Wandsworth

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Wandsworth power station was built on The Causeway and supplied electricity to the district of Wandsworth from 1897 to 1964. It was owned and operated by the County of London Electric Supply Company Limited until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The power station was decommissioned in 1964. There is an operational 132 kV national grid substation to the east of the River Wandle.

Alderman Archibald Dawnay, Mayor of Wandsworth, raised a complete infantry battalion, the 13th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Wandsworth), which served on the Western Front. On 24 April 1917 the battalion distinguished itself in an attack on the fortified village of Villers-Plouich, in which Corporal Edward 'Tiny' Foster, a Wandsworth Council dustman in civilian life, won the Victoria Cross. It also fought at the Capture of Bourlon Wood. Most of the battalion was overrun and captured during the German spring offensive of 1918, and the remnant became a training unit.

After the war, Wandsworth raised money for the rebuilding of Villers-Plouich and the unofficial twinning was revived in the 1990s. Among the memorial tablets in the garden of Wandsworth Town Hall are those to the 13th Battalion, 'The Wandsworth Regulars', and to Corporal Foster, after whom a path in King George's Park is named.McCue, pp. 253–6. Wandsworth Regulars at London Remembers. Wandsworth Army Units 1914–1945 at London Remembers. Edward Foster VC at London Remembers. Foster VC at Queen's Royal Surreys.

Wandsworth Common is set back from the river, at the top of East Hill, and is adjoined by an area known locally as "the Toast Rack" that has some of the most expensive townhouses in London, as well as the restaurant Chez Bruce, formerly Harveys, where chef Gordon Ramsay learned his trade, and for which co-owner Bruce Poole gained a Michelin star in 1999. Also in the area is the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, which now contains flats, a theatre school and a restaurant.

The Tonsleys/Old York Road is a residential area of old Wandsworth close to the river and town centre, so called because many of the street names have the word "Tonsley" included. The area has three notable pubs: the Royal Standard, the East Hill and the Alma. East Hill is an area of large Victorian houses bordered by the west side of Wandsworth Common. From 2007 to 2014 the area was used as the location for the BBC TV series Outnumbered.

Wandsworth High Street is dominated by the Southside shopping centre, cinema and restaurant complex (formerly called the Arndale Centre). Behind the shopping centre, and following the River Wandle upstream towards Earlsfield and further south to Wimbledon, is King George's Park.

Wandsworth Museum previously occupied the former Victorian library in West Hill having been moved there in 2007. The museum closed in March 2015. The De Morgan Centre was previously situated in Wandsworth Museum and housed a collection of Victorian artwork. A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47 West Hill.

The underpass beneath the Wandsworth Bridge roundabout was the location for the scene in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange in which a tramp is attacked.

There are several schools in Wandsworth including Shaftesbury Park Primary School.

Wandsworth Quaker Meeting House, built in 1778, is the oldest surviving Quakers meeting house in Greater London.

Wandsworth is covered by the Wandsworth Common and Wandsworth Town wards for elections to Wandsworth London Borough Council.

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