The original coat of arms of the town of Watford had little direct bearing on the football club, but discovering ...
The football club used a generic representation of the Hertfordshire hart on the cover of early handbooks and in letterheads. ...
A rare appearance of what could be considered a club crest appears on an enamelled silver fob, dated 1927 by ...
The Borough Arms were granted to the town of Watford by the College of Arms upon Watford obtaining Borough status ...
Although many more-illustrious First Division and even some lower-league sides were wearing badges on their home shirts, Watford never did ...
A club crest had never appeared on the match programme until the beginning of 1939-40. The front-page design for that ...
A scarcely remarked-on event in 1952 heralded the first badge worn by Watford FC which contained a hart’s head … ...
The crest featuring the hart’s head adorned programmes, handbooks and other literature from 1953/54. It was phased out in 1961 ...
This is a more stylised version of the hart badge which had been printed on Watford’s programme covers since 1953. ...
Watford played out a goalless draw at home to Stockport County on the opening game of 1959/60 in front of ...
Despite having a quite attractive badge adorning its club literature and a nickname to reflect their new gold and black ...
The Borough Arms crest was pre-eminent around the club throughout the mid to late 1960s, complete with its Latin motto ...
In 1974, the shirt badge was switched to an adaptation of the cartoon hornet which first featured on the Supporters ...
From 1968/69 the club had adopted as the shirt badge, for the first time, a representation of a hornet (colouredred but ...
After a brief hiatus between October-May of 1971/72, during which Watford wore plain gold shirts with no badge, the previous ...
Watford FC’s iconic current club badge has been in existence in one form or another for nearly fifty years, but ...
The hart badge, meanwhile, was used increasingly in club publications and memorabilia. It appears to have lacked standardisation during the late ...
As Watford refined its image as a family-friendly community club, the jaunty cartoon hornet was eventually dropped as a club ...
The Plantin typeface for the club name above the badge was adopted as standard throughout club literature, advertising and signage. The ...
