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A stroll down New Road - Appendix 2
​References...
  1. “An Outline History of Croxley Green (130 BC to 1934 AD)” from the www.CroxleyGreen.com website. Downloaded in 2006 - writing date unknown.
  2. 1880 OS map downloaded from www.Old-Maps.co.uk
  3. 1898 OS map  - photograph of a copy on the wall of New Road Service Station
  4. 1914 OS map copied from Three Rivers Museum.
  5. Peacock’s 1890 Business Directory at Watford Library
  6. Peacock’s 1896 Business Directory at Watford Library
  7. Kelly’s 1901 Directory at Watford Library
  8. Kelly’s 1906 Directory at Watford Library
  9. Kelly’s 1907 Directory at Watford Library
  10. Kelly’s 1913 Directory at Watford Library
  11. Kelly’s 1920 Directory at Watford Library
  12. Kelly’s 1940 Directory at Watford Library
  13. Kelly’s 1968 Directory at Croxley Green Library
  14. Kelly’s 1974 Directory at Croxley Green Library
  15. “A History of Croxley Green through its street names” by Shirley Greenman, published in 1996 by the Croxley Green Parish Council.
  16. Various St Oswald’s Church magazines
  17. St Oswald Church Yearbook 1966 & 1967
  18. “Croxley Green - As it used to be” - published by Ann and Peter Frost, 56 Valley Walk and reprinted in December 1990 by Carlyon Industries
  19. Discussions with various local people
  20. Old picture postcards borrowed from various sources
  21. “Rickmansworth - a glimpse of the past” - edited by Cyril R Birch, published in 1977 by M & R Tame
  22. “Rickmansworth - A Pictorial History”, by Adrienne and Christopher Jacques on behalf of the Rickmansworth Historical Society, 1996
  23. “Around Rickmansworth” by Dennis Edwards
  24. “The Croxley Argus – Official Organ of the Croxley Green Residents’ Association” - issue No 2, July 1939
  25. Rickmansworth in Retrospect Calendar - 1976 & 1981
  26. Website http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Hertfordshire/CroxleyGreen.html - Croxley war memorial
  27. Website http://www.croxleygreen.com/AA-HOME.asp - history pages
  28. Website http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/HistoricalPeople and http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/default.aspx/Web/CroxleyGreen for details of John Dickinson, Dickinson Square and Croxley Mills
  29. Website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/trades.html for details of ancient jobs and trades
  30. Website http://www.thepapertrail.org.uk/ for details of the Dickinson and Evans family trees
  31. Rickmansworth Historian - bound copies at Croxley Green Library. No.21 (p517~519) & No.29 (p717 etc.)
  32. Information from the 1881 census published on CDs by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
  33. Information from  http://www.findmypast.com/HomeServlet (formerly  www.1837online.com/) internet site with details of the 1891 census available for members
  34. Various site visits in 2006
  35. 1871 1:2500 OS Map – photograph of map in Watford Library Photograph Sources

The 2006 colour photographs are Richard Lee’s own pictures.
Those taken in 2020 are Lynn Withington’s
 
Every effort has been made to contact the owners of all photos and illustrations and the site would be happy to acknowledge them later if they contact it.
 
Sources
The Watford Observer
Three Rivers Museum
Rickmansworth Museum
St Oswald’s Church magazine
All Saints Church magazine
The Croxley Argus
The Croxley Resident magazine
Croxley Parish Council magazine
The family of Cathie Child
Brita Blackwell
The Gibbs family
Sue Waller
Rickmansworth in Retrospect Calendar
Peacock’s directory
Watford Library
FindMyPast.com
1898 OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/os/
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