Bushey Heath, Heath House, Old Peoples Home, Elstree Road c.1960
Photo ref: B415037
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A Selection of Memories from Bushey Heath

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Bushey Heath

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I was at Rosary Priory in the late 50 from age 5 until I was 9, I think. We lived in Elstree and were picked up in a double-decker each day. I remember Sr Dympna in the ‘kindergarten’ class and the boxes of grey plasticine that used to come out every afternoon it seemed. I had recorder lessons (6 shillings and 8 pence a term) with Sr Irene who had such thin fingers that her ring used to roll off ...see more
I lived there at the top of little bushey lane from 1944 untill 1960 does any one have memories from there or that time in little bushey
My 2 sisters and I, Carol, Susan and Diane Sullivan (me), went to Rosary Priory In 1968 and 1/2 of 1969. Carol was in the class that went on a trip to Portugal; Susan had a fiend named Geraldine; my friend was Gabrielle Mason Pearson. I remember Roger Moore driving up with his daughter, the many parts of the school uniform, the grotto, the room where the nuns served lunch, the nuns, the school grounds, the old ...see more
My name is Hilary Peck (Morris) I attended Rosary Priory from 1970 to 1976, my dear Mum who is 86 & still in good health was a teacher (needlework). Would love to hear from any fellow pupils, school days then were very different to today !!!