EPW049825 ENGLAND (1936). Gas Works adjacent to the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMSR) Bushey Curve and environs, Watford, 1936

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

Geo Ausden Ltd Iron Yard. Known as the "pit" as was once a gravel pit. Sold in 1988. Now B and Q car park

Frogmore House

Oxhey Park Keeper's House

Oxhey Park Postcard postally used 1948

Oxhey Park and Photo

Huge stock pile of coking coal

Coal store with lorries and carts in attendance.

Interwar semi-detached housing on Blackwell Drive and Colne Avenue.

The old Wheatsheaf pub had stood for over 200 years when it was demolished to make the Lower High Street wider, from 32 feet to 60 feet. The 1931 building seen here was a familiar landmark in the locality until it, too, was removed in 1995.

Expanding suburban village of Oxhey, between the railway and Brookdene Avenue to the west.

Eastbury Road, which was widened in the late Twenties and early Thirties, in an effort to accommodate more vehicular traffic from new housing estates at Thorpe Crescent and Oxhey Hall, in addition to increased usage between Watford and Northwood (Middlesex).

Bushey Arches, an example of a complicated railway underbridge which conveys the main line over a junction of four roads, Watford's Lower High Street, Oxhey's Eastbury Road, Chalk Hill and Pinner Road in Bushey.

Three water troughs were laid in 1864 on the level tracks in the cutting south of Bushey station. Each trough was served by the two reservoirs seen in the left background and this system was used for just over 100 years. The water troughs were removed on June 29th, 1965, and the reservoir site was sold to an education authority.

St.Matthew's Parish Church, built in 1880.

Deacon's Hill

Public park, named Oxhey Park in 1924.

The Dell

River Colne

London Transport Bus Garage, opened in 1925 as the National Omnibus Garage. The Lower High Street was widened on more than one occasion since 1929, which resulted in the re-location of The Wheatsheaf Public House in 1931. The bus depot was closed in 1959, not long after the bus strike of June/July 1958 and the opening of a more modern depot in Garston, North Watford.

Watford Engineering Works on site of former Victorian Foundry.

Viaduct carrying the Bushey Curve round to Watford High Street Station was finished in 1913. The Bakerloo Line served Watford Junction, via Watford High Street, between 1917 and 1982.

Bushey & Oxhey station, opened originally as Bushey in 1841 and extended northwards in 1870s. The goods yard was on Pinner Road, to the east of the running lines, and would remain open until 1969.

Horse and cart was still a popular method of delivering coal from the coal wharf at Bushey & Oxhey Station to Watford Gasworks, a distance of less than half a mile.

Watford Gasworks, opened in 1834 and extended over the next 100 years.

LMSR, built in 1837 as the London-Birmingham Railway.

Colne Valley Company Waterworks.