Nostalgic memories of Rickmansworth's local history
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I used to visit the Swiss Coffee House after rowing on the aquadrome or reading in the library. Always looked forward to it. Good coffee, nice food. Really good days, somehow I knew they were good days at the time, and I would look back on them with great fondness.
I used to enjoy a visit to Strawberry Fields. I remember you could buy a little pack of five CD singles for a £1.00. They were in a sealed bag so you got a surprise. The last CD I bought was by Mike and the Mechanics. I always enjoyed my visit.
I used to work at Heathrow and after early shift I sometimes made my way in my mini van to the aquadrome. I would hire a metal rowing boat and row and just drift. How wonderful was that. This was around 1970. Afterwards I would walk around the lake and perhaps go to the Swiss Coffee House.
Do you remember "Uncle Harry" he used to conduct the sing songs every saturday, during the week he was the local bill board sticker man. I can remember the song that we used to sing just before the films were to start. ............It went something like this...... "from far and wide we gather here for the picture show ,what delight all merry and bright but we want to know....Is every body ...see more
Oh I remember it so well, as if it where yesterday. nobody knew what film we were going to see, until the saturday morning, the noise still rings in my ears as everybody cheered when the name Hopalong Cassidy was disclosed.After the cheering all went quiet until the chase when boos could be heard when the robbers appeared then mad cheers as hopalong cassidy appeared. Yes those were the days. Tony Barton
I grew up at 43 Grove Road, Mill End,1931-1955. My much beloved father, H.P.Farr was the Watch Maker for about 40 years at 165A High Street. Dad occupied the little shop from about 1929 to circa 1969. I think the photo is wonderful.
Growing up in the Queens drive, Bury lane estate. we would all gather as children and walk down chorleywood lane and toward the common, ending up at the Chorleywood road then crossing over into Solesbridge lane. The long walk would eventually bring us to a walk through the woods to the river chess, I remember having to cross a little bridge. We would play all day in the river and I remember a ...see more
Around the time I was in Mill End Junior school up to the age of 11 (1948-1951?), the school was affiliated for some reason to the church, which sat by the sports field up the hill. As a small boy in shorts I was puzzled by the whole thing. Thursdays we were marched to the church (it felt like) and sat through a lot of sermons/hymns and what seemed a strangely dressed man in a dress who spoke with a high ...see more
Having just looked at the street view on Google Maps, I wonder if the shop was at number 52 and not 55. Number 52 seems to have some newer brickwork on the front where the shop door and window used to be. The shop was definitely on the right-hand side of Norfolk Road as you approached the canal wall and Nobby, my temporary playmate, lived on the other side of the road.
Can anyone confirm ?
My ancestors, Goodman, came from Batchworth and my grandfather was born at Bury Farm Cottage. According to the old maps the plot now is sadly at the bottom of one of the lakes. I know that in the 1870s the Bury and grounds were purchased by Lord Ebury. Not sure though if Batchworth and Batchworth Heath are one and the same.