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Description: | This station garden at Acton Town Underground station won fourth prize in the District Railway station gardens competition.
An elderly member of staff stoops to look more closely at the elaborately planned garden. The mainline railways and the above-ground sections of the Underground in London often cultivated station gardens.
Railway companies offered annual prizes as an incentive to staff to create attractive gardens, and contributed 25 pence worth of seeds for each location. The exercise was not only good for company morale at work, but it also improved the look of the station.
During the Second World War, many of these gardens in London would be turned over to vegetable-growing to help with the war effort. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Work | Temporal: | 21 Jul 1922 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Topical Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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