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Description: | Albert Honey's father started work for the Metropolitan Railway before the First World War and stayed with the company for nearly 65 years.
Men who worked for the railway were able to rent houses on the new estates that were being built around London.
One such estate was the Neasden Railway Village. Today Neasden is a busy north London suburb. But when Albert was a child, it was a small village surrounded by open countryside. The area only started being built up after Wembley Stadium was built nearby in 1933.
Albert Honey was born in 1914, in one of these railway houses in Neasden. Here he describes what it was like when he was a boy. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Work Home and Family | Temporal: | 1910-1919 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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