This theme highlights some of the Letchworth women who were instrumental in the success of the early Garden City.

They were dedicated to improving the lives of its early residents, setting up and organising clubs and societies covering religion, comradeship, business, health & fitness and artistic endeavours. A century of active social debate, organised women’s movements and the social upheaval of two World War’s has played an important role in placing women on a more equal footing with their male counterparts, and women in Letchworth have played their part…