2006

Wall to Wall Success

1905 Exhibition Cottages Plaque 

Well-admired 1905 Garden City Exhibition Cottages are due to have their own ‘identity tags’ – thanks to a £4,224 grant from the Heritage Foundation.

Windows project proves a success

Windows Moratorium

In September 2005, the Heritage Foundation announced a window replacement Moratorium for Letchworth Garden City residents, in order to try and resolve the increasing problems of non-compliant windows.

Playscheme’s ‘wow’ factor…

The Plinstonkids Team

WOW! The organisers and helpers of the popular Plinstonkids holiday playscheme have been given the official 'thumbs-up'.

Spirella Art ‘Class’

The Artists

A number of local artists exhibited their works in a special Open Viewing on Monday 4th September at The Spirella Building, as part of the Heritage Foundation's commitment to arts in the world's first Garden City.

Blooming Amazing…

LDGA members and Ernest Gardiner's League of Friends representatives with Hospital matron Sheelagh Drury

A plant sale raised a magnificent £2,000 for the Ernest Gardiner Day Hospital in the world's first Garden City.

Festival Fun for Everyone!

Continental Market at LGC Festival 2006

The world’s first Garden City came alive on Saturday July 22nd, with live music, a vibrant continental market and a host of community stalls at the Letchworth Garden City Festival in the town centre.

Heritage Foundation’s 10 Years Support to Awards

Hertfordshire Business Awards

The only major sponsor to have ‘stayed the course’ from the beginning of these Business Awards – now in their 10th year – is delighted once again to support what is widely considered to be the number one event in the local business calendar.

National Award for Town’s Two Museums

Historical photo of Norton Church gate

The world’s first Garden City’s two museums jointly scooped a national award after staving off strong competition from many museums over the country.

Town Centre plans take centre stage

Garden City Meeting 2006

Plans to regenerate the heart of the world's first Garden City, by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, held centre stage at the Annual Garden City Meeting, in the Spirella Ballroom, on Thursday 18 May 2006.

New Planning Agenda to combine 3 Great Themes

 Dennis Hardy
A new planning agenda for the 21st Century combining Sustainability, New Urbanism and the Garden City is the challenge being taken up in the second International Garden City Research Fellowship.

The Garden City Meeting

Garden City Meeting 2006 Thursday 18 May 2006
The Spirella Ballroom
7pm for 7.30pm start

If you live or work in Letchworth Garden City, this is your opportunity to find out what has been happening in the town recently and, more importantly, learn about the Heritage Foundation’s activities and plans for the future.

Sign of the Times

The UK's first roundabout

Hertfordshire Highways and Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation 'signed up' to a partnership project, recognising one of the world's first Garden City's important landmarks.

5,000 years – an historical ‘minefield’!

Norton ChurchFrom witches to conscientious objectors, crayfish catching to beer selling, church towers to sleeping porches – 5,000 years covering the history of Norton is now unveiled.

The First Garden City Science Festival

Robot challenges, satellite launching, bionic ears, the physics of circus skills, 'lab in a lorry' etc... and throw in a lecture from none other than a Nobel Prize winner - and over 2,500 students from the world's first Garden City were very much in science mode.

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