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'Life in the Suburbs' - Dave Taylor-Jones

A collection of essays about growing up in Watford, written by Dave Taylor-Jones.

  • Saturday Afternoon Window Shopping in Watford 1962

    Saturday Afternoon Window Shopping in Watford 1962

  • Music Lessons

    Music Lessons

  • Christmas Times Past

    Christmas Times Past

  • Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts - 23rd S.W. Herts - 1953-1960

    Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts - 23rd S.W. Herts - 1953-1960

  • Steam or Smoke

    Steam or Smoke

  • Bluebell Woods at Carpenders Park, about 1957

    Bluebell Woods at Carpenders Park, about 1957

  • The Paper Round at Carpenders Park - 1957-1960

    The Paper Round at Carpenders Park - 1957-1960

  • View from my bedroom at carpenders Avenue

    View from my bedroom at carpenders Avenue

  • St Geoges Drive, Carpenders Park

    St Geoges Drive, Carpenders Park

Growing up in Watford
  • Family roots
  • Cassiobury Park Spring 1957
  • Watford
  • Happy boyhood memories
  • The Cassiobury Kid
  • Early Days in Watford
  • A community within a community
  • Childhood in Queens Road
  • A Mod in the Sixties
  • A Life in Watford
  • Rambling Reminiscences of a Fifty-Something
  • Shopping on a Saturday With Your Pocket Money
  • A Saturday Job at the Market
  • Working in Sainsbury's in St Albans Road
  • The Kingswood Estate Gang in the 1940s
  • Watford, the Best Town Ever
  • Living in Watford 1965-1991
  • Beatles, Biba and Beautiful Watford
  • Memories of Watford
  • Watford Memories
  • Watford Cordery family
  • Watford's Vanishing Trick
  • Raymond Jenner
  • Born in Watford, 1942
  • Beech Road and Callowland schools
  • Playing as a Child in Watford
  • 'Life in the Suburbs' - Dave Taylor-Jones
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