City tour in Stevenage | Walking in the UK's first New Town 

The town center toilet blocks should be relocated and turned into a large european style cafe with the platform above the current toilet blocks used for cafe tables with canopies, live music, ice cream stall etc all overlooking the fountain. Its a cheap obvious design solution to make the town center look fabulous. I hope this idea happens one day.

I live here , and you have covered all of it , I would recommend you visit Hitchin one stop up from Stevenage , it’s a really old town with an amazing church by the river .

Been here all my life, I'm ready to move on.

Grew up here in the 70s. Memories..

I lived in Stevenage from 1983 to 2021 and it was quite an interesting place to inhabit after spending the previous 20-odd years of my life in towns and cities that had grown organically. The road layout and extensive cycle path network were a big plus for me but, because the New Town had to be built reasonably quickly (and cheaply I suppose), concrete was used a lot. Combining that with the fact that most of the housing dated from a restricted time period and lacked architectural diversity, the town does look slightly lacking in character. In the 1980s there was still the feeling of being pioneers in a social experiment that largely succeeded but by the 2010s it was being increasingly inhabited by London commuters which I felt was a shame. The railway station car park has recently been massively expanded to cater for these people. The founding fathers (and mothers) of Stevenage saw Stevenage as a largely self-contained community: you lived there and you worked there (and possibly cycled to work). That feeling has dissipated somewhat now. Unfortunately, many of the civic buildings constructed in the 1950s and 1960s are looking rather tired. They were built in an era when they weren't expected to last forever. The flat roof of the original further education college leaked when it rained and was replaced nearly 20 years ago now. At the moment, the town centre, which was at the forefront of modernity 60 years ago but is now looking rather dated, is in the middle of a £1 billion regeneration and the early signs are encouraging.

I appreciate this video because I grew up there in the 60's to 70's. Stevenage was called part of the greater London expansion in its creation, but has always held it's own place in Herts and not part of London. Looks like some cosmetic changes to the town center have been made, but it's still mainly how I remember it. A great shame that in 1980 Thatcher decided to rob the coffers of the Stevenage development corporation, disband it, sell off all the houses and create an underfunded Stevenage borough council. Stevenage West was always on the drawing board from the first conception of the new town. Now times have changed and maybe for the better or worse as the plans face fierce objections. I grew up in Broadwater so the countryside was a on my doorstep. It felt different when I visited places like chells nearer the town centre.

Actually staying at the Holiday Inn Stevenage watching this. Grim walk from the station tonight.

Good to see some of the place, I’ve got family nearby but this area is cheaper so we might move, but I’m aware it’s pretty grey. The library looks decent, and the art and leisure. Funny that it takes half the time into London as where we are now further in.

The clocktower in the square somehow reminds me of the former star ferry pier clocktower.

You missed out Stevenage Museum. You walked past the church and church tower and Stevenage museum is just under the church.

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Stevenage Old Town is why I dislike the New Town.

Grim…

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