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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 ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Laurence Blight

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. ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1930 by Paul Wigmore

I was born in Watford but lived in Bushey from 1964 to 1984 (I now live in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland). I went to Bushey Meads school from 1966 to 1973, and have fond memories of a rural village on the edge of London. As a boy I ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1981 by Trevor Lawrence

I well remember my school days at Watford Chater Junior School from 1957 to 1964, getting sick from drinking to much school milk, as class milk monitor with my friend Victor Oliver. Getting a splinter in my bottom, ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1964 by Andrew Jennings

My birth certificate says I was born at Bushey Hospital in the April of 1943. I’m told that it was during an unusually hot spell. I lived at 84, Lynton Avenue in Colindale up to 1965 when I got married and moved away. ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Peter Woolford

I live in Bushey now and go to Bushey Meads School, it's a great school and the food is great, so choose that school, it's great and they give us normal homework and the work is not too hard, it's actually easy....

A memory of Bushey

The Methodist infant school's headmaster was George Topliss, my teacher was Mrs Cresswell. The school is now a private house. There were only three classes, infants, juniors and seniors. If you did not pass the 11+ you stayed until ...Read more

A memory of Southwell in 1952 by Nesta Phillips

I lived in Holly Grove House for 16 years till 1960 when we sold the house to a developer. A E Mathews used to come to parties at our house, he built four tubs house oppersite where he lived ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1956 by Iain Mitchell

As an infant and small child I lived in Windmill Lane, Bushey in the 1950s. I recall every time my parents drove past the Masonic Senior Boys School looking at it and being totally fascinated by its incredible buildings and ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Alfieri Arezzo

We moved to Bushey in the early 1960s. My love of Top Rank came as I grew up with Waford being a big town. My dad worked on the new M1 Cox's corner, which now I understand is not there. Tthere were fields all around. We used to play ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1960 by Kay Harris