Monday 6 January 1936
Daily Herald
Monday 6 January 1936
Daily Mirror
Geollre George Carter and his two children. LAST PROMISE FOR HIS BABY Father Killed on Eye of a Birthday FEW hours after decorating his home A on the eve of his baby's birthday and promising to buy some toy balloons, a rather was found dead on the railway line near Clapham Junction on Saturday night. He was Geoffrey George Carter, thirty-six, an assistant linesman, of Odger-street, Bat- tersea. How he came to fall from the train in which he was travelling to work is a mystery. The alarm was given when damage to a carriage door was noticed at Wandsworth Common station. Carter's body was in a deep cutting. Owing, to the steepness of the banks the body could not be carried to an ambulance. The body was placed on a light engine, which carried it half a mile to a siding. Rescuers were in great danger from live rails and passing trains.
[Is this Mrs. Van Der Elst the anti-capital punishment activist?] Belfast News-Letter — Thursday 9 January 1936 MRS. VAN DER ELST FINED 12 Sequel to Incident Outside a Prison . Mrs. Van Der Elst appeared the South Police Court, London, yesterday, afiawer four summonses which had been adjourned account her illness. . Aho summonses allege that she aided and abetted two men, James Kohane and David rarrar, in the use of noisy instrument for the purpose of gathering people together in Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, that she used motor horn when such was unnecessarv and she caused an obstruction, and tailed to produce her driving licence. Mrs. Van Der Elat was lined for sounding the hooter of her motor car, 0 tor obstruction, and 2 for failing to produce her licence. She was also ordered to pay five guineas costs. The summons against her for alleged aiding and abetting was dismissed, and the summons against was also dismissed. Air- R. Waitbrown (prosecuting) said that when m. policeman approached Mrs. Van Elat Outside Wandsworth Priion, she Got out of my way or will not be responsible for what happens*'* [BNA: Link.]
Friday 28 February 1936
South Western Star
NIGHTINGALE LANE TRAFFIC LIGHTS.
Estimates have been submitted to the Highways and Works Committee by the Borough Surveyor for the installation of traffic control signals at the junction of Bolingbroke-grove, Nightingale-lane, and Ravenslea-road. The committee recommended that, subject to the Ministry of Transport contributing 60 per cent of the cost, the improvement be carried out in accordance with the plan already approved, at an estimated cost of £4,729 10s. 5d., chargeable to the Borough of Battersea. Annual maintenance would cost £83 10s. in the first year and £118 thereafter. The Wandsworth Borough Council would also contribute 25 per cent of the net installation and maintenance cost. The report was adopted.
[Sequel to the Oct 1934 and Mar 1935 entries; the junction was thus transformed following the April 1934 fatal crash.]
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1936
COMMUNIST PLAN FOR LIFE IN WANDSWORTH. Pamphlet published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, price one penny.
The Communist Party of Great Britain published a penny pamphlet setting out their programme for the Borough of Wandsworth. The cover shows a mother holding a baby, with new housing in the background. The pamphlet called for improvements to housing, health services, and living standards for Wandsworth residents.
