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Building on the earlier Garden City movement, Silkin presented a Utopian vision. Stevenage, and other new towns, would be where rich mixed with poor and "a new type of citizen, a healthy, self-respecting, dignified person with a sense of beauty, culture and civic pride" would be created. However, the path to creating such a place was not smooth. Up until the s, Stevenage had been a quiet farming town of 6, people. Those people were very much opposed to their town swelling to a population of 60, The government was insistent, though.

When Silkin visited Stevenage, he was met with a railway station sign altered to read "Silkingrad", a reference to what many felt were similarities between Silkin's approach and that of a totalitarian regime. In the end, the residents lost their battle and the first "new town pioneers" moved into their new houses in the early s.

By all accounts, the early years of the town were a time of great excitement for the newcomers. Ms Taylor is still living in Stevenage today. In fact, she has gone on to become leader of the borough council, and believes Silkin would recognise the town as having followed his ideals. In her office, a drawing of Lewis Hamilton adorns the wall. He is one of several well-known sporting and cultural figures to have been born in the town.

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