please empty your brain below
Yeah, Yeah. When you last reported going back to Watford on January 6th 2008 you did a whole post on the extortionate fare.

So what I want to know is, what did you pay this time and did you use your Oystercard ?

Pedantic of Purley | 21.06.09 - 10:10 a.m. | #

Ah, but that was Watford Junction
(beyond zone 8, fares complicated).

This, thankfully, was Croxley Metropolitan line
(zone 7, Oyster extension £1.10).

diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.06.09 - 10:26 a.m. | #

Love your 1975 photographs and the commentary beneath, especially for the clown pic and the 'knock down the cans' stall. Made me chuckle over my coffee.

jayne | Homepage | 21.06.09 - 10:29 a.m. | #

A bit off topic,
I remember going on my bike to go fishing in the canal, at Croxley. This was way back in 1964-66, all I can remember is the very steep pathway from the Underground station to the canal.

Michael | 21.06.09 - 10:36 a.m. | #

Croxley Green and the Revellers a post-beatles, pre-punk group?

Haven't looked at the clip yet, but wasn't this the area with all those lawnmowers?

IsarSteve | Homepage | 21.06.09 - 12:16 p.m. | #

I suppose there is something mysterious and profound about the fact that neighborhoods and houses stay largely the same but the people all vanish and move on.

I went back to my old neighborhood that I hadn't seen in 30 years and it was exactly the same as it was. Scarcely a thing had changed except the people were all different.

Jon | Homepage | 21.06.09 - 3:49 p.m. | #

Hmmm....how come I didn't realise about this when I lived in Croxley last year? Whoops!

Clair | Homepage | 21.06.09 - 5:53 p.m. | #

@Jon: "Profound and mysterious" it certainly is. Thanks to Google Street View I recently paid a virtual visit to the street where I grew up, last seen 50 years ago. I "stood" in front of our old house and felt like a time traveller.

Great Aunt Annie | 21.06.09 - 11:17 p.m. | #

By the way, I'm not surprised that DG was good at maypole dancing. He probably had the entire sequence mapped out in his head.
Have you ever tried change-ringing, DG?

Great Aunt Annie | 22.06.09 - 12:12 a.m. | #

We drove past Croxley Green at about noon when it had started to rain. At the time I felt sorry for all the prospective Revellers, and am glad to learn that the weather didn't deter them.

THC | 22.06.09 - 12:49 p.m. | #











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