Vicarage Road Football Stadium And Watford Football Club

I first saw Watford play - in their old blue and white colours - at the end of the 1955-56 season. The only cover was the so called "Main Stand" and on the opposite touchline the "Shrodells Stand" named after the adjacent Shrodells Hospital (now Watford General Hospital).  I would stand behind the goal on the left of this picture as the terrace was steep with plenty of barriers to lean on and high enough to give a view of the whole pitch. Halfway through the second half, newspaper sellers would walk around the terraces selling the Evening News or the Evening Standard with the half time scores from other grounds and sometimes even a short match report for the first few minutes of other games! The Watford ground staff would hang numbers on hooks at the edge of the greyhound track with half time scores too. The code letters for the other games were printed in the programme. I went to most home games and sometimes even reserve games as I was so keen!  It wasn't a particularly strong team in these mid 1950s years which is probably the reason why I can remember the defenders rather than the forwards! I wonder where Bell, Shipwright, Catleugh, McNeice and Chung are now!!