There was a great upsurge of creative activity in the area in the 1920,s and 30’s further fuelled by the arrival in the 1930’s of refugee artists fleeing European fascism. We look at the modernist architecture dotted around the area and also touch on the lives of the artists and writers of the period: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, D.H. Lawrence and others.