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Description: | This photo was taken in 1927 not long after Colliers Wood station opened. A team of workmen have removed a manhole cover in front of the station.
Colliers Wood developed in the late 19th century as a working-class area. By the 1920s, suburban development saw the local population increase dramatically.
The Northern line extension into south London ran from Clapham Common to Morden and included Colliers Wood. The station was built in 1926. Tunnelling and construction was made difficult by waterlogged and gravely soil - one reason why the earliest phases of the Underground did not continue south of the Thames. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Cityscape | Temporal: | May 1927 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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