Thursday 20 September 2007
Saturday 4 August 2007
Favourite Building
Granada Cinema - now a Gala bingo hall. It was built in 1931 and is Grade I listed. The soaring Gothic interior, comparable to the House of Lords, was designed by a Russian emigre, the theatre director Theodore Komisarjevsky. Still fabulous.
The new Sainsburys/South Thames College.The opticians in between NatWest and Nationwide,The Library & Gala Bingo interior.Demolish the rest!
all off tooting its where the heart is.
A little blue shack/restaurant across the road from the church just off the Mitcham Road up from Tooting Broadway past the Library. Also, the above mentioned church. Tooting Broadway Station because then I know I am back in Tooting.
Thanks to our Islamic community for their wonderful mosque in Gatton Road. A refreshingly pretty, modern building with even lovlier flower beds
Tooting Grand
Sainsburys contemporary architecture is pushing tooting forward (hopefully)
Tooting train station platforms - all graffed up
fire station
the little-house pub, the place where dreams are made!!!Kidding right
Overhead platforms Balham BR station,rush hour. Great for voyeurs (legal BTW if its on show in public its watchable)as 1000s mini skirted thigh flashing city and West end dolly birds troop home to Croydon and beyond.
Chris Pinckard Tower
The old Cinema / New Bingo Hall
Demolish It Now Building
Every bookies,mobile phone shop,poundshop,nail parlour,fast food outlet and replace them with BOOKSHOPS! of which there is not one!
the new flats by st boniface.
The HUGE grey building between Colliers Wood and Tooting. (you know the one I mean!!)
All the mobile phone shops - how many can one high street need?
I agree with the comment about the Brown & Root building, but not with the one about Heritage Park (off Church Lane). I may be biased because I live there, but I feel the architecture has sufficient variation and suitably low-rise to blend in with the rest of Tooting. The land was nearly used as the site for a giant Tesco store.
the indoor markets they smell and make the place look more untidy
The halifax opposite Tooting Broadway station
horse + groom pub its closed down and its annoying no matter where you go in tooting there is absolutley NO bookshops and at least 6 mobile phone shops yes 6 not one two or three but SIX phone shops and NO bookshops
JJ Moons pub! (inc. everyone in it!) Quite dire.....
The Iceland and the Somerfield. Never been in either, but they just look nasty.
All of them especially the new estate on Church lane its encouraging ponces into the area!!
The London underground Stations of Tooting Broadway,Tooting Bec & Balham along with the filthy stairs,decrepid entrances and non operational and or non exitent escalators.
Angela Tynan Estate
Holmbury Court
Brown and Root tower block in Colliers Wood
Iceland
The Best Things
You have many ways of getting out of Tooting,bus,tube,train & tram(soon ?)
the vibe.
Easy to get into the city and the west end. sainsbuys is awesome. bilash tandoori restuarant rocks.
The smell of Tooting. The Indian restaurants.
Just like to say, If the traffic wardens were not patroling in tooting then the traffic would be at a standstill. I think they do a good job, give em a break!
Thriving market, good young crowds, cosmipolitan atmosphere
Its still my little part of Sarf London. Refusing to be taken over by the usual High Street kings ! Love that Character, Freedom for Tooting, right enough !!
close to other area's,
THe commons
Its cheap round here
Good cultural mix. Bustle. Curries. Easy to get to the City or the West End on the tube.
That huge Sainsburys is awesome. Loads of parking and loads of room inside. None of these trolly wars that I seem to have to contend with at other supermarkets. Oh, and did you know, Cases of Stella are in a sale right now (Can I write that?).....too late!
Its still a working class stronghold on Crowborough road!!! Freedom for Tooting!!!
Quiet backwater where creative things can develop unditurbed.
Affordable, close to Brixton, Clapham and Wimbledon but also far enough away. Sree Krishna curry house
Nice mix of people
Full of real characters, not the "cannot afford Clapham or Battersea crowd". Not Crouch End. Not Putney. Not Fulham. The wind tunnel effect at Tooting Bec tube station in Summer.
Fabulous Indian food, fairly relaxed atmosphere, 30 mins to Central London, undergoing some gentrification,Tooting Broadway Tube finally been renovated, Tootings now got a deli, has a Marks and Spencer, near Wimbledon / Clapham, has the world biggest Sainsbury's nearby, good butchers/bakers, has a train line (Station has been renovated) and Balham main line is 5 mins away, lots of nice little shops to explore, Tooting Market is Fab and cheap, great junk shops on Garret lane, Wandsworth is a cheap council, Tooting has a Labour MP, one of the worlds best hospitals is on the doorstep if you ever need it (Tooting - Great Place To Have A Heart Attack), Friendly People
The Worst Things
It takes a long time to drive out of Tooting cos everybodyelse trying to get out. It's too full of 'non-ponces'.
needs more big shops.
crap drivers! traffic lights at amen corner! too many gypo's! too many pissed irish blokes! every shop owner looks at you suspiciously when you walk in! loads of good looking doris get out of the broadway tube, but vanish into thin ar soon after! too much halal food (no decent fish and chip shop). thameslink is dreadful
Drunk geezers outside the tube (although i'm hoping that absence of them all over past 6 weeks is cos they have all gone to the great bar in the sky). People who cant drive properly - although thats the whole of south london too.
Tube seats get filled up at Tooting Broadway so if you're waiting at Tooting Bec station during the morning rush hour you're probably going to be on your feet all the way to work.
The increasing "Gentrification" of Tooting !!! Can't stand these posh sorts moving in round here lately. Watch out, The Pie & Mash shop will end up being a Bistro soon !!! Gawd help us !! And the Gin Palace, Sorry New Fountain, is going to be a trendy Wine bar !!
the market , primark
THe muggers you find in the broadway
NO BOOOKSHOPS WE REALLY NEED A BOOK SHOP PLEASE SOMEONE OPEN ONE I LOVE READING!!!!! AND SO DO MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN 2TIN!!!!!
Tooting's reputation amongst people who have never been here. The bad curry places that give the great ones a bad name.
The way people drive in Tooting is amazing. Infact I think it's the whole of South London. Is there a South London highway code that I don't know about. Otherwise where would these people get the idea that it's perfectly fine to park your car in the middle of the road or the turn left lane? Also, does any body in South London know what the yellow cross box at traffic lights is for? I'm not convinced.
Too many Ponces, too many bogus asylum seekers, too many student-types and too amny traffic wardens
"Shared kitchens"offered at seedy accommodation agencies such as @Clapham Southside. The depressed tone of the whole of South London. Roaming gangs of black thugs from Brixton. The odd psycho or nutter springing out of the blue.
Train station smells funny when it rains
The wind tunnel effect at Tooting Bec tube station in Winter.
House prices rising RAPIDLY, rents going up too, main street is busy, could do with a decent coffee shop. You're on the northern line, but its a damn sight better than it used to be.
Granada Cinema - now a Gala bingo hall. It was built in 1931 and is Grade I listed. The soaring Gothic interior, comparable to the House of Lords, was designed by a Russian emigre, the theatre director Theodore Komisarjevsky. Still fabulous.
The new Sainsburys/South Thames College.The opticians in between NatWest and Nationwide,The Library & Gala Bingo interior.Demolish the rest!
all off tooting its where the heart is.
A little blue shack/restaurant across the road from the church just off the Mitcham Road up from Tooting Broadway past the Library. Also, the above mentioned church. Tooting Broadway Station because then I know I am back in Tooting.
Thanks to our Islamic community for their wonderful mosque in Gatton Road. A refreshingly pretty, modern building with even lovlier flower beds
Tooting Grand
Sainsburys contemporary architecture is pushing tooting forward (hopefully)
Tooting train station platforms - all graffed up
fire station
the little-house pub, the place where dreams are made!!!Kidding right
Overhead platforms Balham BR station,rush hour. Great for voyeurs (legal BTW if its on show in public its watchable)as 1000s mini skirted thigh flashing city and West end dolly birds troop home to Croydon and beyond.
Chris Pinckard Tower
The old Cinema / New Bingo Hall
Demolish It Now Building
Every bookies,mobile phone shop,poundshop,nail parlour,fast food outlet and replace them with BOOKSHOPS! of which there is not one!
the new flats by st boniface.
The HUGE grey building between Colliers Wood and Tooting. (you know the one I mean!!)
All the mobile phone shops - how many can one high street need?
I agree with the comment about the Brown & Root building, but not with the one about Heritage Park (off Church Lane). I may be biased because I live there, but I feel the architecture has sufficient variation and suitably low-rise to blend in with the rest of Tooting. The land was nearly used as the site for a giant Tesco store.
the indoor markets they smell and make the place look more untidy
The halifax opposite Tooting Broadway station
horse + groom pub its closed down and its annoying no matter where you go in tooting there is absolutley NO bookshops and at least 6 mobile phone shops yes 6 not one two or three but SIX phone shops and NO bookshops
JJ Moons pub! (inc. everyone in it!) Quite dire.....
The Iceland and the Somerfield. Never been in either, but they just look nasty.
All of them especially the new estate on Church lane its encouraging ponces into the area!!
The London underground Stations of Tooting Broadway,Tooting Bec & Balham along with the filthy stairs,decrepid entrances and non operational and or non exitent escalators.
Angela Tynan Estate
Holmbury Court
Brown and Root tower block in Colliers Wood
Iceland
The Best Things
You have many ways of getting out of Tooting,bus,tube,train & tram(soon ?)
the vibe.
Easy to get into the city and the west end. sainsbuys is awesome. bilash tandoori restuarant rocks.
The smell of Tooting. The Indian restaurants.
Just like to say, If the traffic wardens were not patroling in tooting then the traffic would be at a standstill. I think they do a good job, give em a break!
Thriving market, good young crowds, cosmipolitan atmosphere
Its still my little part of Sarf London. Refusing to be taken over by the usual High Street kings ! Love that Character, Freedom for Tooting, right enough !!
close to other area's,
THe commons
Its cheap round here
Good cultural mix. Bustle. Curries. Easy to get to the City or the West End on the tube.
That huge Sainsburys is awesome. Loads of parking and loads of room inside. None of these trolly wars that I seem to have to contend with at other supermarkets. Oh, and did you know, Cases of Stella are in a sale right now (Can I write that?).....too late!
Its still a working class stronghold on Crowborough road!!! Freedom for Tooting!!!
Quiet backwater where creative things can develop unditurbed.
Affordable, close to Brixton, Clapham and Wimbledon but also far enough away. Sree Krishna curry house
Nice mix of people
Full of real characters, not the "cannot afford Clapham or Battersea crowd". Not Crouch End. Not Putney. Not Fulham. The wind tunnel effect at Tooting Bec tube station in Summer.
Fabulous Indian food, fairly relaxed atmosphere, 30 mins to Central London, undergoing some gentrification,Tooting Broadway Tube finally been renovated, Tootings now got a deli, has a Marks and Spencer, near Wimbledon / Clapham, has the world biggest Sainsbury's nearby, good butchers/bakers, has a train line (Station has been renovated) and Balham main line is 5 mins away, lots of nice little shops to explore, Tooting Market is Fab and cheap, great junk shops on Garret lane, Wandsworth is a cheap council, Tooting has a Labour MP, one of the worlds best hospitals is on the doorstep if you ever need it (Tooting - Great Place To Have A Heart Attack), Friendly People
The Worst Things
It takes a long time to drive out of Tooting cos everybodyelse trying to get out. It's too full of 'non-ponces'.
needs more big shops.
crap drivers! traffic lights at amen corner! too many gypo's! too many pissed irish blokes! every shop owner looks at you suspiciously when you walk in! loads of good looking doris get out of the broadway tube, but vanish into thin ar soon after! too much halal food (no decent fish and chip shop). thameslink is dreadful
Drunk geezers outside the tube (although i'm hoping that absence of them all over past 6 weeks is cos they have all gone to the great bar in the sky). People who cant drive properly - although thats the whole of south london too.
Tube seats get filled up at Tooting Broadway so if you're waiting at Tooting Bec station during the morning rush hour you're probably going to be on your feet all the way to work.
The increasing "Gentrification" of Tooting !!! Can't stand these posh sorts moving in round here lately. Watch out, The Pie & Mash shop will end up being a Bistro soon !!! Gawd help us !! And the Gin Palace, Sorry New Fountain, is going to be a trendy Wine bar !!
the market , primark
THe muggers you find in the broadway
NO BOOOKSHOPS WE REALLY NEED A BOOK SHOP PLEASE SOMEONE OPEN ONE I LOVE READING!!!!! AND SO DO MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN 2TIN!!!!!
Tooting's reputation amongst people who have never been here. The bad curry places that give the great ones a bad name.
The way people drive in Tooting is amazing. Infact I think it's the whole of South London. Is there a South London highway code that I don't know about. Otherwise where would these people get the idea that it's perfectly fine to park your car in the middle of the road or the turn left lane? Also, does any body in South London know what the yellow cross box at traffic lights is for? I'm not convinced.
Too many Ponces, too many bogus asylum seekers, too many student-types and too amny traffic wardens
"Shared kitchens"offered at seedy accommodation agencies such as @Clapham Southside. The depressed tone of the whole of South London. Roaming gangs of black thugs from Brixton. The odd psycho or nutter springing out of the blue.
Train station smells funny when it rains
The wind tunnel effect at Tooting Bec tube station in Winter.
House prices rising RAPIDLY, rents going up too, main street is busy, could do with a decent coffee shop. You're on the northern line, but its a damn sight better than it used to be.
Tooting Bec LidoTooting Bec RoadLondon SW16 1RUTel: 020 8871 7198
Tooting Bec Lido is the largest fresh water pool in England, offering a 90m pool and children's paddling pool with nearby gazebo shaded area. A new entrance and café enhance the experience for all the family.
Be safe in the sun this summer.
From Saturday May 26th 2007 smoking will only be permitted within the designated smoking area. Tooting Bec Lido has a no readmission policy.smoke free
Keep Swimming Fresh! (5k)
Visit D C Leisure Centres (Tooting Bec Lido) for full details on the pool.
Getting here:
Bus - 155, 249, 319, 355; Tube - Tooting Bec, Balham; Rail - Balham.
Use the Wandsworth Travel Planner to plan your journey Get a local map from Streetmap
Opening hours: The lido is open to the public from 26 May to 31 August everyday from 6am to 8pm (last ticket 7.30pm) and throughout September from 6am to 5pm (last ticket 4.30pm)From October to March the Lido is open everyday from 7am - 2pm for members of the South London Swimming Club (visit www.slsc.org.uk for more details).
Other facilities:Open air swimming pool, paddling pool, cafe.Facilities for those with disabilities include showers, toilets and changing areas. For more information please phone the Lido on 020 8871 7198.
Tooting Bec Lido is the largest fresh water pool in England, offering a 90m pool and children's paddling pool with nearby gazebo shaded area. A new entrance and café enhance the experience for all the family.
Be safe in the sun this summer.
From Saturday May 26th 2007 smoking will only be permitted within the designated smoking area. Tooting Bec Lido has a no readmission policy.smoke free
Keep Swimming Fresh! (5k)
Visit D C Leisure Centres (Tooting Bec Lido) for full details on the pool.
Getting here:
Bus - 155, 249, 319, 355; Tube - Tooting Bec, Balham; Rail - Balham.
Use the Wandsworth Travel Planner to plan your journey Get a local map from Streetmap
Opening hours: The lido is open to the public from 26 May to 31 August everyday from 6am to 8pm (last ticket 7.30pm) and throughout September from 6am to 5pm (last ticket 4.30pm)From October to March the Lido is open everyday from 7am - 2pm for members of the South London Swimming Club (visit www.slsc.org.uk for more details).
Other facilities:Open air swimming pool, paddling pool, cafe.Facilities for those with disabilities include showers, toilets and changing areas. For more information please phone the Lido on 020 8871 7198.
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Bars & Clubs near Tooting Broadway Tube Station
Places to drink and dance close to this station.
If you're looking for a place to have a beer, go out dancing or just to watch the match check out our pub, bar and club listings.
A Bar 2 Far - (Bars)32 Mitcham Road Tooting SW17 9NA
The Rounded Oak - (Public Houses & Inns)24 Mitcham Road Tooting SW17 9NA
The Tramshed - (Public Houses & Inns)48A Mitcham Road Tooting SW17 9NA
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Bars & Clubs near Tooting Broadway Tube Station
Places to drink and dance close to this station.
If you're looking for a place to have a beer, go out dancing or just to watch the match check out our pub, bar and club listings.
A Bar 2 Far - (Bars)32 Mitcham Road Tooting SW17 9NA
The Rounded Oak - (Public Houses & Inns)24 Mitcham Road Tooting SW17 9NA
The Tramshed - (Public Houses & Inns)48A Mitcham Road Tooting SW17 9NA
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Wimbledon Dog Track
Address: Plough Lane, Wimbledon, London, SW17Tel: 020 8946 8000 See a map
Situated in South West London, Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium is the largest and most successful dog racing track in the country. The stadium has excellent facilities and attracts people from right across London and from all classes. The Grandstand is air conditioned and glass fronted- providing luxurious comfort for race fans. Races are held every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday and the track opens at 6.30pm. The track at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium is 408 metres in circumference and races over 252 to 1068 metres are contested here.
Facilities include a silver service restaurant with an extensive and affordable menu. There is also another restaurant called Broadway- the atmosphere is more relaxed and the menu a little more simple. Each table is furnished with its own multi-channel television set to view the races. For the less discerning diner there is also a fast food restaurant on the premises.
For groups a corporate box can be hired- with its own betting service and fully stocked bar.
Racing takes place every fifteen minutes- which guarantees excitement and interest throughout the evening. Dog racing has been rediscovered by London’s younger generation; as a result the mix between traditional racing purists and the younger element looking for an evening’s entertainment means that Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium has a unique and vibrant atmosphere.
Nearest Transport:WimbledonTooting Broadway
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Address: Plough Lane, Wimbledon, London, SW17Tel: 020 8946 8000 See a map
Situated in South West London, Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium is the largest and most successful dog racing track in the country. The stadium has excellent facilities and attracts people from right across London and from all classes. The Grandstand is air conditioned and glass fronted- providing luxurious comfort for race fans. Races are held every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday and the track opens at 6.30pm. The track at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium is 408 metres in circumference and races over 252 to 1068 metres are contested here.
Facilities include a silver service restaurant with an extensive and affordable menu. There is also another restaurant called Broadway- the atmosphere is more relaxed and the menu a little more simple. Each table is furnished with its own multi-channel television set to view the races. For the less discerning diner there is also a fast food restaurant on the premises.
For groups a corporate box can be hired- with its own betting service and fully stocked bar.
Racing takes place every fifteen minutes- which guarantees excitement and interest throughout the evening. Dog racing has been rediscovered by London’s younger generation; as a result the mix between traditional racing purists and the younger element looking for an evening’s entertainment means that Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium has a unique and vibrant atmosphere.
Nearest Transport:WimbledonTooting Broadway
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