Norwood News- Tuesday 31 March 1925
WANDSWORTH COMMON ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUMMER GAMES.
The L.C.C. has allocated space for the coming season of summer pastimes at Wandsworth Common. It has been decided to retain the former site for the open air dancing, and the band performances on Sundays will be given on the same site. No additional facilities will be provided for tennis.
The twenty acre extension which formerly belonged to the Royal Patriotic Corporation and which was purchased by local authorities for 12,000 will be thrown open to the public. Though heavy games will not be allowed owing to the nature of the soil, light games will be permissible. The expenditure for laying out the land has amounted to more than 3,000.
An improved and enlarged quoits pitch will be available, and a croquet court will be provided in the vicinity of Bolingbroke Grove.
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Daily News (London) — Thursday 12 November 1925 Vandalism in the Parks. LONDON takes a legitimate pride in its parks and open spaces, but the habit of fencing off certain portions of the common land is developing into a nuisance. Ibelieve I am right in saying that when the parks were taken over by the L.C.C. the Act of Parliament laid it down that no part of the land intended for the public was to be enclosed. To the annoyance of thousands of people in south-west London sections of the parks and commons have been fenced in to such an extent that it is only possible to walk on the footpaths. Wandsworth Common is one of the chief sufferers. Not only have large portions of the Common been fenced round, but the natural beauties have, been laid waste. Lovely gorse bushes have been destroyed and trees cut down. Protests have been raised against this vandalism on the part of the L.C.C. [BNA: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19251112/098/0006" target="_blank">Link.] WANDSWORTH COMMON. Sir,-1 fully endorse "Newsman's" remarks in regard to the fencing in of Wandsworth Common. The pleasing undulations. dotted with red and white hawthorn, which made an especially beautiful picture in the spring, have been ruthlessly cleared. The Common, which Ialways understood was an open space in which the public might ramble at will, is now a series of level fields intersected by a few narrow footpaths fenced in on either side. G. HIPKINS. Wandsworth Common. [BNA: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19251117/108/0006" target="_blank">Link.]
Daily News (London) — Tuesday 17 November 1925
WANDSWORTH COMMON. Sir, Ifully endorse "Newsman's" remarks in regard to the fencing in of Wandsworth Common. The pleasing undulations, dotted with red and white hawthorn, which made an especially beautiful picture in the spring, have been ruthlessly cleared. The Common, which Ialways understood was an open space in which the public might ramble at will, is now a series of level fields intersected by a few narrow footpaths fenced in on either side. G. HIPKINS. Wandsworth Common. [BNA: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19251117/108/0006" target="_blank">Link.]
Daily News (London) — Tuesday 17 November 1925
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