St Andrew’s Road is a wide pedestrian precinct containing the main shops in South Oxhey. In June 2009, the occupiers were, left to right, Jacksons, JHD ( Gents Hairdressers), the Gold Centre, Wimpy, Cheapjacks, Taylor Convenience Store, the late lamented Woolworths, and Homecraft. This image has been used courtesy of the website Geographs
An Earlier View Of St Andrew’s Road
This photograph was taken when St Andrew’s Road was a through road open to traffic.
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Thank you Susan. You don’t happen to know Harry’s surname, do you?
Sorry Sandra I don’t think I ever knew it, he was always just ‘Harry’ to
everyone. Very nice man, I was working just around the corner at ‘Boots The
Chemist’ at the time. Then I married and bought many things from his shop.
I can see him and his wife very clearly but do not know of any photographs
of them.
Following on from my previous post. Does anyone know if any Jewish families had the drapers or ‘wool shops’ in 1960?
The shop I mentioned “Super Linens” was run by Harry and his wife who I believe
were Jewish. Many years later he took over the Dry Cleaners facing onto
Prestwick Road.
Hi
Could anyone tell me if there was a drapers shop in South Oxhey in the 1960s. It may have been there before the Oxfam shop?
Many thanks
Hello Sandra
Yes, at various times there were two what we called ‘Wool Shops’
and a shop called ‘Super Linens‘ which sold curtain nets and curtain fabric,
bed and table linen. ‘Super Linens’ was a few shops along from what
became the ‘Oxfam Shop’. The two ‘Wool Shops’ were on the other block of
shops.
Hi, could someone help. I was born in 1951 at 53 Blairhead Drive, where I lived with my mum and dad and older brother David, my younger sister born 1952. We moved to Hayling Road early 1960s. With Easter coming we were reminiscing about dad going down to buy hot cross buns baked on site from the bakers which was along the Sainsbury side of St Andrews Road shops. Does anyone remember what the bakers was called?
Remember my time living in South Oxhey with great affection.
Thanks for any help
Hello Christine
In answer to your question:-
The ABC was next to the record shop “Melody Corner” then the wet Fish Shop
which was next to “Sainsbury” Further up on the same side was “Pinner Green Bakeries”.
The JHD has a name and is a gents
hairdresser! And a very good one at that. Maybe do some research before you comment, just saying!!
Many thanks for pointing out the error, now corrected.