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News from Kimberley
... Beverley Small This week in 2013 A new secondary school due to open in the Rickmansworth area later this year may use temporary premises for several years. The Reach Free School will take 120 pupils in each year and applications closed on Friday February 15th for the next academic year. ...
Exhausted by Work and Weather
Monday March 12th It has not rained today but has been very dull and heavy. Did not get home till 10.30 tonight as I was in the middle of finding the balance when it was time to catch the other train. Had my supper and went to bed. Tuesday March 13th Another dull day, stayed on again tonight. I have never had such a turn of staying on before. I felt quite exhausted when I got home and was obliged to have a good cry. I felt quite hysterical. ...
Oxhey Lodge - 1928
... This photograph of ‘Oxhey Lodge’ was taken in 1928. Do you know where ‘Oxhey Lodge’ stood? It is almost identical in design to the Park Keepers Cottages that once stood in Oxhey Park, was this building also situated in the park? ...
A walk through Paddock Spring
Earlier this year I took a wander into a part of Oxhey Woods called Paddock Spring accessed from Gosforth Lane via the entrance next to the ATC and army cadet huts. Back in the 1950’s there were two old cottages at right angles to the road here, one of which was the first police station. In the 1860’s there was a timber yard, saw pit and workshop here. The track that runs from Gosforth Lane through to Oxhey Drive is many years old and is flanked...
Footbridge to Carpenders Park station from St Meryls Estate
My Brother Bill was a Railway enthusiast, and had many railway photographs, and pictures. Reading the comment about Carpenders Park Station 100 years old, reminded me that he had 3 old photographs of the footbridge, and platforms, however, I have at this moment only been able to find 1 Photo of the footbridge from the Carpenders Park side, (which I have added), it is not a very good picture, but it gives some idea what it looked like. I will ende...
Carpenders Park Station 100 years old
Keep visiting Our Oxhey to find out how we will be celebrating the anniversary of the station in 2014. The Station opens Oxhey Golf Club had opened in May 1912. After representations, the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) opened a new station at Carpenders Park on 1st April 1914. The wooden halt This was a simple wooden halt, provided essentially for the needs of the Oxhey Golf Club, whose members came mainly from north London. It also serv...
Mother's Birthday
Monday October 8th Another glorious day, made one long to be out in the sunshine. I did not get home till 9-30. Amy went up to Lil’s this morning and brought Dorrie down to dinner with Mother. She took her home after dinner and has stayed there for the night. Tuesday October 9th Another fine day. Home at 9-30 not much to note. Olive Coker called in today and had a cup of tea with Mother. We had not seen her for such a long time. Wednesday O...
Mother and Edith go to Walthamstow for a couple of days
Monday June 25th Very dull all day. We had time for a walk after we had packed up ready for going home. We caught the 11.31 train from Penmaewmawr, we only had to change at Chester and Willesden. We got to Bushey at 6.20. We went into Rob’s to tea. It began to rain again fast just after we got in, so we had to stay for a bit. We called in at Fred’s as we came home. Tuesday June 26th A rather better day today but not very bright. After brea...
Whitsun at Highbury
Friday 1st June Another cold dull day. Did not get home till half past seven then brought work home with me. Saturday 2nd June A dull morning but cleared up fine and bright afterwards, much warmer. I got home at 2.30 had my dinner then got ready for going back to London. Mother and I are going to spend Whitsun at Highbury. We went by the 4.34 and got there about quarter to six. We had tea then Uncle Alf took me for a walk to Clissold Park. We sat...
The Watch Night Service
Monday December 24th Still foggy all day but not quite as thick as yesterday. We had leave to come away at 4.30. We caught the 4.40 train which was a bit late but I was indoors about twenty to six. Had tea sat over it some time. Went out and posted some letters then wrote the words of a song. Flo called in also Fred and Mary. I called in their place when I went to the post. It seems nice to think I have not got to go to business for the next two ...
Laurie hopes to marry next April in Africa
Monday 10th December Frost and foggy this morning came on wet in the evening. Stayed on again till 8-30. Nothing much to note. Tuesday 11th December Dull but not rain. Stayed on till 8-30. The work is fearful heavy I don’t know how many more nights I have got to stay. Wednesday 12th December Fine morning,drizzling rain came on in the evening. I stayed on till 7 then went and did a little shoppig. Bought some insertions and bebe velvet to...
Edith and Maggie Gosling look at the Christmas shops
Monday December 17th Another fine day still keeps very mild. Maggie Gosling and I went and had a look at the Shops. We left the Office at 5 o’clock and were walking until nearly half-past eight. We caught the 8-35 train at Euston. We first took the tram to the Naggs Head and went along Seven Sisters Road. Went in Crisp’s Bazaar then back to Jones’s, took the tram to Highbury Station and walked along Upper Islington as far as the Angel then to...
Weather still dull and dreary
Monday 3rd December Still damp and foggy but not cold. I got home at 6.30. About 8 o’clock I went to a social of the Bushey Band of Hope Union. There were a good number present from the different Bands of Hope. It was held in our School room it was half past ten before I came away. Tuesday 4th December Weather about the same not much improvement. I did not get home till 7-30, had a cup of tea then went to C.E. meeting. When I got home I did...
Eddie Falcon and the Four Notes
Back in the early sixties I played in a South Oxhey group called Eddie Falcon and the Four Notes comprising me Mike Simpson on drums, Derek Cole on lead guitar, Ken Fordham on rhythm guitar, Rob Westwood on base and Eddie Ayres lead vocalist , with Kens brother John as manager/roady. Prior to this the group played under the name of Lee Davis and the Reverbs with Garry Davis as singer, before he moved to Ipswich and musical fame as a founder membe...
Old Carpenders buildings
... Very scarce picture of old farm buildings, top of Carpenders Ave in the grounds of the old Carpenders estate. Demolished 1960 to build the USAF quarters on the site. ...
Bushey Arches
... A sign similar to this picture was attached to the pillar of Bushey Arches to inform drivers of horse drawn carts to slacken the horse’s bearing rein, before pulling their heavy load up Chalk Hill. ...
The Churches Conservation Trust
... Oxhey Chapel is now owned by the Churches Conservation Trust. The Churches Conservation Trust is the national charity protecting historic churches at risk. They have saved over 340 beautiful buildings which attract more than 1.5 million visitors a year, keeping them open and in use – living once again at the heart of their communities For more information on their work and how they support the Chapel in Oxhey, please click on the link. ...
Early Carpenders Park Station
... Keith Holland Apparently the wooden platforms were re-used at Shefford in Bedfordshire...
Bushey Arches
Seeing this picture of Bushey Arches with the horse and carts, reminded me of a sign that I saw in 1940, fixed to the wall of the arch on the right of this picture, it read, ‘Slacken Bearing Reign Before going up the hill’, I was 8, and did not know what it meant. My Mum informed me that when horses ran they stretched their necks, a bearing reign, apparently, was a short strap attached from the halter to the breast strap, used to prevent the hors...
The Victoria c 1930
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Landlords of the Villiers Arms
... Do you have any tales to tell of landlords of the Villiers Arms? ...
Villiers Roads shops c 1921
Do you have memories of shopping in Villiers Road? Arthur Hall says “This shop looks familiar, is it on the corner of Upper Paddock Road, and Villiers Road? If so I can remember it becoming an ironmongers called Crawley’s, Mr Crawley ran the shop with his Wife. They also sold electrical goods, I can remember buying a radio from him in 1950. I was 18 and thought that it took a long time to warm up. The shop would have given ‘Health & Safety’ a h...
The Rifle Volunteer in Villiers Road
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The Villiers Arms
... Is the Villiers Arms your local? Do you have memories of this pub that you would like to share? Why not tell us your stories… ...
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Oxangeheage to modern Oxhey
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