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Architecture in Hertfordshire 1929-1979 Exhibition Catalogue

Author: Mervyn Miller (Introduction and Editor)

First published: 1979 by Hertfordshire Association of Architects

Format: Paperback 5¾" by 8¼" with 80 pages

To celebrate its Golden Jubilee, the Hertfordshire Association of Architects put on an exhibition which was displayed at various venues throughout the county in 1980. The exhibition featured notable buildings erected in Hertfordshire in the period 1929-1979. There were 56 panels of photographs in the exhibition. Each panel had one or more related buildings.

The catalogue shows for each panel one or more photographs and a passage of writing about the buildings and their architects. Five of the panels relate to buildings which are in Welwyn Garden City. The photographs reproduced in the catalogue are from:

• Panel 5. Howardsgate.

  Photographs of the Howard Memorial Plaque (1966), Barclays Bank(-), and the LNER station (1926).

• Panel 13. Roche Products offices.

  Photographs of offices (late 50s) and headquarters building (1977).

• Panel 14. Templewood JMI School.

  Photograph of the rear elevation of the school taken from the playground.

• Panel 41. Campus West.

  Elevation of the leisure and amenities centre.

• Panel 44. Panshanger Golf House.

  Front and rear views of the building housing restaurant and picnic rooms at Panshanger Golf Course.

I have scanned (below) the picture of Templewood from panel 14. It is the primary school which I attended between 1951 and 1957.

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