This mainstay of the High Street is now located in Atria Watford, but this picture shows the location of Boots the Chemist that many readers will remember in Watford town centre.

Many of us will be visiting the town centre to buy our gifts in the build up to December 25, but many of the shops we remember fondly have changed or disappeared altogether.

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With the help of Watford Museum and its volunteer archivist Christine Orchard, we are looking back at some of those favourite shops and High Street scenes so many of us remember as the countdown to Christmas Day continues.

This picture from the museum’s Bob Nunn Collection shows Boots in its former location on the corner of Market Street, with the bus stops a little further along the road.