Collections

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Highlights from the Art Collection

The Skittles Inn, by C.J. Fox, one of the highlights of the First Garden City He

The First Garden City Heritage Museum's art collection contains oil paintings, watercolours and sketches which relate to the social history of Letchworth, the World’s first Garden City.

The highlights reproduced here indicate the range and variety of subject matter & artistic ability within the collection, from portraits of former leading citizens to Garden City views and interiors of former factories.  

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Textiles

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This selection of textiles from the Museum’s collection reflects both the town’s social and industrial history.

The costumes and banners relate to the popular events held in the town whilst the selection of silk weavings are part of the town’s industrial heritage, but also its aesthetic heritage as the designs were of an Art Deco style.

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Industry

Letchworth Garden City has a rich and varied industrial heritage.

Many different things have been made in the town over the years. Letchworth factories have produced parachutes & prams, furniture & flowers, cars, corsets and cranes.

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Ceramics and Pottery

The ceramics and pottery pictured in this section represent many different aspects of Letchworth Garden City.

Featured is a selection of souvenir crested china commemorating the Garden City, milk & mineral water bottles produced and used in the town, as well as an unusual chemists’ jar and highly decorative items from the town’s unique Iceni Pottery.

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