Stevenage
Stevenage new town was founded in 1946, and despite fierce opposition was built over the next 15 years. It is the most “concrete” of the Hertfordshire new towns, featuring designs by partnerships like Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis and Yorke Mardall & Rosenberg. Leonard Vincent was the chief architect of the new town, and as well as designing the town, also designed his own home on Rectory Lane. This area near the old town features a host of interesting post war houses alongside Vincents, showing another side to Stevenage that is forgotten amidst the town centre idealism and the brutalism of buildings such as the Telephone Exchange.