35Homes and streets

Hayling Road, the first homes

Built 1947Still there

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Then

In November 1947 the first tenants, a couple from Paddington, were given the keys to a Hayling Road house with three bedrooms and a kitchen big enough to eat in. A walnut tree said to have been planted at the request of Mrs Blackwell, of the family that owned the Oxhey estate before the council, stood by the road until high winds brought it down in March 1999.^{5,13,23,24,31,527}

Now

Hayling Road still runs along the southern edge of the playing fields, with several entrances to them from the road.

Hayling Road, South Oxhey, 2012. © David Howard, Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0)

A large brick semi-detached house on Hayling Road with woodland behind it and a fingerpost to Carpenders Park at the kerb — The former police house in Hayling Road in July 2024. John Swain's father was the policeman here and the family lived in it from February 1953 until January 1965. The door number has been blurred because the house is a private home now. John Swain, published with his permission (All rights reserved)

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