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Council launches vehicle amnesty
A TWO week campaign to rid the country of abandoned vehicles started today (Monday). Watford Borough Council is taking part in a nationwide scheme to reduce the number of cars which are dumped each year. Forty-five garages and MOT centres across Watford
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Green garden waste scheme a success
HERTSMERE'S green wheelie bin scheme was given the thumbs up at a meeting last week. The wheelie bins, intended for garden waste, were introduced in Bushey in August and rolled out to Radlett and Aldenham in September. Increased efforts over the Christmas
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Monks help with tsunami relief effort
TWO local monks have joined a group of 50 Hare Krishna volunteers on a trip to Sri Lanka to help the tsunami victims. Vaikuntha Krishna das and Niti Laksa das, two monks of Bhaktivedanta Manor Hare Krishna temple in Aldenham joined a team of European
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Any ghostly memories of former stables?
DOES anyone have any information on Cassiobury Court in Richmond Drive, Watford, one the few surviving edifices of the old Cassiobury House and estate. Originally the stables to Cassiobury House, it was a residential care home until recently. I
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The footballer who turned newsagent
Memories of a newsagents in Lower High Street around 1950 were requested. R Wiggs of Links Way, Croxley Green, wrote: THE shop was most likely Arthur Grimsdell. He had two shops, one on the alleyway leading to The Crescent, his other shop was opposite
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Memories of Wells Brewery wanted
A READER is hoping someone might remember or will have worked for Wells Brewery, which occupied the site in St Albans Road, near the bridge, where Fishburns used to be. Ralph Thorpe founded the brewery, which began to operate near the turn of the 20th
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Happy days in the pre-fabs
Memories of life in pre-fab homes was requested. Helen (ne Froud) Jones of Littlemoor Road, Preston, Weymouth, recalled: I WAS born in Rushton Avenue and moved to a pre-fab in 1950 to number 37, Woodside Close, by the crescent. I had a sister called
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Fun and friendship on the motorcycle track
Memories of early motorcycling were requested. Barbara Loose of 23 Dickinson Avenue, Croxley Green, wrote: WHAT fun we had! Our whole family (mum and us three girls) would follow my father around various circuits, ie: Brands Hatch, Silverstone,
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Memories of Flight Lieutenant Dennis Cramp wanted
Robin Oliver of 8 Wynn Road, Penn, Wolverhampton, wrote in: DOES anyone in Watford remember Flight Lieutenant Dennis Cramp, late of 113, Rickmansworth Road, who was sadly killed during a bombing raid on Turin on July 13, 1943? My aunt died recently
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Searching for the Hindle family
Sue Hindle e-mailed from valhalla369@xtra.co.nz: I AM looking for descendants of Mary and Elijah Hindle late of Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire. They had five children, Eric, John (Jack), Sheila, Jessie and Ronald (My father). Ronald emigrated to New
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Radlett cricket star gets South Africa call
RADLETT cricket club's professional overseas player Shane Burger has made a surprise appearance for South Africa in their Fourth Test against England in Johannesburg. Burger - who is currently playing his cricket with Gaueteng at The Wanderers under
