Civil Defence headquarters, 39 Oxhey Drive
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Then
The building next to the police station in Oxhey Drive was the Civil Defence headquarters, with rooms and garages for its ambulance and equipment. A Boots the Chemist assistant of 1961 remembers her senior colleague working for it.5,198,199,209,211
Now
The garages are long gone. The building was used by social services for some years, held the temporary library from the summer of 2008 to August 2009 while the Bridlington Road library was being extended, and from 11 May 2011 housed Step Up, a drop-in with training and counselling rooms run by ASCEND and Herts Mind Network with district council funding. More than a hundred people came to the open day. The position is approximate, worked out from the police station and the house numbers.
Mentioned in
- Shops, pubs and services: The library Life on the Estate
Position from OpenStreetMap. See Sources and method.