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Letchworth Childhood
Seeing the fountain in this picture brings back childhood memories from the 1950/60s of sailing boats up and down the paddling pool at weekends or when your parents took you down on a sunny afternoon. Summer fetes and funfair on the grass area between the paddling pool and Norton Way South, last but not least playing in the small wood behind the paddling pool before the Council cut it down and spoilt it!
A memory of Letchworth Garden City contributed by Ian Griffin
Visiting
The lady in the centre of the photograph walking towards the camera is Mrs Kate Silsby my grandmother who lived at 8 Tilehouse Street. When this was taken we think she would have been walking to St Ippollytts to visit her daughter Mrs Babs Brown.
A memory of Hitchin contributed by MAUREEN RAINE
Oakmere
I have found a painting of Oakmere House, Potters Bar dated 1935. I believe the house is now a Beefburger Resaurant. There is a clearer view of the house from across the lake, there is the large pine tree & smaller trees on the right of photp, the trees & bushes on the left have not yet grown. It is an interesting painting relating to a modern photo. I can be contacted on 07752033574 if you are interested.
A memory of Potters Bar contributed by David Walker
My favourite place as a kid
I spent most of the summers of the mid 60's in this pool and learnt to dive off the platform board in 1967. I swam all of my major medal and cetificate swims in this pool. The fountain was a place to play when not swimming.
A memory of Welwyn Garden City contributed by Jim Donnelly
Extracts From Great Chishill & Hertfordshire books
A view of St Mary’s Church in 1931, with the War Memorial in the foreground. In 1752, the Revd William Cole wrote that the tower was: ‘one of the most clumsy and heavy ones I ever saw’. Perhaps ‘solid’ is a kinder description.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
This photograph shows how the traffic used to run diagonally across the Market Place. To the left of the Italianate Corn Exchange, G C Flanders advertises the various cycles sold in the shop: Swift, Rover, Royal Enfield, Rudge and Whitworth amongst them. On the other side of the Exchange is Edwin Logsdon’s confectionery business. Gatward’s Engineers are to the right of this, and on the roof next door a man seems to be painting the chimneystack. On the far right is the Red Cow, and to its left is the Post Office. Next comes John R Jackson’s, a milliner and outfitter. In the right foreground, a policeman keeps an eye on proceedings.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
By 1922, new businesses had taken over many of the premises in the Market Place. On the left are Timothy Whites and Taylor’s, a chemist chain, then the Corn Exchange. Next is the Hitchin Playhouse, a cinema that opened in 1913, advertising accommodation for 800 spectators. Gatward’s is still there, but John Jackson’s business has gone: replaced by the Midland Bank. The Post Office has transferred to Brand Street; Briggs & Co., the Leicester Boot Company with its impressive gilded sign, and the Maypole Dairy, share its old premises. In the centre of the picture, an open-topped bus picks up passengers next to a theatre billboard. The cart (right foreground) is loaded with what looks like animal hides.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
This is the same view as on pages 12-13, in the mid 1950s. The Hitchin Playhouse has been replaced by Burtons tailors, the first floor of which houses the Lucania Temperance Billiards Hall. I Pirkis & Son, decorators’ merchants, have replaced Gatward’s. Parking places have been marked out, including no-parking areas: a sign of things to come.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".
The Market Place in 1955 - this time looking towards the churchyard. Left to right: W T Barker, tailor, Maison Gerard, a ‘costumier’, owned by Gerard Ceunis (a First World War Belgian refugee), Halsey’s grocery, the Rose and Crown and finally George Spurr, who made sure everyone knew his stock in trade.
An extract from from"Hitchin Town and City Memories".