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Fairfield Avenue, WATFORD, WD19 7AR

This pub is in Bridlington Road at the western end of the St Andrew's Road shopping centre.

Blocks of garages built for residents in flats and houses with no space for a garage are an often overlooked and in many cases neglected feature of the urban landscape. This block though certainly appears to be well-maintained.

Forfar House is an apartment block which, together with two similar blocks, overlooks a green off Oxhey Drive. Part of Filton House can be seen in this picture. The estate at South Oxhey was developed by the then London County Council (LCC) in the early 1950s, one of a number built on the fringes of London to help relieve overcrowding in the inner city area. It was not actually within the LCC's area and is still within the modern boundaries of Hertfordshire today. In 1980 the Greater London Council (which had absorbed the LCC) passed the ownership and management of the estate to Three Rivers District Council. Today, a large proportion of the housing stock is privately owned and the remaining social housing has been transferred to a housing association.

For as far as the eye can see both sides of this straight section of Oxhey Drive are lined with these Fastigiate Hornbeam trees (Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata').

St Andrew's Road is a wide pedestrian precinct containing the main shops in South Oxhey. Since retail units tend to change ownership and use over time, for the record in June 2009, the occupiers were, left to right, Jacksons, nameless, the Gold Centre, Wimpy, Cheapjacks, Taylor Convenience Store, the late lamented Woolworths, and Homecraft.

Pearkes House is part of a redevelopment project called South Oxhey Central, close to Carpenders Park station, that includes residential apartments, work spaces and retail units. The developer is Countryside Properties and work began in 2016.