Published about 2 years ago by Mark Schuster
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This fountain in Welwyn Garden City was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. It is a pleasan...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Dawn is a not quite life size statue done by a local artist in the 1950s. I don't know what she represents. Womanhood perhaps or awakening furti...(more)
Published about 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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All that remains of Rye House, a fortified manor built in the 1440s, is its gatehouse. It is not far from Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. My gues...(more)
Published about 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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A swan racing with a house-boat on the River Lee near St Margaret's in Hertfordshire. Infact the swans swim alongside the barges in the hope of a tit-bit being thrown to them.
Published about 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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A lock on the River Lee with narrow boats moored on either side. Higher reaches of the Lee are too narrow for wide barges to navigate. Narrower boats were n...(more)
Published about 3 years ago by Bob Stapleton
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The Grove 5 star hotel resort in Hertfordshire England. Boasts a Championship golf course, an award-winning Sequoia Spa, three restaurants, lounges, bars, W...(more)
Published about 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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This is Sherrardspark Woods on the northern edge of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. Here are tall oaks planted interspersed with less...(more)
Published about 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Ayot St Peter is a really small village a few miles west of Welwyn Garden City and neighbouring Ayot St Lawrence. ( http://www.360cities.net/image/st-lawrence-church ). Pictured here is St Peter church.
Published about 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Ayot St Lawrence is a pretty village in Hertfordshire not far from Welwyn Garden City. It is famous for its association with George Bernard Shaw wh...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Sherrardspark Road is typical of streets in Welwyn Garden City. Most of the houses are part of the original plan for the 'new town', built towards the e...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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A cheerful balloon seller on St Peters Street in St Albans, that ancient town called Verulamian when the Romans came to Britain and settled it in about AD50.
Published over 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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This is one of two panoramas of the same subject including the same patient pony, but this six months later after snow in December. The Digs...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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The pretty White Bridge used to carry the road across the branch line railway line before it was closed in the sixties. Now it crosses...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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At the top of steep Fore Street, by a side gate to Hatfield House is the churchyard of St Ethelreda. I'm unclear ...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Mark Schuster
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A landmark of Welwyn Garden City are the 30 tall silos of the Shredded Wheat Factory which overlook the town. The factory opened in ...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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This little girl is delighted to have the playground at Little Birkhamsted all to herself during the long summer holidays. The village is fairly ty...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Find out about Letchworth Garden City at Wikipedia. Never mind long URLs, just open Wikipedia Encyclopaedia and search by name....(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Welwyn Garden City was the brain child of Ebenezer Howard (later Sir Ebenezer Howard), a self contained town providing an escape from overc...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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This is one of two panoramas of the same subject including the same patient pony, but this one taken in June. The Digswell Viaduct was inaugur...(more)
