On Wednesday 5th April 2006 the Mayor of Watford, Dorothy Thornhill, visited the club to open the third lawn. This event also commemorated the occasion seventy years earlier when the Mayor opened the second lawn in 1936.

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With a little guidance from club chairman Arthur Reed, the Mayor tried her hand at the game using a mallet from an original antique "Cassiobury Croquet Set", equipment which had once been manufactured locally: