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Elstree & Borehamwood Museum Friends Newsletter September 2019 Elstree & Borehamwood Museum Friends Newsletter September 2019 : Issue Number 21 THE LYNX CLUB REUNION The next Friends event The Lynx Club Reunion will be the the Elstree Way Hotel, etc – but next important event for the The Lynx is still there in Friends of the Museum. In Maxwell Road, and still as strong conjunction with Maxwell Park as a community centre today as Community Centre we are it was 50 years ago. celebrating our current Exhibition Good Vibrations by The entrance fee is £5, but we holding a Sixties night on have arranged that all Friends Saturday 14 September 2019 at of the Museum will enter for 7.30pm in the very place where it free. There will be a paid bar all happened in Boreham Wood. and food, and we are sure you will have a great evening. Many a famous musician played The Lynx Club in the 60s before going on to world- Please phone the Museum on 01442 wide fame and fortune. From Elton John 454888 or email info@elstree- (when he was still Reg Dwight!) to Eric museum.org.uk to add your name to the Clapton, from stadium-fillers The Who to Lynx List so we can cater for everyone. Fleetwood Mac, they all paid their dues If you haven’t visited the Exhibition yet, back then on the ‘circuit’. And The Lynx the Museum will remain open later on this was on that circuit. Saturday evening so you can get in the Sixties mood first before travelling to Of course they won’t be with us, but we Maxwell Park. hope as many of the original members of the youth club, and fans of 60s music and fashion will be joining us for an evening of Maxwell Park Community Centre, Maxwell nostalgia and fun. Wear your 60s clothes Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 and relive those care-free days! 1JJ. 020 8953 4295 Whatever your age, if you like the Sounds of the Sixties, then this is the place to Updates to the event can be found on be. https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelyn The other 60s venues in Boreham Wood xborehamwood/ have all closed – The Crown, The Red Lion, The Green Dragon, Elliott’s Social Club, TWO MURDERS, A PREMONITION AND A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE Sandwich. Martha Ray was an actress The Annual History Walk, part of the Civic and opera singer who was the mistress of th Festival, took place this summer in Elstree John Montague, the 4 Earl of Sandwich for the first time. Led by Dave Armitage, (yes, that ‘sandwich’) and bore him up to ably assisted by John Woolston, a hardy 9 children. Unfortunately the Reverend band of history walkers met up at St. James Hackman became acquainted and Nicholas School for a two hour ramble besotted with her, and ended up shooting through the environs of Elstree. Walking her dead outside Covent Garden Opera through to an extension to the graveyard House. He was hanged, and she was we gathered at the grave of Sir Percy buried in the clothes she died in under the Winn Everett and his wife Zita. Everett orders of Sandwich who was inconsolable. was an editor at Pearsons when assigned to help Baden Powell, the hero of Mafeking, write Scouting For Boys. Meeting up at the famous Brownsea Scout Camp in 1907, Everett became BP’s right hand man, Deputy Chief Scout, County Commissioner for Hertfordshire and was eventually knighted for his services to scouting in 1930. His daughter Geraldine Winn was born in 1903 and became the local doctor in Elstree, known to everyone as Winn. Schopwick Place Martha Ray by Nathaniel Dance 1777 They lived in Schopwick Place from 1921 The second murder victim to be buried in and we moved there next through the the churchyard, and whose gravestone back garden and round to the front. Built has long gone, was William Weare. A around 1710 on the site of a house noted professional card gambler he was in the archives in 1528, this splendidly murdered on his way home from a symmetrical house had north and south gambling session in 1823. He had won wings and pavilions added in the late 18th money from John Thurtell and was lured Century, though much development work into the countryside near Radlett by has happened since, and now it’s Grade Thurtell, William Probert and Joseph Hunt II-listed. with the intention to rob him and get the money back, but it went wrong. A knife We walked through to the side and front and pistol were discovered in Gills Hill of St Nicholas Parish Church. The current Lane, Radlett the following day. After a building dates from 1852, built with confession by Probert the body was found money donated mainly by the Rector’s where it had been dumped in a shallow wife, and designed by Philip Charles pool near the bottom of Allum Lane. The Hardwick. Its most notable residents, body was recovered and taken to the however, occupy the graveyard. Artichoke Pub and kept in the cellar Martha Ray was the first murder victim to overnight. The inquest was held in the be born and buried in Elstree. Her pub and Thurtell convicted of murder. He gravestone is clearly visible and was was hanged at Hertford and Hunt was erected in 1928 by the 9th Earl of transported to Australia. Charles Dickens wrote about the gruesome story in his identify aircraft direction and height, then Weekly Journal. report by phone to the local command Leaving the churchyard we moved past centre. When renovation took place at the location of Elstree Hall which was built Summerfield, signatures from the ROC in 1529 and demolished in 1881. Three of were found on the wall behind the the original mantlepieces are to be found wallpaper. in Aldenham House, now Haberdashers’ Moving on down the Lane we came to the Aske’s. Moving further up Elstree Hill site of The Fortune, a timber framed North we passed St Nicholas’ School which house that dated back to 1657. At the was built in 1884 by money donated by start of the war Ralph Handbury was Henry Hucks Gibb of Aldenham House. It Managing Director of the RKO Radio Ltd catered for 200 children with an average operations in the UK and had been living attendance of 150. The Almshouses next in Hampstead. With a premonition and door were built at the same time. fear for his family he relocated to The Fortune for safety, tucked away at the end of the lane as it was. He had been living here for just three weeks when a land mine dropped directly on the house on 26th September 1940, wiping out his wife, son, daughter and baby leaving his son-in-law as the sole survivor. These were the only fatalities in this area as a Elstree Hall Elstree Forge result of WW2. We turned down New Road past one of the two smithies in the village – Elstree Forge was still operating in 1996, and was used by anyone wanting iron goods, not The Fortune ROC Post Elstree 1940 just horse shoes. Continuing down the narrow path past the school we turned out into Barnet Lane, crossed over and walked The above mentioned observer post was down Fortune Lane. also badly damaged by the mine being Here we found two points of interest, only seventy-five yards from the house. Summerfield House and The Fortune. The All communications were destroyed, and former was built around 1893 and was the observers on duty, together with first owned by Thomas Narburgh, the others sleeping there, were badly shaken. proprietor of the Sporting Clipper. He also One was going for water at the time, and built other houses using similar brickwork was about twenty-five yards away when in Summer Grove in Elstree. The next the mine fell. He was blown through the owner was William Stanger who had air for some yards, but fortunately was established Stanger Testing Services in not much the worse for his narrow 1874 as a cement testing consultancy, escape. His car, which was parked in the before branching into other materials. In Lane, was practically destroyed, and 1903, Reginald Harry Hursthouse Stanger another, a little further away, was slightly took over from his father and began damaged. testing materials for such varied projects The tarmac Lane finishes at this point so as The Mall, Buckingham Palace, The we took the footpath down hill to the Victoria & Albert Museum and South junction with a wide grassy back entrance African Railways. He established to Edgwarebury House. Dating from 1540 laboratories in the rear grounds. Later the Sir Trevor Dawson purchased the house in house was used by the Royal Observer the early 1900s, and had the building Corp during WW2 because of its high completely renovated in the early 1920s, prominence and clear eyelines from its top giving the house the mock Tudor frontage viewing rotunda. There was also a small we see today and a medieval front door observer post occupied by Group Charlie which came from Lewis Castle. There was Two of the ROC further down Fortune enough timber left over to do the same Lane. Their job was to look out and for the High Street cottages in Elstree that were replaced by those dreadful 60s flats. was officially opened in 1956. The largest Later the building changed into a country bus overhaul works in the world was open club in the mid 1930s and was often used for thirty years, hosted Cliff Richard in by film stars working at the studios.
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