Burnt Oak turns 100: Celebrating a tube station that nearly had a different name

This year marks the centenary of Burnt Oak tube station and also marks the last ticket hall designed by an architect overshadowed by his predecessor and his successor.Burnt Oak is one of five stations for the Northern line extension north of Golders Green, and the stations were all designed by the architect Stanley Heaps.
Heaps started as an assistant to Leslie Green, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) architect who designed most of central London’s distinctive stat