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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.
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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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