A HISTORY OF
WANDSWORTH COMMON

IN PROGRESS — NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Start page for this archive — built by Claude to bring the three working galleries below together in one place; PB to check before anything goes live.

Wandsworth Common / Photograph Albums

Cathy Rowntree’s Photographic Archive

Three PDFs of scanned album pages, sent to Philip Boys by Cathy Rowntree — seen herself planting a Rowan tree with Honeywell Junior School pupils in Part 1 below. Each original page carried two or three photographs mounted together with typed or handwritten captions; they have been separated out into individual images, at the full resolution of the scan, and grouped below into three parts by subject.

Part 1 — Wandsworth Common

Lakeside views, the putting green, sledging, the Great Storm and the ‘Hurricane’ of 1987, Honeywell Junior School sports days and tree planting, and the Cat’s Back Bridge.

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Part 2 — the Common, the lake & the John Archer Way development

The John Archer Way development on the former Spencer Park / John Archer School site, Wandsworth Common Lake, feeding the ducklings and heron, Chivalry Road playground, and the 2024 Beating the Bounds ceremony.

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Part 3 — Northcote Road & Chatham Road

Shops, pubs and the library on Northcote Road and Chatham Road over the decades, together with Wandsworth Prison, Heathfield Avenue and the County Arms on Trinity Road.

Go to Part 3 →

PB: source — three PDFs of scanned album pages from Cathy Rowntree (IMG_20260507_0001.pdf, IMG_20260507_0002.pdf, IMG_20260507_0003.pdf). Individual scanned pages are in the originals folder.

Cathy Rowntree’s Photographs: Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3