There were plenty of changes to Watford in the 1960s – including to the road system.
Serious proposals and plans that would dramatically transform the town were drawn up in 1956 and six years later the Central Redevelopment Scheme started.
Writing in Vol. 3 of Watford in the 20th Century, our late assistant editor Oliver Phillips said: “One weekend in the spring of 1962 a number of barricades, railway sleepers and painted oil drums appeared on the streets – the barriers looking as if they were ‘protecting us from unexploded bombs’, as one resident observed.“So began the eight-month trial ‘which, if successful, means that no vehicle will ever again travel the length of the High Street’.
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