epw021875 ENGLAND (1928). Oxhey and surroundings, Oxhey, 1928

Crawley's Hardware: about 1980 - last gasps of. My mother went in there and in hushed tones, asked for a mouse-trap. On hearing her whispers, 'ol' Crawley' repeated with a shout right to the end of the crowded shop with a big grin, "You want a mouse-trap Madam?" ..... You don't get that in B&Q. And they won't call you Madam. Just before the area started to be called a 'village' and the 'villagers' spattered the lot with Disneyland white plastic doors/window and shonk-various. And then... get this, then... with it looking like a well known West-Watford street, called for a 'Conservation Area'. Now I dare you, say this isn't true? Or shoot the messenger.

Villiers Arms about 1980 - just before the area started to be called a 'village' and the 'villagers' spattered the lot with Disneyland white plastic doors/window and shonk-various. And then... get this, then... with it looking like a well known West-Watford street, called for a 'Conservation Area'. Now I dare you, say this isn't true? Or shoot the messenger.

Elm-Ave Watford Heath Oxhey Aerial 1949

Watford Heath Undated Postcard

Rose Tea Gardens

Rose Tea Gardens

Rose Tea Cottage Watford Heath

Pinner Road 1929 Postcard

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

Watford Heath Postcard Undated - Postally unused

Watford Heath circa 1900-10

Bushey & Oxhey Station Postcard Postally unused. Austin A35 van Dates this post 1956

In the late 60s early 70s, Opposite Challoner's (see my other pin) was a Grocer. Can't remeber the name, but I went to Bushey Manor School with Martin Rand, his parents ran it.

In the 60s & 70s and I think into the 80s this was Challoner's A NewsConTob on the Corner. Used to sell the best selection of kiddy sweets ever. Mrs Challoner was ever patient with us kids. Sherbet Dabs, Bazooka Joes & penny chews etc Happy days.

Haydn Arms Public House

Load of Hay Public House

Oxhey Infants School

Last pin I did is in error. This is either 11 or 13 Elm Avenue

Field Road

Vicarage rd cemetery

gazelda leather works - lower high st.

electricity power station - Cardiff rd works

watford work house - Shrodells hospital

watford football ground

st james church.

engine cottage, sewerage pumping engine.

Watford High Street.

Watford High Street Station.

Bushey Curve (LMSR).

Wiggen Hall.

Oxhey Park (1924).

Bushey Arches.

LMSR main line curving around the east of watford to Watford Junction Station.

St. Matthew's Parish Church (1880).

Junction of Villiers Road and Capel Road. Both streets were built in mid-Victorian times.

Bushey & Oxhey Station (1912) was the fifth station to be built for the expanding suburbs of both settlements. Previous stations were known from 1841 as simply Bushey and the name reverted back in 1974 to "Bushey".

Deep cutting through gravel and chalk for the original London-Birmingham Railway in 1836/37.

Reservoirs serving the Bushey Troughs (1864) until the demise of steam traction in the mid-1960s. This site was eventually developed in the 1970s for Bromet Junior School.

Oxhey Road

Junction of Elm Avenue and Sherwoods Road

Suburban Bucks Avenue

Allotments

Watford Urban District Reservoir, built in the early 1880s to hold a million gallons for the rapidly expanding population of Watford to the north.

The newly laid roads of Talbot and Wilcot Avenues