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Chandlers Cross maps
Historic maps of Chandlers Cross and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Chandlers Cross maps
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Langleybury| Croxley Green| Kings Langley| Rickmansworth| Abbots Langley| Watford| Chorleywood| Chenies| Garston| Oxhey| Batchworth Heath| Latimer| Little Chalfont| Bovingdon| Bushey| Northwood| Harefield| Chalfont St Giles| Chalfont Common| Hemel Hempstead| Northwood Hills| Park Street| Bushey Heath| Hatch End| Amersham| Radlett| Colney Street| Frogmore| Chalfont St Peter| Pinner
Chandlers Cross area books
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Langleybury School
Sadly, Langleybury School is no more. I had the good fortune to work for the school starting in 1989 and I continued until its closure many years later when it was merged with Francis Combe School in nearby Garston.
My role was to provide careers guidance to students from the age of 14 upwards and this included tracking many of the youngsters as they had their first taste of employment on work experience in "Year 10" for an entire week during each Summer Term. Most of my work in the rest of the school year was getting to know my students with individual interviews held in the school's "mansion" - an architectural gem dating from the late eighteenth century. Cold and draughty in winter, but inspiring surroundings! At the end of the school drive was a smallholding run by the school to provide students with the practical work needed for their environmental studies. Langleybury School was unique in both character and setting but sadly it... Read more
Life at Langleybury
We were privileged to have lived in Langleybury house from approx 1970. My two boys were born during our time there. We lived both on the top floor of the mansion and in the stable block after the birth of my second son. It's only recently that I have started to look into the history of the building and would love the opportunity to have a nostalgia trip to look around. It was a wonderful old house and during the school holidays, we would have the grounds practically to ourselves. Amazing for children. Seeing photographs of the inside of the place brought back my time there vividly. That grand old staircase. The only thing I don't remember is the cellar - maybe it wasn't accessible at that time. I also seem to have a vague memory of the mention of a message in a bottle. A lot of life has happened since those days but Langleybury remains a very happy memory. I have subsequently discovered, having started to research my family... Read more
DEADMAN ASH LANE
MY OLDEST FRIEND LIVED IN SARRATT WENT TP DURRANTS SCOOL WE HAVE BEEN FREINDS FOR 50 YRS SHE LIVED ON THE LANE NAMED ABOVE WE BOTH NOW LIVE IN THE STATES HER NAME IS PAT BAKER MINE LIZ BLADES
The Watford to Rickmansworth Railway in The Second World War
Croxley Green station is now - in the 21st century - merely a shadow of its former busy life. My Auntie Dorrie (Doris Lacey) worked at this station throughout the Second World War and beyond and told me many stories of working life on the Watford to Rickmansworth line. Auntie recalls being at home in Hatch End in 1940 – she would clean the house on Thursdays. One Thursday she thought she would seek work and went up to the railway station to ask for vacancies – she chose Hatch End as this was a proper mainline railway station – not the underground!
She was posted to Croxley Green which was easy and friendly (in the booking office). She also did relief work at Watford High Street which led to an offer of permanent work there. She said no. Later she went to work at Euston but she hated her first job there – two women and twelve men. She made the tea. She was promoted and refused to... Read more
The Croxley Elm Trees
The 1947 council house development that was built on the north side of Baldwins Lane, west of Manor Way became my home area after moving from Rochester Way in 1948.
I loved the beautiful tall Elm trees that lined Baldwins lane and dotted the edge of the Green.
I think the tree in the photo was at the junction with New Road and the Green almost opposite the Artichoke pub. The tree stood well into the 1950s
Whitethorn Morris Dance at The Coach And Horses on Croxley Green
For many years in the 1980s and 1990s morris dancers performed outside the two lovely pubs on Croxley Green - the Coach and Horses and the Artichoke.
Whitethorn Morris frequently chose these pubs as their venues for Boxing Day entertainment. The Whitethorn Band provided lively music and I would lead this on my accordian. The dancers put on an exciting visual display in their red white and blue kit and shiny clogs with bells, the surrounding crowd of onlookers would cheer and clap while stamping their feet in the frosty air and we musicians would blow on our fingers to try and keep them warm! Sometimes other Boxing Day revels took place and we would see a procession of vintage cars and bikes including a "penny farthing bike". It was great fun. I sometimes wonder what my old school music teacher Mr Stoupe at Pinner Grammar School would have made of it as he didn't consider me good enough to study "GCE O Level Music" in school back in... Read more
I Was Born & Lived at Croxley Green Station
I am Roger Gozney and I was born in and lived at Croxley Green Station with my parents Ella and Ralph, and sister Janet. I joined the RAF straight from school, then after 16 years I left and joined the Post Office in Rickmansworth when I was living at 210 New Road, then became a bus driver for London Transport in Uxbridge and moved to Maple Cross. After that I retired early and became a warden with "The Caravan & Camping Club", retiring at 65 and moved to Gosport, Hampshire where I live with my wife. I always played sport - football for Coastal Command then later for Watford supporter on Sundays, and cricket for Durrants School and Rickmansworth British Legion. Now I am a volunteer on Hospital Radio, Driver/Guard on Eastleigh (minature) Lakeside Railway and am a steward at the local theatre.
