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Fairlands Lakes
Not too far way from where we lived we could walk into the countryside, and across to the Chells. Where we one picnicked at the side of corn fields soon became the Fairland Valley Lakes. There was a bit of a fuss about the Park complex being built as I believe the Corporation wanted to build a road through the valley, but people power prevailed and the Lakes came to Stevenage. It looked very different in those days, with tiny sapling trees, but...
Statues in Stevenage
... I always loved the Joyride statue. It was so much a depiction of the young families of Stevenage, the average age being 35 years. Later, there was another statue depicting mother, father and child, but it wasn’t attractive and people disliked it so it was removed. I liked the pretty bronze of a little girl and birds, at the duck pond, too. This and the Joyride have survived any “improvements”. ...
Two Swans, by Dennis Heath
... Another example of the work of chainsaw artist Dennis Heath, carved around 1995, and standing in the garden of Fairlands Valley Farmhouse, now one of the homes of Digswell Arts Trust. ...
Shephalbury Park
... Can anyone remember a small lake at the Oaks Cross end of Shephalbury Park, adjacent to Shephal Lane? We used to punt across this as youngsters, around 1956. By studying the vegetation now, the outline can still be traced. Probably filled in at some time since, health and safety! ...
Actors and photographers
Stevenage has attracted quite a few actors to the Gordon Craig. I have met a few when my friends would all meet up there in the 1970s. Derren Nesbitt used to live in the old town of Stevenage. I said hi to him when he was in his front garden. The actors I best think of that were really great to talk to was Paul Raymond, also Maurice Roaves, who gave me their autographs on the back of some pictures I have just got developed. Adrianne Corrie is a n...
Memories of the Queen's visit to Stevenage - April 1959
Memories of the Queen’s visit to Stevenage – April 1959 Chosen for a visit from the Queen My family was chosen for the Queen to visit us at our home in Wigram Way. I was nearly five, my sister six and a half and my dear late brother nine and a half. It was quite exciting for us three, especially as the crowds rapidly grew outside our house during the morning; my sister and I were waving from our bedroom window!! Relatives came from London to shar...
Alleyne's Grammar School
These photos are from Alleyne’s Grammar School, now known as The Thomas Alleyne School. The final picture shows a school play, of unknown date and title. The school is still located on the original site where Thomas Alleyne (then Rector of Stevenage) founded the school in 1558. It has gone through a number of transformations down the centuries, and in the past 50 years it has changed from a boys’ grammar school to a mixed comprehensive school. It...
Burydale Junior School
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Park View - Oaks Cross
... Taken in 1965 ...
Peartree Infant School
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Burydale Junior School
... I remember going away to Cuffley Camp in my last year at Burydale. It was great. ...
Peartree Infant School
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Bandley Hill Infant School Staff
... My Mum (Kitty Harris) is on the left of the front row. ...
Bandley Hill Infant School
... These are a couple of photos taken in 1960 of the paddling pool at Bandley Hill Infants. My Mum (Kitty Harris) was a teacher there and my brother Max is in the pictures. ...
Shephalbury Park
... This is a photo which was in the Stevenage Gazette on 12 August 1960 showing my sister and I walking to the playscheme on Shephalbury Park. ...
Bedwell School 1966
... Photo has seen better days but it is 49 years old! Surprisingly I can recall quite a few names here. Brings back a lot of memories. [Personal contact details redacted, 8.4.19, due to site policy (no personal contact details to be published). Ed.] ...
Early Memories of Peartree Spring School
I moved with my family to Stevenage (Leaves Spring) in July 1955 and started at Peartree Spring juniors in the September. Well, I say Peartree but at the time various classrooms at Peartree were still in the process of being completed and so some pupils had to go to Heathcote for a short time. Unlike most newcomers to Stevenage, we did not move from London but from very rural Northamptonshire. The little Victorian village school I attended in Nor...
Memorial Service for Stevenage New Town pioneer Connie Rees
... Rebecca Major A lovely woman. I remember her well. Alison I was her carer for a couple of years,and I enjoyed hearing her war time stories, especially the one about her 21st birthday. Amazing lady....
Key events 1946
Key events of 1946. The year in which the idea of twenty “New Towns” to provide additional post war housing was first mentioned in Parliament. January Newly formed United Nations organisation holds its first session. 7th First civilian flights take off from Heathrow airport. 17th Uk Councils seek government aid to rebuild cities. 22nd G.I brides arrive at training camps to be trained in American ways. February Trial of Nazi officer Rudolf Hess ...
Broom Barns Junior School
Hello. I was just wondering if there has ever been a reunion? I was there just for the third and fourth years after moving from Swindon. I somehow got into the football team. That was around 1966. I remember Mr Simpson the games teacher and Mr Glaze the Head at the time. I think my form teacher, while in the third year, was Miss Clark. It’s all a bit blurred. I just wondered where all the kids of that time ended up. My good pal Martin Graying is ...
Marymead shops
... Interested to see the Marymead shops were built in 1957. My mum, Irene Dawson, worked there and is on the left of this staff photo. I had not realised she must have been one of the first people to work there. Does anyone else know the others in the photo? ...
MY EARLY YEARS IN STEVENAGE
I came to Stevenage in 1966 aged 3 or 4 and lived in Kymswell Road in Shephall until 1974 before moving to a larger house in Collenswood road. I went to Bandley Hill School when Mr Koram was still headmaster and left to go to Barnwell in 1973. Does anyone remember the huts used as classrooms at Bandley Hill juniors in the 1970s located at the edge of the playground? These have now been demolished.Great days at Bandley Hill where my teachers inclu...
Former Town Artist visits town
... Martin Kent Hi just to let you know Stevenage is 70 years old this year and as a birthday project Symonds Green Scouts along with the sculptor are going to give the statues a lick of paint. Stephanie Kent First stage of repainting done. Symonds Green Scouts have learnt the robots will be ready for painting in August. ...
St. George's Club Badge
... The St. George’s Club was part of the, “Children’s Page” of the Parish of Stevenage Church Magazine during the late 1950’s. Although St George’s, the Towns Parish Church had still to be built, St. George (and the Dragon) forms the centre of the Badge and, the names of Stevenages other churches are listed around St. George; St Nicholas, Holy Trinity, St. Peter, St Mary and, St. Andrew. ...
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