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Charles Holden and Stanley Heaps

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Sudbury Town is the original ‘Sudbury Box’ design by Holden, described in his own words as ‘a brick box with a concrete lid’. Indeed the building is constructed from multi-coloured handmade Buckinghamshire brick, with a poured concrete roof. The outside originally featured a neon name sign, the only tube station to have one, removed in 1958. Compared to later box-style buildings like Oakwood or Acton Town, Sudbury Town has limited window space, with four long Crittall windows allowing light into the ticket hall. Inside the ticket hall the original clock and barometer survive, as well as a newspaper kiosk. The platform area features two curved waiting areas, designed to allow passengers to see incoming trains, and a concrete footbridge. Sudbury Town is in a lot of ways Holden’s ideal design. He spent the next decade refining it, in built and unbuilt stations.

Brent is also home to Alperton station, again by Holden, who used the box design at right angles to a viaduct, with a steep passenger staircase. The station had an escalator used in the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain installed in 1955, which is still in place but bricked in by a wall. Stanley Heaps designed the adjacent bus depot, which was completed in 1938.