On the bottom of the clock tower there is the following inscription:
There is a commemorative plaque for Lewis Sikin 1889-1972. And on the third side: '1946-1980. During these years the Stevenage Development Corporation was responsible for planning and building the new town of Stevenage' This last inscription, so unpoetic and factual, seems to some up the whole ethos of the New Towns, and of the Boring Postcards. This dry piece of information seems so poignant and hopeful now. The years also bookend the Boring Postcard era, from conceptualisation and planning at the end of the Second World War, through to the fag end of those years, already on the wane, but finally killed off by the cynical and brutal doctrine of Thatcherism. /ends