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Story of Wandsworth

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Photo of Southfields Football Club, 1905
Southfields football club, 1905

As the suburbs grew, leisure activities played an important role in promoting a feeling of community amongst new residents. Organised sport was introduced and clubs for football, cricket and cycling flourished. Special facilities, such as swimming baths, were built.

Music Hall was another new form of entertainment. At first, halls attached to pubs were used and then purpose-built theatres, which were considered more respectable. There were several of these theatres in the Wandsworth area, which attracted large audiences from all classes. Those with less money to spare could watch a street entertainer or enjoy a stroll on the park, possibly listening to a brass band.

Photo of residents listening to a barrel organ, Weimar Street, Putney, c. 1900

 

 

 
Residents listening to a barrel organ,
Weimar Street, Putney, c. 1900

 

  1. Introduction
  2. Prehistoric times
  3. Roman lives
  4. Medieval villages
  5. Tudor and Stuart times
  6. Civil war
  7. Refugees from Europe
  8. Georgian Wandsworth
  9. The Mayor of Garratt
  10. The Surrey Iron Railway
  11. The railway revolution
  12. Factories and furnaces
  13. Building the suburbs
  14. Schools and other services
  15. You are here: Time off
  16. Radical Battersea
  17. The First World War
  18. The 1920s and 1930s
  19. The Second World War
  20. Into the 50s
  21. A new landscape
  22. The Festival of Britain and the Coronation
  23. The 1960s – amalgamation of the boroughs
  24. The Changing face of Wandsworth

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