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Description: | This view looks down Brent Street in Hendon. Christ Church is on the left behind the trees.
This photo was taken shortly after the Northern line was extended to Edgware, leading to a station in Hendon Central was finished in November 1923. What had been a small town grew in to London suburb over the next decade.
Hendon was internationally famous for its pioneering air displays, held by Claude Grahame-White at the nearby airfield. The airfield led the industrial development that took place along the Edgware Road between the wars, comprising light engineering and the aircraft and motor industries.
These industries were known as 'Depression beaters', since they helped London to expand and thrive in the early 1930s when the rest of the country was experiencing the down-turn of the Depression. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Cityscape | Temporal: | 19 Mar 1924 | 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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