Places

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Maps

35 maps found.

1940, Bushey Ref. NPO657462
1897, Bushey Ref. RNE657462
1919, Bushey Ref. POP657462
1920, Bushey Ref. POP657463
1946, Bushey Ref. NPO657463
1896, Bushey Ref. RNE657463
1895, Bushey Ground Ref. RNE657465
1896, Bushey Heath Ref. RNE657466
1919, Bushey Ground Ref. POP657465
1946, Bushey Ground Ref. NPO657465
1899-1909, Bushey Ref. RNC657462
1897-1898, Bushey Ref. RNC657463
1920, Bushey Mead Ref. POP657468
1896, Bushey Mead Ref. RNE657468
1946, Bushey Heath Ref. NPO657466
1945, Bushey Mead Ref. NPO657468
1920, Bushey Heath Ref. POP657466
1911 - 1934, Bushey Ref. HOSM34262
1898-1899, Bushey Ground Ref. RNC657465
1897-1898, Bushey Heath Ref. RNC657466

Books

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Memories

70 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Growing Up In Motspur Park

I lived in Motspur Park from 1968 till 1989, everyone I knew friendly place, the local pub was clean and friendly, used to go courting there with my late husband. Been back a few times and have noticed a dramatic decline ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1984 by Catherine Goldby

Holly Grove House

I lived there at the top of little bushey lane from 1944 untill 1960 does any one have memories from there or that time in little bushey

A memory of Bushey Heath by Iain Mitchell

The Village Square

This view was seen by me every day that I went to school at Judd School in Tonbridge. I caught the bus here. There were two bus routes through the village - Number 9 which ran from Maidstone to Sevenoaks and operated by Maidstone ...Read more

A memory of Ightham in 1950 by George Morley

Village Life

I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the road) ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1940

Royal Masonic Schools Bushey (J Ston And Ston)

I am not sure if this kind of opportunity attracts those who feel anger at a perceived or real unfairness, during their childhood years, and/or those who have a tendency to dwell on the negative but I'd really ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Laurence Blight

Hop Picking

Paddock Wood, in particular Beltring, the home of the famous Whitebread Oasts, was the centre of the Hop Gardens of Kent. The Gardens were set out with rows of elevated wire tressles which were supported at intervals by poles. In the ...Read more

A memory of Paddock Wood in 1940 by Michael Willcocks

The Bushey Arches Traffic!

I first saw Oxhey in 1956 when I would take the train from Hatch End to Bushey & Oxhey station (as it was called then) on Saturday afternoons to see Watford play football at Vicarage Road in the old Third Division South. The ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1956 by John Howard Norfolk

Broadlads Estate

My grandfather farmed Bushey Leazes farm on the Broadlands estate until his retirement. I loved that farm, playing in hay lofts, milking the cows, they had guard geese that would come down the long lane from the farm and not let you ...Read more

A memory of Romsey in 1949 by Jackie Brown

Hotel Continental

Well, this is a trip down memory lane. My mum and dad took sister and I there in, I think, 1967 or 1968 (I was 13). I remember listening to The Beatles/The Herd/Floyd (Arnold Lane) in the Hole in the Wall Club and my sister aged ...Read more

A memory of Mundesley by Martin Glen Davison

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 ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by John Howard Norfolk

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Captions

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Caption For Bushey, Masonic Senior Boys School C1955

Founded in 1798, with the aim of providing an education to the children of members of the Masonic Order, the school moved to its new buildings at Bushey in 1902.

Caption For Sutton, The Green 1894

It is an attractive open area, and this view looks north past the pond across Bushey Road, with the row of elms on the right.

Caption For Bushey, The Pond And Coronation Arch 1953

This arch was floodlit at night, and stood from June until October, when the materials were then re-utilised in the building of a Scout hut in nearby Little Bushey Lane.

Caption For Paddock Wood, Measuring The Hops C1950

The bags are called 'pokes', and each holds 12 bushels.

Caption For Newton Abbot, Clock Tower 1898

Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England

Caption For Manchester Ship Canal, Runcorn Pierhead 1894

It included 450 head of cattle, 150 sheep, 67,000 bushels of maize, 39,929 bushels of wheat, and 37,117 bushels and 1500 bags of oats.

Caption For Newton Abbot, Clock Tower 1898

Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England

Caption For St Neots, Brook Street C1955

Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.

Caption For Goudhurst, Measuring The Hops 1904

They all seem relaxed enough to pose for the camera as they weigh in their bushels for the farmer.

Caption For Seabrook, 1903

On the left are two small shops owned by Mr Bushell and Mr Ruddock and, in the distance, the Seaview Hotel.

Caption For Paddock Wood, Hop Picking C1955

A whole row of hop vines have been pulled to the ground ready for the nimble fingers of these workers to detach the hops and bundle them into bushels ready for transportation to local breweries.

Caption For Paignton, Gerston Hotel 1907

The motor bus here belongs to the Great Western Railway, and is probably delivering passengers to their hotel.

Caption For Bradford On Avon, Market Street C1950

Nichols and Bushell, premier grocers (next door), is now the Dandy Lion.

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

As the town grew it spread rapidly across the parishes of Wolborough, Highweek and Newton Bushel, forming the conurbation we see today.

Caption For Newton Abbot, From Decoy 1906

As the town grew it spread rapidly across the parishes of Wolborough, Highweek and Newton Bushel, forming the conurbation we see today.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

The public house is the Plough Inn, offering clientele Bushell, Watkins and Smith's local?

Caption For Neston, Cross C1960

The fountain itself is a memorial to a local man, Christopher Bushell, and dates from 1882.

Caption For Tenby, The Harbour 1950

Among the boats moored are Mr Walter Bushell's Eureka and Monty owned by Mr Jimmy John.

Caption For Aberystwyth, The Castle Grounds 1921

Here, silver from nearby mines owned by the ardent Royalist Thomas Bushell was turned into much-needed coinage.