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A Terrible Train Crash October 8th 1952
A Terrible Train Crash October 8th 1952 In 1952 the South Oxhey Estate was filling up the new council houses. The displaced people from London had been moving in since 1947. With new residents transferred from London escaping overcrowding, slums and the housing shortages caused by the Blitz. Many of the newcomers still worked in London and it was a long journey to London and back on top of a days work. They would get the train from Carpenders P...
Silkin and Corbett House
These were eight story blocks of flats in Lincoln Drive opposite St Joseph’s School. They took a good while to demolish. They started with an old fashioned ball and crane which they thought would make light work of it, but the balcony’s down each side were more reinforced than was originally thought so the job took a lot longer. There used to be a great view of the estate from the roof of Corbett House. They weren’t the best looking of buildings ...
Writing the estate
Oxhey Library hosted a free, one day creative writing workshop drawing on South Oxhey for inspiration. The day covered exercises in creating character; developing story; and writing poetry. You can be a beginner or have some writing experience; they key thing is that you have something imaginative to say about your estate. Your writing from the workshop will also be published on the Our Oxhey website. Local writer leads the workshop The workshop ...
The Milk and Orange machine at Carpenders Park Station
... At the top of the ramp of Carpenders Park Station was a Milk machine and it also dispensed orange. It was sixpence for each I wonder how many people remember it? With kind permission from the kenthistoryforum here is a picture of that machine. ...
Modern Technology at Oxhey Wood Primary School
In 1969 ‘Rank’ made a film at Oxhey Wood Primary School, in Oxhey Drive called ‘Switched on at Seven’. This concerned the new Audio Visual Technology that was starting to be used in schools and Oxhey Wood was one of the pioneering schools in this field. This consisted of the classrooms each having a tape recorder, spool projector, cine projector, screen and slide projector alongside other new equipment. The school also had a room entirely plann...
Early days in Oxhey
I moved to Oxhey on Jun 10th 1967, I remember the day because it was the Duke of Edinburgh’s birthday. I was born in Hammersmith, later we lived in a flat in Kennington, but after we were bombed out we were moved to Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall, which I hated. We were offered a three bedroom house in Oxhey which we were pleased about because my husband worked for Odhams. The house was one of the ’tin houses’ which were supposed to be temporary! Later o...
Our Oxhey launch
... Thank you for such a lovely interesting afternoon, the tea and cakes (and fudge) were first class and everyone was so friendly. Hope you get lots of articles for your new website. I’m sure it will be a great success. My thanks and best wished to all concerned. ...
Prize winning blooms
When the South Oxhey estate was run by the GLC and to encourage tennants to take a pride in their front gardens, a front garden competition was held every year. Winning the silver challenge cups The prizes were silver challenge cups which were for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd best front gardens on the estate. These cups were presented to the winners at the County Hall in London and it was with real pride that my late husband and I would go up on the sta...
From the Slums of London to South Oxhey
London Slums to South Oxhey 175 pages ISBN 9781471693854 BISAC: History / Europe / Great Britain To buy direct from the publisher please click below Paper Back List Price: £9.99 – 6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm) https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-trainor/slums-of-london-to-south-oxhey/paperback/product-20106515.html Black & White on White paper. Hard Back and dust cover 175 pages ISBN-978-1-4716-8645-0 BISAC: History / Europe / Great Britain To buy dire...
Very early 'facts'
... These memories are hearsay from a Mr Edsal, who died about 20 years ago. Prestwick Road was built (1945?) by German P.O.W.’s The ground between Prestwick Road and the ‘Hartsbourne’ brook was raised and levelled with lorry loads of rubble from bomb damage in East London. ...
Doug Gatts Thumb
Sitting in class on a cold November morning in 1961, at St Joes’ primary school there was a slam and a scream. Doug Gatt had shut the iron, classroom, door onto his thumb. I remember loads of blood, lost nail and plenty of noise. Doug got taken to the first aid room and we all played about as we had no teacher. It was a dark day and looking out of the window we could see little snowflakes blowing in the freezing wind. Doug’s thumb took a back row...
Moving to South Oxhey - the later years.
... Barbara Birch Hello, I really enjoyed watching these performances in Australia, you are probably world wide now ? shows what people can do when people get together, it had the same community when we lived in South Oxhey,early 1950s 60s. ...
Shopping in South Oxhey
... The 1960’s I remember Barker’s mobile grocery van. I found it fascinating and a real novelty, with friendly service and the owner in his white coat. It became a familiar sight and I used to love to go inside and just look and see all the different things for sale. It was used very widely locally. ...
South Oxhey in the Fifties
I came to South Oxhey in 1955 from Whitechapel on an exchange scheme. First lived in a house in Prestwick Road, opposite the bank. Moved from there, on another exchange, to Trevose Way. Have been there since 1958. Where I live, there was a big green opposite, which was lovely, then they built a lot of Warden Control flats, which is now called The Harrogate Club. I am the second longest tenant in the road. So much has changed in the precinct of sh...
Shopping on the estate in the 1950's
... I moved to the estate in 1975 and my friend Hetty who lived next door to me told me that in the 1950’s there were no roads in Prestwick Road and she saw the houses being built opposite where we live now. There were no shops so she used to walk to Hatch End to get any shopping she needed. At the railway station you used to have to stop the train by sticking your hand or foot out if you wanted to get on! ...
Oxhey Cricket Club
... I found these old pictures and thought they might be of interest. My dad Stan Allison used to play for the club. ...
Bonfire Night
... Neil Hamilton I remember the big estate bonfire they used to have in Prestwick Rd where the golf driving range is now ...
Finding golf balls
Oh yeah, we used to go over there so I was saying we used to wait for the man to hit the balls and we used to take’m because on the left hand side as you go up from this end and go up towards Sandy Lane there used to be a big orchard, a massive big orchard, and he used to whack the balls and they used to go into the orchard, so we used to wait inside the orchard and the golfers used to whack the ball and we used to take the ball out and take’m, y...
I took a walk on the wild side
Last Wednesday 21st March I enjoyed the first in a series of Health walks around South Oxhey. These walks are organised by the Countryside Management Service and led by local volunteers. They will take place every Wednesday at 1pm meeting at the Bridlington Road end of the precinct in South Oxhey. Strolling along After the all important paperwork seventeen of us set off on the walk. We crossed Hayling Road and entered Oxhey playing fields strolli...
My Milk Round
My Milk round with Braziers Dairy. As a young boy I used to help the milkman on the weekends and in the school holidays. This meant getting up at four in the morning and walking the two miles to Braziers Farm in Oxhey Lane . These were great days. By the time I arrived at the dairy my usual milkman Bill had already nearly loaded the float with milk. My job was to get all the specials, like the creamy gold top, sterilized, butter milk and small bo...
The Magic Robot
My eyes prung open it is my birthday today and I am ten years old. Iwonder what I have got I hope it is good? Dressing quickly pretending to have a bath I make my way downstairs. On the sofa was a wrapped parcel with a card stuck on it. The light through the windows seem darker this morning the dustman has taken our bin up the alley. A long thin cart with shutters on the side stands outside our house. The Braziers Dairy milk float is blocking the...
My First Job after School
When I first left school in 1971 I had a job in Bushey down at Cox’s Corner. It was a terrible contrast from School but the money was good it was eight pounds a week a fortune. Although the money was good it was piece work and a nine hour day was a long day. Scores of bicycles bounce their way down a cobbled firm entrance. Each person on these bikes are full of venom, but today it is Friday. “Thank you God” Through the iron gates of the metal wor...
The Long Walk to School
Each week day morning I had a long way to walk to school. It was in the early sixties and things were more relaxed then unlike now. It began by sitting on the back step putting my school shoes on and tying the laces very tightly. I took my meat sandwiches and some of my reading cards and started my daily journey. It began with a walk up our alley picking up anything that was needed then out on to the street. Cars parked on the curb and by the sid...
The Oerlikon Electric Trains
... Arthur Hall A very interesting & informative page, a picture of an Oerlikon train can be seen in train topics, on a page subscribed by Barry Austin 4/12/2010. May I add that a further 7 stations existed if you travelled to Broad Street, as I did in 1949. I enjoyed reading this Gallery. ...
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