How the Tube transformed Barnet

Times Series photographer Pete Beal took new photos to show how Tube stations - and the places around them - have changed.
  • Hendon's Tube station is almost unrecognisable as it stands among fields, rubble and trees in 1923.
  • A major traffic intersection, shops and flats now surround the temple like pillars of Hendon Central Underground station.
  • Roaring traffic was years off when this picture of unfinished shops and flats around Hendon Central station was taken in 1924.
  • Tube stations at Golders Green, Hendon, Edgware and High Barnet helped spread suburbia where once there was fields and hills.
  • The building of Edgware Tube station in 1924 caused the town to quadruple in size in less than six years.
  • A taxi rank now stands outside Edgware Tube station, which remains a busy commuter hub.
  • This entrance to Golders Green Tube station is no longer in use.
  • A barber and a furniture and upholstery shop have replaced Golders Green's original WHSmiths and greengrocer's.
  • The functional High Barnet Tube station, built in the 1940s, was a latecomer compared to earlier tube stations at Edgware, Hendon Central and Golders Green.
  • The interaction of cars and the Underground are vital at outlying stations such as High Barnet.

Tube stations at Golders Green, Hendon, Edgware and High Barnet helped spread suburbia where once there were fields and hills.

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How the Tube transformed Barnet

These pictures show how Underground stations at Golders Green, Hendon, Edgware and High Barnet have changed since they were built.

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