Grade II heritage at risk. Terrible news.

Clocking the time differences in Croydon Airport booking hall [date unknown]... arguably the hardest part of travelling 🤧 #ArchiveTravel #Archive30 ARA Scotland

Complete Map Of UK Lidos And Outdoor Swimming Pools - google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

It's our birthday! 🎉

#OnThisDay 143 years ago, the Museum opened its doors to the public for the very first time. This photo was taken the same year the Museum opened in 1881!

#ThrowbackThursday : Amen Corner 1923. Thousands of residents throng the street to cheer King George V & Queen Mary as they drive through #Tooting on 28 July after they had opened Southfields Park.
From #Balham & Tooting in Old Photographs by Patrick Loobey ISBN 0-7509-0722-3

A new FREE exhibition at the OXO Tower presents 1001 quirky images of London since the Millennium. Good one to pop into if you're going to be on the South Bank londonist.com/london/art-and…

Thursday Postcard Day. This is a postcard of Lord Nelson's funeral barge. The house - Merton Place - he shared with Lady Hamilton had a moat feed by water from the Wandle. He also fished the river, watched cricket at Mitcham Cricket Green and a pew at St Mary's, Merton Park.

...And physical copies are making their way to libraries as I type ❤️. Thanks to all our *amazing* contributors! These are just a few: Battersea Society Wandsworth Common tooting history Mark Bery The Clapham Society Geoff Simmons SL.Botanic Institute Wandle_WIM Uni of Roehampton Sambrook's Brewery

The notes will go into circulation on 5th June. This is the first time The Bank of England has changed the image of The Monarch on a banknote (Queen Elizabeth II became the first Monarch to appear on a Bank of England note in 1960).

I feel a talk coming on. #boxing #Tooting

Fantastic turnout for the@THG tonight

Metropolitan Police Museum & Crime Museum Historic England Great to see you've posted the former #Tooting Police Station by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench (who also designed the 'tardis'). You were so helpful as tooting history researched to support it's Grade II listing (via email when you were mid move). Thanks again.

Looking forward to tonight

Wowed you have one for #Tooting ?

Find out more about transport in #tooting this evening

CHARITY Plant Sale! Local resident & 5-time Chelsea Flower Show award-winner Anthony de Grey is once again opening up his beautiful garden for a charity plant sale at his home at 54 Abbotswood Road, SW16 1AW on Thur 16th, Fri 17th & Sat 18th May, 9am-5pm each day. #Balham

Can’t wait to hear this. Sounds interesting

The annual #Wandsworth Heritage Festival, organised by Wandsworth Heritage Service, takes place May 18-June 9, and celebrates Wandsworth’s rich past.
More info, inc a link to the programme of events, via Wandsworth Council: wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-apri…

#Tooting #Wandsworth Culture #Battersea #Putney #Balham

Where I can't see it!