The only Grade 1 listed Cinema in Britain is open for Open House weekend on Sunday 17th September 2017 from 9am to 12 midday. It is also the only grade 1 listed building in Tooting. There are guided tours and a talk at 11am.
Further details are here.
Three members will be giving short talks on:
Tooting Common and Who Owns it
The Sid Lewis Story, Part 2
All Saints Church and its Coats-of-Arms
Plus updates on
And a fundraising raffle with some fabulous prizes!
The meeting starts at 7.30pm and is being held at:
The United Reform Church,
Rookstone Road,
Tooting,
SW17 9NQ.
Tooting History Group has been involved in submitting buildings and other items of interest to Wandsworth Council for “local listing.”. This is a non-statutory list held by the Council. Particular thanks are due to Libby Lawson and other THG volunteers for photographing,researching and advocating the buildings and items shown below.
For more details of Wandsworth’s Local List, see here.
If you want to suggest other buildings or places for Tooting History Group to put forward for local listing, please contact us on the form below.
Parish Boundary Posts At The Junction of Trinity Road and St James Drive, Tooting
Two parish boundary posts: Streatham and Wandsworth. Three historical parishes meet at this point, the third being Battersea.
The Gables, 107-109, Longley Road, Tooting.
An unusual and fine pair of semi-detached houses consisting of three adjoining gable fronts, built on plots 342 to 344 purchased by Mr W.J. Ellis from the British Land Co. Ltd. for £192 in 1886. Mr Ellis lived in ‘Mona’ until 1893 and a private collection of documents detail later owners and occupiers including individuals significant to Tooting’s history. A parish boundary marker remains in the grounds of Mona – the land originally being on the boundary between Surrey parishes of Tooting Graveney and Mitcham. ‘The Gables’ is double fronted; a square bay and splay bay either side of the recessed porch with original painted coloured glass. This substantial house is barely altered with it’s lay out retained and enjoying attractive front gardens. In a panel on the central gable and to the infilled gullies either side are unusual and attractive floral and foliage inspired pargeting.
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