Garden Cities show garden at Standalone Farm
Find out about our new garden, built in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society, which features plants and trees from garden cities inspired by Letchworth around the world. It has been developed with local volunteers who helped plant and maintain the beautiful garden.
Letchworth Garden City January 2011
The view of Letchworth Garden City from the Broadway Gardens
Letchworth: A Vision of Utopia exhibition
New work from Samara Scott, Johann Arens and nine other artists who draw their inspiration from the first Garden City's pioneering heritage. At sites around the town. Plus a rolling programme of events. 20-27 April, opening times vary, drop in or book free tours each Saturday in April 10am, 12noon or 2pm.
A 21st ENTury - GARDEN CITIES FOR TOMORROW
This is our recent prizewinning IFHP International student competition entry which focused on what a 21st Century Garden City might look like.
Our entry consists of five principals: Equity, Collaboration, Resilience, Well being and Integrated Design.
The project was set in Nine Elms Lane and Battersea Power Station on the south riverbank in London to illustrate the principals.
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Best places to visit
Best places to visit - Letchworth Garden City (United Kingdom) Best places to visit - Slideshows from all over the world - City trips, nature pictures, etc.
Letchworth on Sea !
This is a family video and a visit to Letchworth Garden City when it became a seaside for a week. Hope you enjoy your visit with us !
Letchworth Garden City 3D Buildings Tour
This is a flyby tour of some of the notable buildings in Letchworth Garden City. These 3D buildings, which are displayed in Google Earth, were produced for Letchworth's 2012 3D Buildings competition.
Who do you think you are Letchworth? | 2011 Letchworth Summer Festival
Watch our video from the Letchworth Arts Centre's 'Who do you think you are, Letchworth?' festival on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 July 2011, which celebrated the Garden City's heritage.
4: Garden Cities for the 21st Century
Paul Goodman lays out the ConservativeHome manifesto's proposal to increase house-building with local democratic consent.
Summer Evening Flight in Letchworth Garden City - Sped Up and Smoothed With Hyperlapse
Video has been sped up to 4x speed using Microsoft Hyperlapse.
Still using the stock camera and mount.
New Type Crane (1951)
Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
M/S of one ton weight being picked up by new mobile type crane. Man puts ladder under crane. C/U of egg in hand. The egg is placed in jar under ladder. Weight is dropped slowly and supported on egg. M/S of crane driver. C/U cracked egg. The crane and operator then place the weight on top of pane of glass supported between planks of wood. The glass is bent but not broken.
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Letchworth Academy Badminton Club Showcase 2010
Letchworth Academy Badminton Club 2010 Showcase filmed by Exposure TV for the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation Sports Dinner Event
Peter Hall: cities are where ideas happen
Professor Sir Peter Hall, Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning discusses why cities are important. For him, historically, cities have always been where people meet, communicate and have ideas, and it is those ideas which lead to prosperous places.
YESTERDAY'S TO-MORROW - BRISTOL'S GARDEN SUBURBS TALK - BRHG AT CLOUDCUCKOOLAND FESTIVAL
Thought the transition movement was the first movement to look at localised food production and sustainability, think again as Bristol had its own transition type movement over a hundred years ago. Find out the more in this great talk from Bristol Radical History Group, filmed at the Cloudcuckooland Festival 2012.
In 1909, the Bristol Garden Suburb Limited was set up to implement the ideas Ebenezer Howard popularised in To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, first published in 1898. Garden-City principles inspired promising developments at Shirehampton, Sea Mills and Keynsham chocolate factory, but were diluted in the construction of Bristol's interwar housing estates at Knowle West and Bedminster, Hillfields, Southmead, Horfield, Speedwell and St Annes. Today it's timely to revisit Howard's ideas in the light of several topics of green chatter -- transition towns, peak oil and localised living.
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Article about the garden suburbs
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Eastleigh, International Model Railway Show 2009
The International show at Eastleigh. A show with European, American & British layouts. No large displays, which was disappointing. HW YARD - PFAFFENBRUCKE - COLDITZ STADT - BIZZY CREEK - ROUNDHOUSE
HYGIEIA | Health, Illness, Treatment from Homer to Galen
How did ancient Greeks care for their nutrition and bodies? How did they address the issue of public health?
What would an athlete do if he got injured 2.500 years ago? Were there any surgical tools? How did they use opium and other pharmaceutical substances and herbs?
From the dawn of its existence, humanity has strived to improve all aspects of living conditions. Achieving and maintaining good health, seeking to understand the causes of diseases and, mainly, searching for solutions to fight and treat illnesses have been a primary concern and interest throughout all periods of civilization.
The Museum of Cycladic Art presents the major archaeological exhibition Hygieia: Health, Illness and Treatment from Homer to Galen, focusing on the universal subject of Health, providing an overview of the evolution of ancient medical practices: the transition from magico-religious healing practices to rational, scientific medicine. The exhibition presents approximately 300 artifacts with the participation of 41 international museums, including the Louvre, the British Museum, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the Musei Capitolini.
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DURATION: 19.11.2014 - 31.5.2015
Living with Buildings | Health and Architecture
Exhibition open: 4 October 2018 – 3 March 2019
How does our built environment affect us? This major exhibition about health and architecture examines the positive and negative influence buildings have on our physical and mental health.
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Architects, planners and designers can have a powerful influence on our health and self-esteem, as well as ideas around community and society.
We spend more time than ever within the structures of our cities, and more people than ever live in metropolitan areas. The recent tragedy at Grenfell Tower in west London, in which 72 people lost their lives, draws urgent attention to the connections between our homes and health, as well as to wider social and political priorities.
In this exhibition, examine some of the ways in which architecture and the built environment interact with concerns of health and wellbeing. From the slums of 19th-century London to the bold experiments of postwar urban planners to therapeutic spaces for people affected by cancer, look anew at the buildings that surround us and shape us.
The exhibition includes works by Andreas Gursky, Rachel Whiteread and Martha Rosler, buildings designed by Lubetkin, Goldfinger and Aalto, and a new commission by artist Giles Round exploring the role colour can play in making us feel better. You'll also be able to see an innovative mobile clinic developed to provide effective, adaptable healthcare in emergency situations.
Trailer images:
'Over London by Rail', from 'London, a Pilgrimage' - © British Library Board (1788.b.20)
‘Sanatory progress’, National Philanthropic Association, courtesy of Wellcome Collection
‘St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London housed in a tented camp at Finchley’, Frank Collins, courtesy of Wellcome Collection
‘Bath Road’, Camille Pissaro, Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
‘Health of the Country, Comforts of the Town’, Reproduced with permission of Garden City Collection, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
‘Greater London plan, 1944’, H.M Stationery Office, courtesy of Wellcome Collection
‘Light in patient room’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Photographs of Paimio internal and external’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Photographs of Paimio internal and external’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘Photographs of Paimio internal and external’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Paris, Montparnasse’, Andreas Gursky, (C) Tate, London 2018
‘Lincoln Court, N16’, (c) Chris Dorley-Brown
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘InversionReflection What Does Balfron Tower Mean To You’, (c) Rab Harling
GLOBAL CLINIC Prototype 3 at Stage One, York, September 2018 (c) Stage One
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Cinderella Panto
A school pantomime. Clips of one of the dames screaming! Hard to believe a guy could actually scream like that...
Class 313's departing Welwyn Garden City - 15/08/2018
My 20th single-clip video.
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This comprises a pair of Great Northern Class 313 EMU's departing Welwyn Garden City, bound for Moorgate.
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Trains seen:
TL&GN) Class 313
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***MEGA RARE*** class 313 at Retford
Here we see the mega rare sight of a great northern class 313, making what I believe to be the first ever run of its class through retford and probably the last, as 57312 assists 313055 to its final resting place. The working was 5Q25 Hornsey EMUD to CF Booths ; where the 313 will meet the cutting torch. The 313s have given over 40 years of service and are now gradually being replaced by the new class 717 units on the great northern route. Farewell class 313s ; you will be missed :( Hope you enjoy! Thanks for watching!