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As a child (b1940) I lived at 3 Avenham Colonnade from 1946 until I married in 1964. The late Georgian terrace (built abt 1836) comprises 6 houses built on the slope alongside Avenham Walks ("The Top Walks") . The ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1946 by Mike Lambert

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

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

My family moved to Watford in 1964 when I was 6-years-old. We moved down from Northumberland via the west of London. I finally moved away from Watford permanently in 1989. We lived in a flat above a shop on the busy St Albans ...Read more

A memory of Watford by Ian Marshall

I grew up the Edgware area after being born in Bushey, Hertfordshire. My mum and I moved to Boston Road, Burnt Oak to live with my grandad and nan. At first I went to Barnfield Primary School. We then moved to Cricklewood ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1950 by Colin Smith

My earliest memory of Hatch End is when I started at Grimsdyke School at the age of four and a half in 1948. My brother Michael used to walk me to school from Hillview Road. I went to 2nd Hatch End Brownies which was ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End by Diane Farroway

The Greyhound on Wimslow Road was one of my favorite places as a child of 6-7 years of age. In 1939, I would often be lucky and as I came over the Railway Bridge from 15 Brereton Road, and after having an ice cream cone ...Read more

A memory of Handforth in 1930 by Eleanor Gilmore

Used to wait for a trolley bus here which took the family to see Granny and Grandpa at Winchmore Hill. Always great excitement. Remember waiting here for my father to return from a builders' trip to Rotterdam ...Read more

A memory of South Harefield in 1950 by Stephanie Bilton

I used to go to Oxhey school which was opposite Bushey and Oxhey station.  It had outside toilets and a little bike shed with a bench where we used to play ball against the walls.  There was a church (which I think is still there) ...Read more

A memory of Oxhey in 1952 by janetlay

This 1953 view of the pond is instantly recognisable as so little has changed in the 21st century! I lived just down the hill in Oxhey Village between 1981 and 2006 and would regularly walk up to Bushey by this pond. ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 2006 by John Howard Norfolk