Less than a year after being turned into a makeshift television studio by the BBC, these were the very different scenes when the bulldozers moved in to reduce a pub to a pile of rubble.
Our feature on the former Beaver pub in Courtlands Drive has proved very popular so far, attracting more than 7,000 page views since the article was published on this website yesterday.
In the article, Watford Museum’s volunteer archivist Christine Orchard referred to the pub being used for the filming of a BBC3 sitcom in 2009.
- The former pub where a TV sitcom was once filmed
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Recalling popular restaurant and bar with a jukebox in the corner
A look back through our archives shows the filming was for a show called Coming of Age, which followed the ups and downs of a bunch of teenagers.
However, the landlady Lesley Edwards said it wasn’t the first time film crews had taken over the pub.
An advert warning of the number of motorcyclists involved in road traffic collisions was also filmed at the Beaver, while a BBC1 film crew was also scheduled to use it later in July 2009.
Lesley told the Watford Observer: “It is lovely to be asked, it is wonderful.
“I haven't got a clue why so many crews film here, it is probably because it is such a big site, but of course it could just be my glowing personality.”
Barely eight months later though, these pictures from our archive capture the moments the pub was being pulled down to make way for housing.
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