35 Found Photos Capture Life of a Watford Family in the 1920s

   

Initially a small market town, Watford is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of London, on the River Colne.

 
 
Life of a Watford family in the 1920s
 
While industry has declined in Watford, its location near London and transport links has attracted several companies to site their headquarters in the town. Cassiobury Park is a public park that was once the manor estate of the Earls of Essex.
 
This is a series of family photos that was found by Mike. The photos were taken by a Mr.E.A. Ife, mostly in the 1920s. They lived in Cassio Road, Watford, and Mr. Ife ran the ‘Post Office Savings Club Photographic Society’ from there (according to the ‘Photograms of the Year’ books for 1920 & 1921!). He was certainly a very fine photographer, and his family seem to have led a particularly happy, and idyllic lifestyle.
 
 
All dressed up

 

 
Apple harvest time

 

 
Autumn leaves

 

 
Baby bunnies & kitten

 

 
Baby Isobel

 

 
Blowing bubbles

 

 
Brother & sisters

 

 
By the canal

 

By the canal

 

Collecting flowers

 

Daisy chains

 

Farmyard fun

 

Fun in the cornfield

 

Fun in the cornfield

 

Good morning - How d'ye do

 

In the wheat field

 

Indoors and outdoors

 

Janet in her 'house'

 

Mummy reading

 

Pram & teepee

 

Roses

 

Ruth & her chum

 

Ruth & rabbits

 

Ruth and kitten

 

Ruth climbing at the beach

 

School photo

 

The basket (and the Harmony) upset by the 'Household Terror'

 

The Harmony Three fill the basket

 

The Ife family

 

The tomboy

 

Tumbling

 

 

 

We love our Daddy

 

 
Young cricket players