High Quality Awnings in Welwyn Garden City
The best material for awnings?
Good quality awning fabric has its own special coating that helps create a self-cleaning effect, making it perfect for outdoor use. The special coating provides added protection against light and temperature changes as well as resistance to light rain. Modern weaving technology ensures you get an awning that will stand the test of time, giving you many years of enjoyment. We can advise you as to the best awning fabric for your property, so you can be certain you’ll find one that matches your property.
Water repellent awning fabric
Our awning fabrics are manufactured using a water-resistant coating that repels water.
Generally the fabric for our awnings is a high-quality polyester and acrylic fabric. This mix of fibres offers superior resistance against rain and with its high level of sun protection, you couldn’t want for a better fabric for your new awning. The fabric will also stop those harmful UV rays from putting you and your family at risk, as well as bleaching and destroying your soft furnishings when the sun is at its hottest.
Awnings are an investment to be enjoyed for many years
High quality fabric awnings are manufactured to last for many years. Like anything in life, the correct care and maintenance must be adhered to if this is to be the case. The awnings we supply and fit are built to require only low levels of maintenance and the awnings are intended to last a very long time.
Even some plants like an awning
An awning not only protects you and your family from the intense and damaging sun, some plants will thrive when placed under them too. Many house plants do well when placed outside during the warmer weather, particularly the hardier bonsai trees, but direct, scorching sunlight can bake them and kill them very quickly. The shade from an awning can allow natural daylight to benefit the plants, but ensure their leaves are not fried in direct sunlight. The water offered to a plant during the summer can evaporate very quickly too, but if in a pot, the water can heat up and literally cook the delicate roots of the plant if there is no protection from the sunlight.
So, not only will you enjoy the shade and coolness under your new awning, your houseplants will enjoy their spot of fresh air too.
Awnings make for happy pets
Awnings are the ideal way to keep our beloved pets safe during the hottest days of the year. Dogs and cats can suffer terribly if exposed to the sun for long periods of time. Unfortunately, some animals seem to lay in direct sun until they are unbearable to touch. Cats and dogs with black coats can become incredibly hot, and some breeds, such as the French bulldog can easily suffer from heat stroke.
Like the Frenchie, many of the other short nosed breeds of dogs can suffer in the heat of the sun. The very last thing you want is for your furry friend to overheat and worse still, have to be rushed to the vets suffering from heat stroke or severe dehydration.
One should also remember how hot concrete and slabs can become during the summer. The stored heat in the average patio or footpath can literally blister your cat or dogs paws. This is very painful and very expensive to treat, so ensuring they stay cool and remain under the protection of an awning is a great way to keep them safe during the summer months.
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Welwyn Garden City continues the garden city movement
Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City to the North. He had called for the creation of planned towns that were to combine the benefits of the city and the countryside and to avoid the disadvantages of both. It was designed to be ‘The Perfect Town’. The Garden Cities and Town Planning Association had defined a garden city as “a town designed for healthy living and industry of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life but not larger, surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in public ownership, or held in trust for the community”.
In 1919, Howard arranged for the purchase of land in Hertfordshire that had already been identified as a suitable site for another garden city. A company called Second Garden City Limited was formed in October 1919 to start buying the land and developing the town. In 1920 the company’s board decided to call the new garden city Digswell, taking the name of the existing small village which would be surrounded by the new development. Six days later they changed their minds, deciding instead to call it Welwyn Garden City, reflecting that the project was already been discussed generally as the “new garden city near Welwyn village that already existed”. In April 1920 the company changed its name to become Welwyn Garden City Limited. Sir Theodore Chambers chaired the company, whilst Louis de Soissons was appointed as architect and town planner, Charles Purdom as finance director and Frederic Osborn as secretary. The first house was occupied just before Christmas in 1920. A school was named after Osborn, a road recently took on the de Soissons name and the Welwyn Garden City shopping mall is known as the Howard Centre, after Ebenezer.
Trees and nature abound in Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City is laid out along tree-lined boulevards with a neo-Georgian town centre. It has its own environmental protection legislation, the Scheme of Management for Welwyn Garden City. Every road has a wide grass verge. The central column of the town is Parkway, a central, scenic parkway, almost a mile long. The view along Parkway to the south was once described as one of the world’s finest urban vistas. Older, more expensive properties are on the west side of Parkway and newer, more affordable ones on the east side of the town centre of Welwyn Garden City.
John Lewis history in Welwyn Garden City
It was originally intended that all the residents of Welwyn Garden City would shop in one shop and created the Welwyn Stores. This unfortunately created a monopoly which caused quite a lot of local resentment. New and diverse shopping opportunities emerged in the coming years and have ensured much more competition and variety, and the Welwyn Stores were taken over by the John Lewis Partnership in 1984.
In 1966, the Development Corporation was wound up and handed over to the Commission for New Towns. The housing stock, neighbourhood shopping and green spaces were passed to Welwyn Hatfield District Council between 1978 and 1983. There was some local resistance to Welwyn Garden City being governed by the same council as neighbouring Hatfield, which was viewed as the poorer relation to the more affluent Welwyn Garden City. Today however, Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield almost rub shoulders at certain points owing to the expansion of both towns.
Roman baths in Welwyn Garden City
On the outskirts of the nearby Welwyn village, the Welwyn Roman baths are preserved in a steel vault underneath junction 6 of the A1 (M) and are open to visitors. Many school and college students visit the Roman site every year as part of their history studies.
Welwyn Garden City fame
Welwyn Garden City is well known for many reasons. It is the world’s second garden city, the home to Shredded Wheat and much filming used to take place at the studios in Broadwater road. Much of Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth Garden City were included in the World’s End film with Simon Pegg. Many Welwyn Garden City pubs were renamed for the film and the cast and crew camped out at nearby Stanborough lakes in their trailers.
Welwyn Garden City is no stranger to the movie and television world. Nearby Brocket Hall has been included in many films and television productions over the years.
2020 was the 100th anniversary for Welwyn Garden City and the local authority had planned a series of celebrations. Unfortunately they could not all go ahead as the COVID-19 pandemic had hit, restricting the movement and gathering of the entire United Kingdom population.