Home Root

Cooinda @ Homefield Road, Chorleywood

Cooinda (aboriginal for 'happy home'), our home at Chorleywood from August 1960, designed by Roy Spurgeon:

Roy & Joan Spurgeon

Cooinda viewed from the scout hut

Joan, Graham & Dinky

Front garden, June 1978

Inside Cooinda, early 1961:

Joan, Paul, Graham & Dinky in the lounge

Joan in the kitchen

Joan, Graham & Dinky in the lounge

Landscaping involved lots of family team-work:

Roy, Paul & Graham removing tree-root, spring 1961

Removing tree-root - Joan driving, spring 1961

Roy building back garden retaining wall in the rain, April 1967

Paul & Graham helping thier father Roy landscape the back garden, July 1963

Winter at Chorleywood:

Cooinda from the scout hut, January 1962

Homefield Road in snow, December 1962

Icicles in the snow, February 1968

Paul & Graham enjoy a snowball fight, January 1962

In the back garden:

Spurgeon & Lee families, summer 1964

Joan beside the garden pond, spring 1969

Roy, Joan, Leslie Lee, Jim (James) Lee & Stephen Lee

Back of Cooinda (dinky in window)

Paul & Graham started a tree-house, March 1963

Video of Spring at Chorleywood in 1974: