The business continued to grow. Another move to Queens Road followed and then in 1925 he purchased two premises in Lower High Street, Watford - one to become a steel stockyard and the other, Brookland, at 253 Lower High Street, a home and base for the company.

  He bought it from a general trader called William Newberry, a huge man, the biggest in the area they said, who built Brookland in 1911.

The doors in the house were made extra big to accommodate his bulk. Even the toilet was giant-size (true!).

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This photograph was taken in 1969.

The site on the left was sold in 1989 to make way for developement of B&Q warehouse

George built an office, and fitted a weighbridge in 1935, both still in operation today.

 

 

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