Bacon's Atlas of London & suburbs, c1912 : Finchley
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 eastern half of Sheet 1 and this covers the suburban delights of Finchley that includes Church End, East Finchley and North Finchley along with Woodside Park. The map cleaerly shows the Great Northern Railway's suburban branches that ran out of Kings Cross and that from opening in the 1870s had stimulated suburban growth of a generally 'high quality' - in comparison with the denser areas say such as Walthamstow served by the GER. In time the GNR's line, by then the LNER's, was to be included in London Transport's extensions of the Northern line that would, had the plans come to fruition, have included not just the electrification of the bulk of the railway seen here that occurred in 1940, but that would have formed part of the Northern Heights extensions that post-war austerity and green belt planning saw cancelled.
Also clearly seen are the Mill Hill Barracks and, around Temple Fortune, the northern edge of the famous Hampstead Garden Suburb. One other use of land on the then 'outer edge' of the Metropolis was that of cemeteries for the inner London boroughs that had long since run out of land for burial grounds. Here those for three boroughs, Islington, Marylebone and St Pancras can be seen.
Bacon's Atlas of London & suburbs, c1912 : Finchley
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 eastern half of Sheet 1 and this covers the suburban delights of Finchley that includes Church End, East Finchley and North Finchley along with Woodside Park. The map cleaerly shows the Great Northern Railway's suburban branches that ran out of Kings Cross and that from opening in the 1870s had stimulated suburban growth of a generally 'high quality' - in comparison with the denser areas say such as Walthamstow served by the GER. In time the GNR's line, by then the LNER's, was to be included in London Transport's extensions of the Northern line that would, had the plans come to fruition, have included not just the electrification of the bulk of the railway seen here that occurred in 1940, but that would have formed part of the Northern Heights extensions that post-war austerity and green belt planning saw cancelled.
Also clearly seen are the Mill Hill Barracks and, around Temple Fortune, the northern edge of the famous Hampstead Garden Suburb. One other use of land on the then 'outer edge' of the Metropolis was that of cemeteries for the inner London boroughs that had long since run out of land for burial grounds. Here those for three boroughs, Islington, Marylebone and St Pancras can be seen.