Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs, c1912 : Hendon and Mill Hill
A page from the wonderfully detailed Bacon's Atlas of London & Suburbs, this being dated from c1912 by one of the 'special maps' bound in at the front of the atlas. The bulk of London is covered in a series of map sheets at 4" to the mile and is very detailed giving a clear indication of the pre-WW1 city, in its full Victorian and Edwardian splendour but before the massive inter-war expansion into 'Metroland' and similar suburbs.
Bacon's was formed by one George Washington Bacon (1830–1922), an American who set up business in London producing atlases and maps of the capital in about 1870 after a series of business failures. G W Bacon prospered and in c1900 were acquired by the Scottish publishers and cartographers W.& A.K. Johnston of whom they became a subsidiary.
This is the western side of sheet 1 and shows the country around Edgware and Mill Hill, still remarkably undeveloped although hints of growth along the corridor of Edgware Road, then a tram route, are starting to show. The map is dominated by the early 'London Aerodrome' and for many years this part of London was indeed associated with aircraft and the aircraft business. The Midland Main Line is a definate feature heading north - south across the area and is itself crossed by the now lost Great Northern Railway's Edgware branch - the line that should have been electrified as part of LT's 'New Works Programme 1935 - 1940" and become part of the Northern line's extensions but that was cut back to Mill Hill East. The actual Northern line has yet to appear - slicing its way up through Colindale's near vacant fields adjacent to The Hyde.
Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs, c1912 : Hendon and Mill Hill
A page from the wonderfully detailed Bacon's Atlas of London & Suburbs, this being dated from c1912 by one of the 'special maps' bound in at the front of the atlas. The bulk of London is covered in a series of map sheets at 4" to the mile and is very detailed giving a clear indication of the pre-WW1 city, in its full Victorian and Edwardian splendour but before the massive inter-war expansion into 'Metroland' and similar suburbs.
Bacon's was formed by one George Washington Bacon (1830–1922), an American who set up business in London producing atlases and maps of the capital in about 1870 after a series of business failures. G W Bacon prospered and in c1900 were acquired by the Scottish publishers and cartographers W.& A.K. Johnston of whom they became a subsidiary.
This is the western side of sheet 1 and shows the country around Edgware and Mill Hill, still remarkably undeveloped although hints of growth along the corridor of Edgware Road, then a tram route, are starting to show. The map is dominated by the early 'London Aerodrome' and for many years this part of London was indeed associated with aircraft and the aircraft business. The Midland Main Line is a definate feature heading north - south across the area and is itself crossed by the now lost Great Northern Railway's Edgware branch - the line that should have been electrified as part of LT's 'New Works Programme 1935 - 1940" and become part of the Northern line's extensions but that was cut back to Mill Hill East. The actual Northern line has yet to appear - slicing its way up through Colindale's near vacant fields adjacent to The Hyde.