Hatfield Street-name Signs

 

Broom Close

Jocelyn Bailey

 

Days Mead

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Heron Way

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Hilbury

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Lark Rise

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St Albans Road East

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St Peters Close

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The Common

Phil Marris

These photographs, taken March 2017, are of some of the very few remaining street name signs put up in the new town by the Hatfield Development Corporation, c1955 -1960s. (We came to Hatfield in 1966.)

I realised recently how very few are left, so I went out to track some down. I didn’t walk every street (!) but covered most of the roads on either side of the whole length of Bishops Rise, and on either side of Cavendish Way. I think they are a lot more distinctive than the current standard issue and they may well all disappear before too long.

STOP PRESS: Another one just spotted at the start of The Common by the Conservative Association building.