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Bushey residents encouraged to get involved in their community
1:10pm Saturday 11th February 2012 in News
A drive to get more Bushey residents involved in their community starts with a public meeting later this month.
Run by charity Community Action Hertsmere, the Take Part project aims to engage residents in issues, projects and services in the village.
The first meeting will take place at the community centre at Bushey Golf and Country Club, in High Street, on February 23 at 10.30am.
For more information, telephone Cindy Sedman on 02082074504.
Comments(8)
LSC
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9:40pm Sat 11 Feb 12
First, i have no idea of which part of Bushey Heath is more attractive than Bushey Village.
How about the Royal Masonic school in the Avenue? What about the Rose Garden? St James church, one of the oldest in Herts and in the Doomsday book? The award-winning Bushey Museum? Three Green Flag parks? A world famous art school run by a man who was knighted in England and Germany, then was given the Legion d'honeur in France for good measure?
Watford would kill to be like Bushey, and Oxhey only exists because of 'Bushey' station railway worker houses! Until a couple of hundred years ago, the Heath was just that. A Heath. A wasteland that required armed guards to cross it. It hasn't changed that much in that respect.
John Howard Norfolk
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8:39am Sun 12 Feb 12
But the basic point is this....Bushey doesn't seem to have a clear boundary and hence will find it diffficult to establish an identity plus a sense of community.
phil mitchel
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1:09pm Sun 12 Feb 12
LSC
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3:14pm Sun 12 Feb 12
John Howard Norfolk wrote:I agree the boundries are not well defined, but that isn't unique in this age of urban sprawl.
I suspect the "armed guards" were for Stanmore Common surely? But the basic point is this....Bushey doesn't seem to have a clear boundary and hence will find it diffficult to establish an identity plus a sense of community.
Travellers to London would gather at the Three Crowns to cross the Heath (and Common) in groups for safety. However, much like the Thuggees of India, some bandits would often pretend to be merchants and join them, only to meet their colleagues halfway across... So as I say, a bit like catching a 142 night bus.
scarecrow
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3:28pm Sun 12 Feb 12
John Howard Norfolk
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3:59pm Sun 12 Feb 12
So my argument remains, Bushey will struggle to create a community spirit as it has no clearly defined boundaries (or heart for that matter).
Consider too the secondary schools and ask the question what proportion of their students come from outside Bushey (indeed outside Hertfordshire!).
scarecrow
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4:04pm Sun 12 Feb 12
John Howard Norfolk says...
3:32pm Sat 11 Feb 12
There is an attractive area we all know as "Bushey Heath". And there is a well known railway station called "Bushey" but it is in Oxhey Village. Then there is the former Bushey Hall school half way in between.
Just to complicate matters further I would hazard a guess that the best known landmark in the area is called "Bushey Arches". And that is well and truly in Watford!
So I would say that Community Action Hertsmere have no chance whatever of making progress. Does anyone disagree?