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Description: | This aerial view of Stanmore shows the church and the house and grounds of Stanmore Park on a hill. Stanmore was still a village set in open countryside. It was centred around the parish church of St John the Evangelist, built in 1850.
During the 1920s and 30s, Stanmore developed into an up-market residential district. Roads were laid out and detached houses and shops were built. Very few council houses were built here between the wars. The Metropolitan line was extended to Stanmore in 1932, which bought with it further development. This section of line later became part of the Bakerloo line.
In 1938 the Royal Air Force bought Stanmore Park, and the land was quickly covered with buildings and hangars. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Copyright unknown - London Transport Museum collection | Subjects: | Environment Cityscape | Temporal: | 1920 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Air Co | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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