EAW002088 ENGLAND (1946). The town, Stevenage, from the north, 1946

The old town market was held there

Fire Station

Royal Oak

It looks like the public cinema ,no longer there now.

It looks like the public cinema ,no longer there now.

WW2 Static Water Supply SWS

WW2 Bomb Crater early war bushes have grown

London Transport double decker bus (STL class?)probably running on the 303 or 303A route (Hitchin - New Barnet Station). This bus also has its wartime blackout white circle 'rear target'.

Bus shelter. The bus/coach at the bus stop has a large white circle on its rear. This was known as a 'rear target' applied during the Second World War. It was designed to help visibility during the dark when vehicle lights were masked as part of the blackout precautions. Apparently London Transport for some reason kept them on after the war! (see 'London Transport Greenline' a history by Laurie Akehurst,(published by Capital Transport, London, 2005)page 90.

Hitchin Road, now (as part of 1973 the "Road 10 scheme") a duel cartridge-way, the road width increased so that the wide pavements and verges are no longer present.

No.1 Hitchin Road (demolished for Road 10 early 1973).

Train heading towards Hertford

Langley Junction (north end of the Hertford Loop).

Middle Row

Langley Junction railway water troughs

The A1, Great North Road.

Towns War Memorial

Monks Wood. This adjoins Whomerley Wood, but until the boundary changes of 60 years ago was in Shephall parish.

Whomerley Wood (the 'w' was added about a hundred years ago and is silent)

Gunnels Wood (the only wood to be completely felled during the building of last century's New Town).

County Library (until 1973)

Barker's dentist (demolished for Road 10 and moved to 14 Walkern Road in 1972)

Sish Close prefabs

The Green, showing the poplar trees which were felled after their roots damaged the drains.

This area is now the Town Centre area for Stevenage New Town

East coast main line of what was then the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER)

Stevenage High Street and the A1 Great North Road.

Garage for North Star Motors, a bus and coach company. Until the late 1930s the company ran a local bus service into Hitchin.

Astoria Cinema

The Grange - formerly the Swan Inn, one of Stevenage's many coaching inns. Samuel Peyps stayed here in the 17th century. In the 1960s this was where the first year classrooms for Alleyne's Grammar School were located. The very substantial red brick building was later converted to the sixth form teaching and study block. Today it has been converted into private flats I believe.

Vincent motor cycle works

Alleyne's Grammar School - in this block was the art department above and the fives court (in the colonnade below.

The Grange sports field (for Alleyne's Grammar School)

Single-decker London Transport Bus (could be Greenline coach?) at the White Lion stop.

The Avenue