Station Road From the front of the station  forecourt to your left is Station Road. This is the first road built in the Town Centre. Connecting the station to the housing on the east side of the town and the industrial area. Click image to enlarge     As you proceed down the hill, the first building on your left is "The Peoples House".  This was run as a restaurant in the 1920's when the "Skittles Inn" in Nevells Road was turned from, "The pub with no beer" (as it became known), into what it is today, "The Settlement", an adult education centre. Beyond this a short parade of shops / offices and a relatively new addition to the Garden City, a public house. Then the first large new development this close to the town centre. A complex of retirement homes being constructed (@ 9/2000) by McCarthy & Stone on the site of what was a fairly worn out building which I believe used to be a Garage. On the other side of the road the parade of shops extends from Midland  Bank (HSBC) on the corner, to "The Arcade".  This glass covered shopping parade joining Station Road and Leys Avenue has recently been restored to bring back the glory it enjoyed in the 1920's.   Look in more detail at the shops Beyond this point you can find some of the earliest shops in Letchworth, which are much smaller in scale than the 1920's buildings at the end of the street.   Click image to enlarge On the left side of the road are "Silver Birch Cottages" three blocks of cottages designed by Parker and Unwin in 1905 - 1907, restored in 1980 and heavily screened from the traffic by greenery. Opposite these are the entrances to   "The Wynd" a pedestrian walk way full of small shops and units behind the main shopping streets, also the entrance to another glass covered arcade. Known as "The Wynd Arcade" or "The Gallery" it houses  a cafe and in the past housed a variety of small shop units.  At the moment much of it is a fitness centre. Designed in 1980 by BCCH Architects with Anthony Doling, It is in extreme contrast to the neighbouring parade of 1906 shops. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Beyond these two entrances further down Station Road are some of the first shops built in Letchworth and the junction with Norton Way South Next Letchworth Plan