One of the best ways of illustrating how much a town has changed is from the air and thanks to an old publication we can give an insight into how Watford altered over a near 70-year period.

Roger Middleton shared these newspaper cuttings with fellow members of the Watford Observer's nostalgia Facebook group 'We grew up in Watford'.

They were taken from a magazine this newspaper published in 1994 called 'Past and Present - A History in Pictures'.

We published ten pictures from it yesterday - showing various locations in and Watford in that year and how those sites used to look, primarily in 1966 - and here are another 12 that will bring back memories for many of you.

Read more: Ten pictures showing how Watford changed

They include the 1928 aerial shot of Watford at the top of this page and this comparable image from 1994.

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1994: The High Street from St Mary's Church. One gasometer survives. The Harlequin Centre and the M1 Link Road now dominate the vista

Scroll through the cuttings below and you can also take a look at how one of the entrances to Cassiobury Park looked before the gates were removed, a picture of the day the chimney was toppled at what used to be Benskin's Brewery and this newspaper's former office in Watford High Street.

All the pictures are accompanied with the original captions from the 1994 publication.

If you grew up or live in Watford and the surrounding areas and would like to share your pictures and memories of the past, ask to join the group via this link

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1966: The majestic Cassiobury Park Gates, originally one of the many entrances to Cassiobury House, home of the Earls of Essex

Watford Observer: 1994: Cassiobury Park Gates were pulled down in 1970, to make way for a wider Rickmansworth Road​

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1986: An imposing dome and ornamental exterior plaster work crowned Ketts electrical store on the corner of Queen's Road

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1994: The colonnaded entrance to The Harlequin shopping centre, topped with a copy of the Ketts dome (the original fell apart)

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1977: Going, going, so-long. Children from Watford Fields watch in awe as the Bsnkin's chimney is felled by a demolition crew. Watford Springs leisure pool now stands on the site

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1953: The Watford Observer's town centre office at 101 High Street was demolished in 1961, when production moved to our present home, 124 Rickmansworth Road

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1977: Bushey Arches seen from Eastbury Road, complete with wonderful period advertising for Bryant and May, Guinness, Ovaltine, Bovril and Royal Tyres

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1994: The splendid Bushey Arches may have lost its appeal to advertisers, but paint-sprayers seem to enjoy the challenge of chronicling their loves on the bridge's most inaccessible parts​

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1966: Three lanes of traffic negotiated this part of the High Street until the late 1970s​

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1994: One lane and one-way. You can no longer travel the length of Watford High Street