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With, at one point, five sad looking, empty shops in the village, and then various closure rumours, it’s reminded us once again how vital a vibrant high street is for Chorleywood and wherever possible we should use it, or risk losing it. Our motto that “Chorleywood is as good or as we make it…or as bad as we let it become,” applies to our high street as much as anything in the village. So let’s engage with our shop keepers, old and new alike, and if there’s something we’d like stocked or think would work better, let’s suggest it? Let’s work with them to get the businesses that we want, that way we all win!
Latest Retail News
100 Years of Hertfordshire Libraries
Hertfordshire libraries are celebrating their centenary this year with talks and events across the county. Find out more here. From 28th February Chorleywood Community Library will have on display a centenary scrapbook to collect customers’ comments and memories of...
New fencing to protect our Parade flower beds
Our Parade flower beds are starting to show very welcome signs of spring. Unfortunately the plants at the roadside edges suffered from people walking across the beds and drivers treading on plants as they got out of parked cars. Our colleague Lisa took up the...
Another Disappearing Post Box
The red pillar box opposite the Co-op in Lower Road disappeared without public warning this week, and with it the 5pm last collection. Lords, who commendably stepped up to run a community-based post office service when the old Post Office closed, understand a new post...
New Tablets, and free “Tea & Tablet” sessions in the Library
Chorleywood Community Library is delighted to announce the arrival of 3 Samsung Galaxy tablets (Hublets) that are free for members to use in the library. The tablets are ready to browse the internet and preloaded with some commonly used apps (subject to terms &...
Second Birthday Party For Café On The Common
Staff and customers celebrated the Café On The Common’s second birthday on January 16th. Katharine Weston, founder and chair of Mission EmployAble, the training charity that runs the café said: “When Café on The Common first opened its doors, no one quite knew what to...
Fuel Merchants back in Chorleywood?
Longstanding, eagle eyed residents may well have spotted the old F.W. & H. Miles Fuel Merchants sign behind the old Peppermill fascia, undoubtedly evoking a little nostalgia. It was a tiny office with some sacks of coal in the window, where you could go and order...
