Lost Watford images saved – and published

Great Saver Geoff and fellow Watford history-lovers made an exciting discovery in the town museum archive…box upon box of 1950s and 1960s glass photographic negatives from the Watford Observer newspaper.

With the log books missing, identifying which were football-related was quite laborious. But once this was done, and with a negative scanner acquired, they were converted into high-resolution images. A selection of about 90 have been colourised and – with the approval of the Watford Observer – recently published alongside the originals in a 144-page A5 book, Golden Shots and Visions of Blue.

It’s gone down very well with Watford fans. Close to 500 have bought copies and can enjoy these images. The effort of bringing them to life has proved very worthwhile.