008 - Boston Manor

Boston Manor is considered one of architect Charles Holden's masterpieces, so in this episode we discuss his career in tube station design. At Boston Manor, Holden created a station with an elegant tower soaring above the flat roof - which upon visiting the station we discovered looks more impressive in photographs than reality!  We also look at the history of the station dating back to its origin on the District Railway, as well as Brunel's nearby marvel of bridge engineering, the factory that built the underframes of the famous Routemaster buses, and the grand home of a distant ancestor of Princess Diana. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @roundelroundpod, or email us at [email protected] References London's District Railway Volume 1: Nineteenth Century by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2018) London's District Railway Volume 2: Twentieth Century by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2019) The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007) London Underground by Design by Mark Ovenden (Penguin 2013) London Underground Stations in Colour for the Modeller and Historian by John Glover (Ian Allan Publishing 2009) London's Underground Stations A Social and Architectural Study by Laurence Menear (Midas Books 1983) Bright Underground Spaces: The Railway Stations of Charles Holden by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 2008) Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994) A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott (Unbound Publishing 2020) The Tube  - Station to Station on the London Underground by Oliver Green (Shire Publications 2012) The London Underground by Andrew Emmerson (Shire Publications 2013) The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long (The History Press 2009) London Underground Stations by David Leboff (Ian Allan Publishing 1994) Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018) Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014) Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015) What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing 2001) Vision of Britain - https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10213526/cube/TOT_POP Norvic Philatelics - http://www.norphil.co.uk/2013/01b-London_Underground_stamps.htm London Borough of Hounslow – Historic Houses - https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20174/heritage_and_arts/1855/historic_houses Hidden London – Boston Manor - https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/boston-manor/ AEC Southall - https://aecsouthall.co.uk/ Historic England – Windmill Bridge - https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1002020 Disused Stations - Windmill Lane Bridge (Three Bridges) – http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/windmill_lane_bridge/index.shtml Commercial Motor Archive - http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/7th-april-1939/25/personal-pars  Hansard - https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1946-11-18/debates/8323d849-285d-4111-b920-6c2e4737a327/CommonsChamber

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