A SELECTION of questions sent in by readers of the nostalgia pages.
Q. ARE any of the old bands, that played band music as opposed to pop and rock, still going?
Q. DOES anyone know if there used to be undergound tunnels connecting the Sun Printers with the Croxley branch railway line?
Q. HAVE any readers an old photo or sketch of the Farm House, Little Oxhey Lane. Does it still exist?
Q. CAN anyone recall a firm called Ault and Wiborg?
Q. FOR many years passengers on local trains between Bushey and High Street stations had a view of a small scrap yard near Watford Fields. A permanent feature on site was an old Pickfords van. It is now closed, replaced by housing. Who ran this yard which for so long was part of the Watford scene?
Q. A drawing of a woman captioned: Bushey Badminton Club February 3 1897, has been discovered behind a painting of a house in Hillside Road, Bushey which was undertaken by Clem Davy 1955-57. It is signed by the artist but could the original be Davy?
Q. DOES anyone remember, or have information about, the designers and illustrators who worked on the many Odham's needlework books published in the 1930's?
Q. DOES anyone have photographs or anecdotes of the Baines (Baynes) baptist family who lived in Dulcemara, Boxmoor, many years ago?
Q. FOR a number of years during the 1950's a reader's father was the leading violinist with the Watford Light Orchestra. He was JA Bratton and he worked at the Watford GPO Sorting Office in Clarendon Road from 1935 to 1961. Does anyone have any memories they would like to share?
Q. DOES anyone have any information or pictures of Wells Yard, Watford, particularly Cowley's Yard. It was alongside Jackson Jewellers, up an alleyway.
Q. WHAT was Kytes House in Garston used for during World War Two?
Q. CAN any old boy from St Georges School in Langley Road, Watford, give information on the mysterious death of the headmaster Mr Johnson, (a relative of actor Brian Forbes)? circa late 1950's-early 1960's?
Q. NEXT to Leavesden Green School stood an old derelict white house with a pool in the back garden. The main entrance was in Leavesden High Road. Does anyone know the history of this house?
Q. CAN anyone provide information/history about the Reading Room in Leavesden, which was knocked down in the 1980's sometime by the council?
Q. WHAT is the history of Munden House, Garston?
Q. DOES anyone have unpublished photographs of the locality from the past century? If so please submit them with your name and address on the back or on a sticker.
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