EAW041977 ENGLAND (1952). The Handside neighbourhood, Handside, 1952

Karen's family home

The Cherry Tree Restaurant, Bridge Road (Now "Waitrose" supermarket)- Opened Easter 1921, this was the first subsidiary enterprise of the WGC Company. Situated next to the railway halt, it provided visitors and Garden Citizens with meals and entertainment, and gave the town a much-needed social centre. It certainly looked like a charming building, a timber construction which lay slightly further from the road than its successor (now Waitrose). It featured a larch pole veranda where meals could be taken, extensive gardens, a billiards room and bowling greens which were added in August 1925. A further extension in 1928 saw the Bridge Hall open to accommodate large meetings and dances. New building In 1932, the new, permanent Cherry Tree was built to replace the by-now decaying wooden structure and WGC Company sold on their interests to Whitbread the brewers. The new building had much more space and was a great success at first, but many thought it lacked the charm and intimacy of the old building and it slowly lost its place as the town's social centre, especially after the new Stores was built in 1939, when the Cherry Tree had to compete with the Parkway restaurant.

Shredded Wheat Factory - The original company opened a factory in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire in 1926 at which time Welgar was its registered trade mark, which became part of Nabisco in 1928.[5] The tall concrete cereal silos that form part of the factory are a local landmark and are listed structures. The first 18 storage units were completed in 1926 with a further 27 constructed in 1938, in both instances they were built by Peter Lind & Company of London who continue in business today. In 1988, Nabisco sold the UK site to Rank Hovis McDougall (who made own-label cereals for supermarkets), whose breakfast cereals division briefly became the Shredded Wheat Company. In 1990, RHM sold the site to Cereal Partners. Now, all Shredded Wheat is made at Staverton, Wiltshire near Bath, Somerset, as the Welwyn Garden City site was shut down in 2008.