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Last Friday we were delighted to welcome a group of representatives of Sutton Garden Suburb, a place with similarities to Letchworth. Sutton Garden Suburb was an Edwardian development, cut from the same cloth as our own Letchworth Garden City, and they are celebrating their centenery this year. Representatives visited Letchworth to gather information as part of an exhibition in Sutton Library this September, and were given a walking tour of the town by Josh.

Sutton representative, Jenny, said:

Over 200 children from five Local Primary Schools took part in our annual Open Doors learning week earlier this month.  Hosted in partnership by First Garden City Heritage Museum and Letchworth Museum this special schools week gave children a taster of Letchworth life on the World War Two Home Front.

Ten and eleven year olds from the schools taking part experienced first hand how Letchworth citizens would have kept the Garden City and its community protected from the promised bombing raids and gas attacks. 

Late last year and until April this year, artefacts from the Heritage Museum took pride of place in a special exhibition at the Garden Museum in London.

Over 400 children from nine Letchworth primary Schools took part in ‘Edwardian Open Doors’ a week- long education event held at Letchworth’s two museums.

They found themselves transported back in time and immersed in a world where there were no washing machines, no electric heaters and certainly no television.  A partnership project between First Garden City Heritage Museum and Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery, this annual schools week gave children a taster of Edwardian Life.