Online

During 2013, with financial assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘All Our Stories’ project, HGSAT has put together an online sound resource called ‘Voices of the Suburb’, based mainly on interviews with long-term Suburb residents, but supplemented with visual material. As well as accessing this from your PC or laptop, the material can be viewed on a smartphone or tablet for use ‘on location’ in Hampstead Garden Suburb. (Go to Interactive Map)

In the Suburb

• Full runs of three early Suburb journals: The Town Crier, The Record and Temple Fortune Notes 

• A collection of national and local press reports about the Suburb from 1903 to the present day 

• A collection of books which make reference to the Suburb, many of them placing it in its context as a significant phenomenon in the evolution of town planning 

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• Some documents and duplicates of photographs kept at the at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA)

• A large slide collection

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• Almost 6,000 original architectural drawings of private and public buildings, together with some plans of subsequent alterations 

• Some personal papers and correspondence of Dame Henrietta Barnett, the founder of the Suburb 

• The minute books of the Institute Council, Henrietta Barnett School and the HGS Trust, plus volumes listing the first shareholders, some early leases, prospectuses of the company and other business papers 

• A full collection of maps and plans from the 1895 OS maps, through all the plans for the Suburb and its extensions, up to the plans prepared for the High Court during the hearing of the Scheme of Management 

• Almost 2,000 photographs of Suburb scenes (houses, gardens, road junctions, woods), personalities (co-founders, architects, early residents), and events (royal visits, anniversary and other celebrations) 

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• Audiotapes of older residents' memories of the Suburb 

• Programmes, press notices and photographs from the productions of the Play and Pageant Union and the Speedwell Players, as well as material lodged by other Suburb organisations, such as the Residents Association and the Horticultural Society 

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• The LMA have created a full online index of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Archive materials held by them.