Mobile tyres fitting service in Watford Hertfordshire
We offer the lowest priced tyres and a mobile tyres
fitting service for Watford Hertfordshire. See our tyres price
check comparison. No call out charge. All leading brands
of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Watford Hertfordshire. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Watford Hertfordshire
The building of the London and Birmingham Railway and
the opening of the first station in Watford on the 26th
July 1837 proved to be one of the most important events
in the town's history. It was said that more men were
employed to build the line than on any other project
since the construction of the Great Pyramid. The
architect was John Rennie and the engineer George
Stephenson. Stephenson had originally wanted the route
to pass to the south of Watford where the route would
have been more level.
However, the Earls of Clarendon and Essex were opposed
to the scheme and did not want the noise, the steam and
the common people to pass through their estates and so
the railway was constructed on a wide loop to the north
of the town. Additional work had to be carried out to
create deep cuttings at Bushey and Oxhey and tunnels
under the Earl of Essex's land. The well known landmark
of Bushey Arches carried the line over marshy land at
the bottom of the town. The arches rested on brushwood
and so doubled the original estimated cost of ?350 per
mile. The construction of the Watford tunnel cost the
lives of eleven men and many others were injured.
When the line was first opened trains ran as far as
Tring and to Bletchley in April 1838 and then through to
Birmingham in September of the same year. The London and
North Western Railway was formed and Watford became a
junction when the branch to St. Albans was opened in May
1859. A station was also opened at High Street which was
later rebuilt for the electric lines from Euston.
The population of Watford began to grow, from 6,500 in
1851 to 7,500 ten years later. By 1881 it was 10,000 and
twenty years later, in 1901 it was 19,300. The good rail
connections with London attracted printing and
engineering industries and workers as well as
'commuters'. Industry continued to grow as a result of
the railway and the L.N.W.R. laid out large freight
sidings to serve the local factories.
Milling, brewing and food processing were important
industries, as was engineering. Printing became
established as a major industry because the Colne valley
had been a centre for papermaking since the 18th century
and by 1930 Watford was called the 'printing capital of
the world'.
Today, Watford has a thriving shopping complex at its
centre. The harlequin dominates in the middle of
watfords one way system. The harlequin has every shop
you can think of under one roof and draws people in from
miles around. Asda and Sainsburys have added a large
presence. Most of the original businesses have moved
onto industrial sights and the croxley business park,
just outside Watford which now has a pub and its own
shops, has meant the town is now free to open itself up
to the busy bars and restaurants that keep Watford open
and lively until the early hours of the morning. |
