WELWYN GARDEN CITY 100 -  study day CANCELLED

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WELWYN GARDEN CITY 100 - study day CANCELLED

The study day will look at all aspects of this pioneering city and the ideas which influenced developments in the UK and abroad in the C20

By The Gardens Trust

Date and time

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 10:00 - 16:30 GMT+1

Location

United Reformed Church

Church Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 6PS United Kingdom

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About this event

The morning session of lectures will be chaired by Dr Sarah Rutherford, author of the Shire Book on Garden Cities. Our speakers are:

• Kate Harwood (Hertfordshire Gardens Trust) who has carried out extensive research in the vicinity; she will look at the area pre 1919 including the work of Brown and Repton;

• Annabel Downs, former archivist of the Landscape Institute, who will examine the development of the town from 1919 to the 1950’s

• Claire de Carle (garden historian) who grew up in Welwyn Garden City; she will review how it has changed from the 1960’s to the millennium.

• Shaun O’Reilly of the Welwyn Garden City Society will enlarge on the emerging local Plan and development pressures and question what the future holds for Welwyn.

After a sandwich lunch a walking tour will be led by members of Hertfordshire Gardens Trust. We will focus on the central part of the town which was the first area to be developed and where Raymond Unwin’s Garden City and de Soissons’ ‘City Beautiful’ design concepts can be seen. Houses were built in numerous different styles some of which were part of the Daily Mail Model Village. This was built on Meadow Green in 1922 as part of the Ideal Home Exhibition, plans for 100 houses were massively over-ambitious; the project had to be bailed out by the Garden City Company who built 41 houses on six acres demonstrating 16 different systems of housing construction with all the latest appliances and fittings.

Following the walk, we shall return to the church for tea and cake.

To see all Welwyn’s celebration plans, starting in January 2020, go to https://www.wgc100.org

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