Suffragettes and Beyond

Tuesday 13 February 2018

The Irish Community in Tooting

Tuesday 13 March 2018

At our next meeting we will be talking about memories of the Irish community in Tooting.

The Allotment History of Tooting

Tuesday 18 April 2018

At our next meeting Geraldine Kelly will be talking about the history of allotments in Tooting.

Tooting Common: From Private to Public Ownership

Wednesday 30 May 2018

How much would you pay for Tooting Bec Common? Who was the first Common Keeper? Could you hang your laundry out on the common?

Come and find out next Wednesday, 2 to 4 pm, at The Furzedown Project, 93, Moyser Road, SW16 6SJ.

The Tooting Common Story

Saturday 9 June 2018

Tooting Common has a long and controversial history of legal, political and financial conflict. Who runs the Common? Is it a Common or a park? Who sets the rules? How was it used in wartime?

Join Tooting History Group on a leisurely walk round the Common to hear about some of the extraordinary people and events that have helped to create this much-loved open space.

Tooting Common Research Latest

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson

Tuesday 10 July 2018

Dr Samuel Johnson was a regular visitor to the Streatham Park Estate next to Tooting Bec Common, where he met with Mrs. Hester Thrale and her circle. He had his own room set aside and would drink up to 23 cups of tea a day. But what did they talk about? Come to our next meeting and find out.

Dr Cassie Ulph from Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, will be talking about “Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson: The Strange Story of the Mistress of Streatham Park and  man-of-letters Dr Johnson”.

Beating the Bounds: Tooting Graveney Parish

Saturday 14 July 2018

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 we will catch 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.

Tooting Bec Common Cafe: Anniversary Celebration

Monday 27 August 2018

Come and join us for a celebration of 120 years of the cafe on Tooting Bec Common. The Mayor of Wandsworth will cut a birthday cake.

The Picture Palaces of Tooting, Balham and Streatham

Tuesday 9 October 2018

How many cinemas used there to be in Tooting? Which Tooting Cinema is Grade 1 listed, the only cinema in Britain to be rated this highly?

Come and hear about the heyday of cinemas in Tooting from Richard Gray of the Cinema Theatre Association at our next meeting.

You can find more information about the Cinema Theatre Association here.