Clarendon School
Used as 'Fire Station'
By Susan Waller
During the Fireman’s strikes in the 1970’s Clarendon School was used as a temporary fire station for the Army with their ‘Green Goddess’ fire engines. Much to the delight of the local children.
This page was added on 21/04/2011.
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I escorted the Green Goddess fire engines from Watford police station to the school in Chilwell Gardens. I had just been posted to Watford and hadn’t even heard of Oxhey. Had to stop every few minutes to check my map and finally got them there