Balham ¦ (5/6) ¦ Love Your London ¦ Tooting Broadway

Today, Tristán White and Sharon Crawford start their journey at Tooting Broadway station (SW17), discuss the King Edward VII statue as well as the famous Citizen Smith TV series that was filmed there, and then move on to the Grade I-listed Granada Cinema on Mitcham Road, now Buzz Bingo. They visit a street called Salvador and explain how it got its name, the Mixed Blessings Bakery which used to be the Tooting Music Centre, a studio where Bob Marley once signed the wall, discover the scene of an accident outside Broadway Carpets, and then visit the front gardens of Southcroft Road. A drink at the Ramble Inn, supposedly the home of London's finest pint of Guinness, a trip to Tooting's National Rail station, a visit to Gorringe Park and a chat with the owners of Janes Trains, which+ has been serving the model railway and car community for the past 41 years. They visit Polish supermarket Delight Wędlinka, 46 Longley Road (where we check out Sir Harry Lauder's blue plaque), a pub called The Manor, and then on to Recovery Street, Effort Street and St George's Hospital, where they discuss Boba Fett. The journey finishes at 143 Fountain Road, former home of jazz pioneer Sadie Crawford.
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LINKS:
To buy "It's a Long Way to Tooting Broadway: The Autobiography of a WW2 British Soldier" by Reginald Cambridge, use our link here to buy it for just £7.99:
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FURTHER VIEWING:
The link to the pilot episode of Citizen Smith has been taken down since we made the episode on Balham. Sorry about that! You can of course buy the entire 4-series boxset from Amazon for £33.45 via www.amazon.co.uk/Citizen-Smit...
However, it's well worth checking eBay where there are people selling all four series for a low as £12.
We mention episode 2 of this series (in which we see Queen Victoria's daughter's sewing machine and visit Tooting Bec Lido). You can watch it here: • Balham ¦ (2/6) ¦ Love ...
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro - Tooting Broadway
00:27 Tooting Broadway station
02:15 King Edward VII statue, Citizen Smith
06:23 Granada Cinema, Tooting (Buzz Bingo)
09:38 Salvador - who was Joseph Salvador?
11:53 Mixed Blessings Bakery (Tooting Music Centre)
14:38 One Little Indian (name and logo change)
16:14 Broadway Carpets Ltd and the accident
17:39 The front gardens of Southcroft Road
25:47 Ramble Inn: best Guinness in London?
31:00 Tooting (National Rail) station
31:58 Gorringe Park
33:21 Janes Trains (model railways and cars)
36:29 Delight Wędlinka (Polish supermarket)
38:29 Longley Road and Jubilee Villa
39:33 The home of Sir Harry Lauder (46 Longley Road)
44:14 The Manor (Tooting High Street)
47:25 St George's Hospital, via Recovery St and Effort St
51:26 The home of Sadie Crawford (143 Fountain Road)
58:01 Teaser about next episode and Outro.
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[@glennpalmer5594]

Great stuff, so much information!

[@karloimmanoel]

Nice