Letchworth Garden City Quest Experience

The first station known as Letchworth Garden City was opened in 1903, with a restricted service; it gained a full passenger service on 15 April 1905. On 18 May 1913, this station was replaced by a new station on a different site. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

Broadway Gardens and Walk was developed following receipt of a £1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The layout and design of the gardens reflects the initial aspirations of Ebenezer Howard who was responsible for principals and designs of the world's first Garden City. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

History of the College The order was founded in 1803 in Belgium by Canon Triest and developed international outposts through its missions. In the UK the Sisters were already running schools in Devon and Lancashire when the availability of a site in Letchworth Garden City came to their attention. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The cinema dates back to 1936, after the neighbouring Palace Cinema (built in 1909 - one of the first purpose-built venues in the country) struggled to accommodate the local crowds. It originally opened with a black-tie gala screening of Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the former Church of England parish church for Old Letchworth in Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. The current church was built in the late 12th century and is Grade II listed. It comes under the Diocese of St Albans. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

Located on the leafy street of Norton Way South, the International Garden Cities Institute is the perfect place to begin your education of the Garden City story. Formerly the offices of Letchworth’s town-planners and architects, Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker, you can trace the origins of Letchworth’s formation, see where Letchworth’s streets and open-spaces were designed. You can also explore the influence of Letchworth on other Garden City developments across the world. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

St. Michaels Church was dedicated on 22 February 1908 and designed by Courtenay Crickmer, it was a mission church to St Mary's Letchworth. The church developed their permanent site on Town Square between 1966-68. This page was added on 18/06/2010.