Battersea

Books etc.

• Battersea Rise by Dorothy Pym, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1934 - A book about Battersea Rise House and the Thornton Family who lived there (not about the road now known as Battersea Rise), Dorothy Pym was a descendant of the Thorntons.
• Marian Thornton 1797-1887 A Domestic Biography by E.M. Forster, pub. Edward Arnold, 1956 - Yes, EM Forster who wrote A Passage to India, he to was a descendant of the Thorntons and a cousin of Dorothy Pym.
• Battersea and Clapham, The Old Photographs Series, compiled by Patrick Loobey, pub. Alan Sutton, 1994
• Battersea and Clapham - The Second Selection, The Old Photographs Series, compiled by Patrick Loobey, pub. Alan Sutton, 2000
• Builders of the Borough - A century of achievement by Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council from 1894 to 1994, by Ben Rudder
• The Boroughs of Wandsworth and Battersea at War, by Patrick Loobey & Jon Mills, pub. Sutton Publishing, 1996
• The London Borough of Wandsworth, Britain in Old Photographs, Patrick Loobey, pub. Sutton Publishing, 1998 - includes one photograph of Battersea Rise
• Our Lady of Batersey, by JG Taylor, published George White 1925. John George Taylor (aka Mossy), BA, Phd (Lond) (O.S.) [d 1942] was headmaster of Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, Battersea.
• The Buildings of Clapham, edited by Alyson Wilson, published The Clapham Society 2000. An architectural/historical guide. Two whole pages on Battersea Rise plus entries on many other streets inthe area.
• Battersea Past, edited by Patrick Loobey, pub. Historic Publications 2002. A substantial 144 page book on Battersea's history
• Cinemas and Theatres of Wandsworth and Battersea, Patrick Loobey, Tempus Publishing, Paperback, 2004
• The Park Town Estate and the Battersea Tangle, by Priscilla Metcalf. The development of the Queenstown Road area. Published 1978 by The London Topographical Society but still available (at a price that does not seem to have changed since 1978)
• The Merry Wives of Battersea and gossip of Three centuries, by A W M Stirling. A wierd book concerning the occupants of Old Battersea House.
• South Battersea - The Formative Years 1851-1900, Roger Logan, pub. Wandsworth Historical Society, 1977 - Concerns the building of the housing in the streets to the south of Battersea Rise
• Battersea New Town, A study of local building development 1790-1890, by Keith Bailey, Wandsworth Paper 5, pub. Wandsworth Historical Society, 1980 (Covers the area bounded by Battersea Park Road, Sleaford Road, Cross Street and Stewarts Lane)
• The Story of Clapham Common, The Clapham Society, (1995) Paperback, 47 Pages
• The Ancient Order of Foresters in Battersea and neighbouring districts, Sean Creighton, (1999)
• The Godfrey Edition, London, various maps, reprints of the 1870, 1894 & 1913, 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps reproduced at 1:4340 scale. Numbers 100, 101, 114 & 115 cover parts of Battersea
• New >> Battersea Girl, by Martin Knight, Random House 2007   About Martin Knight's grandmother, Ellen Knight nee Tregent, who lived all of her 100 years in Battersea including Ascalon Street, Savona Street, etc

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