The History of Wandsworth Common


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March 2023

— Firing the furze on Wandsworth Common, 1850 — two boys face transportation to Australia  . . . 

— Tom Taylor (Punch): "The Warning of Wandsworth Common", 1868  . . . 

— Whiteley Exerciser for sale, 1899 — Lewis Carroll  . . . 

— Charles Booth — Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898—1903  . . . 

— George Neal jailed for the manslaughter of Lottie Crump, 1900  . . . 

— The death of a child in a pram, 1902  . . . 

— Alias Wilkinson, Smith and Jones — a duel interrupted, 1839  . . . 

— Edwin Ransome, long-time campaigner for the Common, defends the record of the outgoing Conservators, 1888  . . . 

— Appeal for donations to buy the 20 acres of "Neal's Farm" that will become the Cricket Field, 1912  . . . 

— Outrage at the destruction of trees, 1920  . . . 

— Open air dancing, a bandstand, quoits and croquet on the Common, 1925 — the Extension is finally "thrown open to the public"  . . . 

— IRA bomb on the track near the Cat's Back Bridge, 1992  . . . 

— The energetic cyclist Olive Elliott endorses "Constrictor" bicycle tyres, 1913  . . . 

— Beating the Bounds — a perambulation of Battersea parish with John Buckmaster, 1862  . . . 


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Magical History Tour: From "The Beeches" to the "Belgian" Congo (video of talk to the Friends of Wandsworth Common, 18 January 2022).



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