Items about history.
The Local History Group collected donations over a considerable period to erect a memorial to Eliza Ann Howard, who made valiant efforts in support of her better-known husband, Ebenezer, in founding Letchworth Garden City
The ‘unveiling’ of the stone took place on a sunny, but bitterly cold, afternoon on Sunday 22 January 2023 in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Letchworth Lane, Letchworth Garden City.
The (then) Letchworth Local History Group’s exhibition in October 2015 titled Letchworth – England’s first new industrial town? aimed to highlight Letchworth as, primarily, an industrial experiment. The Group’s first project was a study of the 1911 Census data for the town; we envisage building on this when the 1921 data becomes available, as it will offer a fascinating picture of the first 18 years of Letchworth.
In October 2015 the Letchworth Local History Group mounted a highly successful exhibition in the Letchworth Heritage's Community Area in the Arcade showing the range of early industries in Letchworth Garden City and emphasising the fact that the principal aim of the Garden City was to attract INDUSTRY and provide a much better living environment for its workers than the often miserable conditions in the great industrial cities.
New memorial to Eliza Ann Howard in Letchworth churchyard
It is always pleasing when a sustained campaign to celebrate an unsung woman bears fruit, so Letchworth Local History Research Group (LLHRG) is thrilled to report that there is now a memorial stone to Ebenezer Howard’s first wife, Eliza Ann, in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Old Letchworth, where she was buried.
Tuesday, 2 July 2019 Beep Beep! A talk on micro cars
Tuesday, June 4 2019 The Avro Vulcan and the Cold War ... and More
Tuesday, May 7 2019 History of the Great Northern Railway through Hertfordshire and Letchworth.
In May, our record of excellent talks generating lively discussion was strongly reinforced by John Scully‟s revealing discourse on UK Defence in the Cold War. The same is true of Bryan Perkins‟ talk on Berlin in the Cold War, at a time when the defeated enemy laboured to rebuild their devastated capital city, suffering humiliating vivisection into sectors controlled by the victorious allies and the French.
In recent months we have researched the early visitors to the Garden City.
