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13 November 2026

— The ground beneath Wandsworth Common, 1878: Stanford’s Geological Map, zoomable new Build 1 — Fulham to Upper Tooting, Wimbledon Park to Clapham; the gravel tongue the Common sits on; watermarks removed

— Plans for London’s streets, 1905: the Royal Commission on London Traffic street plan, zoomable new Build 1 — the whole of London, with the proposed new streets and widenings in red, including Wandsworth Road

— London as a cluster of communities, 1943: the County of London Plan “potato map”, zoomable new Build 1 — Forshaw and Abercrombie’s Social and Functional Analysis; Wandsworth Common as one of the green spaces between communities

— Wandsworth Common in Maps: index updated — the three new maps added

10 November 2026

— Thomas Hardy and an execution at Wandsworth Prison new Build 5 — Kate Webster, 29 July 1879: the view from Trinity Road, the black flag, and the last page of Tess; Stanford’s 1877 map with the sight line from the Hardys’ house to the prison; noindex

— The execution of Catherine Webster, 29 July 1879 (The Globe) new — transcription; noindex

— Kate Webster’s confession (Daily Telegraph, 31 July 1879) new — transcription; noindex

— Thomas Hardy on Trinity Road, 1878–1881 updated Build 6 — the house, the 1881 census, a chronology from the Early Life, the stories, two poems, and every Hardy Chronicle; noindex

— Did Wandsworth Common shape Thomas Hardy? new Build 9 — Egdon Heath, Kate Webster and Tess, Graham Swift, Mark Ford, Huxley, and Hardy’s own verdict; noindex

9 November 2026

— The Wheatsheaf, Tooting Bec: notes new Build 1 — on the Roman road since at least 1737; “the lane leading to the Wheat Sheaf”; noindex

— The Surrey Tavern: notes new Build 1 — summary of the in-progress page: 1860s, landlords, pictures, the Craig Telescope myth; noindex

— The County Arms: notes new Build 1 — from about 1852, named for the county whose prison it served; noindex

— Walter Johnson, F.G.S. (1867–c.1950) new Build 1 — Battersea teacher, naturalist, archaeologist and folklorist; his books, Mount Nod, the Highland shepherd on Wandsworth Common (noindex while in progress)

8 November 2026

— Trinity Road to the River new Build 1 — the widening and extension of the northern end of Trinity Road to Wandsworth Bridge, 1873–1972: the Chronicles of April, May and June 2026 as one illustrated page

— Nicholas Fuentes, ‘The Western Boundary of Early Battersea’, 1990 new Build 1 — from The Wandsworth Historian 59, with the five figures; the charter bounds and the burial mounds near Trinity Road

— Keith Bailey, ‘Battersea’s Anglo-Saxon boundaries: a comment’, 1990 new Build 1 — from The Wandsworth Historian 60; a reply to Gower (1989)

— Graham Gower, Battersea boundary, 1989 updated Build 2 — “see also” box linking the three 1989–90 articles

7 November 2026

— The Perambulation of Wandsworth Parish Boundaries in 1788 rebuilt Build 1 — transcribed afresh from Wandsworth Historian 71–72 with the four sketch maps, my research notes and the Corris 1787 maps; moved to /sources/ (old address forwards)

— Graham Gower, ‘Some observations on the Battersea boundary through West Streatham’, 1989 new Build 1 — from The Wandsworth Historian 58, with the four maps; the charter bounds of 693 and 957 from Balham to the Wandle

— Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London, 1792: Battersea, Streatham, Tooting, Wandsworth new Build 2 — transcribed from the scan, page by page and searchable, with the St. John pedigree; includes the full list of burials in the Huguenot burial ground

— Henry Simmonds, All About Battersea, 1882 updated Build 2 — Previous and Next buttons below each page

— Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London, 1810: Wandsworth new Build 2 — the revised second-edition account, in the same format

5 November 2026

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson), This Is My Life, 1965–1969 updated — 1967 and 1968 added from Chris Lilley’s photographs: Easter in Paris, Pat to Balls Park College, lunch at the Post Office Tower, a tour of Devon and Cornwall, and Beryl and Colin’s wedding at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate; with Stan’s 30th anniversary card, Peter’s christening invitation and the wedding invitation (still noindex)

3 November 2026

— Trinity Road: the text of the talk new Build 1 — A History Boys Magic Lantern Show, November 2026; working text, not for publication

— Trinity Road: references for the talk new Build 3 — A Short History of a Long Road, November 2026; not for publication

— Wandsworth Common in Maps: index updated — the zoomable maps now listed in date order

2 November 2026

— Wandsworth Common as it was and is, 1889, zoomable new Build 2 — the Common’s losses coloured and numbered

— Wandsworth Common in 1905: Stanford’s map, zoomable new Build 1 — Clapham Junction to Upper Tooting

— Wandsworth Common in 1800: Thomas Milne’s land-use map, zoomable new Build 1 — every field coloured by use, Battersea to Mitcham

— Wandsworth Common in 1746: John Rocque’s map, coloured, zoomable new Build 2 — Wandsworth and Battersea to Garratt Green and Balham

— South-west London about 1810: the Ordnance Survey one-inch map, zoomable new Build 2 — Brentford and Richmond to Peckham, Kensington to Mitcham; Wandsworth Common before enclosure; cleaned up and sharpened

— Wandsworth and Battersea, 1838–1841: the two tithe maps joined, zoomable new Build 1 — Charles Lee’s two parish surveys joined along the boundary; the whole of Wandsworth Common on one map

— Battersea in 1838: the tithe map, zoomable updated Build 3 — cleaned up: paper evened out, colours strengthened, lines sharpened

— Balham and Upper Tooting in 1839: the Streatham tithe map, zoomable updated Build 3 — cleaned up: paper evened out, colours strengthened, lines sharpened

— Battersea in 1787: John Corris’s Plan of Battersea Parish, zoomable updated Build 2 — cleaned up: paper evened out, colours strengthened, lines sharpened

— From Fulham to Mitcham in 1866: Stanford’s Library Map, south-west sheet, joined, zoomable new Build 2 — the linen joins of the folding original closed up and the border trimmed, so the sheet reads as one map; paper evened out, colours freshened

— The Parish of Wandsworth in 1841: the tithe map, zoomable updated Build 2 — cleaned up: the yellowed paper evened out, the colour washes strengthened and the pen lines sharpened

1 November 2026

— South-west London in 1877: Stanford’s Library Map, six sheets joined, zoomable new Build 1 — Fulham and Millbank to Merton and Mitcham, Wimbledon to Clapham; borders cut away and the sheets butted into one map

— From Fulham to Mitcham in 1866: Stanford’s Library Map, south-west sheet, zoomable new Build 1 — in colour, Fulham and Chelsea to Merton and Mitcham, Wimbledon Common to Clapham Common

— The Parish of Wandsworth in 1841: the tithe map, zoomable new Build 1 — the whole parish, every field, garden and building numbered; the West Common, Wimbledon Park and the East Common (Wandsworth Common)

— Battersea in 1787: John Corris’s Plan of Battersea Parish, zoomable new Build 1 — every plot numbered and coloured by owner; the open fields, the Marsh, and the West and East Commons

— Balham and Upper Tooting in 1839: the Streatham tithe map, zoomable new Build 2 — the north-western part of Streatham parish, every plot numbered, on the borders of Wandsworth, Battersea and Clapham

— Wandsworth Common in Maps (index) updated — the Streatham tithe map added to the zoomable maps

31 October 2026

— Wandsworth, Battersea, Clapham and Tooting in 1862: Stanford’s Library Map, zoomable new Build 1 — in colour, the Thames to Tooting, Wimbledon Park to Clapham Common; Stanford names “The Five Houses”

— The Parish of Battersea in 1838: the tithe map, zoomable new Build 1 — the whole parish in colour, every field, garden and building numbered; the Five Houses are plots 336, 337, 339, 341 and 350

— Battersea Rise and Bolingbroke Grove in the 1890s: the OS five-foot town plan, zoomable new Build 1 — three sheets joined and gently coloured, Clapham Junction to Nightingale Lane; Bolingbroke House, St Michael’s, Linden Lodge

— Wandsworth Common in Maps (index) updated — the tithe map, the 1890s five-foot plan and Stanford 1862 added to the zoomable maps

— The Five Houses of Wandsworth Common (book) updated Build 25 — contents and editorial status brought up to date; earlier versions of every updated section kept and linked; reader’s versions (all editors’ notes hidden) for every section [noindex]

— Introduction updated Build 11 — tidied; new box on the ponds of the Common

— Landscape updated Build 11 — Henrietta’s description of the 1865 Whitbread map; new layout

— Gardens updated Build 12 — Henrietta’s plant list and table moved here; Rollissons nursery in a box

— Below stairs updated Build 10 — new layout

— Outdoor staff new Build 1 — coachmen, grooms, gardeners and farm workers: an outline

— Bolingbroke House updated Build 16 — a clean draft in the new layout; Uriah Wackrill’s story and Willis, Percival & Co. in boxes; suggested rewrites of the Wackrill and live-in servants passages; the freehold and Bolingbroke Farm paragraph rewritten

— Bolingbroke Hospital updated Build 6 — Mark’s edit added as suggestions; Canon Clarke, James Carmichael, fresh air and an early advertisement in boxes

— Grove House updated Build 10 — Henrietta’s edit added as suggestions; Champion and British whaling, and Miss Champion’s will, in boxes

— Bolingbroke Grove House updated Build 10 — Henrietta’s edit added as suggestions; new layout

— The Elms updated Build 9 — Henrietta’s and Mark’s edits added as suggestions; the cold bath in a box

— Dent’s House updated Build 9 — Henrietta’s and Mark’s edits added as suggestions; Sir John Eldon Gorst in a box

30 October 2026

— Literary Women of Wandsworth Common new Build 6 — novelists, poets, a diarist, a translator, scholars, memoirists and critics, from Mrs Thrale and George Eliot to Elisabeth Beresford and Sabine Durrant, with links to their pages

— Literary Men of Wandsworth Common new Build 1 — from Francis Grose and Tom Taylor to Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Graham Swift, plus two dozen novels and plays set on the Common

— The Caudwell Family of Spencer Park new Build 1 — research notes: Job Caudwell, his children, and his granddaughter Irene

— The Lord Family of Bolingbroke Grove new Build 1 — research notes: James Lord, Henrietta Frances Lord, Emily Ward and Walter Frewen Lord

— The Bevington Family of Ivy House new Build 1 — research notes: the Neckinger Mills leather family, Geoffrey the photographer, Samuel Bourne and cousin Louisa

— The Du Buisson Family of West Side new Build 1 — research notes: James Du Buisson JP, Conservator, his house and fields by St Anne’s, and the sale of 1879

— The Nottidge Family of Wandsworth Common new Build 1 — research notes: William Nottidge JP, lessee of the Common, The Elms and Elm Lodge, and his Moseley descendants

— The Neal Family: Neal’s Farm and Neal’s Nursery new Build 1 — research notes: carmen, contractors and nurserymen; the Patriotic Fund land; the graves at Battersea

— The de Selincourt Family of Wandsworth Lodge new Build 1 — research notes: the cloak-maker from Paris, the clearance sale of 1885, and Daphne, wife of A. A. Milne

— The McKellar Family of Wandsworth Lodge new Build 1 — research notes: Henry McKellar, tailor to the East India Company; McKellar’s Triangle and Trinity Fields

— The Buckmaster Family of Battersea new Build 1 — research notes: John Charles Buckmaster, Emily, and their five children, among them a Lord Chancellor

— The Anderson Rose Family new Build 1 — research notes: James Anderson Rose, Whistler’s solicitor, and the Railway Enclosure Piece

— The Ron Elam Collection updated — all the postcard images brightened and sharpened; the eight albums (v7) now open each card in a viewer that fills the window, and the ⛶ button shows the picture alone, full screen

29 October 2026

— The Corsellis Family of Wandsworth new Build 1 — research notes on A.A. Corsellis, Henry Nicholas Corsellis and the poet Timothy Corsellis (noindex, to upload)

— The Watney Family and Wandsworth new Build 1 — research notes on the Watneys of the Wandle mills and the York Road distillery, their Langton marriages, and Burke’s pedigree (noindex, to upload)

— People of Wandsworth Common updated — the Watney and Corsellis families added (206 people and families)

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson): This Is My Life, 1965–1969 new — 1965 and 1966, with the Morecambe hotel bill, Monique’s wedding announcement and the Arding & Hobbs ticket (noindex, to upload)

28 October 2026

— People of Wandsworth Common updated — the whole /people/ section tidied: duplicate pages merged, hundreds of broken links mended, old addresses forwarded; 204 people and families

— Edward Thomas updated — the folder tidied: duplicates merged, stubs removed, every page now at a hyphenated address (the old ones forward)

— Edward and Helen Thomas in Battersea and Wandsworth new Build 1 — John Haskey’s account of the Wandsworth Society walk led by Richard Purver and Anne Harvey, June 2012, with the original newsletter pages

— J. T. Squire, The Registers of the Parish of Wandsworth (1889) updated — corrected Marriages restored to the transcription

— John Buckmaster: working drafts new — the earlier drafts, kept together on one page

— John Ruskin, The Springs of Wandel updated — moved to /people/john-ruskin/

— Kate Webster updated — moved to /people/catherine-webster/

— The Duval family updated — moved to /people/duval-family/

— The Wilson family of The Beeches updated — moved to /people/wilson-family-beeches/

— The Wilsons and the Prices updated — moved to /people/wilson-family-prices/

— Houses updated Build 3 — duplicate house pages in /buildings/houses/ now forward to their /houses/ twins

27 October 2026

— Schools updated Build 1 — rebuilt as a proper contents page for every school page on the site

— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylums new Build 1 — hub for the girls’ and boys’ asylums

— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls new Build 1 — replaces three earlier drafts

— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth Common, by Simon McNeill-Ritchie new Build 1 — kept hidden from Google for now

26 October 2026

— Old Emanuel cricket: ninety-five years at Blagdon’s, by Graham Jackson new Build 1 — moved here from the end of the September 2026 Chronicles

— Indexes to the Chronicles updated — every issue now indexed: 566 dated events, 295 subject entries

24 October 2026

— Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre new Build 1 — a home for everything about the founder of Emanuel Hospital: her will, her monument in Chelsea Old Church, her kneeling figure in Westminster Abbey, her portraits (story to come) and her coat of arms (still noindex)

— Lady Dacre and Emanuel School updated Build 2 — moved here from /schools/emanuel-school/

— People updated — Henry Groves and Anne Sackville added (193 entries)

— Henry and James Groves, botanists of Wandsworth Common new Build 1 — a small collection (still noindex):

— Henry Groves, a local botanist, by Roy Vickery Build 2

— Henry Groves (1855–1912), by his brother James — the 1913 obituary in full, with portrait

— Notes on British Characeae, 1895–1898 — with Henry’s drawing of Nitella hyalina

— The other Henry Groves — Enrico Groves of Florence (1835–1891), not to be confused with ours

23 October 2026

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson), This Is My Life, 1960–1964 updated — 1963 and 1964 added from Chris Lilley’s photographs, completing the page: the big freeze, Huw’s birth, Wendy and John buying No. 17, a French teacher to stay and Richard’s birth; with a note from Christine to her father and the Clapham County School Speech Day programmes for 1963 and 1964 (still noindex)

— Chronicles, September 2026 updated — click-to-enlarge pictures restored; Clapham County School pictures with captions (the hat and scarf, the blue plaque, the school about 1959); the Chelsea and Westminster Abbey passages tidied

22 October 2026

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson), This Is My Life, 1960–1964 updated — 1961 and 1962 added from Chris Lilley’s photographs: Pam’s degree at the Albert Hall, two weddings, students as lodgers, and Chris and Trisha by the pond on Wandsworth Common; with the Albert Hall ticket, the Earlsfield Junior Girls’ School prize-giving programme and a postcard from Grandad (still noindex)

— Going Comprehensive updated Build 6 — timeline corrected: Honeywell (1955), Garratt Green (1958), the ILEA (1965) and the direct-grant schools (1975)

— Chronicles, September 2026 updated — corrections, the “Return to Independence” spread, and a link box on the surprising connection between Lady Dacre’s arms and the Fitzhugh Estate names

21 October 2026

— Going Comprehensive updated Build 5 — Bolingbroke Academy (2012) added, under “New schools since 1993”

— Lady Dacre and Emanuel School new Build 1 — the Fiennes-Dacre coat of arms redrawn, its twelve quarters, and how four of them gave their names to the Fitzhugh Estate (work in progress, not yet public)

— Why “Fitzhugh”, “Morville”, “Gernigan”, “St Quentin”, “Skipsea”, “Woodhall”? updated — corrections (Emanuel was voluntary-aided, fees returned in 1977) and links to the Lady Dacre page; the Fitzhugh Estate and Fiennes coat of arms pages also corrected, and two duplicate pages turned into forwarders (not yet public)

20 October 2026

— Going Comprehensive updated Build 4 — Walsingham School corrected: formed 1976, closed 1993 (not 1991), with the old girls’ history as source; timeline put in date order

— Going Private updated Build 2 — Walsingham’s closing date corrected to 1993

— Chronicles, September 2026 updated — Emanuel items rewritten: the last free intake of 1976, the Countess of Loudoun in the Lords, what happened across the borough, and girls’ return in 1995–96

19 October 2026

— The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Boys, 1872–1882, by B.V. Slater new Build 1 — the orphan school whose building became Emanuel School: Bernard Slater’s six articles from The Portcullis, checked against the scan, with the scan itself; noindex for now

18 October 2026

— People’s War: local stories new — private research tool: all 810 BBC WW2 People’s War stories touching Wandsworth, Battersea, Tooting and surrounding places; searchable, filterable by place, sortable; noindex

17 October 2026

— Listed Buildings around Wandsworth Common new Build 3 — the 59 nationally listed buildings, tombs and street furniture around the Common, from St John’s Hill and East Hill to Springfield and Nightingale Lane, and 109 entries from Wandsworth’s local list (ghost signs, postboxes, boundary posts, Heaver’s terraces), with a full-screen map and links to Historic England

— People’s War memories: Wandsworth and around, 1939–1945 new Build 1 — local stories from BBC WW2 People’s War, a few at a time; noindex for now

— A Wartime Child Refugee: From Poland to Balham (Mark Krymer, MI6 father, the Royal Victoria Patriotic School) and Earlsfield, London During The War (Eileen Bicknell of Wilna Road)

— and, added later the same day: Bill Clavey, Keep Smiling Through, Part One and Part Two: London Ablaze (Wandsworth); Peggy Edelston, My War Years, Part 1 (Southfields); Joan Styan, Wartime Hardships and Victory Celebrations; Jean Jeffries, From London to Bampton (Clapham Junction); Victor Spink, Doodlebug Days in Wimbledon

16 October 2026

— Bevin’s Babes: wartime memories of the girls of Upper Tooting High new Build 1 — fourteen girls, most of them born in the war, and their mothers’ stories, first posted to BBC WW2 People’s War in 2004–05: hub page with search, who’s who and an index of places and themes, and a page for each story; noindex until the writers or their families have been contacted

— the stories: Introduction, Liz, Christine, Jill, Ollie, Gillie, Diane, Marlene, Susan, Judy, Frances, Heather, Sally, Carol and Vivienne

— Wandsworth, Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction in the 1860s: the OS five-foot town plan, zoomable new Build 2 — six sheets of the 60-inch (1:1056) plan joined and gently coloured: the Thames, the Wandle and Wandsworth High Street, the north of the Common and the Black Sea, East Hill, St John’s Hill, Clapham Junction, Lavender Hill and Battersea Rise; every house and tree

15 October 2026

— Poems by John Tuton Jackson updated — nine new poems added, from Swifts over suburbia (1988) to Guppies’ lives (2026); fifteen in all, now listed by date

12 October 2026

— Going Private: our independent schools since 1945 new Build 2 — fee-paying schools old and new, and the former state school buildings taken over by Thomas’s, Newton Prep, Northcote Lodge and others

— Going Comprehensive: what became of our secondary schools, 1955–1993 new Build 4 — Emanuel, Spencer Park, Sir Walter St John’s, Battersea Grammar, Clapham County and twenty more: which merged, which closed, which went private

— Huguenots in the Newspapers new Build 1 — cuttings transcribed in full: Hedley Fitton’s drawing and the Daily Chronicle appeal (1896), a protest in the Echo (1897), and “The Bones of the Huguenots” (Daily News, 1906)

— Chronicles, September 2026 updated — the lost house by Mount Nod, the Presbytery, the Vanderhoven headstone, and Emanuel in the Lords, 1975

— St Mary Magdalen, East Hill, and its Presbytery new Build 2 — work in progress: the Catholic church beside Mount Nod, the Salesians, and the older house on the site

— The Will of Elizabeth Vanderhoven, 1749 — now linked from the August and September Chronicles

11 October 2026

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson), This Is My Life (main page) updated Build 3 — the memoir is now a small microsite: introduction and contents, then a page for each five years or so, 1915 to 1954; still noindex while the family sends more

— the six pages: 1915–1926, 1927–1934, 1935–1939, 1939–1943, 1944–1949, 1950–1954; new pages for 1953–1954 from Chris Lilley, with the programmes Muriel kept, Muriel as a baby in 1915 (“Moo-moo, the sleepy one”), and her father, a Waifs and Strays organiser, with the Duchess of Gloucester

— Charge site: William Henry Cory — Tony Margrave’s session with Google AI new Build 2 — the full session of 9 October 2026 in 22 exchanges, with new avenues of research and a coda on reading the AI’s answers with care [noindex]

— The Ikarian Refugees, 1941–1946: Sources new Build 1 — testimonies, books, film and background, with a glossary of Greek words

— Antigoni Romiliou: How I Became a War Refugee in 1942 updated Build 4 — full ERT link; her boatman identified as Petros Fantaoutsos of Plomari

— Our Family updated Build 5 — the family section now lives at /our-family/

10 October 2026

— The Huguenots in Wandsworth: a Riverside Radio conversation new Build 1 — Julia Bright talks to Tim Kidd about the Huguenots and the Wandle, and to Ian Gray about the Wandsworth Society; transcribed from a recording, c.2020

— Our Family new Build 5 — new section: pages about my own family

— Edward James Boys (1916–2002) new Build 1 — my father’s biography, from the Charge site, with eight photographs

— Antigoni Romiliou: How I Became a War Refugee in 1942 new Build 3 — my mother’s cousin’s escape from Ikaria to the Middle East; with a route map

— Family photographs new Build 1 — my parents in Egypt c.1939 and in Wandsworth in 1949

7 October 2026

— Wandsworth and Battersea in the 1860s: the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (zoomable) updated Build 5 — two sharper sections stitched in: Wandsworth town, and the Patriotic Asylum to Dorlcote Road; new button (arrow) to get back to the top of the page from the map, as on all the zoomable maps

— Manning and Bray, History of Surrey (hub) updated Build 3 — moved to a new address with the year in its name; old links still work

— Gideon Mantell, “A Sketch of the Geology of the County of Surrey” (Brayley, vol. I, 1850) new Build 1 — the whole chapter with its three plates: conglomerate in the gravel of Clapham and Wandsworth commons, London clay fossils from the railway cutting on Wandsworth Common, Clapham’s deep wells, and the iguanodon

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey: Wimbledon new Build 1 — the Cecils’ great house, Wimbledon Park, the Rounds (“Cæsar’s Camp”) with Dr Roots’s antiquities, Mrs Marryat’s garden, and duels on the Common including Cardigan and Tuckett, 1840

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey: Streatham, with Balham new Build 1 — Tooting Bec and Leigham Court, St Leonard’s struck by lightning, the Thrales and Dr Johnson, Balham and Bedford Hill as building began

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey: Tooting new Build 1 — Gravenells and Maynards, St Nicholas rebuilt, Governor King of New South Wales, the Artesian well, Drouet’s Infant Pauper Asylum, and Defoe’s meeting-house

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey: Clapham new Build 1 — Clapa and Hardicanute, Pepys at Hewer’s house, the Common restored, Cubitt’s Clapham Park, the churches, and the murder of 1823

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey: Battersea new Build 1 — Bolingbroke House, York House, Sir Edward Wynter and the tyger, the Training College, and the plans for Battersea Park, as they stood in 1847

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey: Wandsworth new Build 2 — the parish account of the early 1840s in full: manors, churches, Henry Smith, the Mayors of Garratt, the new Asylum on the Common

— Brayley, Topographical History of Surrey (hub) new Build 4 — all six parishes, and Mantell’s geology

— Sources updated — Brayley added; Manning & Bray now with Clapham

6 October 2026

— Manning & Bray, History of Surrey: Clapham new Build 2 — the parish chapter in full, vol. III pp. 359–372, proofread against the page images; with the Atkins pedigree

— Wandsworth in the 1860s: the OS six-inch map, zoomable new Build 2 — four sheets joined, Chiswick and Richmond Park to Lambeth and Dulwich, Chelsea to Wimbledon and Streatham

— Wandsworth in 1937: the Geographia street map, zoomable new Build 3 — Barnes to Streatham and Stockwell, the Thames to Upper Tooting; now taking in Clapham Common and Balham; with buttons for the Magdalen area, the Prison, the Cemetery and Magdalen Road

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson), This Is My Life updated Build 2 — memoir, 1915 to about 1952, restyled with contents; more parts to come

— Wandsworth and Battersea in the 1860s: the OS 25-inch map, zoomable new Build 3 — twelve sheets joined, Hammersmith to Tooting, Putney to Clapham; zoom down to single houses

5 October 2026

— Manning & Bray, History of Surrey (1814) new Build 1 — the chapters on Battersea, Wandsworth, Tooting and Wimbledon, complete text

— Our Historians updated Build 3 — Manning & Bray now linked

— The Will of William Paggen, Brewer, 1636 new Build 1 — probably Peter Paggen’s grandfather; land in Jülich and a legacy to the Dutch Church (PROB 11/177/700)

— The Will of William Paggen, 1688 new Build 2 — Peter Paggen’s brother, London merchant (PROB 11/398/296)

— The Will of Peter Paggen, 1717 updated Build 3 — East India Company note corrected; links to the other Paggen wills

— The Will of Katherine Paggen, 1724 new Build 2 — full transcription (PROB 11/598/25), with the schedule and the codicil naming her son-in-law Humphry Morice

— Peter Paggen updated Build 8 — links to all four Paggen wills; the family’s land in Jülich

4 October 2026

— William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade (1734) new Build 1 — complete text, searchable, with the map; the eleven passages about Humphry Morice and his ships marked and linked to the voyage register

— Peter Paggen, Humphry Morice and the slave trade updated Build 3 — links to Snelgrave

— Sources updated — Snelgrave added

— Peter Paggen updated Build 6 — links to the new slave-trade notes and the Pettigrew notes; voyage figures corrected

— Peter Paggen, Humphry Morice and the slave trade new Build 1 — notes page: Paggen’s 25 and Morice’s 92 slaving voyages from the SlaveVoyages database, the family link, the Whydah, the Bank fraud; sortable register of all 123 voyages

— Trinity Fields new Build 1 — contents page for the Trinity Fields pages, with the people involved; all pages now have a crumb trail

— Charge site: “Tramps in their hundreds”: North America’s Light Brigade Chargers new Build 6 — Tony Margrave’s study as a microsite: introduction, a searchable list of all 105 claimants, a page for each man with his notes, and appendices [noindex]

— Trinity Fields: “The field with no name”, 1852–1882 new Build 3 — the story retold, plus Graham Jackson’s chapter 2 in full

— Trinity Fields: the Board School encroachment, 1883–84 new Build 7 — the cuttings transcribed; Edward Fithian of “Forest Lodge”, 56 Brodrick Road

— Trinity Fields: the School Board elections, 1885 new Build 2 — full transcription of the South London Press page, 31 October 1885

— Our Historians new Build 2 — Lysons to Gerhold: who they were, with links to their works on the site (Build 2 adds Our Mapmakers to the footer)

— Our Memoirists new Build 2 — Helen Thomas, Ward Muir, Irene Caudwell, P. Y. Betts and others (Build 2 adds the footer link)

— Our Mapmakers new Build 1 — Gardner & Porter to Charles Booth, with links to their maps

— Philip Cazenove (1799–1880) new Build 2 — notes page: Battersea Rise, St Michael’s church, thepeerage entry

— Notes index updated Build 4 — Cazenove added

— People updated — now generated from the master register: search, filters, A–Z, and placeholder pages for 66 people still to be written up

3 October 2026

— John Breeze (Chronicles, October 2021) updated — the two John Breeze pages merged into one; the 1854 page now forwards here

— Chronicles: click-to-enlarge pictures updated — 77 Chronicles pages converted to the lightbox, newest first, with broken pictures repaired (September 2026 shown)

— July Chronicles, 2026 updated Build 2 — Build 2, with Part One (now Build 3)

— Huguenots in the Newspapers new Build 1 — newspaper cuttings about Mount Nod and the Huguenots, 1896–1906

— St Mary Magdalen, East Hill, and its Presbytery new Build 2 — the church and presbytery next to Mount Nod

— Mount Nod updated Build 3 — tidied, with “Last modified”

— Mount Nod restored updated Build 2 — Samuel John and Vanderhoven text added

— Mount Nod time-lapse updated Build 8 — Build 8

— Elizabeth Vanderhoven’s will, 1749 updated Build 2 — links to the memorials page corrected

— A History in Maps updated — links repaired

— William Faden: maps of London and Surrey, 1790–1819 updated — new page for Faden’s maps

— Sources updated — contents page now lists Logan, Walker, and Browning & Kirk; placeholder links removed

2 October 2026

— South Battersea map series (Roger Logan) updated Build 2 — maps 1851–1900

— The Five Houses of Wandsworth Common (book) updated Build 19 — new Part 1 sections: Above stairs (stub) and After the Five Houses (draft); editors’ comment bar [noindex]

26 September 2026

— Charge site: Walter Canning alias William Henry Cory, commentary on the memoir new Build 3 — Philip’s commentary

— Charge site: William Henry Cory, correspondence, September 2026 new Build 1 — with Michael and Tripp Cory

— Charge site: The memoir of William Henry Cory, transcription new Build 1 — the full transcription; the commentary and correspondence pages link here

25 September 2026

— Job Caudwell (1820–1908) new Build 2 — Wikipedia article, Spencer Park concrete house, Clapham Junction estate; now links to Irene Caudwell’s memoir

— Irene Caudwell, Four Miles from Charing Cross updated Build 1 — the memoir reformatted: typescript page numbers, contents with chapter pdfs, search

— A. Giraud Browning & R.E.G. Kirk, “The Early History of Battersea” (1891) new Build 1 — Surrey Archaeological Collections X, pp. 205–254: full transcription with page images and search

— The Metamorphosis of Battersea 1800–1914 (1995) updated Build 2 — all pages: grey margin page numbers fixed

24 September 2026

— Keith Bailey, The Metamorphosis of Battersea 1800–1914 (1995) new Build 2 — the complete thesis: contents, introduction, Chapters 1–14, Appendices 1–7, bibliography; searchable, with page images and zoomable figures [in progress, noindex]

— Metamorphosis, Appendix 4: Battersea Estate Development Directory updated Build 3 — every row re-checked against the typescript (41 corrections)

23 September 2026

— Peter Paggen new Build 5 — listing page: his will, Wandsworth Manor House, Jack the “guinea boy”, Mount Nod

— Peter Paggen’s will, 1717 new — full transcription (PROB 11/575/141)

— Jack, the “guinea boy” new — the London Gazette notice, 1690

— “Wandsworth Manor House” new — origin, development, demolition, and the parts reused at Thornhill House

— S.W. Kershaw, “The Manor House, Wandsworth” (1891) new — verbatim transcription

— Houses updated — index tidied; Beeches and County Arms links fixed

— Elizabeth Vanderhoven new — listing page, with her will of 1749 (buried at Mount Nod)

— Elizabeth Vanderhoven’s will, 1749 new — transcription

— Charge site: Olympia, 1890 updated Build 2 — restyled; names listed, newspaper report transcribed, zoomable photograph

Earlier in September 2026 (dates not recorded)

— Building Histories: The Keith Bailey Archive [collected papers, in progress]

— The Metamorphosis of Battersea, [dates] [in progress]

— Elizabeth Vanderhoven, her Will, burial with Judith Grolleau etc.

— Peter Paggen, his Will, links to his "Wandsworth Manor House", as enslaver etc.

— "Wandsworth Manor House".

— September's Chronicles 2026

— Figcaption-generator

— July Chronicles, 2026

— Mount Nod Restored

— Henry Simmonds, All About Battersea, 1882 - complete text paginated and searchable.

Charge of the Light Brigade site

— “Tramps in their hundreds”: North America’s Light Brigade Chargers — Tony Margrave [noindex]

— William Henry Cory (Walter Canning): commentary on the memoir

— William Henry Cory: correspondence

— William Henry Cory: Tony Margrave’s session with Google AI, October 2026

— William Henry Cory: the memoir, transcription

— Private Benjamin Soley, 17th Lancers

— John Levick, 8th Hussars

— Jubilee postcard of Balaclava survivors, 1904

— Survivors at the 33rd anniversary dinner, 1887

— Olympia, 1890

— Charles Booth’s notebook: Nine Elms and Battersea, 1899

— Research note: “Any Old Iron”

Our Historians, Memoirists and Mapmakers

— Our Historians

— B.V. Slater, The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Boys, 1872–1882 — from The Portcullis, Emanuel School’s magazine

— Our Memoirists

— Muriel Baldrey (Johnson), This Is My Life — memoir, 1915–1968, in nine pages

— Bevin’s Babes — wartime memories of the Upper Tooting High girls, from BBC WW2 People’s War, 2004–05; fourteen pages, searchable

— People’s War memories — other local stories from BBC WW2 People’s War: Bill Clavey (Wandsworth), Eileen Bicknell (Earlsfield), Peggy Edelston (Southfields), Joan Styan and Jean Jeffries (Clapham Junction), Mark Krymer (Balham), Victor Spink (Wimbledon)

— People’s War: local stories — private research tool: all 810 stories touching Wandsworth, Battersea, Tooting and surrounding places; searchable and filterable; noindex

— Our Mapmakers

— People — the index of people, generated from the register

— Caudwell’s Clapham Junction estate — Keith Bailey, Metamorphosis, Ch. 8

Peter Paggen and Wandsworth Manor House

— The Will of Katherine Paggen, 1724 new Build 2 — full transcription (PROB 11/598/25), with the schedule and the codicil naming her son-in-law Humphry Morice

— William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade (1734) new Build 1 — complete text, searchable, with the map; the eleven passages about Humphry Morice and his ships marked and linked to the voyage register

— Peter Paggen, Humphry Morice and the slave trade new Build 2 — notes page: Paggen’s 25 and Morice’s 92 slaving voyages from the SlaveVoyages database, the family link, the Whydah, the Bank fraud; sortable register of all 123 voyages

— Peter Paggen

— His will, 1717

— Jack, the “guinea boy”

— “Wandsworth Manor House”

— S.W. Kershaw on the Manor House (1891)

— Elizabeth Vanderhoven — also buried at Mount Nod

Notes

— Notes folder

— Notes — Peter Paggen in William Pettigrew, Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 (2013).

— Notes - Early Protestant Settlement in Wandsworth

— Notes - Wandsworth's Presbytery

— Notes - Wandsworth's Quakers

— Notes - Mount Nod

— Notes - Philip Cazenove (1799–1880) new

J. Traviss Squire, Mount Nod, parish registers etc.

— J. Traviss Squire —

— J. Traviss Squire, "The Huguenots at Wandsworth and their Burial Ground at Mount Nod" (1886) — transcriptions of memorials

— J. Traviss Squire, "Notes on Wills and Acts of Administration" (1886), pp.302-312 — extends his transcription of Mount Nod memorials

— J. Traviss Squire, "The Registers of the Parish of Wandsworth, 1603–1787" (1889) —

Also

— Cecil Tudor Davis, "Burials at Wandsworth, 29 October 1678 to 4 April 1727", (1949) — this study extends J Traviss Squire's transcriptions etc. CTD had died in 1922 - is there any information about the posthumous publication of this study?

Mount Nod

— Mount Nod Restored: Plaques, The Huguenot Burial Ground —

— The Huguenots in Wandsworth: a Riverside Radio conversation Build 1 — Tim Kidd and Ian Gray, c.2020

— Mount Nod timelapse photographs, 2008—2026 — Build 5

— Further notes on "Mount Nod" — a Gazetteer of other "Mount Nods" and "Mount Noddies" around the country, and commentaries

Cemeteries

— Cemeteries [index]

— Cecil Tudor Davis, "Burials at Wandsworth, 29 October 1678 to 4 April 1727", (1949) —

Cecil Tudor Davis, 1854–1922

Librarian of Wandsworth, 1886–1920. Local historian, antiquary, and transcriber of the parish's Churchwardens' Account Books.

— Cecil Tudor Davis — Notes, bibliography, obituary (1922)

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Early Churchwardens' Accounts of Wandsworth, 1545 to 1558”, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 15 (1900), pp. 80–127 —

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Wandsworth Churchwardens' Accounts from 1558 to 1573”, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 17, pp. 135–175 —

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Wandsworth Churchwardens' Accounts from 1574 to 1603”, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 18, pp. 96–152 — (complete: all 9 account years transcribed)

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Wandsworth Churchwardens' Accounts from 1603 to 1620”, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 19, pp. 145–194 — (complete: 17 account years transcribed)

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Wandsworth Churchwardens' Accounts from 1620 to 1630”, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 20, pp. 169–222 — (complete: 10 account years transcribed)

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Wandsworth Churchwardens' Accounts from 1631 to 1639”, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 24, pp. 92–161 — (complete: 18 account years/sub-accounts transcribed — the sixth and final instalment of the series)

— Cecil Tudor Davis, “Burials at Wandsworth, 29 October 1678 to 4 April 1727”, (1949) — CTD had died in 1922 - is there any information about the posthumous publication of this study? This extends John Traviss Squire's studies of the Mount Nod memorials.

Five Houses Book

— Five Houses Book Contents — Build 25

— The Battersea tithe map, 1838, zoomable: the Five Houses — plots 336, 337, 339, 341 and 350

— The OS five-foot town plan of the 1890s, zoomable: Bolingbroke Grove — all five house sites

— Stanford’s Library Map, 1862, zoomable: the Five Houses — lettered “The Five Houses” on the map

— John Corris, Map of Battersea with its Book of Reference (1782-1786?) —

— John Corris, Map of Wandsworth with its Book of Reference (178?) —

— Keith Bailey, "A Small Estate in Battersea" — includes a plan of Harman's farm.

— J. Batten, "A Plan of Clapham with the Common & its Environs" (1827). — surveyed and drawn by J. Batten, 1827 — with a remarkable inset detail, "The Walk by the Five Houses upon Battersea or Wandsworth Common".

— Roger Logan, Between the Commons: South Battersea’s Formative Years, 1851–1900, Wandsworth Historical Society (20??) — complete text with images.

— Roger Logan, South Battersea 1851 to 1890: Sketch-map series from Between the Commons.

Maps, directories and boundaries

— The ground beneath Wandsworth Common, 1878: Stanford’s Geological Map, zoomable — Fulham to Upper Tooting, Wimbledon Park to Clapham; the gravel tongue the Common sits on; watermarks removed

— Plans for London’s streets, 1905: the Royal Commission on London Traffic street plan, zoomable — the whole of London, with the proposed new streets and widenings in red, including Wandsworth Road

— London as a cluster of communities, 1943: the County of London Plan “potato map”, zoomable — Forshaw and Abercrombie’s Social and Functional Analysis; Wandsworth Common as one of the green spaces between communities

— Wandsworth Common as it was and is, 1889, zoomable — the Common’s losses coloured and numbered

— Wandsworth Common in 1905: Stanford’s map, zoomable — Clapham Junction to Upper Tooting

— Wandsworth Common in 1800: Thomas Milne’s land-use map, zoomable — every field coloured by use, Battersea to Mitcham

— Wandsworth Common in 1746: John Rocque’s map, coloured, zoomable — Wandsworth and Battersea to Garratt Green and Balham

— South-west London about 1810: the Ordnance Survey one-inch map, zoomable — Brentford to Peckham, Kensington to Mitcham

— Wandsworth and Battersea, 1838–1841: the two tithe maps joined, zoomable — both parishes on one map, Wimbledon Park to Nine Elms

— From Fulham to Mitcham in 1866: Stanford’s Library Map, south-west sheet, joined, zoomable — the same sheet with its folding joins closed up and the border trimmed

— South-west London in 1877: Stanford’s Library Map, six sheets joined, zoomable — six sheets joined into one map, Fulham and Millbank to Merton and Mitcham

— From Fulham to Mitcham in 1866: Stanford’s Library Map, south-west sheet, zoomable — in colour, Fulham and Chelsea to Merton and Mitcham

— The Parish of Wandsworth in 1841: the tithe map, zoomable — the whole parish; every plot numbered for the apportionment

— Battersea in 1787: John Corris’s Plan of Battersea Parish, zoomable — the whole parish, coloured by owner; the British Library copy

— Balham and Upper Tooting in 1839: the Streatham tithe map, zoomable — the north-western part of Streatham parish; every plot numbered for the apportionment

— Wandsworth, Battersea, Clapham and Tooting in 1862: Stanford’s Library Map, zoomable — in colour, the Thames to Tooting, Wimbledon Park to Clapham Common

— Battersea Rise and Bolingbroke Grove in the 1890s: the OS five-foot town plan, zoomable — three 60-inch sheets joined and gently coloured, Clapham Junction to Nightingale Lane

— The Parish of Battersea in 1838: the tithe map, zoomable — the whole parish in colour; every plot numbered for the apportionment

— Wandsworth Common in Maps: working index

— Wandsworth, Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction in the 1860s: the OS five-foot town plan, zoomable — six 60-inch sheets joined and gently coloured; Wandsworth town and the north of the Common to Clapham Junction, every house and tree

— Wandsworth in the 1860s: the OS six-inch map, zoomable — four sheets joined, Chiswick and Richmond Park to Lambeth and Dulwich, Chelsea to Wimbledon and Streatham

— Wandsworth and Battersea in the 1860s: the OS 25-inch map, zoomable — sixteen sheets joined, Chiswick and Hammersmith to Wimbledon Common and Streatham; zoom down to single houses

— Wandsworth in 1937: the Geographia street map, zoomable — Barnes to Streatham and Stockwell, the Thames to Upper Tooting; with buttons for the Magdalen area, the Prison, the Cemetery and Magdalen Road

— Beating the Bounds of Battersea, 1862 (revised)

— Metallurgicon, 1867, Street Directory

— John Corris, Wandsworth, 1787, map with Book of Reference (Dorian Gerhold)

— Maps: original synoptic page

— Maps: new indexed page (2006)

— Maps - now and then