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Tooting| Area in the borough of Wandsworth in London, England. A well-established suburb that was originally part of Streatham, Tooting is a culturally vibrant neighbourhood with a diverse and mixed background of people and cultures. |
| Tooting has mainly late-Victorian and early Edwardian terraced houses. Its ethnic diversity is reflected in the shops, restaurants, and local facilities. Settled since pre-Saxon times, it is believed Tooting means ‘the dwelling of the sons of Totas’. For much of its history Tooting was a rural Surrey district cut off from London, and part of the parish of Streatham. In the 18th century Tooting became a popular country residence for some of London's more wealthy citizens, and several large mansions were built in the area. Its population slowly expanded over the succeeding decades; by the early 19th century many elegant villas had been built in the district, and during the late 19th and early 20th centuries Tooting was transformed into a flourishing residential suburb. |
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| It is, however, the possession, and the only possession except fifty shillings per annum and a very small box indifferently filled with clothing, of a lean young woman from a workhouse (by some supposed to have been christened Augusta) who, although she was farmed or contracted for during her growing time by an amiable benefactor of his species resident at Tooting, and cannot fail to have been developed under the most favourable circumstances, "has fits," which the parish can't account for. The unseen ferry-boat was blowing blast after blast, and the mouth- blown horn was tooting in terror-stricken fashion. If advice from one who is not older than yourself, but who, having lived most of his time in the wilderness, may be said to have experience beyond his years, will give no offense, you are welcome to my thoughts; and these are, to part with the little tooting instrument in your jacket to the first fool you meet with, and buy some we'pon with the money, if it be only the barrel of a horseman's pistol. |