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Aboyne Road,
Garratt Green School. 1959 by the L.C.C. Architect's Department, for 2,200 girls. One of
the first London comprehensives where the buildings were divided up to avoid
too massive a scale. Nothing over four storeys. The
school has the advantage of a pleasantly open site with trees formerly occupied
by the farm of Springfield Hospital.
Aldrington Road
St.Alban 1888-93
E. H. Martineau. Byzantine. The Morris & Co. glass c.
1893 was mostly destroyed in a fire in 1947. Rebuilt J. S. Comper
Broadwater Road
St.Augustine,
1929/71. By
H. P. Burke Downing, 1929-31; Gothic
Church Lane:
St Nicholas. The old parish church, which had the
remarkable feature of a circular tower on its side was replaced by a new church
on a site a little further Church on the site for 1000 years, Saxon church very
small and round tower. New church only
built in 1833. Saxon one demolished. It
is a Commissioners' Gothic, 1833 by T. W. Atkinson. Originally three galleries as usual. Monument Brass to
Elizabeth Fitzwilliam 1582 and her husband 1555
School 1828 Hill
House eighteenth century villa
Pump lamppost and
statue of Edward VI
Derinton Road
Totterdown
Estate. London County Council first
cottage estate, 1903-11 1229 cottages for 1788 people the difference is the
streets on a grid pattern, 6/6 was the original rent a week, five roomed houses
13/6 more some had baths
Dr Johnson's Avenue
Lodge, dated 1879,
Effort
Street
Was Recovery Road
Massingberd Way
209 21ft x 25ft garden of brand new
house- Planned by owner around mature listed crab apple.
Mitcham Lane
St.Boniface R.C.
1907 by Williamson Foss. Interior based on SS. Vicenzo ed Anastasia.
Ostentatious
Mitcham Road
Runs from the church to the High Street, with a simple
pump of 1823 at one end and a florid lamp post and statue of Edward VII at the
other neatly summing up the shift from village to suburban centre
United Reformed Church, 1904-5 Gordon & Gunton,
Granada Theatre. Now bingo hall. Behind its proper classical facade by Cecil Masey
& Uren, 1937 is a breathtaking palatial interior designed by Theodore
Komisarjevsky, the best example in London of the American-inspired escapist
extravaganzas of the 1930s. Huge foyer: a baronial hall with
vaguely Byzantine columns and grand staircase, a more intimate Hall of Mirrors
with Gothic arcading, and a vast auditorium seating over 3,000, with Gothic
coffered ceiling, arcades, and canopies over the proscenium arch. The colours
are chiefly cream, green, red, and brown. The bright lights necessary for bingo
dispels something of the magic. Cathedral with spacious
Gothic decorations, with stained glass windows
Defoe Chapel now a shop. Was built in 1776 for congregation
established in 1688. Two-storey pedimented classical front. Consecrated by Mrs.Hills, whose husband was the previous pastor,
1889 opened, with the Congregational Union, but did not happen, 1911 closed,
became shop, auction room, central hall and is now bells shop, possible Defoe
was a founder
93, incorporated in a school, and,
worthwhile. 18th
Waterfall House,
set back c.1800; three-storey centre, lower wings
Library, 1902 by
William Hunt; top floor added 1908. Much terracotta decoration.
123 Smith gents' & boys’
clothing had kept a Lamson rapid wire system with 4 wires.
Montana Road
19 Architect's evolving exotic
garden.
Tooting
Toot Hill.
'People of Tota'. In the Middle Ages there were two
Tooting manors - Tooting Bec & Tooting Graveney. ‘Totinge’ 672, ‘Totinges’ 1086, ‘Totinge de Bek’ 1255, ‘Thoting
Gravenei’ 1272, ‘Totingraveney’ 1316, ‘Totingbek’ 1333, possibly 'settlement of
the family or followers of a man called Tota', from an Old English personal
name Alternatively 'people of the lookout place'. This is in any case most
probably a folk name of early type. The estate was divided into two manors from
the time of Domesday Book, hence the distinguishing affixes. Tooting
When the big screen version of the TV hit
Dad's Army arrived at the Classic Tooting, actor Bill Pertwee was persuaded to
make a personal appearance. Bill (alias A.R.P. Warden Hodges) gave a
twenty-minute question-and- answer session to a delighted audience.
Tooting Broadway
The 'Broadway' was
once a very large open space. Now it's just a small triangle of land near the
station.
Statue to Edward VII. Memorial to him put up in
1911. Bronze by L.F.Roseleib. Barehead and regal.
All Saints
Church. 1904 built with funds of
Brendell Bull in memory of husband finished first vicar, used for music
recordings.
Central Hall
Methodists now demolished built by J. Rank
Tooting Graveney
Lower or South Tooting was held by Richard de Gravenel in
1215; this family probably came from Graveney in Kent. ‘Totinge 675’, ‘Totinges’ c.1060,
‘Totinge de Bek’ 1255, ‘Thoting Gravenel’ 1272. Common
had LCC management
Tooting Grove
13 Queen Victoria
Tooting High
Street
Still Bec is
Stone Street
38 Castle
Tooting Broadway Station. 13th
September 1926. Between Tooting Bec and Colliers Wood on the Northern Line.
Built by the City and South London Railway in the house style of line when it
was extended from Moorgate following the line being rebuilt and extended to
Camden Town and South Wimbledon. Hall's
cement was used in the underground contract.
While building they had to be very careful about wet weather and
employed Negretti and Zambra for weather forecasts. It was designed
by S A. Heaps, who was probably responsible for much of the interior detail,
and Charles Holden, who designed the chaste stone-faced, stripped classical
exteriors.
La Retraite
convent eighteenth century
Waterfall House
16a Cinenews
renamed Vogue
Baths. 1907 slipper baths.
J J Moons. This was one of the
first Wetherspoon's shop conversions in South London. Long and narrow, the pub
is bustling at the front, with a quieter, partitioned,
no-smoking area at the rear. Note the
photographs of Edwardian Tooting opposite the bar.
Tooting Market
5 Swans Bookstall
Upper Tooting
Road
Upper Tooting was held by the abbey of St Mary of Bec-
Hellouin in Normandy, which lent its name also to Weedon Beck in Northamptonshire
The Elms, home of
Benjamin Edgington, tent maker
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