Archive

  • Carpenders Park Station celebrates 100th birthday

    A special event will be held next month to mark Carpenders Park Station’s centenary. The Prestwick Road station will be 100 years old on April 1, and to celebrate a blue plaque will be unveiled in the ticketing office. Members from the Our

  • Coffins found by workmen at car park site

    The burial vault of a well-known 18th Century Watford family of Baptists has been unearthed by contractors on the central car park site in Beechen Grove. Inside the bricked-up tomb they found four disintegrating lead-lined coffins containing the

  • Tesco launches dance and PE classes

    Parents can now drop their children off at an activity class while they shop in peace in Tesco Watford. A fun and active class for boys and girls is being offered in the new Tesco Extra Watford Community Room, when children will be able to enjoy

  • AUDIO: Watford are 'doing something right'

    Danny Wilson praised Watford’s strong home form after yesterday’s 3-0 defeat for Barnsley but felt his team were the architects of their own downfall with their defending for the first two goals. Following the midweek defeat at home to leaders

  • Needy youngsters given cash grant from council

    A charity has been given a £500 council cash grant to help deprived children in Watford and Three Rivers The Bowley Charity was given the money by Hertfordshire County Council to support the neediest youngsters in the two areas. The money came

  • Who was your Watford man of the match?

    Watford cruised to victory against Barnsley but that was only possible after a scintillating start from the Hornets, when they could have scored more than the two goals they netted in the opening quarter of an hour. The goalkeeper and back three

  • On this date in Watford FC's history

    Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Watford faced a Derby County side sitting in the first division relegation zone but only two points behind the Hornets with a game in hand at a precarious point of the season. Ray Lewington's well-publicised appeals

  • March 16, 1979

    Watford’s MP Mr Raphael Tuck, who is to retire at the end of the present Parliament, seems certain to be made a Freeman of the borough. “I am over the moon about it,” said Mr Tuck. “It is a wonderful honour they have done me.” The motion that