BIRTH OF A COLLEGE … 1: Conception Available to Purchase

EVERY COLLEGE is unique, but Southgate has a number of unusual features, some bringing with them particular difficulties. For example, the site itself has two peculiarities: firstly, it was originally straddling a county boundary and land had to be transferred from Hertfordshire to Middlesex to enable the College to be built wholly in Middlesex; secondly the Piccadilly Line tube passes under the site — beneath the workshops to be exact.