Social Clubs in Watford

Watford Live! Oral History Project. Memories of Social Clubs in Watford.

Oddfellows Hall on St. Albans Road, Watford.

Bob Nunn Collection

A selection of clips on social clubs and events in Watford.

Interviewees include (not in order of appearance):

Susan Marrott

Betty Reed

Sylvia Coles

Christopher Masters

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The Oddfellows hall I remember well. When Alan Shepard was the first American in space doing a quick spin around after Yuri Gagarin did his circuits, the Yanks displayed his capsule Friendship 7 to the world by putting it on a trailer and carting it around the States then to UK. I remember sitting on those steps of the Oddfellows Hall for ages waiting for the trailer to pass. I will always remember how small and burnt this corrugated conical spinning top shaped thing as it came past and thought someone burnt that on a fire. How did a man survive in that tin can. It appeared and was gone in a second. But the memory stayed.
By Norman Edward Cordell (27/05/2021)
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The Oddfellows hall I remember well. When Alan Shepard was the first American in space doing a quick spin around after Yuri Gagarin did his circuits, the Yanks displayed his capsule Friendship 7 to the world by putting it on a trailer and carting it around the States then to UK. I remember sitting on those steps of the Oddfellows Hall for ages waiting for the trailer to pass. I will always remember how small and burnt this corrugated conical spinning top shaped thing as it came past and thought someone burnt that on a fire. How did a man survive in that tin can. It appeared and was gone in a second. But the memory stayed.
By Norman E Cordell (27/05/2021)