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Tooting Bec Underground Station (Northern Line), 1 May 2023. The station was opened by the City and South London Railway (C&SLR) in September 1926 on the Morden extension southwards from the C&SLR’s Camden Town/Euston – Clapham Common line, first proposed before WWI.
The Chief Architect of the Underground Electric Railways of London (the umbrella company for the C&SLR) was the experienced Charles Heap who presented his designs of the proposed stations to the General Manager of the UERL, Frank Pick. But Pick did not like them, thinking them too conservative. Unusually, he commissioned the Architect Charles Holden of the practice Adams, Holden & Pearson to design the stations which must have been a real snub to Heaps. Nonetheless, there seems to have developed a good working relationship between the two notwithstanding Holden holding the predominant position with Pick.
Tooting Bec consists of two surface buildings each side of Balham High Road/Upper Tooting Road linked by a subway. They are in Modernist style clad in Portland Stone. The columns have capitals which are a three-dimensional depiction of the Underground roundel, typical of Holden’s stations on the Morden Extension. The station is Grade II listed.
Pictured is the ticket hall.
The Tooting Granada was the flagship of the Granada Circuit, and no expense was spared on it's construction in 1931. It is one of only a very few grade 1 listed cinemas in the UK.
More history here:-
cinematreasures.org/theater/9424/
Opened as the Granada Theatre in September 1931, designed by Cecil Masey, with interior design by Theodore Komisarjevsky, and murals by Lucien le Blanc. It seated 3,104 (1,354 in the balcony), was equipped with a full stage (the screen was flown into the flytower), a café, a 4 manual/14 rank Wurlitzer organ and a staff of 85. It closed suddenly as a cinema in November 1973, and lay disused until converted for bingo in 1976. Grade 2* listed in 1972, this was upgraded to Grade 1 in 2000.
London Borough of Wandsworth, South London, Greater London, England - Granada Cinema (Buzz Bingo), Mitcham Road
July 2010, image reworked 2024
The cathedral like interior of the Tooting Granada (now Buzz Bingo). The interior design was by Theodore Komisarjevsky with murals by Lucien le Blanc.
Opened as the Granada Theatre in September 1931, designed by Cecil Masey, with interior design by Theodore Komisarjevsky, and murals by Lucien le Blanc. It seated 3,104 (1,354 in the balcony), was equipped with a full stage (the screen was flown into the flytower), a café, a 4 manual/14 rank Wurlitzer organ and a staff of 85. It closed suddenly as a cinema in November 1973, and lay disused until converted for bingo in 1976. Grade 2* listed in 1972, this was upgraded to Grade 1 in 2000.
London Borough of Wandsworth, South London, Greater London, England - Granada Cinema (Buzz Bingo), Mitcham Road
July 2010, image reworked 2024
London General E84 on route 77 towards Waterloo is seen at it's Tooting Broadway terminus in Longmead road 07/03/15.
An excellent pub with many rooms, a huge garden, nice menu, bar billiards. Recommended. (Close-ups of the pub sign, the Courage-branded lamp, and an old plaque.)
Address: 60 Selkirk Road.
Former Name(s): The Frog and Forget-Me-Not.
Owner: (website); Courage (former).
Links:
This HiRISE image shows one of the many lobate deposits surrounding the 28 km diameter Tooting Crater on Mars (24oN, 208oE). Deposits such as these are often attributed to the impact event interacting with water or ice within the target rocks. The direction of flow was from the bottom to the top of the image.
There are many interesting features visible in this image. Around the perimeter of the ejecta lobe is a ridge or “rampart”. Streamers of small pits radiate away from the parent crater (which lies off the bottom of the image), and these may be secondary craters. There is also a faint alignment of blocks within the lobe which may indicate laminar flow of the ejecta.
This college and then workhouse became a military hospital in the First War, including dysentry and TB beds as well as more general injuries. It continued in use for shell shocked soldiers are the war, becoming a general hospital and closing in 1981. The site is now housing.
The card reads, 'Dear Roy, Aunty Floss told me how rarely you can sing. I hope you won't lose your voice before I come home because I want to hear you. Goodbye, Daddy'. 9th April, 1917
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saxaphone player told me she and some friends are putting together a quintet - lots of music around the park that day!
Tooting Bec (originally Trinity Road) is a London Underground station in Tooting, South London. The station is on the Northern line, between Balham and Tooting Broadway stations. It is located on the junction of Trinity Road (heading north-west), Upper Tooting Road (south-west), Balham High Road (north-east), Tooting Bec Road (south-east) and Stapleton Road (also south-east). The station is in Travelcard Zone 3.
The station was designed by Charles Holden and opened on 13 September 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway, which is now part of the Northern line. It was given its present name on 1 October 1950.
The narrow satellite building on the east side of the junction provides pedestrian subway access to the station and is unusual in that it has a large glazed roundel on each of the three panels of its glazed screen, as normally the Morden extension stations have the roundel in just the centre panel. For many years the northern panel of the screen was the sole example on any of the Morden extension stations to retain the 1920s "UNDERGROUND" lettering, the other stations' screens having been replaced with plain glass over the years. All the stations have now had the original motif replaced along with the flag-pole-mounted roundels that had been removed in the 1950s.
On the platforms the station has two examples of clocks from the Self Winding Clock Company of New York.
Manchester Flickr Group meet:
wannasonic and I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with the amazingly inspirational tootdood , cheers toot!