Tolworth, in all its glory - 20 photos

[editor]

Venue for the second date of the Ziggy Stardust tour. Home of Radio Jackie. Hosts the Tolworth Greenway.

THIS IS TOLWORTH

In photos: a visual taster of the joys of Tolworth, south west London -

Faced with a quarter of an hour to kill before the next London bound train, I took a quick stroll around Tolworth, a suburban area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It was once rather rudely described by the Evening Standard as the ‘scrag end of the borough.’ There's been valiant...

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[Puddy_Tat]

is there a Toby Jug Fact in that article?



and at state of tolworth station - the chessington south branch (which was not intended to be a branch - more here) was about the last bit of SR built before the 1939 war. i hope the stations get listed before they disintegrate or get replaced with something bloody awful if crossrail 2 ever happens...

 

[RubyToogood]

Going to Tolworth was an annual feature of my young life, on a rainy September day, to buy school uniform from the school uniform shop. It truly signalled that summer was over.

 

[wiskey]

I had never heard of Tolworth until I started working the SW desk at the LAS, suddenly I had to find out where it was and where it's ambulance station was.

 

[Cloo]

Used to pass through it all the time when we lived in Wimbledon.

 

[Sue]

I had never heard of Tolworth until today. I'm not sure your pix have really made me want to visit tbh, editor though that's not on your photos...

 

[editor]

I had never heard of Tolworth until today. I'm not sure your pix have really made me want to visit tbh, editor though that's not on your photos...

Home of Radio Jackie, mind.

 

[stolinski]

We raved tolworth in 2000! outrage over rave

Jim Taylor of Chessington Residents' Association said: "This was absolute anarchy."

 

[two sheds]

"Police stood by as 2,000 ravers, many high on drugs ... "

 

[moomoo]

I thought they were stills from some bleak 60’s movie at first. It’s a bit grim!

 

[TopCat]

It's all about the A3.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

We raved tolworth in 2000! outrage over rave

Jim Taylor of Chessington Residents' Association said: "This was absolute anarchy."

"Police stood by as 2,000 ravers, many high on drugs ... "

Rolled up on Friday evening and Old Bill said no, we countered with an offer to set up in Kingston town centre, they let the party go ahead...




Evening Standard linked our McD's sign to MayDay riots, even though they were unaware that one of those jailed for the riots was loosely associated with our crew (he was really tall so useful for hanging backdrops).



existentialist might like this thread.

I have another Tolwoth fact which I am keeping for now...

 

[two sheds]

Looks fun Does your friend not object to you hanging backdrops from him?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Home of Radio Jackie, mind.

Their transmitter mast is on top of Tolworth Tower, hardly surprising really in view of its height, and being opposite their studios.

I remember visiting them in their pirate days, they were using Beddington Lane sewage treatment works as the transmitter site, not the most pleasant site I've been on!

The only pirate to actually turn the tables on the GPO, when they prosecuted one of their engineers for an assault during a raid, they called loads of witnesses that they claimed were hidden in hedges and saw everything.

Also the only pirate to have a recoding of them play in the House of Commons, as an example of what legal local commercial radio could sound like, before the first such stations were licensed.

These old photos show their 'off road transport' used to get to isolated sites, and the transmitter set-up, car batteries, and cassette recorder to play the shows, etc.

 

[dessiato]

is there a Toby Jug Fact in that article?



and at state of tolworth station - the chessington south branch (which was not intended to be a branch - more here) was about the last bit of SR built before the 1939 war. i hope the stations get listed before they disintegrate or get replaced with something bloody awful if crossrail 2 ever happens...

Isn’t chessington south one of the stations at which OzT works?

 

[existentialist]

Venue for the second date of the Ziggy Stardust tour. Home of Radio Jackie. Hosts the Tolworth Greenway.

THIS IS TOLWORTH

In photos: a visual taster of the joys of Tolworth, south west London -

Faced with a quarter of an hour to kill before the next London bound train, I took a quick stroll around Tolworth, a suburban area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It was once rather rudely described by the Evening Standard as the ‘scrag end of the borough.’ There's been valiant...

www.urban75.org

My original home town. Went to primary school at Grand Avenue (which always fancies itself as being in Berrylands, but isn't).

 

[existentialist]

Isn’t chessington south one of the stations at which OzT works?

North and South, yes.

 

[existentialist]

is there a Toby Jug Fact in that article?



and at state of tolworth station - the chessington south branch (which was not intended to be a branch - more here) was about the last bit of SR built before the 1939 war. i hope the stations get listed before they disintegrate or get replaced with something bloody awful if crossrail 2 ever happens...

Some of the tracklaying beyond Chessington South was, so local rumour has it, done by way of practice for Royal Engineers learning how to lay military railways.

 

[Leafster]

It's all about the A3.

It's a huge scar on the landscape around that way. I've always thought they could do more to cover over the sunken sections to help re-unite the two side.

 

[ruffneck23]

I was in the Cash converters in Tolworth last week

 

[ruffneck23]

We raved tolworth in 2000! outrage over rave

Jim Taylor of Chessington Residents' Association said: "This was absolute anarchy."

I have a very strong feeling I may been at this one