Poster For Cafe Birthday Monday 27th August
Come and join us for a celebration of 120 years of the cafe on Tooting Bec Common. Next Bank Holiday Monday, 27th August at 3pm. The Mayor of Wandsworth will cut a birthday cake.
Details of where to find the cafe are here.
2-5pm Tooting Library, 020 8767 0543
Time Travellers
A living history event with the Wandsworth Heritage Service.
Find out what life might have been like in Tooting. Play with real archive toys from the 30’s 40’s and 50’s (leant to us by Wandsworth museum). Try out street games your grandparents might have played.
Tooting Library is at 75 Mitcham Rd, London SW17 9PD.
The ancient parish of Tooting Graveney was the smallest parish in the county of Surrey. And we have an account from 1884 of the boundaries of the parish and the properties you would pass when beating the bounds. So 134 years later, we are going to beat the bounds of Tooting Graveney. We won’t be borrowing half a dozen young schoolboys to undertake the more perilous parts of the walk, which the vestry did in 1884. Nor will we be beating the five remaining Parish Boundary markers with willow fronds. But we will stop at the older buildings of interest, the boundary posts, and perhaps one or two hostelries. And catching a glimpse of Tooting growing from a small rural village in Surrey to the expanding suburb of London it had become by the end of the nineteenth century.
We are doing the 6 mile walk on Saturday 14th July, meeting at 11am at Amen Corner at the junction of Mitcham Road and Southcroft Road.
Beating The Bounds of Tooting Graveney
What have Harringtons Pie and Mash shop in Selkirk Road, Furzedown Recreation Ground, the Victorian Post Box in Church Lane at the entrance to Hawthorn Crescent and Fircroft School got in common?
They have all been approved for addition to the local list of historic buildings and items drawn up by Wandsworth Council and approved at Committee this week. Tooting History Group Committee members spent many hours surveying, compiling and submitting buildings and other historic items of interest for consideration by Wandsworth. Although local listing doesn’t have the same statutory force as listing by Historic England, it will have to be taken into account when planning applications are considered.
You can view the full local list for the whole borough here.
You can view the full Council Committee report here.
Defoe Chapel, 19,Tooting High Street
The Gables, 107-109, Longley Road, Tooting.
These Tooting landmark buildings; Defoe Chapel in Tooting High Street and The Gables, Longley Road, have also been added to the local list.
The latest planning application for the RACS building in Upper Tooting Road will be decided by Wandsworth Planning Committee next Tuesday. The 1920’s facade of the building will be retained but the proposal includes a 96 bedroom hotel and 41 residential flats. The full summary of the proposal reads:
“Demolition of the existing buildings, with the retention and restoration of
the RACS building facade and redevelopment of the remainder of the
site to provide a part single/part four/part five-storey building to provide
up to 2,105sqm of flexible floorspace at ground level for retail, financial
and professional services, restaurant, pub and bar (Classes A1-A4)
and 173sqm floorspace for community use (Class D1/D2); a 96-
bedroom hotel (Class C1); 41 residential units (comprising 9 x 1-
bedroom, 29 x 2-bedroom and 3 x 3-bedroom units); associated car
parking for 45 cars (including 29 spaces for public use), 124 cycle
parking spaces, servicing areas and landscaping. ”
You can read the full (47 page) Wandsworth Council report here.
Proposal For RACS Building In Upper Tooting Road
Tooting History Group 