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Post by stanmorek on Jan 14, 2007 22:34:15 GMT
On perusing the LT Museum website I came across a brief reference to "LT Gardens, Brockley Hill, Stanmore, Harrow". Anyone know any more about this? Possibly related to the Northern line extension that never was?
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 14, 2007 22:36:06 GMT
Any chance of a link to this info mate?  |
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Post by stanmorek on Jan 14, 2007 22:39:20 GMT
Sorry I can't get a direct link but go to the main page and click on the photo collection link. Then type in "Brockley Hill" in the general search box and enter. Should be a photo of a girl planting potatoes. ;D www.ltmuseum.co.uk/ |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 14, 2007 22:50:50 GMT
Yes I got the spuds! ;D
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Post by stanmorek on Jan 14, 2007 22:59:51 GMT
I ask because I live only a stone's throw from Brockley Hill not because I want to grow spuds of my own ;D I done a search on the net and she happens to be in the Women's Land Army growing food during the war. I wonder about its exact whereabouts and whether the land still belongs to TfL? If it ever did. e20cl.uat.boxuk.net/server.php?show=conObject.813 |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 14, 2007 23:07:49 GMT
Indeed many embankments on the tube were used for the growing of vegetables during WW2. Didn't some continue to be used for this purpose until the 70s?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 7:31:32 GMT
I ask because I live only a stone's throw from Brockley Hill not because I want to grow spuds of my own ;D I done a search on the net and she happens to be in the Women's Land Army growing food during the war. I wonder about its exact whereabouts and whether the land still belongs to TfL? If it ever did. e20cl.uat.boxuk.net/server.php?show=conObject.813I'll have to ask my grandparents next time I visit - they've lived in that area large parts of their lives, and my grandfather knows Brockley Hill very well. I must admit, the first thing I thought of was the land out the back of what was Aldenham bus garage, only that's on Elstree Hill. And in an unrelated note, that URL should not be appearing via Google for various reasons... the correct URL for that website is www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ (my connection with that website is more than a little involved, see...) -jdp |
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