The Thought of Ruislip
E.S. Turner: The Metropolitan Line, 2 December 2004
Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition Number
by Oliver Green.
Southbank, 144 pp., £16.99, July 2004,1 904915 00 0 Show More
by Oliver Green.
Southbank, 144 pp., £16.99, July 2004,
“... was rebellion and it was saved for Metroland and the nation. World War One inevitably left its mark. Our ‘flying men’, it seems, did nothing to enhance property values on the Chiltern slopes. The Rothschild estate of Halton was ‘transformed into a vast camp of hutments, which played sad havoc with the beauty of the hillside towards Tring, and this ... ”