86 Gallows Hill Lane, Abbots Langley

Image: © R E Joan Batterham Taken: Unknown

One of six or seven large houses set on large plots built by Mr East (who lived in one of them) during the 1930s. This was one of two with addresses on Gallows Hill Lane, the rest standing along the east side of the northern end of Hazelwood Lane between its junction with Gallows Hill Lane and the (then) unadopted gravel road called Greenways which still runs along the edge of Tanners Wood but no longer gives vehicular access to Hazelwood Lane. This was the house on the corner and my family lived there between 1954 and 1965. My bedroom was the one with the round window. All but one of the houses (including this one) were demolished in the 1970s and the area redeveloped as an extension of Greenways with 27 houses on the same footprint. Some of the trees in the garden I remember climbing as a child were still there when I last went by. The photograph was taken by my mother's aunt.

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