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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 stairway from the satellite building to the ticket hall.
In the unremarkable London suburb of Tooting is Britain's only grade 1 'listed' cinema. This means it's right up there with the Tower of London and Stonehenge as a heritage masterpiece! It was built in 1930-31. It was commisioned by impresario Sidney Bernstein from the architect Cecil Massey. He adapted a design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for another Bernstein project, the Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross Road. The interior was designed by theatrical director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky.
It has been a bingo hall for many years, but was open to the public on the Sunday morning of the London 'open house' weekend in September 2010.
This is the stalls, now adapted for bingo use. The decor is all over brown. I don't think it was designed that way. I think it is the result of decades of cigarette smoke. Even several years after the ban on smoking in enclosed public places it still stank of fag smoke - so much so that my clothes still slightly smelled of it when I left!
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In the unremarkable London suburb of Tooting is Britain's only grade 1 'listed' cinema. This means it's right up there with the Tower of London and Stonehenge as a heritage masterpiece! It was built in 1930-31. It was commisioned by impresario Sidney Bernstein from the architect Cecil Massey. He adapted a design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for another Bernstein project, the Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross Road. The interior was designed by theatrical director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky.
It has been a bingo hall for many years, but was open to the public on the Sunday morning of the London 'open house' weekend in September 2010.
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,. For more details, see:-
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 stairway from the satellite building to the ticket hall.