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Description: | 'New Homes for Old', held in the booking hall of Charing Cross (now Embankment) Underground station in 1936, was a free exhibition held in a very public place.
This is one of a series of exhibitions of the same name that were held throughout the 1930s. They were put on by voluntary housing organisations to highlight the problems of poor housing and the need for new solutions. During the decade the government became involved with housing provision.
The exhibition touched on housing schemes, slum clearance, eviction and rent rises. There are a few positive messages on this wall such as 'Conditions are slowly improving'; some are more ambiguous: 'Modern towns are the result of haphazard growth'. Much of London's growth was based on the expansion of the Underground system. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Art and Design Home and Family | Temporal: | Dec 1936 | 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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