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Description: | Two young children are riding bicycles along Wanstead Road between 1910 and 1920. This long rural avenue is seen from Wichmore Road in Bromley. Bromley is suburb on the southeastern edge of London, 10 miles south of the City. It was made a borough, so part of Greater London, in 1903. The railway first came to Bromley in 1858, however, when Bromley South station opened.
There was a steady housing and population increase from 1890 until 1930. The population grew from 27,397 in 1901 to 35,070 in 1931. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Leisure | Temporal: | 1910 - 1920 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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