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Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb
One hundred years ago, the new Edgware Underground station was opened. It marked the completion of the tube extension from Golders Green, on the line we now call the Northern, but what was then the...
The expansion of the underground in the first 30 or so years of the 20th century helped spur a suburban boom, as improved transport links allowed people to travel more easily for work and live further away from the centre of London. The ticket hall was placed in the middle of a U-shaped colonnaded parade containing shops and waiting rooms for bus passengers, with a palette of wooden doors, black & white quarry tiles and iron railings. Improved pubs were built by the chain breweries in the 1920s and 30s, seeking to attract a better class of clientele such as families, and designed to include parking facilities, comfortable saloon bars and dining rooms.
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