@ChrisMayLA6 Safestore type places are very expensive to use, we have multiple large storage buildings in #Stevenage all in prime industrial locations. Whatever it is bringing them, the outcome means that enormous buildings now occupying where people were supposed to be able to work. It breaks the new town planning codes and it would be good to know who audits whats is in them. As a casual observer also looks like an opportunity for more organised crime.
We have had something of a hiatus with our #RepairCafe events run by #PlasticFreeHitchin and hosted at the #Hackspace. This was because of insurance issues... All sorted now. As there was a bit of a repair backlog our first event was invite only and held last Saturday with no pre publicity.
We had 23 items come to our "mini" repair cafe and a success rate (items either repaired or advised on how to repair) of 80%.
Hopefully we will be arranging another event very soon.
#Hitchin #Letchworth #Stevenage #Baldock #NorthHerts #hackspace #NorthHertsMakers
#make #craft #invent #learn
6 Nov 1643: Francis Bell #Franciscan apprehended at #Stevenage #otd by parliamentary soldiers on suspicion of being a spy. He was executed in #London 11 Dec 1643.
Four years ago I found, unexpectedly, an account of his execution in a #Roman archive -pictured here. (JMcC)
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"Stevenage has a fast, high-capacity road system, which makes it easy to make journeys by car. Residents have largely been insulated from the effects of traffic growth and congestion and generally there is little incentive for people to use modes other than the private car … [The] propensity to cycle [appears to] depend on factors other than the existence of purpose-built facilities"
#Cycling #Urbanism #Stevenage
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/19/britains-1960s-cycling-revolution-flopped-stevenage
