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The ‘original’ Bushey sweet shop experience, 1950s-80s (opens the original)
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Before supermarket sealed packets of Starmix fruit gummies, cola bottles, fried eggs, tangfastics and gold bears there was the help-yourself, local sweet shop. It was our daily ritual. On the way to school, at lunchtime and on the way home too! What tooth-tingling treats awaited our excitable, young taste buds. Soft foamy, pink coloured and raspberry flavoured shrimps – a must-buy! As were sherbet fountains, lollipops, flying saucers - rice paper or foamed corn starch filled with a sherbet powde
How washing machines transformed laundry in Bushey and across Britain (opens the original)
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Today, almost 90 per cent of British households own a washing machine. Front-loading, automatic, with a long list of digital programmes for almost every type of wash. Very different from less than a century ago. It was in 1937 that US manufacturer of starter motors, Bendix, brought the first domestic, automatic washing machine into the UK. But it took until the1950s before people could afford to buy an electric washing machine. It was during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that commercial
Bushey Fire Station – home to 100 years of local firefighting (opens the original)
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In 2026, firefighters battled blazes raging across large parts of southern England using ultra-high-pressure hoses and wearing 3M half-masks during one of the hottest summers on record. In July, modern fire engines of the Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service dealt with large fires that broke out at a commercial premises in Bushey and also at a domestic property in February. But how would firemen have coped in the past? Bushey has recorded several large fires over the years, stretching as far ba
The Old Bakery, Park Road, Bushey (opens the original)
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The gloriously pungent fragrance of fresh baked bread. It stops you in your tracks. No matter what youâre doing, how busy you are. Thereâs a good reason why the aroma of home-baked bread can be used as a tactic at a house-viewing. Or supermarkets deliberately place the in-store bakery just inside the entrance door. As soon as the warm scent of risen baked bread hits the nostrils, the feeling overcomes you; a memory awakens. For most people born at the end of the 20th century, the smell of ba
Remembering the much-loved open-air pool at a Hertfordshire park (opens the original)
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It was an extremely hot summer season in 1989, the mercury hitting 90 degrees centigrade. Maybe even a heatwave to equal today’s frequent high temperatures. Arguably, not the most timely moment for Hertsmere Council to close, forever, the open-air swimming pool at King George Recreation Ground in Bushey. Four years later the pool area was entirely demolished and resurfaced with grass - as if it never existed. Leaving behind only memories for so many from the Bushey community of endless childhood
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