The Duke of Edinburgh waving to crowds after he was invited to officially open the new Woodside Playing Fields in 1955. Credit: Watford Museum The world is in mourning following the announcement that His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, has passed away. The Royal Family said at midday today that Prince Philip, husband of the Queen, died peacefully at Windsor Castle this morning. Tributes have flooded in for the royal, who was two months away from celebrating his 100th birthday. Prince Philip held an extraordinary life, with a distinguished life of service to the Queen, Great Britain and so many around the world.
Remembering the time Prince Philip opened Woodside Playing Fields
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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.