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Growing Up In Motspur Park
I lived in Motspur Park from 1968 till 1989, everyone I knew friendly place, the local pub was clean and friendly, used to go courting there with my late husband. Been back a few times and have noticed a dramatic decline ...Read more
A memory of Motspur Park in 1984 by
Holly Grove House
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
A memory of Bushey Heath by
The Village Square
This view was seen by me every day that I went to school at Judd School in Tonbridge. I caught the bus here. There were two bus routes through the village - Number 9 which ran from Maidstone to Sevenoaks and operated by Maidstone ...Read more
A memory of Ightham in 1950 by
Village Life
I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the road) ...Read more
A memory of Corringham in 1940
Royal Masonic Schools Bushey (J Ston And Ston)
I am not sure if this kind of opportunity attracts those who feel anger at a perceived or real unfairness, during their childhood years, and/or those who have a tendency to dwell on the negative but I'd really ...Read more
A memory of Bushey by
Hop Picking
Paddock Wood, in particular Beltring, the home of the famous Whitebread Oasts, was the centre of the Hop Gardens of Kent. The Gardens were set out with rows of elevated wire tressles which were supported at intervals by poles. In the ...Read more
A memory of Paddock Wood in 1940 by
The Bushey Arches Traffic!
I first saw Oxhey in 1956 when I would take the train from Hatch End to Bushey & Oxhey station (as it was called then) on Saturday afternoons to see Watford play football at Vicarage Road in the old Third Division South. The ...Read more
A memory of Oxhey in 1956 by
Broadlads Estate
My grandfather farmed Bushey Leazes farm on the Broadlands estate until his retirement. I loved that farm, playing in hay lofts, milking the cows, they had guard geese that would come down the long lane from the farm and not let you ...Read more
A memory of Romsey in 1949 by
Hotel Continental
Well, this is a trip down memory lane. My mum and dad took sister and I there in, I think, 1967 or 1968 (I was 13). I remember listening to The Beatles/The Herd/Floyd (Arnold Lane) in the Hole in the Wall Club and my sister aged ...Read more
A memory of Mundesley by
The Watford To Rickmansworth Railway In The Second World War
Croxley Green station is now - in the 21st century - merely a shadow of its former busy life. My Auntie Dorrie (Doris Lacey) worked at this station throughout the Second World War and ...Read more
A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by
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Founded in 1798, with the aim of providing an education to the children of members of the Masonic Order, the school moved to its new buildings at Bushey in 1902.
It is an attractive open area, and this view looks north past the pond across Bushey Road, with the row of elms on the right.
This arch was floodlit at night, and stood from June until October, when the materials were then re-utilised in the building of a Scout hut in nearby Little Bushey Lane.
The bags are called 'pokes', and each holds 12 bushels.
Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England
It included 450 head of cattle, 150 sheep, 67,000 bushels of maize, 39,929 bushels of wheat, and 37,117 bushels and 1500 bags of oats.
Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England
Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.
They all seem relaxed enough to pose for the camera as they weigh in their bushels for the farmer.
On the left are two small shops owned by Mr Bushell and Mr Ruddock and, in the distance, the Seaview Hotel.
A whole row of hop vines have been pulled to the ground ready for the nimble fingers of these workers to detach the hops and bundle them into bushels ready for transportation to local breweries.
The motor bus here belongs to the Great Western Railway, and is probably delivering passengers to their hotel.
Nichols and Bushell, premier grocers (next door), is now the Dandy Lion.
As the town grew it spread rapidly across the parishes of Wolborough, Highweek and Newton Bushel, forming the conurbation we see today.
As the town grew it spread rapidly across the parishes of Wolborough, Highweek and Newton Bushel, forming the conurbation we see today.
The public house is the Plough Inn, offering clientele Bushell, Watkins and Smith's local?
The fountain itself is a memorial to a local man, Christopher Bushell, and dates from 1882.
Among the boats moored are Mr Walter Bushell's Eureka and Monty owned by Mr Jimmy John.
Here, silver from nearby mines owned by the ardent Royalist Thomas Bushell was turned into much-needed coinage.
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