WW1 Wandsworth @WW1Wandsworth
Marking the centenary of WW1 in the borough by regular updates on what happened 100 years ago from the archives. [email protected] ww1wandsworth.wordpress.com Joined January 2014-
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John Archer’s Battersea ww1wandsworth.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/joh…
A former Wandsworth resident tells our readers what growing up in a prefab was like. One for @MunicipalDreams ?! #archives #prefab : wandswortharchives.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/num…
Wandsworth Heritage Service have a new twitter feed and blog. Please follow us: @Better_WHS
Sold out of #Tooting & #Balham but we will be selling #Wandsworth at our next meeting on the 11th Sept. @TheArchivePhotographs
York Gardens gets its name from the Archbishop of York, who built a palace in Battersea in the 15th century. Share your pictures of parks and green spaces in Wandsworth with the hashtag #LoveParksWandsworth & you could win a sports centre membership
On 20 Oct, we’ll be hosting a #StripesOfPeace workshop at St Mary’s, home of the #Summerstown182 - a wonderful opportunity to visit this stunning #Wandsworth church & honour the 182 local names on its #WW1 memorial @BigUpFilms @judithlawton2 @SouthwarkCofE @wandbc @grantswandbc
#FirstLadySadie #London MEDIA MANIA! Look out for us in @SthLondonPress & LIVE TODAY @BBCRadioLondon Jo Good Show 3pm @wandsworthradio 630pm TOMORROW its all happening in Fountain Road #Tooting at 2pm #LostWomenOfBritishJazz #TootingBluePlaque
Another #WandsworthHeritageFestival treat for you this weekend! x.com/slsclido/statu…
Another #WandsworthHeritageFestival treat for you this weekend! x.com/slsclido/statu…
At Earlsfield Library tonight at 6.30pm join Mick Taylor of the Wandle Industrial Museum as he talks about the River Wandle's calico industries including @LibertyLondon whose mill on the Wandle is pictured here. It's FREE - Just turn up! #WandsworthHeritageFestival @Wandle_Trust
Find out about the pets of Londoners in the last century in this afternoon's #WandsworthHeritageFestival talk by Dr. Rebecca Preston of Royal Holloway University @pethistories 2pm at Putney Library. Call 020 8780 3085 to book your place pethistories.wordpress.com/wandsworth-her…
Tomorrow at #WandsworthHeritageFestival follow an underground river, take a walk on one of the commons or hear about Battersea Park's history. For more details see the programme here: better.org.uk/library/london…
Take a Walk in the Park at 6.45 this evening with author Travis Elborough, without leaving your seat in Putney Library. Email [email protected] to book a place. #WandsworthHeritageFestival
There is still time to catch a #WandsworthHeritageFestival event with a busy programme of events right up until Sunday. Scything, underground rivers and Londoners' pets all still to come! Find the programme here: better.org.uk/library/london…
Thankyou to @enableLC Biodiversity Officer, Valerie Selby for a wildlife walk along the River Wandle this afternoon. Excited to see a swan's nest with 4 eggs and the newly opened up riverside walkway in Wandsworth town centre #WandsworthHeritageFestival
Come and join us on Wednesday 6 June for a taster session in the art of scything, as part of the Wandsworth Heritage Festival! #HLFsupported @wandbc @enableLC @heritagelottery
Beautiful venue last night @StMarysPutney for Dorian Gerhold's fantastic #WandsworthHeritageFestival talk on Thomas Cromwell's early life in Putney and Wandsworth. Many thanks to Wandsworth Historical Society for organising.
Also part of tonight's #WandsworthHeritageFestival packed schedule: Bygone Streatham with author John W. Brown - 8pm at the Woodlawns Centre. FREE! x.com/streathamactio…
Also part of tonight's #WandsworthHeritageFestival packed schedule: Bygone Streatham with author John W. Brown - 8pm at the Woodlawns Centre. FREE! x.com/streathamactio…
....or Thomas Cromwell and his family in Putney tonight 7.30pm #WandsworthHeritageFestival thomascromwell.eventbrite.co.uk
#WandsworthHeritageFestival Week 2. Tonight you are spoiled for choice with WWII in Battersea warcomeshome4june.eventbrite.com or.......
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Today is #InternationalCatDay - expect all cats to strut around like we own the place. Expect the same again tomorrow.
Someone mentioned a butcher on Amen Corner -Correct! @RambleTooting any ideas on the date? #tooting #localhistory
On 20 Oct, we’ll be hosting a #StripesOfPeace workshop at St Mary’s, home of the #Summerstown182 - a wonderful opportunity to visit this stunning #Wandsworth church & honour the 182 local names on its #WW1 memorial @BigUpFilms @judithlawton2 @SouthwarkCofE @wandbc @grantswandbc
It's tomorrow - @rebeccaxpreston with 'Pets in the Lives of Twentieth-Century Londoners' at 2pm at Putney Library. Details: ow.ly/lCSh30j7hQo #pethistories
Come and join us on Wednesday 6 June for a taster session in the art of scything, as part of the Wandsworth Heritage Festival! #HLFsupported @wandbc @enableLC @heritagelottery
Don't forget to bring your purse/wallet - a wide variety of John Brown's books on Streatham local history will be on sale (cash only) at tomorrow's @StreathamSoc talk #wandsworthheritagefestival
Thanks to Roy Vickery for an entertaining and informative plant walk. We'll tweet some snippets later this week. #WandsworthHeritageFestival #TootingCommon
Got to say, anyone in #TootingLibrary hearing Stephen play those 1920s jazz tunes featuring his Great Aunt Sadie was absolutely privileged What a truly wonderful addition to our #Wandsworth #Tooting #SouthLondon heritage #WandsworthHeritageFestival @wandsworthlibs @wandbc
Thanks Saira, we were on a massive high after one of the most extraordinary & touching history talks I have ever heard - Stephen Willis took us back to the age of jazz & we never want to leave @wandsworthlibs @wandbc @MillanSachania #FirstLadySadie #WandsworthHeritageFestival x.com/livinglon/stat…
@8dipatel8 @summerstown182 @hilaryjennings @TootingPRSS Amazing tour, thanks Geoff!
THANK YOU everyone @wandsworthlibs @GLL_UK @wandbc for hosting unforgettable Stephen Willis #SadieCrawford Talk on Saturday as part of #WandsworthHeritageFestival #FirstLadySadie #LostWomenOfBritishJazz
Dear future self, If you should find yourself in a wartime situation where you are keeping a handwritten diary, for the sake of our future historian comrades, please write legibly. Please. Love etc, Present self, who is trying to decode a WWI diarist's handwriting
Wandsworth Heritage Service still holds a copy of the booklet in the archive, along with a copy of the computer photo; we don't have any groovy 1970s style computers better.org.uk/library/london… x.com/lccmunicipal/s…
The London Borough of #Wandsworth self-published this rather plain guide in the early 1970s. It includes some images that are very much of their time - the new and empty Trinity Road approach to Wandsworth Bridge, and some serious 1970s computer room action...
New Blog Alert: Love in the air: canaries on the Western Front pethistories.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/lov…
Pictures of old Battersea Borough Council libraries courtesy of the Wandsworth Heritage Service archive better.org.uk/library/london… #Battersea
3 new Giant Tommies have been unveiled at @StPancrasInt, where many soldiers stopped or boarded on their way to the front. The artist behind the installation, @martin_barraud is speaking to @LondonLive about the project and what it means to him. #ThereButNotThere
#AChristmasCarol was published #OTD 1843. #CharlesDickens' grandson Cedric served in #WW1. Discover his story on #LivesOfWW1 ow.ly/qUhM30h6fcE
Three more adverts from the 1890 Wandsworth Library catalogue. Including one for the formidable sounding Bell's Stomachic and Liver Pills better.org.uk/library/london…
4 Calling Birds. Day 4 of the 12 library tweets of Christmas. Including a beautifully illustrated canary book from the Heritage Service and Putney Library's indispensable guide to keeping pheasants in your aviary.
Saadiya and I are very excited to announce a new addition to the family... ...meet Luna Khan!
Book worm or dog lover?! @Thememorialmob @K9MWDM x.com/ww1wandsworth/…
150 people could shelter with the books in Battersea Library during a WW1 air raid or 500 with the puppies at the Dogs Home! @librariesweek
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