DSCF4903 Arriva the Shires 4275 (GN14 DXT) in Letchworth - 22 Sep 2018

Saturday 22 September 2018 (1501) – Arriva the Shires 4275 (GN14 DXT), a Wright Streetlite DF new in July 2014, seen at the Sollershott Roundabout on Broadway, Letchworth. Note the sign on the roundabout itself which declares Sollershott’s claim to fame as the ‘UK’s First Roundabout Built circa 1909’.

Letchworth, full title Letchworth Garden City, the world’s first Garden City established in 1903 inspired town planning across the globe. Created as a solution to the squalor and poverty of urban life in Britain in the late 19th Century based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard as published in his book of 1898 ‘Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform’.