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Forthcoming events 2026

Tuesday 13 January. Crime and Punishment in Lower Tooting. Speaker: Karen Ellis-Rees. details
Tuesday 10 February. The Histories of Heritage Park Tooting: How to Remember an Asylum. Speaker: Liz Sayce.
Tuesday 22 February. Walk Around the Heritage Park Estate: looking at what remains of the Tooting Bec Asylum. Speakers: Philip Bradley and Karen Ellis-Rees.
Tuesday 10 March. Mills of the River Wandle. Speaker: Mick Taylor.
Tuesday 14 April. The work of the Survey of London and its plans for Tooting. Speaker: Colin Thom, Director of the Survey. details
Tuesday 12 May. Preserving Wandsworth’s Legacy: Developments in the Wandsworth Heritage Colection. speaker: Antia Dona, Culture and Heritage Programmer, Wandsworth Council. details
Saturday 23 May. Historic Shops of Tooting launch from 11 to 12 am, followed by a walk. details
Monday 25 May. Historic Shops Walk from Tooting Bec to Tooting Broadway. Meet at 2 pm at Tooting Bec tube station. details
Tuesday 9 June. History of shops in Tooting. Speaker: Philip Bradley. details
Tuesday 14 July. Meeting cancelled. Talk rescheduled for 13 October.
No meeting in August.
Tuesday 8 September. 160 Years of Design on the Underground. Speaker; Mark Ovenden.
Tuesday 13 October. The Tooting cholera scandal. Speaker: William Ellis-Rees.

Our talks take place on the second Tuesday of every month at the United Reformed Church, 2 Rookstone Road, Tooting, SW17 9NQ and start at 7.30 pm.

The church is just a short walk from Tooting Broadway tube station. The following buses also stop nearby: 44, 57, 77, 127, 264, 270, 280, 333, 355 & G1.

Everyone is welcome. Members free, guests £2.

Archive of past events

Two of Old Tooting’s meeting-places: on the left the church of St Nicholas, and on the right the Rising Sun Inn, complete with assembly rooms.