EPW021878 ENGLAND (1928). Sherwoods Wood and Watford Heath, Oxhey, from the south, 1928

Sedgewicks Brewery

Benskins Brewery

Watford Fields

Rail loop to Watford High St station

River Colne

Water Lane

LONDON TRANSPORT BUS - ST 821 1930-1953 en-route to Watford Heath A 302 numbered service terminating at Watford Heath was running in the 1970s. perhaps later. In my memory, we'd catch a 302 to run us from Watford Heath to drop us somewhere in or around Watford Town Centre for the now long-gone swimming-baths near the Town Hall.

Bushey & Oxhey Station Postcard (Undated)

Oxhey Avenue No postal date Postcard

Gladstone Road

Bushey & Oxhey Station

Watford Heath Postcard (Undated)

Watford Heath 1932

Kingsfield House - Junction Kingsfield Rd / Eastbury Road Oxhey (Postcard Postally used 1910)

Villiers Road Oxhey - Rifle Volunteer : Junction Capel Rd and Villiers Rd

Capel Road Postcard Undated (There's at least one more postcard showing a similar vantage point)

This postcard Oxhey: Junction: Oxhey Ave / Pinner Road 1950s form the days before estate agents, and sheep started calling the place Oxhey 'Village'.

This fine image is an oblique aerial photograph of part of Oxhey in the late 1920s, during a period of rapid change. In the foreground, the new road of Woodwaye (1925) has been laid out. In the middle distance, trees and large, well-spaced detached houses line both sides of Green Lane, which eventually leads to Oxhey Place, less than a mile to the south of the camera position. More continuous housing development is observed on Oxhey Road, from which Kingsfield Road and Cedar Road extend in a north-easterly direction towards the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR) line. Just visible on the extreme right-hand edge is one of the two reservoirs which served the railway troughs at Bushey until the mid-1960s. On the left of picture, woods occupy Deacon’s Hill and the western part of Oxhey Park, beyond which is the 1912 viaduct over the river Colne and the LMSR Bushey Curve. Almost obscured by trees in the middle of the photo is the distinctive spire of St. Matthew’s Parish Church (1880), on the western side of Bushey Station. Beyond the railway viaduct are the familiar gasholders on Watford’s Lower High Street. In the background, on the right-hand side, is the tall clock tower of the Royal Masonic School, by which umpires officiating at Bushey Cricket Club (Moat Field) used to call time for more than half a century from 1927. The writer played seven seasons for the Club between 1958 and 1965. References used:- Fieldpath Map of the Watford District 1938; Six Inch Ordnance Survey Map, Herts, Sheet XLIV NW, 1912-13 (1938 additions); Maps of Watford 1766-1938, Mary Forsyth; The Book of Watford, Bob Nunn, 1987 and 2003. Courtesy John Swain (19/07/2012)

Bushey & Oxhey Station before Connoisseur Cars (National Petrol Filling Station) was on this junction opp. Station in the 1960s

Train Picking-Up Water through Bushey Troughs I recall working on the railway back in the late 1970s and we put cabling in these troughs for Signalling and Telecomms. It never occurred to me that these troughs really were their namesake, we used them as ducting.

1923 Map of Oxhey covering Carpenders Park , Bushey and Grims Dyke

Bushey and Oxhey Station 'Oxhey' as a place seems to have been dropped, except by those in the terraces in and around Villier's Road, where it's now Oxhey 'village' If ever Oxhey was a village, when you have to make the point it no longer is.

Bushey & Oxhey Station Platforms and Track

Oxhey Church St Matthew's - Eastbury Road: Not sure why almost every other Postcard of Oxhey consists of this viewpoint on Eastbury Rd. There's 4-5 versions of this view to my knowledge. So much so, that the other cards showing anything else are a real rarity.

Oxhey Park Postcard

Watford Heath Postcard c1900-1910 (Postally UnUsed)

Lower Paddock Road Postcard Postally Used 1912

Postcard Capel Road circa 1912

Watford Heath (I have put this postcard as here, yet I'm not convinced i have the veiwpoint correct)

LNWR Water reservoirs for Bushey steam loco Water collection Trough's .Long troughs of water lay bewteen rails to allow a water collection scoop to be lowered under a steam loco to refill its water tank so it did not require stopping at a station.

In the late 60s early 70s this house was derilict. Used to play in it as a kid

Load of Hay Pub

Bushey Manor School (Old Building ) Knocked down sometime in the 80s - Photo too blurry to be 100%

Oxhey Infants School

Junction Capel Rd and Villiers Rd

Lower Paddock Rd

Elm Avenue, altough it may not be built in this pic

Oxhey Park

Upper Paddock Rd

Bucks Avenue Oxhey

Sherwoods Rd

Pinner Rd

Watford

Oxhey

1912 viaduct over the river Colne carrying the LMSR Curve into Watford High Street Station

Bushey Station

Reservoirs serving the 1864 water troughs on the railway, which lasted for a century.

Overbridge linking Oxhey Road with Watford Heath

Overbridge leading to Oxhey Grange

London Midland & Scottish Railway