Terry Trainor: 10 books

Neale's development at Seven Dials arose from his connections at Court and his services to the Crown. In return for raising large sums of money through the Venetian Lottery, William III granted Neale freehold of the land knows as 'Marshland' or 'Cock and Pye Fields' (named...

The Abbey GrangeThe first historical reference to Oxhey comes from the time that it was in the south-east corner of the kingdom of Mercia. King Offa II of Mercia (757-796) traditionally founded the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans. He gave the district of Oxengehaege to the Abbey, it was rumoured,...

Do you remember winters long long ago, when we had our youth?With delight, as a child, when snow began to fall, and melt,When the flakes first came down, dancing, waltzes in the wind,To the darkness of a blizzard in an early January afternoon.The earth was lost, hidden, under this soft white coveringAnd...

This book is a bout the migration of the Lodoners in slums and overcrowding. In the late 1940's and 1950' thet were moved to a green field site called South Oxhey. This story is about the migration and the problems involved when changing a complete culture. It also has a nostalgic content about the 1950's 60's life and what was available in those buygone days.

After the Second World War the most immediate effect on the people of London was a lack of decent housing. The new Labour government brought in a massive programme of changes that established the National Health Service, and nationalization of gas, electricity, transport, rail, postal and telephone...

The Blackwell's Changes & The 1960s RestorationThe building reached its present form in 1897, when the vestries were built and the pews were arranged in collegiate fashion; work paid for by Thomas Blackwell, of Cross & Blackwell the food manufacturers, who then lived at Oxhey Place. By 1962 the...

A Summer DreamWalking for some hours I stopped in a wild meadow to take my boots off and rest awhile,It is a perfect summers day the hum of bees in the near distant soothed me so I sat down,The trees in this meadow are in full foliage, leaves having darkened giving rich sobriety,I sat down onto rich...

Where is HopeFollow a path and it will get rougher as you go, don't let that stop you,Daffodils will be thick and yellow on both sides, let golden colours guide you,The daffodils will disappear at the woods, a green wall of spring will appear ,Here the path is just footprints in lush grass, the...

In the chill of a bright March morning the song sparrow wakes up the day,In June the robin is carolling the maple at the first blush of dawn, it brings hope,The wood or the hermit thrush pouring forth its golden notes, loves this time,The vespers sparrow, sings to his love, with sweet passion, over...

A Summer DreamWalking for some hours I stopped in a wild meadow to take my boots off and rest awhile,It is a perfect summers day the hum of bees in the near distant soothed me so I sat down,The trees in this meadow are in full foliage, leaves having darkened giving rich sobriety,I sat down...