the two clubs and it was the 16th April edition of the Watford Observer that the first announcement of the amalgamation was made. The Sporting Life of the 27th April was among many of the national press who later reported it. The Watford Observer confirmed in their 7th May edition —.
That the principle was right few disputed, and the question narrowed itself down to a few minor difficulties. It was ascertained that the executive on both sides regarded the suggestion favourably, and joint meetings of the officials were arranged. The proposals took a definite shape, and very soon amalgamation was a thing accomplished.
It was decided, however, that each club should finish off its fixtures. Next season the Watford club will play on the Cassio-Road ground, and one of the chief ideas of the amalgamation is to have a second team of sufficient strength to be an attraction while the first string is engaged elsewhere.
The details of the amalgamation scheme we have already given in these columns. Generally speaking, then, the local football season which has just closed has been a most important one. It has witnessed two steps which have marked fresh epochs — the adoption of professionalism and the amalgamation of West Herts and Watford St. The full F. The F. Absorption is mentioned in later newspapers but used incorrectly as a quick explanation as to how Watford F.
However, primary sources confirm the amalgamation in April and trump any later comments and certainly trumps any West Herts supporters views. I am hoping someone will be able to help me find information on my relative Michael John Carey who lived in Chalk Lane, Oxhey in It would great if someone could help in this regard He was born and was born in Co.
Donegal, Ireland. He may have work for the council on the roads. My Dad was there and I want to track down some info for him…. It was apparently a stray bomb, perhaps one of those mentioned by Doug Petty?
My grandparents Raymond and Edith Fox lived in Breakspere Close my mother Thelma Fox told me her friend and the other children were killed when a doodlebug fell on their house. The mother survived but suffered mental illness afterwards. According to my mum, one did a direct hit on breakspeare close, just of Harebreaks, on a shelter in the garden where a mum had just put her children?
But one definitely fell on Sandringham road! I believe, I saved to my Watford pins or WW 2! Hi Mary Sometime during World War 2 there was a German bomber that had not completed its mission and consequently got chased by one of our fighter aircraft.
To lighten its load during the escape it jettisoned its bombs, one demolished a house in the corner of The Square, I believe one dropped on The Dell and a couple more in the woods at The Harebreaks recreation Park, all in a straight line, we used to play WAR in the craters in the woods. I remember my grandmother Mrs Lawrence who lived in Brighton Rd telling me that when the Battle of Britain was on you could see the aircraft high in the sky dogfighting and sometimes shell cases would fall to the ground and make a tinkling sound on the road!
Regards Doug Petty. Perhaps this is what you remember, Mary. Later in the war, a V2 hit and demolished a school in Watford,one night, but I have no idea where!! On the side of a house behind the old police station , Robert Peel now Middletons. What was it?
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