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Craft workshop being run in the old Tooting tram shed. Yes, Tooting has craft.
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Granada Theatre (Gala / Buzz Bingo), Tooting. The enormous entrance foyer.
Opened as the Granada Theatre in September 1931, designed by Cecil Masey, with interior design by Theodore Komisarjevsky, and murals by Lucien le Blanc, recreated by Alex Johnstone. 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 WVL12 on route 333 towards Elephant and Castle is seen loading up at Tooting Broadway 28/09/13.
Heavy traffic passing Trinity Square. Domed roof rehab E1 car 2 leads a standard E1 amidst the STLs.
1/76 scale model.
Tootal Drive primary school, Salford. I had one year here after moving from Higher Broughton in Salford (previous school was Brentnall primary)
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 main building.
Another reason to stay in the south for a while...you can buy pre-made test tube shooters at the wine store for less than $10.
Metrobus 921 on route 127 is seen leaving it's Longmead road terminus at Tooting Broadway for Purley. 28/09/13.