The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture is hosting an exhibit that chronicles the last 100 years of suburbia in England.
"The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, located appropriately in Barnet, is currently hosting an exhibition, In Search of Suburbia. It not only "unpicks the vivid patchwork of suburbia over the past 100 years" but also entices visitors to set off on guided walks around, say, Oakwood or Cockfosters, looking for oases of spec-built 1930s modernism, Crittall windows and half-timbered pubs."
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