Harrow Garden Village was a housing development in the 1930s around Rayners Lane Underground station in

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, England, which until then had been a "country halt" on the

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. This was

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's flagship development, begun in by

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, with streets full of semi-detached houses fronted with bay windows and tiled roofs.

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