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This is the site of the Odeon cinema in Watford High Street, pictured here http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=108332&index=0&form=advanced&county=HERTFORDSHIRE&district=WATFORD&collection=John%20Maltby in 1937 in the John Maltby collection. I can find very little online about the history of this cinema but 'The Book of Watford' published by J B Nunn in 1992 has the following entry - "The first building of the super cinema era was the Plaza by the Pond, opened in April 1929. It was taken over by the Odeon circuit and renamed in October 1936, closed in November 1963 and was demolished to make way for a ground-floor supermarket and Top Rank Suite." This renaming would seem to account for the name of the caf