Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs, c1912 : Edgware
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 supplementary sheet, 1A, has been added to the atlas to show Edgware and the surrounding area, probably as dvelopment was starting to creep out this far into Middlesex thanks to the railways (the Metropolitan and the London & North Western Railway appear in the SE corner - the now closed GNR Edgware branch terminates in the village centre) and the tram route that was extended out to Edgware along what was to become the A5. The Stanmore station that is shown is, of course, that of the LNWR, the branch that was closed in the 1960s and not the branch of the Metropolitan that was to be constructed in the 1930s and that would irrevocably alter these open fields. Apart from the villages of Kenton and Edgware the main feature seems to be the local sewage farm!
Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs, c1912 : Edgware
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 supplementary sheet, 1A, has been added to the atlas to show Edgware and the surrounding area, probably as dvelopment was starting to creep out this far into Middlesex thanks to the railways (the Metropolitan and the London & North Western Railway appear in the SE corner - the now closed GNR Edgware branch terminates in the village centre) and the tram route that was extended out to Edgware along what was to become the A5. The Stanmore station that is shown is, of course, that of the LNWR, the branch that was closed in the 1960s and not the branch of the Metropolitan that was to be constructed in the 1930s and that would irrevocably alter these open fields. Apart from the villages of Kenton and Edgware the main feature seems to be the local sewage farm!