Luxury Awnings and Pergolas in Letchworth
The benefits of integrated LED awning lighting
The LED lighting options that are available with our range of awnings and pergolas come with a range of fantastic features and benefits.
Much of the lighting that is available for our pergolas and awnings is dimmable, so you can easily adjust the brightness of the lighting. When reading under the awning, a higher setting is selected, when relaxing, listening to some music, then maybe a more subdued lighting would be preferable.
Having an infra-red remote control to operate your lights is a great idea too. It is also very handy to be able to dim the lights, or even make them change colour from your seat. These modern lighting units for pergolas and awnings are very flexible and versatile.
Mood lighting on the awning or pergola
With the ability to change the colour or tone of the lights, your time under your pergola or awning can be made even more special. A stark bright white light can instantly be changed to a subtle blue, green or red glow, the colour combinations can even be mixed on some modern units, making the options for whatever type of mood lighting a real possibility.
Save money on your electricity bill with our awning lights
We are all sweating over our gas and electricity bills at present, so the last thing you need is a lighting system for your pergola or awning that will cost a King’s ransom to power. Our awning and pergola lighting systems are all extremely energy efficient. They are also fully integrated into the awning or pergola, so you will have no ugly trailing wires to contend with.
Directional lighting is also a really nice touch to have when entertaining. You won’t be squinting to see who is seated opposite you because you have lights shining directly into your face. You can angle these lights up or down to suit the situation.
We know that our customers want trouble free convenience with the operation of their awning lighting, which is why our integrated LED lighting is fully controllable at the touch of a button, with the option to dim the lighting if desired.
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Letchworth has the United Kingdom’s first roundabout
The key to the success of Letchworth has always thought to have been through innovation. This innovation in Letchworth was not just confined to the design of the new towns buildings. The 1904 layout plan included a point on the main avenue where six roads converged, with the roads later being named Broadway, Spring Road, Sollershott East, and Sollershott West. Detailed plans drawn up in July 1908 proposed a circular traffic island at this point, influenced by the Place de l’Etoile in Paris.
The Letchworth roundabout is known to have been in use by 1910. When first built, traffic could circulate around the central island in both directions; the instruction to keep left was not added until 1921. The Letchworth roundabout was named “Sollershott Circus” and is recognised as the first roundabout on a public road in the United Kingdom. Two signs were erected on the roundabout in 2006 saying “UK’s First Roundabout Built circa 1909”.
Letchworth Garden City makes its mark
As the world’s first garden city, Letchworth had a clear influence on town planning and the new towns movement in the twentieth century, not just in Britain, but around the world. It directly influenced Welwyn Garden City to the South, founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1920 using a similar model to Letchworth, and Hampstead Garden Suburb, founded in 1906 and also designed to a layout by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker. Aspects of Letchworth’s approach to blending town and county were also used in the Australian capital Canberra, Hellerau in Germany, Tapanila in Finland and Mežaparks in Latvia.
Letchworth Garden City today
Since 1995, Letchworth has been owned and managed by the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. The estate eventually started yielding a financial surplus which could be used for the benefit of the town in 1973. This led to investment in a number of town amenities: a working farm tourist attraction opened at Standalone Farm in 1980, offering many a happy day out for children of all ages, the North Herts Leisure Centre and Plinston Hall theatre opened in 1982, and a free hospital opened in 1984. The Broadway cinema was extensively refurbished in 1996, and the Heritage Foundation has also supported several projects to enhance and modernise the town centre.
As Letchworth approached its centenary, there was a campaign to change the name officially from Letchworth to “Letchworth Garden City”, this time without the parentheses of the 1904 version of the name. Proponents of the change argued that as the later Welwyn Garden City incorporated the “Garden City” within its official name, so too should the first garden city at Letchworth. However, the reason that Welwyn Garden City had kept the suffix of garden city was simply to distinguish it from nearby Welwyn which remained a separate village, unlike Letchworth village which had been incorporated into the first garden city. The Letchworth campaign was successful, with the name of the railway station being changed in 1999 and the SG6 post town changing from Letchworth to Letchworth Garden City in 2003, the town’s centenary year.
The Heritage Foundation marked the Letchworth centenary in 2003 by building a landscaped path for walkers and cyclists. The path, known as the Greenway, forms an almost fourteen mile loop around Letchworth.