The Watford Observer has again teamed up with its friends at The Watford Treasury to share stories from previous issues.
Peter Morgan takes a look at the short lived Watford Stadium halt, and asks was it a white elephant, or innovative solution? It is 1982, and Watford Football Club has reached the top division of English football for the first time, just as football hooliganism has become an epidemic. Watford were to find that instead of a few dozen away supporters turning up at Vicarage Road to support Southport or Hartlepool, thousands of followers from the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool would be descending on our corner of Hertfordshire.