... Kodak Interworks Tournament at Liverpool ( Kirkby ) 1973. The Stevenage Kodak football side won this competition. Team is TOP ROW, left to right. J, Stevens, R, Redmond, A, Ward, M, Helman, L, Killgarrif, R, Cockerton, BOTTOM ROW, left to right. T, Rowney, K, Bounsall, T, Gould, P, Mellhuish, J, Ashworth, M, Aslett. ...
... These pictures show a very different view of Stevenage to the town we know today. Do you recognise any of these places? ...
Whilst completing a public history assignment, I asked people at work, who grew up in the local area if they had any memories or ideas of local histories. One that I became aware of was the Stevenage Clocktower and the Queen’s visit in 1951. The first New Town After the Second World War Stevenage in Hertfordshire was the first, out of twenty-nine, ‘new towns’ to be built. This moment was commemorated with the building of the clock tower and with ...
... Were you here? Were you taking part in the Carnival? Can you see yourself in any of these photos? Please leave a comment on this page if your answer is yes! ...
... Were you here? Were you taking part in the Carnival? Can you see yourself in any of these photos? Please leave a comment on this page if your answer is yes! ...
... I have found these photos of Stevenage Carnival covering several years during the 1970’s. This was when Stevenage had many large companies with social clubs keen on putting on a show for the town. ...
... Closure of the Stevenage Old Town Astonia Cinema, 4 March 1969 ...
... This group represented Heathcote school in a cross country event held in Stevenage in around 1964. ...
... Heathcote school football team continuing it’s winning run in 1962 winning the local schools competition. Top Row, J. Stephenson, S. Edwards, J. Batcheldor, A. Ward, A. Bell, P. Bartha, Jim Lewis ( Headmaster ) Bottom Row, P. Mannion, D. Wicham, P. Glencross, A.Moore, R. Kitto. ? ...
... Abbey Grow up in stevenage in the 50s and 60s went to barclays school ....
... This team in 1964 was essentially a county football trial. North Herts Schools v West Herts Schools. Most of the team were made up from either Heathcote or Bessemer school. Both were very good school football teams. Top Row, ?, ?, P.King ( Bessemer ), A.Ward ( Heathcote ), R.Cocks ( Barclay ), P.Glencross ( Heathcote ) Bottom Row, ?, T.Harly ( Bessemer ), A.Moore ( Heathcote ), ?, D.Hoare ( Heathcote ) ...
... Ian Clements It was a good team but Alex you were an outstanding keeper. Roy Kitto Great to find these pictures of the school football teams, gave my kids and friends a good laugh. ...
I was married in Bristol February 1960. My new husband had been working on the Bristol Bloodhound missile at Bristol Aeroplane Company, but moved to a new job working on the Blue Streak at Hawker Siddeley in Stevenage. He came to live here in June 1959. We were granted a new house by Miss Mary Tabor, who was the housing officer for Stevenage Development Corporation. At first we were to have one of the houses built in Silam Road, but a building st...
... Are you a member of this church? Please add your memories. ...
It is located in Shephalbury and is not only the first Coptic cathedral in the UK but also the country’s first purpose built Coptic place of worship and was inaugurated in September 2006 by His Grace Bishop Angaelos. There is only one other Coptic cathedral in Western Europe. The building is in the shape of a crucifix and seats 350 people although more people can be fitted in if a movable wall that leads into a hall next door, that is usually use...
... This is the Broom Barns team somewhere between 1956 and 1958. Quite a few of the players went to either Barclay or Heathcote schools in Stevenage. Both schools had very good sports teams of that era. From left to right ( Top Row ) ? ? ? Alex Ward, Pat Winstone, Pat Mannion ( Bottom Row ). Dave Jenkins, Terry Harrigan, Andrew Moore, ? Dave Langley. ...
A memory of moving to Stevenage in the 1960s from Sheila: My husband worked at Mentmores. They moved to Stevenage, so we applied for a house here and I still live there. Oh – to get a house was lovely. We lived in rented rooms in London with two children. Half the shopping centre was open, it was lovely. We came to look at houses; the one in Penn Road was really perfect, near my husband’s work and near the town. My children went to Broom Barns Sc...
The planners in 1955 were quite clued up in two aspects; one was the dropped kerbs; these ramps were a great help to us young mums when negotiating pavements with our loaded prams, and of course, now in the more enlightened attitudes to the disabled are useful for buggies and wheelchairs. The second was the network of cycle paths, unknown, I believe, until new towns were built. There were then, and probably are, now great for people who want to s...
... I think it was in the early sixties that a film was made in Stevenage. It was called ”Here we go ‘round the Mulberry Bush” and parts of it showed teenagers (who were just as feared and mistrusted then as they are today) inside the furniture shop, Perrings, jumping around the furniture and smoking cannabis, and generally acting badly, as teenagers are always projected. [It was made in 1968. Ed] ...
About 1974 was when the small house-sized Telephone Exchange was replaced by a structure 100 feet high. I took little notice of the building going on as I was too busy in the home, but there were great protests and it was said to “stick out like a sore thumb”, and called “a blot on the landscape”; it was certainly a “thorn in the side” of people who lost the sunlight from their gardens, overshadowed as they were by this monstrous building. I ce...
I remember two interesting features in the Town Centre: one was the mural of a Viking longboat which decorated the side of the Long Ship public house just as you left the main part of the town, also on St. George’s Way, and the other the mural which still exists on the side of what used to be a large Co-op department store, now Primark. Sadly, the decorative face of the pub was removed by building vandals and just thrown into a skip, a few years ...