EPW040897 ENGLAND (1933). The Merchant Taylors' School and environs, Moor Park, 1933
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| Title | [EPW040897] The Merchant Taylors' School and environs, Moor Park, 1933 |
| Reference | EPW040897 |
| Date | March-1933 |
| Link | |
| Place name | MOOR PARK |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 508964, 194119 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -0.42535458624765, 51.634844279094 |
| National Grid Reference | TQ090941 |
Pins
 LMSR Rickmansworth Branch |
 John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:36:44 AM |
| Moor Park Crossing |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:35:15 AM |
| This could be the western edge of the newly-established Asbestos Works on Tolpits Lane, which was certainly in place before 1938. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:31:55 AM |
Other images in this area would seem to indicate the presence of the large, distinctive white buildings of the Asbestos Works by the spring of 1933. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 07:20:53 PM |
Although there is very little written history in the archives about this factory, it would seem probable that Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Company became established on Tolpits Lane in 1930. |
John Swain |
Thursday 26th of September 2013 09:33:48 AM |
| Tolpits Lane |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:29:15 AM |
| Common Moor |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:25:19 AM |
| River Gade |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:24:13 AM |
| Interwar suburban development at Croxley Green. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:22:03 AM |
| The Metropolitan & Joint Central Railway |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:12:46 AM |
| Track leading due west to the Lodge and Moor Park. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:08:50 AM |
| Edge of the Hampermill Lakes, one of which would be filled by 1938. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:07:05 AM |
| River Colne |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:05:12 AM |
| School Lodge |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:04:35 AM |
| Extensive playing fields, including cricket pitches and athletics tracks. A swimming bath and miniature rifle range would be added by 1938. The writer played cricket for Watford Boys' Grammar School Colts XI against MTS, in May 1958, on one of the junior grounds. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 11:03:14 AM |
| Newly-completed Merchant Taylors' School in readiness for the start of the Summer Term 1933. |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 10:59:19 AM |
| Manor of the Rose |
John Swain |
Friday 13th of September 2013 10:57:55 AM |