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A Grade II listed public house at 84 Upper Tooting Road, Tooting. It was built in 1896 by the architect W. M. Brutton. (Wikipedia)
Cracking moth in the back garden this evening and very chilled. Saw one last year too but didn;t manage to get a shot of it,
Again my camera phone does not do any recent photos justice (I so miss my DSLR) This is the view I have from my bed in hospital. It's amazing. From SW17 in London, I can see Croydon, Kingston in Surrey, Crystal Palace and beyond & lots of greenery! I have the bed pushed right up against the wall/window. This gives me lots of space to put my cards, dvd's, books etc. It's great! I can control the blinds from my bed also. This has enabled me to open them at 6am when it's a bright morning and partake in a spot of sun bathing - Vitamin D top up! Hehe :-)
And almost all the windows have lace curtains! Viewed from my lodgings at number 14. A tidy street of well maintained housing, identical on both sides of the street. Some houses had been re-roofed following damage during WW2 air raids. This photo was taken mid March 1963, just after the last snow had melted, ending the 'Big Freeze of '63'.
This splendid terraced row is made up of house pairs, each pair rising roughly 1m higher than its neighbour. There are 8 chimney pots to each pair, as originally each individual dwelling had four main rooms, 2 up and 2 down, each with a coal fire for heating. Following the 1956 Clean Air Act, by 1963 many owners had converted to gas or electrical heating. My landlord at Nr. 14 had installed gas fires in the two large upstairs rooms, rented out as "bed/sitting rooms". Each room had its own 'shilling in the slot' gas meter, for heating with cooking done on an adjacent gas ring.
Film: Kodak Tri X
Camera: Wirgin Edix-Mat Flex S,
Lens: Steinheil Cassar S 1:2.8 f 50mm
Scanner: Epson V800/Epson Scan Software.
GFA 955 is a King Long XMQ6900 new to Mayne's of Buckie in May 2014 as N99 GSM.
It later operated by Hogg, Jedburgh as SW14 YSV before being sold to MacPhail's of Salsburgh who have re-registered it to GFA 955.
Spot the differences between Northern Routemasters 2122 FPT592C and 2145 254CLT at Bensham depot and works in 1966.
New in January 1965 Routemaster 2122 was one of Northern's second batch. 2145 was of course new to London Transport in 1962 as RMF1254. Demonstrated in 1964 to Liverpool & Halifax Corporations and East Kent, then operated with a trailer on the air passenger transfer service on behalf of British European Airways, RMF1254 was sold to Northern General in November 1966 and became Northern's 51st RM.
Renumbered 3106 in January 1975, FPT592C was withdrawn in November 1980 and sold in January 1981 to Wright & Humphries of Dagenham Essex for preservation. Sold in July 1991 to Owen, Upper Norwood, passing to Maybury London Sightseeing Tours, Wimbledon by October 1995. Acquired in April 1996 by Big Bus Company, Waterside Road, Wimbledon SW17, numbered RMF592 and fitted with an AEC engine. Last taxed in October 2009, does it still survive?
254CLT was renumbered by Northern as 3129 and its history has been well documented. Restored to its former glory as LT RMF1254 in 2004 and rallied extensively since. At the time of posting [March 2022] RMF1254 is off the road.
James Riddell ref 9782 / aecsouthall.co.uk collection
Neil F.
Vixen with four cubs playing in my back garden this morning. The cubs look to be different ages which seems odd,
"An Oast House, originally used for the drying of Hops, one of Kent's specialities - then converted into a Private Hospital - later on, during the last War, used as a Boys' Home for lads from London's East End - Now, as a Hostel awaits to welcome You into its unique atmosphere from all corners of the Earth - Location 1 & half miles South of Doddington Village.
KEN PARFITT, Warden
Telephone: Doddington 220"
Harry Higgins, the first warden of Doddington hostel drew a sketch of the above scene, used on earlier postcards.
I stayed at this hostel on June 23rd 1962 during a cycling trip into Kent from my digs in Tooting Bec SW17.
Official YHA postcard purchased at the hostel.
Scanner: Epson V800 and Epson software.
I don't recall ever having these in the house. Made by Meggeson and Co, and dating back to 1796. I think people took them for sore or tickly throats.
Upper Tooting Road,
London SW17
21st May 2026
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I stayed at this hostel several times in 1962/63 on cycling trips into Kent from my digs in Tooting Bec SW17.
Official YHA postcard purchased at the hostel.
Scanner: Epson V800 and Epson software.
UJF 396 is standing in Wellington Street Coach Station in Leeds prior to setting off on a National Express journey to London. Painted in full National Express livery, it is a Neoplan Skyliner N122/3 which was new to NAT Holidays, Leeds, in 1984 registered A106 MWT.
Architect: T W Atkinson, 1833 rebuild in the Neo-Gothic style using gault brick with stone dressings. Grade II listed. Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane, Tooting, London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-SA - credit: Images George Rex)
A selection of Plaxton-bodied coaches and a Mercedes-Benz 0302 at a yard in Plough Lane, London, SW17 on 29-12-76
Architect: Charles Holden, 1926, Grade II listed. Corner building in Portland stone with curved façade. Part of the Northern Line tube extension of that era. London Borough of Wandsworth.
Blue sky London
Taken on Canon 5D Mark III with Canon 17-40mm f4 L lens.
Near Silver Town and Thames Barrier Park
George King (Metals) Ltd,were located at 224 Tooting High Street, London SW17.
This shop, complete with its pre 1990 01 phone number, has been shut since 2011, & the passing of time is marked by the changing billstickers & the attempts to post pizza menus thru the letter box.
Metropolitan Police Architect: Gilbert Mackenzie Trench, 1939, in the Moderne style. Accommodation block of Tooting police station and section house, recently closed "in a drive to save money and update existing facilities." Tooting, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Architect: T W Atkinson, 1833 rebuild in the Neo-Gothic style using grey brick and stone dressings. Grade II listed. Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane, Tooting, London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-SA - credit: Images George Rex)
Architect: Charles Holden, 1926, in the Modern style using Portland stone cladding. Grade II listed. London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-SA - credit: Images George Rex)
Built in the 1930s in Mock Tudor style as The Railway Bell public house. Pub ceased trading in 2013 and the premises is now a Polish supermarket. Tooting, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Decorated electricity substation at Church Lane car park, Tooting. Original work (now partly defaced) by street artist Will Impey, commissioned by Hubbub/#NeatStreets. London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)