Three pictures this week from Easter 1965.
This picture may look more like mid-winter, but in fact it was the scene in Leavesden Road after Easter Monday’s mixture of hail and snow.
The same week’s paper [April 23, 1965] also featured six-year-old Paul Stephens (above), of St Albans Road, Watford, with the 30lb Easter egg presented to him at Watford’s Vicarage Road ground.
He won it in a contest open to the children of the club’s pools agents and, as you can see, he’s understandably delighted.
The previous week featured this picture of “TV personality Miss Jean Clarke” modelling the “daringly unconventional head-dress for an Easter bride” created by hair stylist Alexe at his salon in Stanmore.
“Here is the result,” the paper wrote, “an unswept, swirly hair style entwined with tulle, daisies and chicks.”
Can’t say I’ve heard of Ms Clarke, but she appears to have been a hostess on Hughie Green’s Double Your Money (which could explain why).
Leaving 1965 for a while, it was in 1985 that the Watford Observer reported Baileys night club decided to change its admission prices during Easter week and admit customers who paid an Easter egg rather than money.
“And on Easter Sunday,” the Observer reported, “five cars loaded with 750 eggs drove round to local children’s homes and hospitals to distribute them.” Good on them.
ONLINE TOMORROW: Watford observed - stories from Aprils past
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