Nineteen-year-old Kenneth Brown collapsed after being struck by the ball while playing soccer for his firm's team at Wandsworth Common. The trainer and team-mates tried to revive him, but he was dead. Brown's home was at Rawson Court, Battersea Park Road.
Temporary bungalows on the L.C.C.'s open spaces at Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth Common, and Garratt Green, Wandsworth, are to be demolished. Protective fencing around the sites will cost about £3,000.
[The prefabricated bungalows — "prefabs" — were emergency housing erected on open spaces after the Second World War to address the acute shortage caused by bomb damage. By 1956 the LCC was finally able to begin clearing them from the Common.]