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A 17th Century wood carving from Cassiobury House in Watford

The Grinling Gibbons carving from Cassiobury House The Watford Observer has teamed up with Watford Museum and its curator Sarah Priestley to take a journey back to the town’s past through items or places of historical significance. We re now at item 31 in a history of Watford 50 objects and it is a reminder of when Cassiobury was one of the finest estates in the country and the seat of the Earl of Essex. Sarah said: This wood carving, thought to have originally been crafted as a clock surround, is one of the oldest relics of Cassiobury House on display at Watford Museum and dates to the late 17th Century.

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10. Mary Portas used to live in Bushey. 10. Former children’s laureate Michael Rosen attended Watford Grammar School for Boys in the 1960s. 11. Watford has made huge contributions to the printing industry. Rotary photogravure was a technique which was first used in Watford to reproduce very fine, high quality fine art prints and then it went on to be used to produce colour magazines. All the ladies’ colour magazines, like Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Own, were all printed in Watford, as well as most of the colour supplements for the Sunday newspapers. 12. Melanie C aka Sporty Spice lived in Watford for a spell.

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