Our next Tooting History Group meeting is a talk entitled “Home Truths: Uncovering The Secrets of Your Home” by Danielle Wilde, house historian and Tooting resident. The meeting is next Tuesday 10th January, 7.30pm at The United Reformed Church, Rookstone Road, Tooting , SW17 9NQ.
So if you have ever wondered when your house was built, who used to live there or what was there before your house, come along and hear the history of a Tooting House and how it was researched.
Our next monthly meeting on Tuesday November 8th is a talk about Caroline Ganley, a leading political figure in Battersea from the 1910s to the 1960s.
Come and hear Sue Demont (Battersea Society) speak about her life and times.
“Caroline Ganley (1879 – 1966) was the ultimate multi-tasker long before the term was invented. A hard-up mother of three who left school aged 14, she went on to become one of the first female magistrates in Britain, the first female President of the London Co-operative Society, and Battersea’s first woman MP. Her achievements were acknowledged during her lifetime, but her remarkable story is strikingly absent from the history books of the 20th century. Drawing on Ganley’s own unpublished memoir, this short book is a first step toward reclaiming that story. “
You can order Sue Demont’s book here.
The meeting is at our usual venue: United Reformed Church, Rookstone Road, Tooting, SW17 9NQ.
(Tooting Broadway Tube, 280 264 57 270 355 44 77 333 G1 buses)
October is #BlackHistoryMonth. And Tooting History Group will be hearing about the experiences of members of the Windrush Generation from Juanita Cox. Juanita is a research fellow at the School of Advanced Studies at The University of London. Using Oral History techniques, she has undertaken detailed research on the experiences of The Windrush Generation who came to Britain from the Caribbean from the late 1940s onwards and the gap between the portrayal of Britain to potential migrants and the reality that they actually experienced.
The meeting is at The United Reformed Church, Rookstone Road, Tooting, SW179NQ on Tuesday 11th October starting at 7.30pm.
(Tooting Broadway tube, 57,127,264,G1,280,77,355,44,270 buses.)
The A24 is the main road through Tooting today. 2000 years ago, the route was laid out by the Roman invaders from Londinium to Noviomagus Reginorum (present day Chichester). It was named Stane Street by the Anglo-Saxons (Stone Street) and it’s route can still be traced from London to the Sussex Coast. Come and hear Robert Entwhistle (Author “Britannia Surveyed”) at our July monthly meeting.
We meet at the United Reformed Church, Rookstone Road, SW179NQ at 7.30pm on Tuesday 12th July 2022.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 14th June. We will be hearing from the Sugar & Spice Heritage Project, based in Tooting and also from John Brown , talking about the V1 Campaign in Streatham during the Second World War. We will also hold a brief 2022 AGM.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 14th June.
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