Sheet music cover - My Little Metro-Land Home 1920 - postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  'My Little Metro-land Home' (1920) - vocal score in the British Library's collection
• Publisher:  The British Library, c.2010
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Metro-land (or Metroland) is a name given to the suburban areas that were built to the north west of London in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex in the early part of the 20th century, and were served by the Metropolitan Railway, an independent company until absorbed by the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) in 1933.

The Metropolitan Railway began as the world's first underground line in 1863. The word, métro, used in Paris as an abbreviation for its own Chemin de Fer Métropolitain, which opened in 1900, has since been adopted around the world. Metro-land was coined as a brand name by James Garland, of the Metropolitan's publicity department, to promote what the company first called its ""extension"" line, and later its ""main"" line. The term was used in advertisements and promotional publications from 1915 to 1934, although the railway itself was popularly known as ""the Met"" (rarely the ""Metro"").

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Before the end of the First World War George R. Sims had incorporated the term in verse: ""I know a land where the wild flowers grow/Near, near at hand if by train you go,/Metroland, Metroland"". By the 1920s, the word was so ingrained in the consciousness that, in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Decline and Fall (1928), the Hon Margot Beste-Chetwynd took Viscount Metroland as her second husband. Lady Metroland re-appeared in Vile Bodies in 1930. Metro-land further entered the public psyche with the song My Little Metro-land Home (lyrics by Boyle Lawrence and music by Henry Thraile, 1920), while another ditty extolled the virtues of the Poplars estate at Ruislip with the assertion that ""It's a very short distance by rail on the Met/And at the gate you'll find waiting, sweet Violet"".^[11] Queensbury and its local surroundings and characters were cited in the song ""Queensbury Station"" by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album ""Beyond Believable"", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988. The song was written by Paul Bonin and Melanie Hickford, who both grew up and lived in the area.^[12] In 1997, Metroland was the title and setting for a movie starring Christian Bale about the development of the relationship between a husband and wife living in the area. The movie was based on the novel of the same name written by Julian Barnes.

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