Leavesden Road, Watford, 1901
A new North Watford street at the turn of the twentieth century.
A portrait of a new North Watford neighbourhood at the turn of the twentieth century, when Leavesden Road and its side streets were built on former farmland. The 1901 census reveals where residents came from (often Buckinghamshire and London), and that building trades, shopkeeping, and railway work employed most household heads.