"Evening News (London) — Wednesday 1 January 1890
The adios of the &misty Council in endeavouring to stop the litigation about the encroachments on Wandsworth Common by the trustees of the Patriotic Fund, is not acceptable to the inhabitants of the district, as represented by the Wandsworth Common Protection Association.
There has been a manifest encroachment on public rights as defined by special Act of Parliament, and the people of Battersea and Wandsworth, having suffered deeply similar thefts of their land in the past, are in no mood to come to terms with the spoiler.
It is to be hoped that the County Council will not lend itself to compromise, but will fight the action out as trustees kw the people to the bitter end.
Local opinion is unanimous, and Mr. W. H. Dickinson and Dr. E. H. Longstaff, the County Councillors for Wandsworth, may le trusted to act for their constituents.
No common has suffered so much the bands of spoiler as Common, and it is high time a stop was put to the depredations.
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CHEERFUL refined HOME-SCHOOL LIKE in a most bracing country situation. with the best educational advantage., and facilities for in and out door recreations, thus ensuring good health and steady progress to young, delicate, or backward BOYS. Indian and Colonial pupils re. main during holidayspro rata.Dr Blackburn, 11. A., B.Sc.. The Beeches, Wandsworth common, Surrey.
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[BNA: Link.] CHEERFUL refined HOME-SCHOOL LIKE in a moat bracing country situation. with the hest educational advantage., and facilities for in and nut door reereatione, thus ensuring good health and steady progress to young, delicate, or backward BOYS. Indian and Colonial pupils re. main during holidays pns mtg.Dr Blackburn, M. A., B.Sc.. The Beeches, Wandsworth common, Surrey. [BNA: Link.] "Wandsworth Common Protection Assosiation. ciation has its hands full of work just now. There is an action impending to test the claim of the Patriotic Fund Trustees to a right of way over the Common to certain points of the land they hold, a claim which is stoutly opposed by f the many of those who live in the neighbourhood.
The County Council holds the Common in trust, c ess in accordance with the terms ot au.Act passed iu. d ere 1S71, and the Association is doing all it ean-to- t ion impress upon theso trustees that the dispute , le. cannot be settled by any plan which would u ble alienate any part of the open space, Waudsworth 1 on. Common is now only a fraction, probably about a a Us- third, of -what it once was. Large enclosures c is have beon made, and a long slice has been it absorbed by the railway which runs down the 2 le- middle. No wonder that the commoners jealously watch over the relics of their play- Iground, and look to the County Council for C ?en help in the ecfort to regain at least those parts C ral of the enclosures which have not yet beon h !ite covered by bricks and mortar. Another matter sat -vhiehl has come before the Association is the C )rn question of making proper footways along h for some of the beaten tracks, and lighting these at v DS0 iight. The Dist ict Board of Works has refused n a to do either, much to the disgust of those who c' r- have to grope their way from one side to the b g o'her in the inky darkness of a moonless night. o There is a great deal of traffic along these 8 ,at paths, and the present wide tracks might be c ich replaced by narrow footways with great ad- h o. vantage to the turf as -well as to the passengers, 3ut and the absence of lamps is little short of a v .ng public danger. [BNA: Link.] The Wandsworth Ratepayers' Association, which has a membership of nearly 100, held meeting on Wednesday evening the Spread Eagle Assembly Booms, Wandsworth, nnder the presidency of Mr. Steed. The association decided petition the Local Board in favour of the introduction of electric light into the district. The Lighting Wahdswoeth Common. The residents of Wandsworth Common are making strenuous efforts to get their demands granted in the matter of the lighting of the common. They have communicated with the Wandsworth District Board of Works, which decided to hear a deputation from them at their next meeting. The deputation will ask that the main footpaths which cross the common, many being five feet wide, shall be lighted with gas lamps. [BNA: Link.]
Home News for India, China and the Colonies — Friday 28 February 1890
Home News for India, China and the Colonies — Friday 3 January 1890
Daily News (London) — Saturday 4 January 1890
South London Press — Saturday 18 January 1890
WANDSWORTH COMMON. The Committee reported that is desirable to obtain turf for restoring the worn portions of Wandsworth Common ; and we recommend That, subject to an estimate being submitted to the Council by the Finance Committee, a required the statute, the Council do authorise expenditure ef ll9 for the purchase of turf for use Wandsworth Common.
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TO CRICKET CLUBS. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL Hereby IGives Notice that it will prepared to consider Rvmltcatious Cricket Clubs for Pitches for Dutches at the following Parka and Open Spaces under its control for the season lodO, commencing on 1st May, and ending on 30th September:
Battersea Park, men and boys. Blackbeath, men and boys. Comraen, men. Clissold Park, men. Dnlwich Park, men and boys. Eel Brook Common, men and boys. Finsbury Park, men. Hackney Downs, men and boys. Hampstead Heath, men. Highbury Fields, boys. London Fields, boys. and South Mill Fields, Hackney, men and boys. Peckham Rye, men and boys. Plumstead Common, men and boys. Southwark Park, men. Tooting Common, men and boys. Victoria Park, men.
Wandsworth Common, men.
Well-street Common, Hackney, boys. of the pitches available can seen and forms of application obtained gratis on applying personally the officer in charge each place, or the Clerk department Spring Gardens. 1, , ! " WOODS, g.b, on before the April, 1890.,
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Tate young gentleman, now known by the
professional name of Charles Baldwin, is a
familiar figure in the neighbourhood of Clap-
parachutist 'on aes england, this precocious
youth used to descend from the top of the high shaft at
the Printing works by Wandsworth
Common with a parachute of his own manufacture. When
he at last reached the height of his
ambition, and became possessed of a balloon, engagements flowed in
u '
re has ey,
ascents end descent a in parts
of England; his
daring and graceful
performance bave
een propoanced
a! \ .a rapidly.
: 1 oN ; He hes made
om Zz ; asoonte sad de-
$ : ne. scents in partes
ae N of England; his
- = daring and graceful
. performance have
een pronounced
by the provincial prese to have surpassed in
interest the performances of his predecessors.
His groat descent at Boohdale wil! be re-
mem . To be sure of clearing the
in hie descent, he had to ascend two miles. In
making his descent he bad the option of drop-
ping on the telegraph wires or into the canal
choee the latter. He is not twenty-one yet,
and if he don't break his neck soon he will
shortly beat the record as Fprachotist,
** Baldwin " is the young brother of Mr. Richard
Judd-Green, eud a nephew of Mr. James Judd,
the well-known Surrey J.P.
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![Home News for India, China and the Colonies — Friday 28 February 1890 [BNA: Link.] Home News for India, China and the Colonies — Friday 3 January 1890 CHEERFUL refined HOME-SCHOOL LIKE in a moat bracing country situation. with the hest educational advantage., and facilities for in and nut door reereatione, thus ensuring good health and steady progress to young, delicate, or backward BOYS. Indian and Colonial pupils re. main during holidays pns mtg.Dr Blackburn, M. A., B.Sc.. The Beeches, Wandsworth common, Surrey. [BNA: Link.] Daily News (London) — Saturday 4 January 1890 "Wandsworth Common Protection Assosiation. ciation has its hands full of work just now. There is an action impending to test the claim of the Patriotic Fund Trustees to a right of way over the Common to certain points of the land they hold, a claim which is stoutly opposed by f the many of those who live in the neighbourhood. The County Council holds the Common in trust, c ess in accordance with the terms ot au.Act passed iu. d ere 1S71, and the Association is doing all it ean-to- t ion impress upon theso trustees that the dispute , le. cannot be settled by any plan which would u ble alienate any part of the open space, Waudsworth 1 on. Common is now only a fraction, probably about a a Us- third, of -what it once was. Large enclosures c is have beon made, and a long slice has been it absorbed by the railway which runs down the 2 le- middle. No wonder that the commoners jealously watch over the relics of their play- Iground, and look to the County Council for C ?en help in the ecfort to regain at least those parts C ral of the enclosures which have not yet beon h !ite covered by bricks and mortar. Another matter sat -vhiehl has come before the Association is the C )rn question of making proper footways along h for some of the beaten tracks, and lighting these at v DS0 iight. The Dist ict Board of Works has refused n a to do either, much to the disgust of those who c' r- have to grope their way from one side to the b g o'her in the inky darkness of a moonless night. o There is a great deal of traffic along these 8 ,at paths, and the present wide tracks might be c ich replaced by narrow footways with great ad- h o. vantage to the turf as -well as to the passengers, 3ut and the absence of lamps is little short of a v .ng public danger. [BNA: Link.] South London Press — Saturday 18 January 1890 The Wandsworth Ratepayers' Association, which has a membership of nearly 100, held meeting on Wednesday evening the Spread Eagle Assembly Booms, Wandsworth, nnder the presidency of Mr. Steed. The association decided petition the Local Board in favour of the introduction of electric light into the district. The Lighting Wahdswoeth Common. The residents of Wandsworth Common are making strenuous efforts to get their demands granted in the matter of the lighting of the common. They have communicated with the Wandsworth District Board of Works, which decided to hear a deputation from them at their next meeting. The deputation will ask that the main footpaths which cross the common, many being five feet wide, shall be lighted with gas lamps. [BNA: Link.] 1890118](https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003281/18900103/110/0028</p>
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