1924 Metropolitan Railway Map of London (G 1608)
Metropolitan Railway Map of London - Metropolitan Railway and Connections
Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd for Metropolitan Railway. Colour lithograph on paper. Information on verso. Folded as issued. Print Code G 1608 / 100,000. Whilst the 1608 issue dates back to around 1920, this may have been overprinted later with the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
The series of maps titled “Metropolitan Railway Map of London” were issued within the ‘Metro-Land’ guides 1921-1933. These guides promoted the opportunities and virtues of living in the suburban housing developments built on Metropolitan Railway owned land, the railway itself affording easy access to the capital.
On this map Tim Bryars writes: “The emphasis is on work/life balance, commuting from Metro-land (a term coined by the railway company’s Publicity Department) with its golf courses, rapidly diminishing countryside and ‘beauty spots’ such as Pinner and Ruislip, “a fragment of that older and more beautiful world”. A panel on the verso extols the virtues of living in Metro-land, by purchasing from the Metropolitan Railway Country Estates, Ltd: unlike any of their competitors, the Met was directly involved in residential property development.”
Metropolitan Railway Map of London - Metropolitan Railway and Connections
Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd for Metropolitan Railway. Colour lithograph on paper. Information on verso. Folded as issued. Print Code G 1608 / 100,000. Whilst the 1608 issue dates back to around 1920, this may have been overprinted later with the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
The series of maps titled “Metropolitan Railway Map of London” were issued within the ‘Metro-Land’ guides 1921-1933. These guides promoted the opportunities and virtues of living in the suburban housing developments built on Metropolitan Railway owned land, the railway itself affording easy access to the capital.
On this map Tim Bryars writes: “The emphasis is on work/life balance, commuting from Metro-land (a term coined by the railway company’s Publicity Department) with its golf courses, rapidly diminishing countryside and ‘beauty spots’ such as Pinner and Ruislip, “a fragment of that older and more beautiful world”. A panel on the verso extols the virtues of living in Metro-land, by purchasing from the Metropolitan Railway Country Estates, Ltd: unlike any of their competitors, the Met was directly involved in residential property development.”
Metropolitan Railway Map of London - Metropolitan Railway and Connections
Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd for Metropolitan Railway. Colour lithograph on paper. Information on verso. Folded as issued. Print Code G 1608 / 100,000. Whilst the 1608 issue dates back to around 1920, this may have been overprinted later with the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
The series of maps titled “Metropolitan Railway Map of London” were issued within the ‘Metro-Land’ guides 1921-1933. These guides promoted the opportunities and virtues of living in the suburban housing developments built on Metropolitan Railway owned land, the railway itself affording easy access to the capital.
On this map Tim Bryars writes: “The emphasis is on work/life balance, commuting from Metro-land (a term coined by the railway company’s Publicity Department) with its golf courses, rapidly diminishing countryside and ‘beauty spots’ such as Pinner and Ruislip, “a fragment of that older and more beautiful world”. A panel on the verso extols the virtues of living in Metro-land, by purchasing from the Metropolitan Railway Country Estates, Ltd: unlike any of their competitors, the Met was directly involved in residential property development.”
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