Portobello Farm

Portobello Farm lies to the north of Chesham.

Horse-drawn hay rake at Portobello Farm, north of Chesham (1940)
Credit: Chesham Museum

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Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply

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Chesham

Chesham is the fourth largest town in Buckinghamshire, situated on a spur of the Metropolitian Line - the further point from the centre of London of any other tube station.

The town is known for its four Bs, usually quoted as:- boots, beer, brushes and Baptists.

Chesham’s prosperity grew significantly during the 18th and 19th centuries with the development of manufacturing industry.

In the face of fierce competition from both home and abroad all these traditional industries rapidly declined. The ready availability of skilled labour encouraged new industries to the town both before and after the end of the Second World War.

Today employment in the town is provided by mainly small business engaged in light industry, technology and professional services.

From the early part of the 20th century onwards there has been a considerable expansion of the town with new housing developments and civic infrastructure. Increasingly Chesham has also become a commuter town with improved connection to London via the Underground and road networks. The town centre has been progressively redeveloped since the 1960s and was pedestrianised in the 1990s.

The population of the town has increased to slightly over 20,000 but further growth has been restricted because the area forms part of the Metropolitan Green Belt.

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Duck Alley, houses beside the stream (c.1910) Credit: Buckinghamshire County Council TUM image id: 1606409283 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amy Mill on Amy Lane, out in Metroland A view of the mill house with a horse and cart delivering milk, c. 1935 Credit: Buckinghamshire County Council TUM image id: 1606402689 Licence:	The Broadway cattle trough. This junction was long considered the central point of the town. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1606407826 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Blucher Street and the ’Blue Ball’ public house around the turn of the twentieth century Old London postcard TUM image id: 1606404413 Licence:	Red Lion Street in Chesham (early twentieth century) Credit: Chesham Museum TUM image id: 1606413339 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Germain Street in Chesham (1949). In the photo we can see the premises of G. Marshall, G. and Sons Ltd. Credit: Buckinghamshire County Council TUM image id: 1606410294 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Weller’s brewery dray outside the Queen’s Head in Chesham (1899) Credit: Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1645461764 Licence: CC BY 2.0	View down the Chessbury Road hill on the Missenden Road estate, Chesham Credit: Buckinghamshire County Council TUM image id: 1606411971 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The first train to ever arrive at Chesham, 8 July 1889 Chesham must be the most trivia-filled Underground station - the northernmost, westernmost, furthest station from the next down the line, a preserved signal box on a section of line with no signalling system AND it still has its water tower to replenish steam trains Credit: Old postcard TUM image id: 1681222935 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Boys standing in Missenden Road, near to the junction with Church Street Old London postcard TUM image id: 1606406718 Licence: CC BY 2.0
GCR 4-4-2 locomotive B.R. No. 67438 on the Chesham branch (1949) Credit: Chesham Museum TUM image id: 1606410836 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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