50Shops and the centre

Hallowes Crescent shops

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Then

This parade served the west end of the estate, and a resident who grew up nearby remembers a hardware shop with the sub-post office, a baker, a butcher, a grocer and a chemist. Kelly's Watford Directory records the parade shop by shop for 1953, 1956 and about 1960, with a fishmonger, fruiterer, dairy, baker, butcher, newsagent, chemist and hardware store, and a sub-post office added by 1956.^{5,132,133,228,604}

Now

The Crescent Club, once the Services Club, stood close by until it was demolished in 2016, and by April 2018 new flats stood on its site. A post office still trades here.

Hallowes Crescent shop parade seen down Hayling Road, 2005. © Nigel Cox, Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0)

A three-storey parade of shops with flats above, seen across a large green — The shopping parade in Hallowes Crescent in September 2012, seen across the green. © Des Blenkinsopp, Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0)

The parade of shops at Hallowes Crescent, South Oxhey, with cars parked in front — The shops at Hallowes Crescent in July 2024. They opened in 1951 and have served the west end of the estate for 75 years. John Swain, published with his permission (All rights reserved)

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Building the Estate: The estate office and yards Building the Estate
Streets of 1947 to 1953 Walk

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