Wandsworth Commons

Wandsworth Common
Some Old Postcards and Photographs

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Wandsworth Common	See Wandsworth Borough Council's Character Statements Wandsworth Common & The Common - Elsynge Road - Spencer Park - West Side - Alma Terrace - St.Anne's - Ellerton Road - St.James - Holy Trinity - Bolingbroke Grove
	View from near the railway towards Bolingbroke Road, postmarked 1910
	Three Islands Pond on Wandsworth Common, postmarked 1905
	Three Islands Pond on Wandsworth Common, postmarked 1906
	I cannot identify the location of this building on Wandsworth Common. Would like to here from anybody who can. The postcard is postmarked 1915.
	The Lake, Wandsworth Common, postmarked 1906
	The Lake, Wandsworth Common, 2005
	The Lake, Wandsworth Common, 2005
	The Lake, Wandsworth Common,
	Footpath along the railway, 2005
	Wandsworth Hospital 1915, during the Great War - The main building is the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building built 1857 for Crimean War orphans. It has a varied history, a detention and interrogation centre during WW2 and then in the 1950s part of Spencer Park Comprehensive School which was joined by the former Wandsworth Boy's School in the 1980s to form John Archer School (closed August 1991), it now houses the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA), flats, studios, workshops, restaurant, etc. The vast extensions behind the main building gives some idea of the horrors of the 1914-1918 War. Windmill Road and the railway run diagonally across the bottom left corner and Trinity Road runs diagonally across the bottom right corner of this view. »»» See this link for more info on the hospital.
	Wandsworth Hospital - Ward 2 - Christmas 1905 [if I read the caption correctly]. This looks like a Tuberculosis ward to me, probably the major cause of death for younger men before the first world war.
	Wandsworth Prison, looks onto common from the west
	Wandsworth Common Station, undated but, by the look of the old pram on the left, probable Edwardian
	... and in 2006
	Belle Vue Road, facing Wandsworth Common near Wandsworth Common Station, postmarked 1906
	View towards Belle Vue Road and Trinity Road from the west

The Craig Telescope on Wandsworth Common

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