26 February 1973

Monday 26 February

1973-02-26

TV

 * BBC Two
 * 10.10 pm Metro-land A celebration of suburbia with Sir John Betjeman. ' Live in Metro-land' was the slogan in the 1920s and 1930s. It meant buying a new detached or semi-detached house in the desirable residential suburbs built up alongside the Metropolitan Railway. The Met, the first steam underground in the world, had bought up the farmland as it journeyed out from London's Baker Street, through Middlesex and Herts to farthest Bucks, and the houses and gardens it helped to build set the pattern for suburbia everywhere.
 * In this film SIR JOHN BETJEMAN takes a journey through Metro-land, in search of the poetry and variety of its architecture and activities. He finds homes of sin and mystery in St John 's Wood, a nature trail in Neasden, and London's answer to the Eiffel Tower in Wembley; a Ladies' Luncheon Club in Harrow, and midsummer revels in Croxley Green; a Georgian palace in Moor Park's Golf Club, and a mighty Wurlitzer in Chorleywood.

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