ANDRAS BARTOK

“Child of the First War, forgotten by the Second, we called you Metro-Land. We laid our schemes, lured by the lush brochure, down byways beckoned to build at last the cottage of our dreams” John Betjeman, Poet Laureate, 1973

A study of the architecture and aesthetics of the neighbourhood in North West London where I grew up, an area that proved in many ways to be the prototype of the British suburb as we know it, a land of mock Tudor beams and pebbledash exteriors…