Walk on fire, fix a lamp: your Watford weekend
The Firewalk tonight, the Repair Café and Hogwarts in the Snow on Saturday, plus the lights date.
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Remember, remember: your Watford fireworks guide
Croxley Park tonight, more fireworks on Friday, Cassiobury on Saturday, and Remembrance on Sunday.
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Your Halloween weekend in Watford: frights, lights, Diwali
A free haunted house, Ghostbusters on the big screen, pumpkins to pick, and early fireworks in Bushey.
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Issue 6: Jonathan Pie, Jimeoin and an extra hour
Jonathan Pie on Friday, Jimeoin on Saturday, and the clocks go back on Sunday.
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What’s on in Watford this weekend
Weekend-shaped plans from this week's Brew.
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Eat & drink
Three nights at Mad Squirrel Watford, 3 King Street:
What's new
Tasty Bean team to run the new Town Hall café. The family business behind The Tasty Bean at Oxhey Activity Park will open a café on the ground floor of the Town Hall, with an outdoor terrace overlooking the new Town Square. It's scheduled for spring 2027, alongside the new Museum of Watford.
Did you know?
Before it was the home of Harry Potter, Warner Bros
Studios Leavesden, just up the road in WD25, was an aircraft factory. Leavesden Aerodrome opened in 1940 to build planes for the war, including Halifax bombers and the Mosquito. Rolls-Royce bought the site in 1967 and built aircraft and helicopter engines there until the factory closed in 1992. Two years later the James Bond team, unable to shoot GoldenEye at Pinewood, found the empty hangars, and GoldenEye became the first film made there. All eight Harry Potter films followed, and in 2010 Warner Bros. bought the site, becoming the first Hollywood major to set up its own studio outside the US. The studio tells the full story.