EPW022024 ENGLAND (1928). Crowds at Parkway and The Welwyn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, 1928

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Title	[EPW022024] Crowds at Parkway and The Welwyn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, 1928
Reference	EPW022024
Date	July-1928
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Place name	WELWYN GARDEN CITY
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District
Country	ENGLAND
Easting / Northing	523676, 213165
Longitude / Latitude	-0.20609267682758, 51.802982905873
National Grid Reference	TL237132

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Midland Bank Limited. Report as Inappropriate	Adrian Hepworth	Wednesday 27th of August 2014 09:02:40 AM
Welwyn Garden City station with the platforms behind. You entered into a rather dark and gloomy booking hall, then went through the ticket barrier, turned left and climbed up the stairs which led onto the bridge that crossed the tracks. If you used the bridge to cross over to Broadwater Road on the other side of the tracks you still had to pay for a ticket to do that. I think it was 3d. Report as Inappropriate	Chells809	Saturday 18th of May 2013 10:21:53 PM
I think this is Munts toy shop. I went there to buy my toys in the late 1950s. We got the bus in from Old Welwyn to the Cherry Tree pub opposite on Bridge Road (though not yet built on this pic). Munts had a good range of toys including miniature plastic animals. I remember getting a toy elephant from there in approx 1959. I also remember the shop had a wooden floor and the skylights in the roof that let the light in. Next door was a garage/filling station. The first police station was built opposite though not until the 1930s I believe. Report as Inappropriate	Chells809	Wednesday 24th of October 2012 10:05:06 PM
I think this is either a K or S type open-top double decker operated by the National Omnibus and Transport Company on behalf of London General. It was probably based at the Hatfield Garage. I don't recognise the single decker behind but it looks to be a different colour to the National so I would imagine it was operated by one of the other local companies. Report as Inappropriate	Chells809	Wednesday 24th of October 2012 09:57:52 PM

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This amazing photo was taken in 1928 - just eight years after WGC (Welwyn Garden City)had been founded. The station on the east coast main line had recently opened in 1926.In the lower part of the picture are the first Welwyn Stores buildings replaced just before the Second World War by the huge development nearby with the Greek-style portico - surely one of WGC's finest landmarks. The Welwyn Theatre on Parkway was one of the earliest buildings in the garden city. Special bus services ran from outlying villages to see performances. I remember it well in the 1960s as the Embassy Cinema. There were long queues for films. It really is amazing to think of how this empty scene was transformed in the next 10 years or so.	Chells809	Wednesday 24th of October 2012 09:54:31 PM
The building towards the left bottom is the original "Welwyn Stores" Rebuilt in 1939 on the open site on opposite side of Parkway where the crowds are.This is now "The John Lewis" Store.	arthurrollings	Wednesday 27th of June 2012 12:47:31 PM