Watford And Bushey

A Memory of Watford.

My name is Richard Chivers and I was born in 1961 at Sycamore Close off Park Avenue Bushey, my first school was Highwood junior my teacher was Mrs Brickhill, funny how you can remember someone's name over 50 years ago. My mates I used to play with where my neighbour Andy Mills, last known to be living in New Zealand, and Gordon Fallon. I bumped into him up in Norfolk not so long go. we would play in the golf course woods I think it was Bushey Hall Golf Club, I know it was opened by Queen Victoria and used to be a lot bigger than when I used to play in it. Opposite the Otter pub was the back entrance to what we called the American school, it was a school for the children of American Servicemen. I don't know where they would have been based but we would go there occasionally, that was a spooky place to play in. The other people I remember where Gary Flood, The Shinkwins and the Perkins brothers and Tony Robinson and a few more. Mentioned in one of the memories above is the Top Rank Nightclub. I used to go to it when it had changed to Bailey's Night Club. What a great place that was and saw some fantastic groups and people up their. My whole week was about Friday and Saturday nights up at Bailey's. I never was a dancer but loved and still love Disco. It was looking for memories of Bailey's that bought me to this site.