Bushey

 

Chalk Hill

Bushev Baptist Church. 1870

Churches TV and radio centre or Christian communication

Melbourne Avenue

Lululand. like a mountain schloss.  Built by a US architect for Victorian painter, Sir Hubert von Herkomer who had started an art school there.  All that is left is a doorway In front of the British Legion Hall. is a doorway.

building used by Herkomer as a printing shop and art studio.

Film studios 1914.  An early daylight film studio. Built above a former chapel, which Sir Hubert von Herkomer had previously used as a theatre. Converted to offices 1985. Herkomer was a pioneer filmmaker and this was his daylight film studio.

Bushey Colour Laboratory. Offices are another of Herkomer’s houses

Rose Garden is site of the art school estabilished by Herkomer.

Oxhey Hall,

16th century with panelled ceiling and old barn

Herkomer Road

Named for Sir Hubert von Herkomer CVO RA 1849-1914 who  was a Vicwardian artist who attracted numerous students worldwide. In Bushey, Hertfordshire, he established a School of Art..

High Street

Congregational Church 1904 in a typical style

Bushey House, with a Greek-Doric portico built at the beginning of the 19th

Bourne Hall, opposite, is Georgian, three stories high with eight bays.

Cloisters mid-Victorian.

Methodist church 1904,

London Road

The Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. John the Evangelist R.C. 1958-9 but consecrated 1977.

Park Avenue

Bushey North Baptist Church 1955

25 Swan. An atmospheric, cosy and cheery one-bar pub. The walls are covered with old photographs, CAMRA awards and other items of interest.

Rudolph Road

Bushey Museum and Art Gallery has a room devoted to Herkomer with memorabilia and portraits.

Sparrows Herne

177-189 Bushey Synagogue

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