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Bushey, High Street c.1955
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On the left stands Barclays Bank. This was built around 1905 on the site of the London and South West Bank, which in turn had replaced a Tudor farm house. The High Street was the main road from London to Birmingham, and a toll gate was erected in 1769. This continued to operate until 1872. On the right, close to the tail of the sleek American Plymouth car, is a small green on which stood the village pump. As it was close to the graveyard, the local people used to comment that they were 'drinking their ancestors in solution'.

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Memories of Bushey, High Street c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Bushey, High Street c.1955

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Bushey 1935 1955
We found a telephone when I was ten. The family moved to steep Ashfield Avenue in 1935 and there, in the hall by the front door and sitting on top of a little triangular table that fitted snugly into the corner, was a telephone. The only telephones we had ever used were either the bright red public ones on the street or in one or two friends' homes. We called the house 'West View'; the Google Street picture today ...see more
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