This building site was located in the shadow of a Watford landmark and it would become the flagship store of a major retailer.
Thousands of us have visited Asda near The Dome roundabout since it opened in 1987, but a year earlier construction work was still in its early stages.
A Watford Observer photographer visited the Odhams site on October 23, 1986 to see how work was progressing on transforming the land previously owned by printing tycoon Robert Maxwell’s British Printing and Communications Corporation.
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With the Odhams clock tower in the background, these pictures also show the printing company’s name still on a building at the entrance of what remains one of the best known names from Watford’s industrial past.
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