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The 'Most Missed' Buildings in Elstree & Borehamwood, Part 8

This is the last 'Most Missed' building in our list.  Thanks for all your comments and suggestions and for your feedback on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages. Any building you feel we have forgotten? Let us know on
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The Cock & Hen Club

Our last building is not really 'Missed', but although the building is still in situ next to Barclays Bank today, the Club has long gone, and probably not missed that much.  But it's here because it's a perfect lead-in to our next exhibition all about the 'dark' side of Borehamwood, from criminality and dodgy dealings to policing and punishment.  So we are looking for more memories of this Club. We know the owner was Freddie Reynolds and his companion Marge who lived in Clarendon Road, that there were snooker tables and a long bar downstairs, that it was a centre for the black market during the war, and that there were rumours of 'naked ladies' among the youngsters growing up in the 40s. Does anyone know when it opened, or when it closed?  And was it a haunt of stars and film crew from the studios over the road?  Please let us know, in strictest confidence of course!