Bacon's Atlas of London & suburbs, c1912 : Kiburn, Hampstead & Golders Green
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 5 and shows the more developed area south of Hampstead Heath that includes Kilburn. This part of London had long been carved up by the railways - seen here are the Midland Railway's main line, turning north at West Hampstead with the Metropolitan and Great Central's lines that here at Finchley Road dive down into largely tunnel sections towards Baker St and Marylebone. Running east - west, along with the Midland is what is now the North London line of the Overground, both here tunnelling under the Hampstead ridge.
To the north can be seen the growing suburb of Golders Green - a place that only a decade previously was largely open fields and whose development was a sign of the suburban sprawl that the tube railways, in connection with the mainlines, were about to begin. The then terminus station of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway - now the Northern line - had appeared here in 1907 when the site was useful for the surface depot that still serves the line. It was also, famously, part of the story of the American financier C T Yerkes who funded the three 1906/7 tube lines who is reputed to have seen the open fields of Middlesex and to his Chicago eyes expounded that this is where the devlopment and his commuters would appear from! In the early 1920s the line was extended further north towards Edgware, spurring on even more growth.
Bacon's Atlas of London & suburbs, c1912 : Kiburn, Hampstead & Golders Green
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 5 and shows the more developed area south of Hampstead Heath that includes Kilburn. This part of London had long been carved up by the railways - seen here are the Midland Railway's main line, turning north at West Hampstead with the Metropolitan and Great Central's lines that here at Finchley Road dive down into largely tunnel sections towards Baker St and Marylebone. Running east - west, along with the Midland is what is now the North London line of the Overground, both here tunnelling under the Hampstead ridge.
To the north can be seen the growing suburb of Golders Green - a place that only a decade previously was largely open fields and whose development was a sign of the suburban sprawl that the tube railways, in connection with the mainlines, were about to begin. The then terminus station of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway - now the Northern line - had appeared here in 1907 when the site was useful for the surface depot that still serves the line. It was also, famously, part of the story of the American financier C T Yerkes who funded the three 1906/7 tube lines who is reputed to have seen the open fields of Middlesex and to his Chicago eyes expounded that this is where the devlopment and his commuters would appear from! In the early 1920s the line was extended further north towards Edgware, spurring on even more growth.