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Another Mosaic Under Construction
... This photograph shows pupils at work in the Pottery Department of Clarendon School preparing the pieces for a mosaic in about 1958. ...
Pottery Display at Clarendon School
On a recent visit to ‘Three Rivers Museum’ in Rickmansworth, a group from ‘Our Oxhey’ saw ‘The Charger’ or large plate that was made at Clarendon School, in one of the museums display cases. This had been ‘rescued’ from the remains of Clarendon School by an ex pupil and had been rediscovered in his loft and taken to Three Rivers Museum. The museum have repaired it and it is now on public display. The other photograph shows it on display at Clar...
Modern Sculpture at Clarendon School - Part 2
The modern sculpture at Clarendon School mentioned in a previous page, called ‘A Human Pyramid’ and photographed by the Watford Observer was built in 1962 under the supervision of Mr P Sellers. It was called ‘ Acrobats’, the design was taken from a smaller piece of pottery of that name made at the school around this time as the photograph (right) shows. The other photograph shows pupils at work on the ‘Acrobats’ and this photograph is dated 196...
Oxhey Woods
It is often said that we do not see or appreciate what is right on our doorstep. This is very true where the Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve is concerned. I had seen work going on in the area and signs going up and bits and pieces in the local press. It was only when I picked up a leaflet in the local Library that I thought about going to have a look at what had been going on and what a wonderful surprise it was. Monday, November 5th was a beaut...
Points for a house in Oxhey
[So, we’ve got as far as saying…you had the two rooms, and because you had the baby on the way] Because you had the baby on the way you got points then, and then 19 months after I had Chris, I was pregnant and I had boy…and I had enough points then, and I was given this brand new council house, with 3 bedrooms and 140ft of garden, and I didn’t know where I was, it was fantastic. And we lived there all those years, 54, 55 years, and my husband was...
Our Oxhey visits Three Rivers Museum
Members of Our Oxhey group learned some fascinating facts about the history of our district during a wonderful tour of Three Rivers Museum, given by the current Chair, Barbara Owen. She is a fount of knowledge on the locality and can recount numerous amusing anecdotes about local people and places Displays of Oxhey There is currently a display about Oxhey in the main room, which covers Dove Cottage, Oxhey Chapel, St Andrews precinct and Little F...
Old Ministry of Defence signs
... I salvaged these two enamelled signs from the USAF married quarters site during demolition in the late 1990’s. The site was up off Oxhey Lane and was built on the old Highfield/Carpenders mansion site following demolition in 1960 ...
Last remnant of the GLC in Oxhey
... Took this pic years ago – used to be at the entrance to Clitheroe Gardens. Must have been one of the last visible traces of the old GLC. ...
Shopping in Villiers Road
If you had gone further up on this side Lovedays is on the corner there. On the opposite corner was Palmers which was the other beautiful delicatessen place where you went and they cut all the cheeses and the hams and everything like that [off the bone] all beautifully off the bone, all cooked on the premises as well [lovely]. And then further up the road was um Hockers which was a little shop and they used to have big double freezer which always...
Clarendon School
... Colin Warner Does anyone remember when a sanitary towel was looped over the crusaders head, and Mr Stewart was not impressed? ...
Carpenders Mansion
The bell is one of the old servants bells from the Carpenders Mansion later known as Highfield in Oxhey Lane. The mansion was derelict for a number of years prior to its demolition. The bell came from a chap I knew in Carpenders Ave whose house backed onto the mansion grounds. He took it from the derelict house by snapping it from the spring steel hanger. The two pieces of masonry came from the basements of the old house when they were exposed du...
A Literary Estate
On Friday June 1st 2012 seven writers from the South Oxhey council estate took part in a day-long writing workshop led by the poet and former South Oxhey resident, Michael Crowley, and drawing on John Schad’s recent novel The Late Walter Benjamin, which is set on the estate, where John too grew up. The event was much enjoyed by all the participants who were put through a number of exercises by Michael and produced, by the end of the day, a range...
The Bus Stop
I left the house, on that cool breezy Tuesday morning, made up for work, not too prim and proper, but just enough I hoped to catch someone’s eye that day at the bus stop. The young man, whose name, I did not know, caught my eye for the last couple of weeks, and I was really hoping he would notice me, but alas he did not. What was his name I wondered, as I walked towards the bus stop near Carpenders Park Station. Would I have the courage to say he...
Weather freezing - tap water froze in the night
... Beverley Small This week in 2013 The 8 year battle over Oxhey Hall Barns was resolved when they were bought by an unamed buyer and resident, who is going to take them out of agricultural use and convert them into homes. They were previously owned by Veolia Water. Weather still very cold, and snow possible for the weekend. ...
Oxhey in the 50s
1950s – I worked in the City, used to catch the workmans train as it was a lot cheaper. No shops in South Oxhey so did my shopping in town. Couldn’t buy much as food and coal was still on ration. Keeping warm My husband and myself used to go to the woods at the weekend to get some dead wood for the fire and I can tell you the twigs didn’t last long or give out much heat. The joy when a few shops opened, but I was sorry to see the wooden statio...
A Long Hard Road
... BRIAN LAWRIE Great article. You can feel and smell the place. ...
The Bar of Chocolate
The Big Bar of Chocolate. Sitting on a concrete stair in the back garden not allowed out. I won a big bar of chocolate now I cannot go out my dad says I stole it. So now I have to stay in for a whole month, on my summer holidays. Grrr. Mates knock, can he come out, “no, the boy is a thief”. Looking down the garden, it was a wasteland, big clay chunks around its edges. There was a brown bit down the bottom, called the vegetable garden. It was give...
St. Joseph's School Outing
... shelagh (was Lindsay) hull Miss Carol, and Miss Offert ... who could forget them! Christopher Robert OKelly What great memories Terry. I was there around about the same time and remember Mrs Offord and Mr Keough, Mr Edmondson. Mr Keough was brilliant managed to be lucky enough to play for the school football team. He was a great man. I remember you as well....
22 HAMILTON ROAD PART 4
Knowing how time and distance can shade ones memories and make the good times better and the bad time worse I will be as careful as possible to detail the fun of growing up as a lad on the South Oxhey Council Estate. Sun,rain, snow and ice most of my free time was spent outside.My mothers philosophies were,If its hot wear your shorts,if its cold wrap up, if its raining, once your soaked you can,t get any wetter. As a result of this outlook playin...
Clarendon School Brass Band 1957/8
... I know which one I am but others are a bit hazy, has anyone got any ideas? ...
22 HAMILTON ROAD. PART 3
When I look at school photographs of the 40,s and 50s, you see rows and rows of slim kids who by todays standards looked thin almost hungry.One reason for this was our diet.We were the generation that grew up with food rationing as a result of the second world war and the shortages caused by this event. This began in January 1940 when bacon, butter and sugar were the first foods rationed and continued with more foods being added to the list durin...
Bingo
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Family
My husband was in The the airforce. I was 16 and he was 19 when I met him. We got engaged and we didn’t want to live with our families. I was 22 when we married and we lived with his family in Notting Hill. My home I put my name down for a council house and 9 months married we got a one bedroom flat in Otley Way. My baby boy suffered with asthma. We went to Great Ormond Street and the doctor said he needed a bedroom of his own. So we got ...
Singing in the choir
... I joined the Choir when it first started but I had to give it up because of my thyroid. Gareth came to see us when he was doing the choir. When he first came he told us how he had taken some children on holiday to teach them to sing. We had a piano and Kitty Lee and Fred and a few others came along, and they joined straight away. Kitty always got up and gave us a song. She was 90 when she died. ...
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Oxangeheage to modern Oxhey
This article I wrote for the Watford Observer in 1971 was to form the basis of a book I was...
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