Recollections of Market Street, Watford, published recently prompted John Lear, of Toynton St Peter, Lincolnshire, to write in: "I attended Holy Rood school from 1936 until 1945.
"My chief memory of the shops was the fish and chip shop, called Denhams, where we could buy a large bag of chips, including cracknell' the broken-off portions of fish and batter, very unhealthy today, for threepence, about 1p today.
"After I left school I worked for a period of time for a company called Bracey Roads and Simmonds, whose office was top floor of a building on the corner of Percy Road. Tom Simmonds was a director of Watford FC and obtained the contract to install the concrete terraces all around the ground in Vicarage Road. I was one of a team of young men who spent the next few weeks pushing wheelbarrow loads of concrete up the quite substantial slopes, adjacent to Vicarage Road. I was fit in those days.
"That particular job took me into various parts of Watford, including relaying all the roads around Scammells in Tolpits Lane over one bank holiday when the factory was closed. It was quite frantic and, for those days, quite well-paid."
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