In spite of being named the First \'Garden City, \' Letchworth was conceived as a model Industrial town built on enterprise and employment.
In this richly illustrated account, Letchworth Local History Research Group looks in detail at the town\'s foundation in the.
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 spite of being named the First \'Garden City, \' Letchworth was conceived as a model Industrial town built on enterprise and employment