Part of Tooting History Group. @tootinghistory. Celebrating Tooting's built heritage, sharing relevant planning information and campaigning when necessary.
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We've asked @Merton_Council to make sure the increasingly vulnerable pub sign carrying publican and cricketer Burn Bullock's picture isn't lost through neglect
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It's in full swing! #LovelyTooting
Christmas In The Yard tonight at @StNicsTooting, 4pm-7pm, with a festive market of food and craft stalls, Christmas donkeys. local school choirs singing festive music, and the Christmas tree lights switch-on at 4:30pm! All welcome!
#Tooting
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55 Broadway was officially opened OTD in 1929 as the new HQ of London Transport. Designed by Charles Holden, it was one of the first modern skyscrapers in London and the tallest in the capital at the time. Read more on this remarkable building here buff.ly/2qUa98O
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Curtain Up!
After two days delay and a team builders working through the night, #StreathamHillTheatre opened on 20th November 1929 with the review Wake Up and Dream, featuring stars of the day Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale. #OTD
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Housing X Heritage? The former Dominion Cinema in Harrow (1936) pictured yesterday, showing just how it CAN be done:
Retained facade beautifully restored, with 82 new flats and an arthouse cinema built behind. Demand more from your developers!
📷 Simon Pollock, IG @LondonSuburbia
ALT Former Dominion Cinema, Harrow - Pictured August 2024. Photo courtesy of Simon Pollock (IG: @londonsuburbia)
ALT Dominion Cinema Harrow, pictured shortly after opening, in January 1936
A new planning application for Grade 2 listed The Lodge and a proposed new use. planning.wandsworth.gov.uk/N…
Still on the #HeritageAtRisk list with little sign of change other than further deterioration The Lodge #Tooting Bec Road.
One digital screen in view is quite enough! Less is more.
Another application to remove and update phone box with phone kiosk + digital advertising! Please refuse @wandbc! #Tooting
planning.wandsworth.gov.uk/N…
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Mitcham's involvement in D-Day as told by the Mitcham News & Mercury, 16th Feb 1945. Local builder Wates had workshops in Mitcham and Balham and built the floating buoys that connected the roadway between the supply ships and the landing beaches. youtu.be/uu8rYOd8aLc #dday80
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The Wandsworth Heritage Festival starts tomorrow! For our full programme of fantastic events: wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-…
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Come and hear about the Dukes of Bedford in Streatham - promises to be a fascinating talk by local historian and author John W Brown, the guru on #StreathamHistory
7:30pm Tuesday 7th May 2024 at St Leonard's Church, Tooting Bec Gardens SW16 1HS
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TOMORROW IN #TOOTING – 'Public Transport Comes To Tooting', a talk organised by @tootinghistory and hosted by John Chilvers,
More info: tootinghistory.org.uk – at Wandsworth, London
A super talk tonight. Fascinating and well attended. Many thanks to Stuart McLoughlin @tootinghistory
There are a variety of stink pipes across Tooting; this one in Avarn Rd. Street clutter? Historic assets? Should some of them/ all of them be #locallylisted? Would love to know what everyone thinks.
