Welwyn Garden City C1970 

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Yes, woods parties Tim...

I was with you mate...Swuat up Geussens Rd....me n Elliot...u had brother Christian....nice lad....horse

1964 to 1985 then I left forever and can honestly say it was the best place in the world to grow up in.

Ok boomer

I was born there but moved when I was 1 and now I am hopefully moving back 😊

@@theyluv_ob I was born in WGC in 1969, I had family in wgc from its very first days, I left it 33 years later, last time i went back the place was utterly ruined by the out of control building. They should now drop the word "garden"

@@ggj666 I’ve been back slot but I still really love it there, digswell is pretty green

Thank you for your kind comment, I am glad you enjoyed this.

Hi, I miss the smell of the Shredded Wheat factory too. And I miss the past, but I hope you look forward to the time you have yet coming. We have nothing else but time. We should treasure that which we have yet to use...it is a gift.

One cannot live in the past forever.

@@Thalasius Is that some sort of justification for obliterating my past and culture?

Christ! ain't that bad

I grew up in Welwyn Garden in the 60’s / 70’s and while I’d agree with you that it was clean, tidy and safe, I’m not sure that it’s so very different now. There are certainly plenty of worse places to live. As for miserable people, I’m certainly not. This year Welwyn Garden celebrates its centenary. Over 100 events throughout the year, including a carnival on the 11th of July: www.wgc100.org

Not so safe if you were a longhair what with the skins back then. Also used to be a drug town with a small Shredded Wheat problem.

There is plenty you can do ;) sometimes you just have to make your own fun.

Hmm...the notion of Pleasantville is a sort of thought stopping cliche in this context. Actually, WGC is really a nice place to live.

@@maxustaxus I'm sorry. I thought it looked ideal in your video which is why I compared it to the surface of Pleasantville. I'll try to avoid cliches in future.

@@lewisner Please, no, I am sorry. I am a bit too sensitive for my own good. I get what you mean now. BTW, the notion of the "Thought Stopping Cliche" is intesting in its own right. And a search on Lifton (a Psychologist) might be useful...it is the idea that certain points, which we are very used to, can stop us from thinking further. I took Pleasantville in that way...but I know now you were quite reasonably saying it just looked like Pleasantville...which it does!

@@maxustaxus Well, I’m “only” 60 now. That said, I’d say it was mostly peaceful and tidy while I was growing up. Not the most exciting town - especially after the Police raided The Cherrytree Pub which was the only live music venue at the time - ( Now it’s the local Waitrose ). I used to call it The City of The Dead! LOL. The layout of neighbourhood shopping centres surrounding the town centre did create some friction between gangs of lads who identified with their locality SBB, HBB ( The Shoplands / Howlands Boot Boys ) etc and would convene in the town centre on a Saturday evening for a punch-up. There were some unsavoury types, but in retrospect, very few. The Queen Mother’s visit in 1970 was a highpoint and I remember an annual exhibition of local clubs and societies in huge marquees on the Campus. I particularly remember the Boys Brigade would always march around with their drums. Think the local Air Cadets and Sea Cadets did the same. While the Scouts fiddled with their woggles and tied knots. Probably my earliest memory was helping the local baker deliver bread in his van. Can’t recall his name but I remember the van was dark red and I’d pop a loaf into a brown paper bag, hold it by the corners and whip it round to twist the corners and close it. That and shivering at Lea Valley swimming pool when we Stanborough kids had swimming lessons. Oh God! It’s all coming back! LOL Many thanks for the good wishes. I hope the centenary marks the start of a new era for WGC. It’s still a very pleasant and safe town with plenty to do, although you have to look for it.

Oh, many thanks to you for such an interesting account! Though I came from Stevenage, I recall the Fountain and the Cherry Tree myself. I had a friend in WGC called Christian, who would probably have visited the Cherry Tree around 1980-1983... In Stevenage we had the same tribal stuff between shopping centre/areas, and the usual Mod, Greaser, Punk, Skinhead stuff (I am not far of your age). Sadly, although our town was modern at the time, it was never as beautiful as WGC. I hope the centenary goes well too...thanks again for the reply.

I was in the Cherry the night it got raised. My band played there a few times.

The drug town stuff came a bit later...but WGC was by no means unique in this respect. We can muddy the water until we have no more to drink. But WGC was a wonderful place in the 1960s/70s. Surely a better place than most in the world at this time...with or without shredded wheat?

@@maxustaxus I was being a little facetious - I had been coming to WGC socially since 1970/1 and finally moved here from Welham Green in the mid 70's and I've always liked it. I think at that time, in common with a lot of places (it was the times, of course) there were always soft drugs around, and it wasn't uncommon to get stopped and searched if you had long hair, but unlike some other places WGC never felt particularly threatening or like a war zone. I'm still here 50 years later and I still love it.

@@bobgreen8142 Sorry, yes I see the joke now! And I know about the getting stopped thing, it was just the same in Stevenage when I was young and had long hair in the early 1980s. You never forget these encounters, and the sort of people involved.

I think all towns have an element of that now. I live in Welwyn having moved from Hatfield several years ago and it's much nicer in Welwyn IMO. Though I'm in a fairly nice area of Welwyn. I was surprised just how similar the town looks back then to now.

Thank god it's still got a drug problem....well not problem....its easy to score from weed to H....bonus.... No chang in those days but nice fluffy red n blonde leb

Are anal warts lanced? An anal boil is lanced, perhaps an excrescent leaking fissure may need such attention. But a wart? If in surgical terms a "lance" means to cut open a festering spot, then that is not a wart. But then you know this already....I suspect an adult of about 60 years, arrested at the age of 15, still haunted by jokes no longer funny.