Industrial Letchworth: The first garden city, 1903-1920

In spite of being named the first ‘Garden City,’ Letchworth was conceived as a model industrial town built on enterprise and employment. Never intended to be merely a pleasant place to live, it needed to be large enough to encourage the mass movement of manufacturers and their employees from overcrowded cities and to function as a self-supporting new town. In this richly illustrated account, Letchworth Local History Research Group looks in detail at the town’s foundation in the early 1900s ...