Our former long-serving watfordfc correspondent looks back on his rich career with this newspaper to help mark its 160th anniversary
There was a large photographers’ base and dark room, a circulation department and the composing room was in fact surrounded by a myriad of offices.
At the back of the building was the bindery. This was where Peacocks were commissioned to adhere inside or on the front of magazines printed elsewhere as inducements for sale: such as shampoo, special combs or ointments for the less sophisticated magazines. The Watford Observer helped but I had a 45-year career in which I never had a Monday morning feeling.The days of the peak circulations were in vogue and the Mid Week Watford Observer was launched in 1969.
Working at the old High Street office had been difficult. You secured a parking place in the morning but it was only temporary because you had go out on assignment or an interview. Then you came back and looked for a parking place… and looked. Some man hours wasted there.
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