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Little Otterspool, Bushey
« on: Monday 04 September 06 20:27 BST (UK) »
Can anyone tell me where Little Otterspool, Bushey, Herts is? My great grandmother was born there in 1888 and I can't find it.
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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #1 on: Monday 04 September 06 20:31 BST (UK) »
Theres a few references if you Google - including:-

http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2006/ans6-027-bushey-flint-hall.htm
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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 05 September 06 10:59 BST (UK) »
Doesn't Little Otterspool sound lovely?  It conjures up all sorts of mental pictures of a rural idyll with frolicking otters! Grin

It may well have been that way in your Grandmother's day, but sadly today the only Otterspool in the area that I am aware of is Otterspool Way.  This is very much a urban built up area with not an otter in sight!!! Sad

It now comes under Watford.

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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 September 06 10:58 BST (UK) »
ScRoppers and Rick,
Thank you for your replies.
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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 06 September 06 20:02 BST (UK) »
Hi there is or was an Otterspool , part of the old Wall Hall training college near Watford when I was a student there in the 60's. It was part of the Wall Hall estate once owned by Pierrepoint Morgan, American banker? I think it is now a Uni.
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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 07 September 06 11:23 BST (UK) »
Thanks Marton
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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 07 September 06 12:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Marton on Wednesday 06 September 06 20:02 BST (UK)
Hi there is or was an Otterspool , part of the old Wall Hall training college near Watford when I was a student there in the 60's. It was part of the Wall Hall estate once owned by Pierrepoint Morgan, American banker? I think it is now a Uni.
Marton

Hi Marton

I think that the Otterspool that you describe was in Aldenham which isn't that far from Bushey but which was a separate parish. The area I described previously was originally in Bushey which is the area that Beverley was interested in.

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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 04 March 07 17:15 GMT (UK) »
Indeed - Otterspool was the name of an old house used for student accommodation in the days of Wall Hall College of Education.
When I left in 1974 there was a golf course being built between Otterspool house and the main site. From the College we could walk the lane past Otterspool and take the short cut into Watford. I think there might have been a short cut to the M1 around there somewhere too.  You could see the hostel from the M1 at one time. Alas Wall Hall (or University of Hertfordshire) no longer exists on this site - The "Mansion" has been converted into appartments and expensive houses errected on the site.
Pity......it's called progress I suppose!
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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 07 March 07 14:45 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ian

I remember it well!  I did a fair bit of courting in the car park! Embarrassed

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Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 07 March 07 14:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi Rick

Didn't we all?

I was a student there between 1971 and 1974....met my wife there and often walked down the drive to Otterspool as she lived in the house there!

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