eaw022130 ENGLAND (1949). The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Hayling Road, South Oxhey, 1949

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Title [EAW022130] The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Hayling Road, South Oxhey, 1949
Reference EAW022130
Date 14-April-1949
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Place name SOUTH OXHEY
Parish WATFORD RURAL
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 510950, 193480
Longitude / Latitude -0.39686931404524, 51.6287121659
National Grid Reference TQ110935

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Third Hole Oxhey Golf Club. Railway line signal in middle of Picture - May have already been built on here, so not sure I have viewpoint correct.

ordinarybloke
Tuesday 15th of August 2017 12:14:05 PM
Could this be the Grimston oak

Neil Hamilton
Monday 23rd of December 2013 01:56:25 PM
Railway overbridge on Little Oxhey Lane.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 04:07:09 PM
Site of future Police station in Oxhey drive

Neil Hamilton
Thursday 19th of December 2013 04:00:13 PM
Pond Wood, close to the site of Oxhey Wood Junior & Infants School, which was opened in two stages, May 1950 and June of the following year.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:58:19 PM
Carpenders Avenue first road on the St Meryl estate

Neil Hamilton
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:58:07 PM
'Highfield' formerly Carpenders mansion. At this time in use by the military as a WRAC camp -formerly part of anti aircrft command HQ

Neil Hamilton
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:56:45 PM
Main line railway (London Midland & Scottish, pre-1948), BR London Midland Region, between Euston and Watford Junction.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:54:11 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:49:11 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:47:30 PM
Carpenders Park Station was originally a wooden halt built in 1914 for the golfers travelling from north London to play at Oxhey. A new station was formally opened on September 27th 1954, to the south of the inadequate facility shown on this photo.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:46:11 PM
Interwar suburban development on the St.Meryl Estate, Carpenders Park.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:37:22 PM
No. 50 Hayling Road, Block 323, the first unit to be officially occupied on November 26th 1947, when Lady Nathan declared the opening of the Oxhey Estate.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:34:54 PM
Oxhey Place Farm

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:30:19 PM
Warren Dell, the estate's first school to be opened, on May 16th, 1949, even though the Infants' School was not completed until later in the year.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:25:24 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:20:12 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:17:01 PM
Prestwick Road was built three years before this image was taken, linking Brookdene Avenue to Little Oxhey Lane. The hard core for the road came from the numerous bomb sites in London and a huge pile of rubble was established between Prestwick Road and the main line railway.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:13:51 PM
Track leading across golf course from Green Lane to Oxhey Place.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:08:42 PM
Oxhey Warren House 1896

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:07:24 PM
Former apple orchard

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:06:18 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:05:09 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:03:58 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:02:12 PM
Completed housing units in Sidmouth Close.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:01:12 PM
Newly laid roads to the north of Gosforth Lane, including Culverden Road and Holmside Rise.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 03:00:09 PM
Northern extension of Oxhey Woods adjacent to Little Furze Field.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:57:42 PM
Site of Little Furze Primary School, which opened as late as September 1952 and which eventually was closed in 2004. The writer attended this school for four terms in 1953/54.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:55:51 PM
Embleton Road leading south to Gosforth Lane.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:53:05 PM
Newly laid out Hayling Road at the junction with Ashburnham Drive. Houses at the west end of Hayling Road, behind the camera position, would not be completed until late 1950.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:51:23 PM
Ox Pasture Spring along the north side of the golf course, adjoining the Interwar Oxhey Hall Estate.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:48:32 PM
Oxhey Golf Course, founded in 1912. Oxhey Golf Club was wound up in October 1946 and a municipal course was established in the following April. This, in turn, was closed, in March 1952, when the area became South Oxhey Playing Fields.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:47:01 PM

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:38:15 PM

User Comment Contributions

By the time this London County Council housing estate had been largely completed at the beginning of Coronation Year in 1953, 17,000 folk had been re-housed, mostly from the bombed-out slums in north and east London, on Green Belt land between the GLC boundary and Watford, in South-West Herts.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 04:16:38 PM
This estate became one of the most significant post-WWII developments in the London Region, with the majority of the 17,000 inhabitants moving out from the over-crowded, war-damaged Metropolis into this greenfield site.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 04:10:54 PM
After years of planning and debate, building of this vast new London County Council estate commenced in October 1946. The first tenants, Mr & Mrs Caldwell, moved into their new, brick-built house on Wednesday, November 26th, 1947, at 50, Hayling Road. These images were taken approximately half way through the construction of Oxhey Estate and 1,468 of the planned 4,200 dwellings had been finished by September 1949. However, the provision of social amenities was totally inadequate: there were no schools, shops, pavements, street lights, telephones, churches or clubs until the early 1950s. When the main phase of building was finished in 1953, the population had reached a peak of 17,000, compared with only 7,000 when this photograph was taken.

John Swain
Thursday 19th of December 2013 02:37:16 PM