Harrow Garden Village

Harrow Garden Village

Harrow Garden Village was a housing development in the 1930s around Rayners Lane tube station in London, England, which had been up then a "country halt" on the Metropolitan Line. This was Metro-land's flagship development, begun in by E S Reid, with streets full of semi-detached houses fronted with bay windows and tiled roofs.

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