Daily Herald — Wednesday 24 January 1923 / Arrest of man though no complaint — plain clothes police on Wandsworth Common
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Daily Herald — Wednesday 24 January 1923
UNSUPPORTED EVIDENCE "Follow Employed to Something Invariably Find It" Coaniel at London Court The question of the arrest of a man Wandsworth Common when one had made a complaint was raised the South-Western Court yesterday, Mr, Hatme, for the defence. said that it would be positive to the public using the commons if the police could arrest a man criminal charge without complaint. "Though have wish to offensive," he added, 1 must say that police officers employed in plain clothes see something, invariably find it "
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Norwood News- Tuesday 20 March 1923
WIDER FOOTPATHS. STRIPS TO BE TAKEN OFF WANDSWORTH COMMON.
The London County Council will today be asked to agree that strips of land, about 18 inches in width, and of a total area of approximately 378 square yards, of Wandsworth Common on both sides of Trinity-road, between Wandsworth Common West Side and Windmill-road, may be added to the public way in order that the footpaths may be widened to eight feet. It is proposed that the land so surrendered should be made up as a part of the two footpaths by Wandsworth Borough Council at its own expense. The Parks Committee of the L.C.C. has approved the scheme on the condition that the entire cost is borne by Wandsworth Council.
With the consent of Wandsworth Council, Battersea Council has applied to the L.C.C. to agree that the railings of Clapham Common, where it abuts upon Nightingale-lane, between Clapham Common, West Side and Baham-hill, may be set back a sufficient distance to allow of the formation of a footpath 10 feet in width on the northern side of that road. The Parks Committee of the LC.C. has approved the scheme on the same conditions.
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Daily News (London) — Tuesday 1 May 1923
Fifty Eight More Open in . London Parks To-day.
Tennis courts open . . .
There will be better facilitier, tor lawn tennis in the London parks this season, which opens to-day. Fifty-eight new hard courts have been laid down by the L.C.C. Last year *hero were only 56 courts. This year there will be 114. New courts will be found at: Parliament lull Park Park Battersea k'ark Kennington Ladywell Itsnor Hume Gdns. }3ruckwrtl Fare Brook Orem Claitharo Common Chewld Park Dulwich ParL: Plnmateed Common Eel Brook Common [Finabury Park Hackney Down. Righbury Fields Hilly Fields Myatt's Fields Its reepiconrt Park Syden h in Wells Park Wateri..W Perk Worm wood t+erubbs Wandsworth Park Tooting Common Wandsworth Common
The registration fee for hard courts has been increased front 1s. to 2s. 6d.. but the charge for playing on the black courts has been reduced from 1s 6d. to 1s. per hour.
For the admirable red rubble or green courts the charge is 1s 6d.
The rule that must prove residence In the county of London bas been relaxed.
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FALCONBROOK
ACTION AGAINST WELL-KNIWN ULHAM TRADER
An actions was heard in the Chancery Divisiion of the High Court en and YrWar la.t week, before Mr. Jhentiee in which the plaintiff was Mr. H. Came.. of 158 Falcon road. Battersea, sad the defendant wa. J. H. liargrie, the wellknown clothier and outfitter, el 312 North End-road. Fulham, and Bahasa. The claim wan for damage ranged by water in the basement at 158 Falcon-roed, alleged to have percolated from 100, the door premium, owned by Mr. Merritt. As injunction also was sought. Mr. Castile, KC., appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Manning, If., represented defendant.Tii. — s — risins sad evideere eau be thoroughly understood the judge's mamma, up, gives below.
THE JUDGMENT.
The case was ably summed nit on Monday morning Mr. Justice Romer [?]. in delivering judgment. His lordship said. Plaintiff COM plan's that defendant has collected upon Ow premises of his house a quantity of water; that this water hods iis wan into the cellar of plaintiff's preminis He accordingly asks for an injunction to restrain defendnnt from eausuig or permitting water to percolate, enter, or come into or upon his premises, sod he claims damages. The defence is that defendant has not. nor has anybody for whom he Is 111 law responsible. brought any water upon his premises. but that the water that in ilouldeilly there has found its way there through the ordinary operations of main
If that be the fact then whether the water 011 plaintiff's premises comes Irons defendant's premises, a fact which the defendant does not admit. it is conceded that the defendant would not be liable. defendant not himself done anything upon his own premises to raise the water to percolate. It is not a fact that the defendant has any art of his brought himself within any principle of the case Whalley v. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Medway.
A QUESTION OF FACT.
The question I have to decide is purely a question of fact. If defendant. or some person for whose arts he is has brought water on his premises he must take care to tee that that water does not esscape to the prejtufice of hw neighbour. I have to determine whether the water has been brought upon his premises by defendant or whether the water finds its way there by the ordinary operations of nature, Roth. these houses are built upon the site of an old water which has long teased to exist — the Falcon Brook.
The Falcon Brook teed to rise away to the south, somewhere at Nightamale-lane. And it then flowed in a northerly direct:on along the valley which is situated betseen tlt.. steeply sloping ground on the east rising to the heights of Clapham Common. and on the west the steeply sloping ground ending on Wandsworth Common. The treani used to flow along the hottorn of valley-well defined valleypass i ng joist i ii t h. west of, is now knosii as Faleon-road A little further to the north the bract to pin another brook coming down omewhere In the north of Lavender Hill. and the brooks found their way into the Thames at a point that is now pioltably ocrupted by Price's Candle Works.
In the days when the brook was open water upon the high ground of the slopes would find its wav into the stream and would be carried off, the stream draining the water shed.
END OF THE FALCON BROOK
By the 1868. ii appears from an old map which was produred Mr. I'air 'Young ' n a also for may years has been the chief molten inspector to the local authority, upper part of the brook had, been diverted and the water conducted 'down valley into a sewer. The brook to the north of Bat terse& Rim had ceased to emst. It had been replaced by a sewer which wt. called main low level sewer No mg. of the brook above Battersea Rise remains. It was probably filled up by 1888. The site of the brook ts. however, shown as the plan north of Battersea Rise, and it would
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appear that the brook ran rather to the est of the road, which is right along the bottom of the valley, which is now St. John's-Road. Tb. old brook that remained north etf Battersea tilt-equentiv done away with. A portion was enclosed sit a sewer. That -ewer eventually . r . low MIM Ilevel sewer at a point to the south of Faleon-road. That. I think. was the only portion of the brook that was actually culverted.
The brook to the south of Battersea Rise ' had been diverted and the rest ot the brook was in of time op by builders with clay and rubbish, the latter vet r likely of a porous tharaeree In the course of tune the whole of the of the brook was filled up. The result of that, of rouree, wee that rain water falling upon the shed, in so far as it fell upon rods of banes and paved surfaces, would be ducted the surface drains into sewers and would be carried away.
THE WATERSHED
But the rain that fell upon the uncovered portione of the watershed would gradually soak down into the fictions of the talky and!ender it of a swampy character for some distance beneath the surface. That was the elate of affairs when 160 Falconroad was built. It had no bessensent at first, hut in the rear of the home them was yard. wlneh was covered over. In 1066. before No. 1511 was built, the tenants of 160 desired to have basement for the purpose of erecting their printing machine, for the W. steers Ntar. They began .to excavate the yard. When they had got Sit. down they to water. Not any definite vtreans. The ground was found to be mos-t. just as on.. niight have expected. They slug little sleeper. and the moisture did nos of course iniprov . They found the pound was getting wetter. Thereupon they abandoned the idea of sinking a basement to the pre-determimd depth and derided to get the room required by raising the floor. Having excavated the as far as they thought was practicable they down a concrete floor. To dram the floor y slug a sumphote and concreted over the top of the sump, thinking they would no longer have any fee i. Unfortunately again as might have expected it WA% rotlll.l that the water and calms the emir Ifloor, the fact leing Ill It the floor of the lise-cment was below she genesal satyr level of that water.logged area.
DEFENDANT NOT RESPONSIBLE
So far it doee not appear to mne that the had lour 1)1 lug that would mak. them reopon.thle. In in, by then dal any water there: the Water We. there he comee the water had hecome p--parent. could DO Ilw 1 frneon of the fem. that if was underground. When they found the watre they opened the sump and after a little tune enlarged and up hand pump and the. ..ite that was el rtneally driven.
They continued to pump the from the sump and they kept basement dry. Than continued to the sear 1922 Ileauttme the ad) g house, . Nos 156 and 1511 were . No. 158 was built with a cellar in The Indtom of the cellar was etnliee higher than bottoni of the ham.nient at the rear if 160. Ai the cellar at 158 wan Iv remauturd div to Anyone. 1622, for rea.ore--at 160 the pump was slwata acute operat, on. The of the ininiping wit, of rout, .., to keep down the general water of dAttict. To that extent the pumping done by and
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TENANTS
was of great, ervire to the owner and ortnyorr of 1% and soy houses had ha.etnttL it the were kept drt.
In the year 1908 a peculiar thlng happened. The amount of sale r co nttig the basement of N. 160 was yuddridg Increa e.i. Immediately bchnel pretn or, and on a togher leyer had been s ome tramway What had hap petted was that In 19011 the huddling% were pulled down. The surface of the ground had been concreted. Of .-our, the effect us to of the area open to thc elements. The cam thyl It-'1 upon tt no longer 1.. cossdur, od if, . cuefare drams to the would a u t a Into the ground. Ihate no doubt that the writ amount of water added to tie general
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water whirh sat arnin, , alntM at the lint el the valley was increased and never. aitated further pumping.
In 1917 the area previously by the tramway stables was tensed into aflotmi gardens. and the of the coo. floor we. removed. No part of the tramway stable. site — about an sere lat ettent-was now drained by say dram. The falling on that would therefore find its way into the valley.
ADDITIONAL PUMPING
A consequence was that at 100 Falconroad suuip had row to be pumped every eight hours or no, instead of every 13. That seems to be a perfectly obvious and sat oral result, because there is now the sod water in addition to the water amine down and settling in the bottom of the valley. also was noticed at 100 that whereas after heavy lain the effort before 1917 was not appreciable until some three or four i.ays after rain had fallen. in 1917 the effect of the rail was felt is 24 hours. That again is what one would have expected The water front Wandsworth Common would take sonic iirne to soak through the ground into Valeon-road. Now that the to the wt, t. of 190 is no longer wholly drained, tbs ..urtace water being there would make its presence felt in the valley 113 a veryliort Water now Imme down to where the pumps were from very much nearer ihan before.
Is the defendant responsible for the in creased water that down in 1906 and agam in 1917 lu way opinion; No. I cannot we that he had done to hit water to that spot. Whether be dug basement or not the titer faliotg on the stable would .1.11 have found It. tat into the valley and would have increased
THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF WATER
that had been found there before.
It is said by plaintiff that defendant, or his tenant, must have done something to eau, the eater to go ihele. SIN I that for two reason, Ii o that Water stand. at higher Iat ISO than it doe. on the adjoining pienr tss. Ishould hate mentioned that when the tu June. 1922. loses to 156 The pumping ii. week it, JON No poloc..lty iiren dune Ihose I I exception. The result of the o-essa; 0 the pumping of hat tlo niter rime at and to i.e basements of 156 and 156. The is pot Insfore an. WI. Itrotte:llt wafer wan pumped out of 160. oloi the onthe. disappeared from trilmment of That. of course. Most, ' there 1, 14 4; Ilen But when pumping does take place the teak.at to found at a level than the water at 156 or 156. Plaintiff ea). that On maim lung ha born j. ihe outlet tot 160. or his tenant, to bring the water upon the premises.
COMPARATIVE BASEMENTS
The other circumstance upon which plaintiff reliesis that with the exception tensor: to lir.og the miter the pi The oilier .ff WI., in i i pon which plain kat h ilia ..a. ep: on of — lap there Is DO Ily Iw 11 WO Ot bout this r 0: 114 nllrll a prlfertlY i.a.emest, .0 he 4 Ihe neigh+. r nr 17 He it sdi . I don't an higher A.. ' IYoung — told 'lt north to to Latrpoder s v.
bar.tnelits at 160, other I, aarturnt In:a e.ra damp _ la Ipoint. f 1 H.. .a..i 11. I I- l, Jt 1!1 110'41 VIC 4.11041 He a has alwayA be n ft I111 level 'than ii, . FAlcou-teed h fly Hill 'here is a I:si of somi 'ii feet. 178 is sem. no, 11 neater Lavender Hill than 160 n. and must licteti ie be on an appreciably higher it . . . ! It was the oi 174. 1 think. %be, . id there was opposite him a Immo161 hat a kr. and the had been In the habit of going into that orllar There again Iknow nothing about the depth of the cellar or the of the basement and the Mbar. hi point of fact Ihase no doubt whatesir, hat you dug ID the of s o u would. at a lipth ti se Iset or tlwreabout., no
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DAMP SOIL
When they were digging in the rear of 156 for the purpose of making a hoieniest there they experienced precisely be same thong as when they dug the basement at 160. They found water from the surface. They mane bole a foot deeper and in very short water stood in the hole. That is strong indication that the sml in this neighbourhood is waterlogged at the depth a Sit, just as 1 should it to be from the formation of the gnsund.
The other exception is iliat water elands at an appreciably higher at 1110 than at 158. At Snit sight. it may he at second sight, it is oot very easy to And an explanation. it is impossible to ha certain that one has arrived at the true esplanation. There is one explanation — the site of the tramway stables Is immediately behind 160 Underground water, as we know, boa a CY IHMIs habit of Sowing in direction rather than another, and it may well ha that the water that falls on the tramway stables area Sods it. way underground to 160, before t gets to the ite of 158 or 156. It is agreed. by the expert. that in that ease it would be found on the site of 100 a higher keel than on the ad-, joining premises, the water from the area ot the stables would get to 180 lust. It would be retained there for some time before it would by
THE OPERATIONS OF NATURE
drain away Into the adjoining premien.
That being the possible explanation. how an 1 that the plaintiff ha, proved hi, cap among the water, tand, on a higher level in 1610 than it doe- in 1% The 011 UP upon the plaintiff to watnify me that defendant. or momehealy for wham he i rettponsoble. brought the water upon 160. li, my opinion he faded to barge the 0111/4 On the contrary. in my opotion, everything to the conelwoon that the water found on 160 I, water which told. ow way there through the ordinary operation, of rainfall and gravity. That being so I can only dismiss the plaintiff's?
Defendant's counsel asked for costs. They were allowed.
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"Hampstead News — Thursday 19 July 1923
In a letter to The Times, the Rev. R. C. Gilke, chairman. and Rev. H . M. Gooch, general secretary of the United Council for Sunday Protection, said: Mr. Grantham appears to take it for granted that the voice of the London County Council in its vote last Tuesday is the voice of the majority in their constituencies, but there is no proof that this is the case. We still maintain that the L.C.C. are without a mandate from the electors on this subject. In spite of the fact that the whole of the London Newspaper Press has supported Sunday games, there is a strong body of citizens who view the action of the L.C.C. as retrograde, and anticipate the issues from their action with grave concern. The opportunity to demonstrate this, at present denied us, will, in due course, occur.
Besides, it is to be remembered that London is not England. The verdict of the provinces is against the example of the L.C.C. The verdict of Scotland is the same, as the plebiscite taken last Saturday at Bo'ness reveals, only 139 people out of a total electorate of 4,505 being found to vote for Sunday games. And this was a test case.
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"theodore
Saturday 15 December 1923 The Scotsman
Reports death of Revd Theodore Wood on Thursday 13 December
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"Illustrated Police News — Thursday 20 December 1923
VICAR'S SUDDEN DEATH AFTER A FUNERAL. Canon Theodore Wood, vicar of St. Uary Magdalene and rural dean of Wandsworth, died suddenly at' his home Lyford-road, Wandsworth Common. He had conducted a funeral service at Wandsworth Cemetery in the morning, and shortly after reaching home he collapsed in his study. Canon Wood, who was sixty-one years was well-known lecturer on natural history, and had written numerous works on the subject. His recreation was collecting British beetles.
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