Totterdown Fields Estate

Tuesday 1 June 2021

The Totterdown Fields Estate in Tooting was one of the earliest LCC Council Housing Estates built in London. We will be presenting a talk about the Estate (online by Zoom) as part of The Wandsworth Heritage Festival. John Boughton, our speaker, will talk about the significance of The Totterdown Fields Estate for the development of Council housing in London.

John Boughton has written and blogged extensively about public housing. In 2018, he published a well regarded book: Municipal Dreams The Rise and Fall of Council Housing, which is now available in paperback.

John describes The Totterdown Fields Estate as “…the first municipal ‘garden estate’ and the forerunner of many which followed but impressive both for its design and architecture and the vision which underlay them.”

River Graveney Walk

Saturday 25 September 2021

Explore the hidden lower reaches of the River Graveney with Tooting History Group. Starting at the Roe Bridge, we will be walking two miles to the junction of the Graveney with the Wandle.

Along the way there will be occasional glimpses of the River Graveney. And some history of golf in the area, boundaries, bridges, music hall stars, a lost waterfall, sewage and an early railway line.