A Watford church is set for a A 10,000 windfall next month when it sells a 100 year old oil painting by a Bushey artist. St Michael and All Angels Church, in Mildred Avenue,Watford, is selling the painting titled Love Divine at an auction at Bonhams in London on March 1. The six feet by three feet picture was painted in 1910, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London that year, by George Henry Grenville Manton, who lived and worked at Pen-y-Bryn, in Bushey Grove Road, Bushey.
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Need to fill up? Here’s where to find the cheapest petrol
Motorists are paying at least 15p per litre more than they were this time last year, when prices plummeted to around A 1 per litre for both unleaded petrol and diesel. The cheapest place in the area is Asda Watford, in St Albans Road , Garston, where petrol costs 111.7p per litre.
From film screenings to line dancing classes, find out what is going on in your area
Play at your own pace and take part in walking football. The sessions, that are run by Watford FC ‘s Community Sports and Education Trust and Three Rivers District Council , will take place each week on the 3G pitch by Sir James Altham Swimming Pool and Oxhey Jets Football Club.
Nappies and human faeces left in bucket during Christmas break
Brian Chisholm, of Gaddesden Crescent, in Garston, allowed two employees from Watford Community Housing Trust into his back garden on Christmas Eve as they were inspecting sewage systems. In Mr Chisholm’s garden he has two drains – one for his sewage and the other for his neighbours – after draining his neighbours, the men filled a big blue bucket full of raw sewage including nappies and human faeces.