On a Friday in July at the start of the 1970s workmen climbed ladders with their pick axes and sledgehammers and began to demolish a building on…
But in 1970, it was decided the gates had to go as part of a road-widening scheme in Rickmansworth Road.
Writing in his book Lost Watford, John Cooper said: “Friday 24 July 1970 was indeed a black day for Watfordians when the demolition men started to reduce a piece of Watford heritage to rubble.”Look back to that ‘black day’ with these pictures from our archive.Another piece of the gates bites the dust
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