ABSTRACT
Proposals for opening up the district around Golders Green with electric tramways coming before the Light Railway Commissioners from 1897 onwards, had met with much opposition; only one line, from Cricklewood to Finchley was sanctioned. The Town Planning and Garden Cities Company's houses are of some interest as they are in a transitional style approximately halfway between the heavy solidity of the Grigg and Corbett estates and the lightly built semis which appeared in North Ilford after 1920. Traffic at Golders Green was heaviest on Sundays, when Londoners went out to enjoy the rural ale and the band which sometimes played in the station forecourt. The southern flanks of Golders Green, from the north side of Childs Hill to the east side of Finchley Road just north of the station were held by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Half-timbered, tiled and gabled, and cottagey in appearance, the Golders Green houses set the trend for the next three decades of London suburban exteriors.
