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Around 1960 the Watford Technical High School moved to cheaply constructed buildings on the north side of Bushey Hall Road. The Queen's Road site has since been demolished to make way for the Harlequin Shopping Centre. When the school became a comprehensive in 1971, it was renamed Bushey Hall School. The new school was simply a continuation of ...
Oxhey is a suburb of Watford, under the jurisdiction of the Watford Borough Council in the county of Hertfordshire, England. [2] It is in the Oxhey ward of Watford Borough Council. The wider locations which comprise the modern Oxhey area are Oxhey Village (the area around Bushey station and between Pinner Road and London Road) and Oxhey Hall ...
The WD postcode area, also known as the Watford postcode area, [2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in south-east England, within seven post towns.These cover south-west Hertfordshire (including Watford, Rickmansworth, Borehamwood, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Bushey and Radlett), plus very small parts of Buckinghamshire and Greater London.
When the Watford Local Board of Health was established in 1850, its territory included a part of the parish of Bushey where the urban area of Watford crossed the parish boundary. [10] Under the Local Government Act 1894 the Watford Local Board became Watford Urban District, and parishes that straddled urban district boundaries were divided ...
The main shopping precinct in South Oxhey town centre. South Oxhey is a large estate built on land that was formerly part of the Oxhey Hall Estate. [1] There was a manor house here, Oxhey Place, and a chapel. [2] The manor house was owned by the Blackwell family of Crosse and Blackwell fame. It burnt down in 1960.
The viaduct consists of five arches in yellow brick and stone and carries the railway across the London to Watford road. Each arch has roughly a 30-foot (9.1-metre) span and a 25-foot (7.6-metre) rise. The total length of the bridge is about 123 yards (112 metres). The voussoirs (insides of the arches) are in rusticated stone.
The orchestra regularly performs at St Mary's Church in central Watford. Both the choir and orchestra are regularly involved in Archdiocesan liturgical celebrations. The school regularly produces its news magazine, The Word. Since September 2007, this has been sponsored by the Watford Observer newspaper, which publishes the magazine on a termly ...
Map of railways around Watford town centre. Watford High Street station is located in the Lower High Street in Watford town centre. In the immediate vicinity around the station are a number of retail and civic amenities including the Watford Museum, containing a gallery of fine art and displays of local heritage, and the 1.4-million-square-foot (130,000 m 2) atria Watford Shopping Centre (also ...