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The Growth of London Through Transport Map of London’S Boroughs Barnet The growth of London through transport Map of London’s boroughs 10 The map shows the current Key boundaries of London’s Barnet boroughs. The content of this 2 1 Barking 17 Hillingdon album relates to the area & Dagenham 15 31 18 Hounslow highlighted on the map. 14 26 2 Barnet 16 19 Islington This album is one of a series 3 Bexley 20 Kensington 17 4 6 12 looking at London boroughs 19 4 Brent & Chelsea and their transport stories 1 25 5 Bromley 21 Kingston from 1800 to the present day. 30 33 7 6 Camden 22 Lambeth 9 7 City of London 23 Lewisham 13 20 28 8 Croydon 24 Merton 18 11 3 9 Ealing 25 Newham 22 32 23 26 Redbridge 27 10 Enfield 11 Greenwich 27 Richmond 28 Southwark 24 12 Hackney 29 Sutton 21 13 Hammersmith 5 & Fulham 30 Tower Hamlets 29 8 14 Haringey 31 Waltham Forest 15 Harrow 32 Wandsworth 16 Havering 33 Westminster Map of Barnet London Transport Museum would like to thank staff at Barnet Hill Barnet Local Studies & Archives (London Borough of Barnet Library Service) and Oakleigh Barnet Museum, and David Park Ruddom, former Borough Librarian of Barnet, for their help with this album. The Museum has worked closely with local partners CANONS to produce the series. PARK Details of the partners contributing to this album Watling Estate can be found at the back of the book. References for the images Bald Faced Stag pub are at the bottom of each page. Those in the collection at Barnet Local Studies & Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives are marked LBB; at Barnet Museum BM; Welsh Harp station (site of) and David Ruddom’s Manor House Hospital (site of) collection DR. * Asterisks indicate a story in the text. 1 Timelines World events Local stories 1800– 49 1825 Opening of the world’s first steam-powered passenger railway, 1823 Steep slope on Barnet Hill on the Great North Road the Stockton & Darlington, UK eased by road improvement scheme 1838 Slavery abolished throughout British Empire 1831 Ninety stage coaches pass through Whetstone daily on the Great North Road 1850– 99 1861 Start of American Civil War (ends 1865) 1850 Great Northern Railway opens from London to 1863 Opening of world’s first underground passenger railway, Peterborough, the first railway through the borough London, UK 1856 Mail coaches between Barnet and the City taken over by London General Omnibus Company 1867 First railway to Finchley and Edgware 1900– 49 1912 Ocean liner RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg 1904 First electric tramway through the borough from 1947 India gains independence from Britain. Country is partitioned Cricklewood to Edgware into India and Pakistan 1907 Hampstead Tube opens to Golders Green 1940 Colindale station is destroyed by wartime bomb 1950– 99 1969 American Neil Armstrong becomes first person to walk on 1956 Prototype Routemaster bus enters service on route 2 the moon from Golders Green 1994 Channel Tunnel opens linking Britain to European mainland 1976 London’s first out-of-town shopping centre at Brent for first time Cross generates new traffic 2000 onwards 2001 World Trade Centre in New York destroyed in terrorist attack 2005 Bus station opens in the new ‘artsdepot’ complex at 2005 London is awarded the Olympic and Paralympic Games North Finchley for 2012 2 Image of Titanic courtesy of Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Barnet’s transport story Barnet has been a staging post for travellers to London since Roman times. By the 19th century, Barnet Fair was thriving and local inns were busy. Stagecoaches dominated the Great North Road. The arrival of the railways from 1850 changed the pattern of movement and development in the borough. Suburban stations, electric trams, the Underground and new arterial roads transformed Barnet into a commuter area for London. After the Second World War, a ‘green belt’ around London halted suburban sprawl and ensured Chipping Barnet in the north retained the character of a country town. A full tram heading for Highgate stands in front of Barnet Church, c1907. 1998/19275 3 Age of the horse Laden stagecoaches to and from London were once a familiar sight in Barnet. Turnpike trusts charged tolls to maintain the Great North Road. Around 90 stage coaches passed through Whetstone tollgate every day in 1831. The steep slope on Barnet Hill was reduced in 1823 to make it easier for horses pulling goods and passenger vehicles up the hill. By the 1850s horse buses had replaced the stagecoach services from Barnet to the City. A stagecoach arriving at the top of Barnet Hill, 1812. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson. BM Horse bus outside the Bald Faced Stag pub, East Finchley, c1860. LBB 4 The railway ‘It was originally started by my Great Grand-Father arrives in Barnet Mr T Parsloe... and on his death taken over by my Father... until the electric trams were started when the bus became rather obsolete... The single decker Railways hastened the end was mostly used for the journey between New of stagecoaches. The Great Barnet and Hadley Highstone.’ Northern Railway (GNR) originally opened through L Parsloe describes in 1957 the old family horse bus service Barnet in 1850 with two between New Barnet and Hadley Highstone. 2003/2821 stations: Colney Hatch (now New Southgate) and Barnet (now New Barnet). Parsloe’s horse bus was one of several local services which carried passengers on their onward journey. In 1867 Edgware got its first railway connection with London via a branch line through Finchley to the GNR main line. Five years later High Barnet station opened on an extension from Finchley Church End. Parsloe horse bus, New Barnet station, c1903. 2003/2819 Finchley Church End (now Finchley Central) station, 1906. An experimental steam railcar arrives from Edgware. LBB 5 Transport to leisure The Midland Railway (MR) originally served London using the Great Northern Railway line. Congestion at King’s Cross led the MR to open its own line from Bedford to St Pancras in 1868. Hendon’s Welsh Harp reservoir and inn were famous for hosting sporting events. The resort had its own railway station from 1870, and on bank holidays during the 1880s Welsh Harp station served 25,000 people. The lake became less popular in later years and the station closed in 1903. Horse bus at the Midland railway hotel, Hendon, on a shuttle service to the Welsh Harp, c1905. LBB Skaters on the Welsh Harp reservoir, c1910. 2005/7223 Bus ticket from Cricklewood to the Welsh Harp, c1900. 2003/10532 6 Electric trams arrive The horse-drawn trams common in other parts of London never ran in Barnet. Metropolitan Electric Tramways launched the borough’s first electric tram service in 1904 between Cricklewood and Edgware, a relatively undeveloped area at the time. Trams were the first affordable transport service for all. They ran between Whetstone and Highgate from 1905 and further extensions brought services to Canons Park in the west and Barnet Church in the north by 1907. First tramcar through North Finchley, 1905. DR Tram terminus, Cricklewood, 1905. 2004/16310 Workers lay tram tracks in the High Road, North Finchley, c1904. LBB 7 First tube suburb When the Hampstead Tube opened to Golders Green in 1907, it led to the creation of the first Tube suburb. Suburbs built at Golders Green, Hendon and Edgware alongside the extending Underground lines offered cheap and fast access to the city and proved very popular. Among the new residents were many Jewish families who moved out of London’s overcrowded East End. Rural Golders Green before construction of the Underground station, 1904. 1999/20099 Poster for tram services to Finchley and Cricklewood, 1909. 1983/4/141 Golders Green in 1927, transformed from the scene above into a busy suburban Tube and bus interchange. 1998/76915 8 Flying high Claude Grahame-White opened the London Aerodrome at Hendon in 1911. Hendon became famous for its flying school and as a pioneering centre for aircraft development and production. From 1912 air displays attracted thousands of spectators. The site was later taken over by the government, and from 1920–37 the Royal Air Force continued to put on air displays. The shows attracted huge crowds, particularly after Colindale Tube station opened nearby in 1924. Poster by Tony Sarg, 1913. 2006/12304 Poster by Charles Turner, 1925. 1999/38417 Crowds at Colindale station after the RAF Pageant at Hendon Aerodrome (now the RAF Museum), 1930. 2005/1171 9 Hampstead Garden Suburb Hampstead Garden Suburb was one of several pioneering developments aimed at retaining green space in London. It was set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett from 1906 to provide a healthy, well-designed environment for working people. In fact the suburb soon became largely middle class. Residents included Frank Pick, Managing Director of London Underground in the 1920s and later Chief Executive of London Transport. London’s Latest Suburbs, 1910. 1996/1899 Frank Pick’s former home in Wildwood Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1981. 1998/41023 Frank Pick, 1931. Pick’s design standards made London Transport famous. 1999/19368 10 Underground extensions The rapid development of Golders Green prompted the extension of the Hampstead Tube after the First World War. The extension north from Golders Green to Hendon Central opened in 1923. Fred Taylor’s poster illustrates the new suburban housing which quickly followed. The Tube reached Edgware in 1924 with stations at Colindale and Burnt Oak, where the London County Council (LCC) established the large Watling housing estate. Poster by Fred Taylor, 1925. 1983/4/1576 LCC Watling Estate behind the trees at Burnt Oak station, 1928. 2004/20184 Edgware station forecourt on a busy Saturday afternoon, 1927.
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