EPW039622 ENGLAND (1932). Vicarage Road Football Ground and environs, Watford, 1932

As of October 2013 the old main stand is in the process of being dimantled, and a new metal frame stand is being erected. The first part of which will be in use in early 2014.

This is a rare view of the famous stadium at Vicarage Road and the home of Watford FC for about ten years when this picture was taken. It's also worthy of inclusion in other groups on this website, such as "Football Grounds". In the background is the 1897 electricity generating station, with coal brought in from the north Midlands, via a railway siding, which served the town until the late 1960s, when it was demolished in favour of a new gas/oil power station.

A view looking south over the home of Watford Town Football Club, where the ground at Vicarage Road has been in use since 1922. Following the Local Government Act of 1929, Watford Union Workhouse, founded on this site in 1838, became Shrodells Public Assistance Institution, under the control of Watford Borough Council. Further expansion took place in the Wartime Emergency Scheme and Shrodells became a large hospital, with 464 general beds, under the NHS in 1948. Over sixty years later, Watford General Hospital is set to become a Health Campus for the region.

Watford FC Vicarage Rd