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Warren Dell School 1951 approx
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Aunts Visit
Monday November 19th There is no entry for this day. Tuesday November 20th Aunt Pollie and Aunt Harriet came to spend a few days at Bushey. They are staying at Tilly’s as Mother is away. I went and had tea there today. Wednesday November 21st Tilly took Auntie’s up to Lil’s to tea and then she went to Harwoods Road and fetched Mother to have a cup of tea with them. Thursday November 22nd Today Tilly brought Aunts up to Flo’s to tea. Lily came wit...
Gladstone Road
Monday November 12th Have not been able to keep this diary as I have been staying at Flo’s in Gladstone Road, Watford while Mother’s out nursing. I have not felt well this last day or two and today feel very queer. Am staying on till 9.30 tho not fit for it. Charlie is at home this week has given up his place as he thinks it is too hard and he is not well enough. I don’t know what he thinks they are going to live on. The weather had been very bad...
Blank Pages
... October 30th to November 11th are blank. ...
Etching of site of Oxhey Wood School
... Heres a copy of the etching of the Oxhey Estate pond by F. Goodall RA. In the background can be seen Oxhey Place and Oxhey Chapel. ...
Pond Wood
Pond Wood is the small wood at the junction of Northwick Road and Seacroft Gardens in South Oxhey. The small woodland contains a variety of species of trees but is most notable for the number of ancient pollarded Hornbeams. Pollarding is the woodland management method of encouraging branches by cutting off a tree stem 6 ft (2m) above the ground. If pollarding is done to the same tree over a number of years an expanded tree trunk will result...
The lighting at the halt
Keep visiting Our Oxhey to find out how we will be celebrating the anniversary of the station in 2014. Paraffin Junction The lighting of the original halt earned it facetious nicknames. When equipped with the original oil lamps it became know locally as Paraffin Junction, and when these were later replaced by electric dish lamps on curved metal supports it came to be known as the Dog Track. In those days the current for lighting came from the rai...
St Martins Church - Muirfield Road
... The Photographs show both the old St Martins Church building in Muirfield Road and the new. (See -Places – Churches – St Martins Church) ...
Old and New 'Clitheroe Club' Building
... The last building remaining of the original ‘Clitheroe Club’ in Clitheroe Gardens was demolished today. The very smart new building is located just a few yards away from the original building. ...
It cost how much?
... In 1948 a workman’s early morning ticket to Euston cost 1s 9d [8p] if used before 07.30. There were always long queues on Sunday evenings for the five day tickets. A ticket to Watford cost 6d [2p] return. Anyone visiting the station at 6pm on a weekday would see a formidable number of people returning home from work. ...
Nowhere near London
Do you want to take part in exciting new play set in South Oxhey in the late 1940s? Fusing realism and surrealism, “Nowhere Near London” explores both the earliest days of the South Oxhey estate and the tragic last days of the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin. It will be staged as a script-in-hand production at the Watford Palace Theatre Drama Studio at 7.30 on Monday July 7 and will be followed by a Q and A session. If you would like to take...
Warren Dell
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The 20s Revisited - Don and Letty Bennell's Memories of a childhood in the 1920s evoked many memories for another Oxhey Village resident.
Oh what memories Don and Letty Bennell’s letter brought back! I was Villiers Road born, next door to the Villiers Arms, my parents were also born in the road. I too, was a playmate of theirs and can recall all they said about Dr Doyle, who lived at 175 Pinner Road. The girl who lived next door to us worked for him and told us he had spent most of his life in India. He was a most dignified gentleman, he wore a grey Melton cloth overcoat, grey su...
Palmers Stores - bacon, the speciality of the shop
When first married in 1922, my parents had a village store… In 1938 Palmer’s was established. The staff in those days lived in – behind the shop. The barn behind the premises had a baker’s oven, but I am not sure when this was in use. During the war the barn was used for stores and as a garage – for a pony and trap. This was acquired to deliver orders as the van and car became redundant with petrol rationing… Ration books came into being and I ...
A history of Carpenders Park Station 1914-2014
... If you would like to purchase a copy of this book please call 020 8668 2991 ...
Oxhey Village Bakery
... No 25 Villier’s Road has been the home of Oxhey’s very own bakery for around 140 years. When many family bakers have been forced out by competition from the national chain bakeries Oxhey is a lucky village still to have one. A Short history was written in 1993, please click on the link to read more. ...
A Walk Around Oxhey Village: circa 1935
This is the text of an acount of a walk around Oxhey Village in about 1935, as narrated by Ron Fordham who was born in 1903. He tells how he arrived at his home, 47 Pinner Road on 5 June 1935, and describes the environs of Oxhey Village at this time. Mr Pitkin, the dairy man also lived in the road, and at that time the milk was still delivered with a horse drawn milk float, and decanted from the churn into his customers’ jugs. It is interesting t...
'The Barn' Carpenders Park c 1944
These Photos were intended to accompany my comments with the ‘New Methodist Church – Prestwick Road’ However, I was unable to attach them.The picture of a group of soldiers, was taken in front of the entrance to ‘The Barn’ which was our local community centre. This picture is the only picture that I have been able to find of ‘The Barn’. For the record, as you entered through the old door you stepped into a hallway with a brick screen in front of ...
Exhibition for the station centenary
... Our Oxhey were very pleased to host an event to celebrate the Blue Plaque and the launch of an exhibition on the history of Carpenders Park Station. Over 60 people visited Oxhey Library on 1st April to look at the displays on the history of Oxhey, Carpenders Park and the station. The exhibition will be available until the end of April 2014, and later in the year at Three Rivers Museum. ...
Blue plaque for Carpenders Park Station
Over 50 people came to see the unveiling of the blue plaque to celebrate the centenary of Carpenders Park Station. The plaque was unveiled by Sam Russell, a representative of London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (LOROL). Local historian David Reidy, who has written a book called “The history of Carpenders Park Station 1914-2014” and was instrumental in organising the day, worked with LOROL and Watford Rural Parish Council who funded the plaque. ...
Birthday party for the station
... Keith Michael Brooks My name is Keith Brooks and My family moved to the estate from Shepherd’s Bush when I was 6 in 1952. I was also a Booking clerk at Carpenders park station in 1968 when the Chief clerk was Mr Hawkins...
Congestion in 1951
By 1951 the station still consisted of two old railway sleeper platforms with a small wooden booking office and waiting room. The gas-lit structure had become inadequate and obsolete. By 1951 the station was catering for some 20,000 passengers, with rush hour queues at the ticket office and congestion on the footbridge and platforms an everyday occurrence. Temporary relief by platform widening was out of the question because of the close proximit...
Footbridge or tunnel?
The station began to become inadequate when the St Meryl Estate, on the eastern side of the railway, began to be developed in 1935. The Times reported on 3rd September 1935 that the LMS Railway had signed a contract with a Staffordshire company to extend the footbridge at the station over the four main line tracks. This would obviate the need for St Meryl residents to gain access to the station via the cow arch, a tunnel under the railway due nor...
Old Carpenders Buildings by Neil Hamilton
... This picture is to enable those interested, to see the location of the Farm, shown in Neil’s rare picture, before the bungalows were built. ...
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Llinos Thomas
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The South Oxhey Library Book
Dear Mittal, you will need to contact Oxhey Library directly for any book requests
Nigel Lee
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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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