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.