Underground To Everywhere by Stephen Halliday
Author:Stephen Halliday
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752495514
Publisher: History Press (Perseus)
Published: 2013-07-07T16:00:00+00:00
HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB
At the time when Yerkes was planning the construction of the Hampstead Tube to Golders Green,10 agricultural land in the vicinity of the proposed railway began to increase rapidly in value as speculators, many of them rumoured to be American colleagues of Yerkes, saw the opportunities for profit arising from its development. In his evidence to the Royal Commission on London Transport in 1904, Robert Perks had revealed11 that land in the Golders Green area had tripled in value to between £600 and £700 an acre as a result of the proposed railway line. At this time much of the land in Golders Green, on the northern edge of Hampstead Heath, was owned by Eton College, which had acquired it from Henry VIII in exchange for St James’s Park. One of the residents, with a weekend cottage overlooking Hampstead Heath, was (later Dame) Henrietta Barnett who was unenthusiastic at the prospect of developments that might generate suburban housing on the Heath. She later described an encounter she and her husband had in 1896, when the Hampstead Tube existed only on paper:
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