EPW021875 ENGLAND (1928). Oxhey and surroundings, Oxhey, 1928

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Title [EPW021875] Oxhey and surroundings, Oxhey, 1928
Reference EPW021875
Date July-1928
Link
Place name OXHEY
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 511956, 195025
Longitude / Latitude -0.38184544520502, 51.642400408715
National Grid Reference TQ120950

Pins

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.

ordinarybloke
Monday 27th of February 2023 02:22:23 PM
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.

ordinarybloke
Monday 27th of February 2023 02:14:54 PM
Elm-Ave Watford Heath Oxhey Aerial 1949

ordinarybloke
Wednesday 22nd of February 2023 11:31:48 AM
Watford Heath Undated Postcard

ordinarybloke
Thursday 5th of November 2020 11:37:06 PM
Rose Tea Gardens

ordinarybloke
Wednesday 6th of February 2019 11:53:35 PM
Rose Tea Gardens

ordinarybloke
Wednesday 6th of February 2019 11:52:58 PM
Rose Tea Cottage Watford Heath

ordinarybloke
Wednesday 6th of February 2019 10:16:59 PM
Pinner Road 1929 Postcard

ordinarybloke
Tuesday 18th of September 2018 03:27:06 PM
Bushey & Oxhey Station before Connoisseur Cars (National Petrol Filling Station) was on this junction opp. Station in the 1960s

ordinarybloke
Sunday 15th of April 2018 04:57:17 PM
Watford Heath Postcard Undated - Postally unused

ordinarybloke
Thursday 1st of March 2018 02:03:05 PM
Watford Heath circa 1900-10

ordinarybloke
Thursday 29th of September 2016 10:35:46 PM
Bushey & Oxhey Station Postcard Postally unused. Austin A35 van Dates this post 1956

ordinarybloke
Wednesday 6th of January 2016 10:01:21 AM
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.

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 08:33:07 AM
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.

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 08:30:07 AM
Haydn Arms Public House

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 08:24:36 AM
Load of Hay Public House

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 08:10:45 AM
Oxhey Infants School

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 07:58:05 AM
Last pin I did is in error. This is either 11 or 13 Elm Avenue

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 07:53:54 AM

ordinarybloke
Saturday 6th of April 2013 06:45:22 PM
Vicarage rd cemetery

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:25:26 PM
gazelda leather works - lower high st.

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:21:34 PM
electricity power station - Cardiff rd works

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:20:35 PM
watford work house - Shrodells hospital

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:18:31 PM
watford football ground

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:17:05 PM
st james church.

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:15:48 PM
engine cottage, sewerage pumping engine.

Joan
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 03:12:58 PM
Watford High Street.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:29:25 PM
Watford High Street Station.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:26:42 PM
Bushey Curve (LMSR).

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:24:47 PM

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:22:41 PM
Oxhey Park (1924).

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:21:53 PM
Bushey Arches.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:20:53 PM
LMSR main line curving around the east of watford to Watford Junction Station.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:20:02 PM
St. Matthew's Parish Church (1880).

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:17:47 PM
Junction of Villiers Road and Capel Road. Both streets were built in mid-Victorian times.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:16:45 PM
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".

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:12:56 PM
Deep cutting through gravel and chalk for the original London-Birmingham Railway in 1836/37.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:05:58 PM
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.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:04:22 PM

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:01:42 PM
Junction of Elm Avenue and Sherwoods Road

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:00:41 PM
Suburban Bucks Avenue

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 01:58:23 PM

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 01:57:02 PM
Watford Urban District Reservoir, built in the early 1880s to hold a million gallons for the rapidly expanding population of Watford to the north.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 01:56:16 PM
The newly laid roads of Talbot and Wilcot Avenues

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 01:52:23 PM

User Comment Contributions

Hi everyone,



Isn't there a story about bathing in a pool (or maybe the river?) near/under the arches of the Bushey curve? Before my time, but remembered I think by an elderly neighbour of my parents.



Yours, Katy

Katy Whitaker
Thursday 3rd of December 2015 03:06:46 PM
Can't see water being under the arches in a pool. Has to be the river. They were hardier types then....

ordinarybloke
Thursday 3rd of December 2015 03:06:46 PM
Oxhey Infants School top right

ordinarybloke
Saturday 20th of April 2013 07:59:30 AM
Watford FC

cell
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 04:32:59 PM
A rare glimpse of the impact the railway had on the expanding suburbs of Oxhey to the west (left) and New Bushey to the east (right) of the London Midland & Scottish main line between London, Birmingham & Glasgow, to the south of Watford, a relatively prosperous market town and industrial centre in South West Herts.

John Swain
Saturday 28th of July 2012 02:35:49 PM