tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:/posts Geoffrey Hollis 2025-04-03T14:14:27Z Geoffrey Hollis tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2187849 2025-04-03T14:12:45Z 2025-04-03T14:14:27Z Welhat u3a Newsletter Spring 2025

My first newsletter.  

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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2187431 2025-04-01T21:32:05Z 2025-04-01T22:05:18Z William Mitchell, creator of Hatfield's overlooked masterpiece. ]]> Geoffrey Hollis tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2187422 2025-04-01T21:15:51Z 2025-04-01T21:22:34Z Moderation in all things

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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2187413 2025-04-01T20:39:20Z 2025-04-01T20:46:53Z Hatfield Aerodrome Trail

Aerodrome Trail.

This was the first article written on behalf of the Hatfield Local History Society for publication in the Welwyn Hatfield Times

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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2183113 2025-03-16T15:15:31Z 2025-03-30T19:23:37Z Erno Goldfinger's Kiosks

Pages 15-18 of the Spring 2025 issue    Goldfinger is hardly credited for the work he did for the Festival, but in fact put a considerable effort into designing kiosks and telephone boxes especially for the southbank site. 


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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2183112 2025-03-16T15:14:24Z 2025-03-30T19:31:54Z Propaganda in Three Dimensions Part 1
Pages 15-18 Spring 2024      A lot of thought and ingenuity went into the design of the Festival. The chief designers had plenty of experience, much gained in wartime, of the dark art of propaganda, which they used to good effect to get their messages over.



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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2183110 2025-03-16T15:08:00Z 2025-03-30T19:34:04Z Camouflage and the Festival


Pages 2-5 Winter 2023   Many of the designers of the Festival had served in camouflage uniits in WW2;  they used this experience to turn a bomb site into a futuristic city.

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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2178905 2025-02-28T11:52:45Z 2025-03-16T21:38:46Z A Tale of two sisters September 2024


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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2178904 2025-02-28T11:51:38Z 2025-03-30T20:59:43Z THE ARCHITECTURE OF HATFIELD NEW TOWN: SUCCESS OR FAILURE?

December 2024  A report of a talk I gave to the Society

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tag:geoffreyhollis.com,2013:Post/2178903 2025-02-28T11:50:28Z 2025-03-30T20:55:36Z William Mitchell, creator of Hatfield's overlooked masterpiece March 2025

Mitchell was one of the leading sculptors and muralists after WW2.  Hatfield boasts one of his finest works - but hides it away in a quiet back street, with no signposts to help anyone looking for it.


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