A look back to when a bomb scare in Marks & Spencer brought Christmas shopping in Watford High Street to a temporary halt in December 1983.
Dozens of people stand and chat among themselves or stand wondering what is happening as a police tape stretches across the road to prevent them going any further.
photographer when a bomb scare brought late Christmas shopping to a temporary halt in Watford High Street in 1983. The security alert happened in Marks & Spencer on December 22 and police officers and firefighters are pictured discussing the situation behind the cordon as curious onlookers wait to be allowed back into the shops.These images from our archive also serve as a reminder of some of the shops that were in High Street at that time.As well as Marks & Spencer and British Home Stores, that side of the street was also home to H.
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