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Used to wait for a trolley bus here which took the family to see Granny and Grandpa at Winchmore Hill. Always great excitement. Remember waiting here for my father to return from a builders' trip to ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield in 1950 by Stephanie Bilton

I used to go to Oxhey school which was opposite Bushey and Oxhey station.  It had outside toilets and a little bike shed with a bench where we used to play ball against the walls.  There was a church (which I think is still ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1952 by janetlay

This 1953 view of the pond is instantly recognisable as so little has changed in the 21st century! I lived just down the hill in Oxhey Village between 1981 and 2006 and would regularly walk up to Bushey by this ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 2006 by John Howard Norfolk

My earliest memory of Hatch End is when I started at Grimsdyke School at the age of four and a half in 1948. My brother Michael used to walk me to school from Hillview Road. I went to 2nd Hatch End Brownies which ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Diane Farroway

As a child (b1940) I lived at 3 Avenham Colonnade from 1946 until I married in 1964. The late Georgian terrace (built abt 1836) comprises 6 houses built on the slope alongside Avenham Walks ("The Top Walks") . ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1946 by Mike Lambert

We moved to Bushey in the early 1960s. My love of Top Rank came as I grew up with Waford being a big town. My dad worked on the new M1 Cox's corner, which now I understand is not there. Tthere were fields all around. We used to play ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1960 by Kay Harris

I live in Bushey now and go to Bushey Meads School, it's a great school and the food is great, so choose that school, it's great and they give us normal homework and the work is not too hard, it's actually easy....

A memory of Bushey

The Methodist infant school's headmaster was George Topliss, my teacher was Mrs Cresswell. The school is now a private house. There were only three classes, infants, juniors and seniors. If you did not pass the 11+ you stayed until ...Read more

A memory of Southwell in 1952 by Nesta Phillips

I lived in Holly Grove House for 16 years till 1960 when we sold the house to a developer. A E Mathews used to come to parties at our house, he built four tubs house oppersite where he lived ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1956 by Iain Mitchell

As an infant and small child I lived in Windmill Lane, Bushey in the 1950s. I recall every time my parents drove past the Masonic Senior Boys School looking at it and being totally fascinated by its incredible buildings and ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Alfieri Arezzo