DSCF0803 Richmond’s Coaches YJ65 EVD in Letchworth - 23 Feb 2018

Friday 23 February 2018 (1121) – Richmond’s Coaches YJ65 EVD, an Optare Solo new in December 2015, seen on Broadway in Letchworth having just pulled away from a nearby bus stop when working the 1120 service 91 to Royston.

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’.

The building in the background is the Broadway Hotel which was built in a Georgian style in 1961. It was the first licensed premises establishment to be opened in the town following the lifting of the ban of selling alcohol in the town in 1958.