suburbia

This Friday, London Transport Museum throws an adults only garden party as its exploration of Suburbia continues. The evening includes guerrilla gardening, free design surgeries with a qualified interior designer from Heal’s, a crafty chance to make your own mosaic plant pot (hmm – mother’s …

Courtesy of London Transport Museum London Transport Museum are running their 3 Golders Green walks again as of this weekend. 7 local residents with a common passion for walking and a desire to celebrate their community designed the walks. Exploring the area under 3 rough …

We had great fun at last month’s LTM late, touring the collection, wine glass in hand and getting an opportunity to drive the fake bus and conquer the tube driving simulator without having to queue behind hoardes of clamouring kids or dodge them running in …

Transport Museum Lates return this Friday focused on the new exhibition, Suburbia. If you haven’t been yet, take advantage of a child-free Friday night look at the Museum’s superb collection and gnome laced exhibition with the adult friendly additions of live urban illustration, an urban …

If there’s a reader amongst you that hasn’t been to the London Transport Museum then please pay attention – the admission ticket is better value than ever before now that the Suburbia exhibition has opened. Tracing the development of the commuter belt from earliest Golders …

37 minutes from Kings Cross St Pancras is London’s newest suburb: the Kentish Town of Ashford. South Eastern High Speed weekend services have now begun and we set off through Sunday’s drizzle to inspect the latest addition to the commuter belt. Ashford is a town …

London Transport Museum have 2 pairs of tickets left for tonight’s free Golders Green walk. This is a last minute opportunity for you to discover the first suburb (ha, Zone 2!) created by the tube with people who really know the area. It’s the orange …

Gearing up for the big autumn exhibition Suburbia (opens October), London Transport Museum have created guided walks to help you discover the first tube suburb, Golders Green. Local residents have worked with the museum to map 3 routes around the area, looking at its green …

By Douglas Constable, 1932 courtesy of London Transport Museum collection. ‘Metroland‘ was a creation of the marketing department of the Metropolitan Railway when it was built out through north west London, into Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The commuter suburb concept was successfully flogged to folks …

There’s a whole section of the London Transport Museum dedicated to how the development of the tube lines contributed to the explosion of suburbia in the early 20th century and how Tube poster art became a way of selling the suburbs to commuters as plum …