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Love the photo of the fish and chip shop. Especially the random addition of veal cutlet to the menu

Tom | 19.09.19 - 7:59 a.m. | #

"Alas Sutton has been Cockless since 1914, other than this particular erection."

That almost made me spit out my morning cup of tea!

X-Plaistow | 19.09.19 - 8:24 a.m. | #

I love to see my home borough getting some love!

flyingfish | 19.09.19 - 9:10 a.m. | #

"next time I feel the need for a full-on tube map sleeve."
What have you done the previous times you've felt this need? Just waited until the moment passed I suspect.

Brightside | 19.09.19 - 9:12 a.m. | #

I’m afraid I wasn’t so successful with the coffee I was drinking!! I left Sutton over 15 years ago - I wouldn’t recognise it south of the Carshalton Road. Thanks for your daily varied posts DG.

Dave B | 19.09.19 - 9:16 a.m. | #

Ah yes, Sutton United. Who could forget "Pie-gate"? Not me.

TheLupineOne | 19.09.19 - 9:34 a.m. | #

The ex-cinema now Bingo hall at Rose Hill is a Grade II listed building.

John | 19.09.19 - 11:50 a.m. | #

I find this post and the photos very interesting as I lived in Sutton for many years.

The actual Angel Hill footbridge shown in your photo is not that old. It dates from either the 1970s or 1980s and replaced a metal bridge, painted green if I remember correctly. That one can't have been very old either because a book of photos I have shows a different bridge in 1932 with lettering written on it which recalls the days of open-top buses: BUS PASSENGERS LOW BRIDGE REMAIN SEATED
I see from a Google search that a bomb hit the bridge on 9 Sept 1940 which no doubt accounts for its temporary replacement being a more utilitarian structure.

And it's not correct that Sutton has been Cockless since 1914! The Cock Hotel (1890s version) was demolished in 1961.

dg writes: Updated, thanks.

michaelH | 19.09.19 - 12:14 p.m. | #

What kind of camera are you using these days?

dg writes: Flickr answers this question.

Dubidubno | 19.09.19 - 2:46 p.m. | #

Doesnt look too good for St Helier.TFL currently consulting on the extension of route 470 from Epsom Town Centre to Epsom General Hospital,creating a direct St Helier Estate,Sutoon & Epsom General.

Kevin Lucioni | 19.09.19 - 3:54 p.m. | #

There's been talk for years (and will probably continue for many more years) about a tram to link Sutton to Morden and Wimbledon. It's notable that in the most recent set of proposals that TfL consulted on last autumn they've dropped the proposed detour loop to serve St Helier Hospital.

(On the latest proposals, Route options 1 and 2 run along Angel Hill, through the Rose Hill roundabout and past the Prince Regent. Route option 3 would convert most of the Sutton Loop, leaving a stub from Sutton to West Sutton, either to ease reversing Thameslink trains or because someone in TfL is incredibly optimistic about Sutton United's prospects.)

I grew up in nearby Epsom and Sutton's early 1990s redevelopment was my first experience of a high street being transformed, though I think the central stretch was already pedestrianised by the mid 1980s. It's been something to see both shopping centres (the other, Times Square, opened in 1985) from their first years when they seemed so incredible, large and vibrant, to today when they've both declined heavily, have long had so much surplus capacity that they can feel so desolate compared to those days.

Tim Roll-Pickering | Homepage | 19.09.19 - 6:50 p.m. | #

A few years ago, when the elites were discussing council border changes, one of the options considered was an amalgam of Epsom & Ewell with Sutton. It went no-where. But I've had a secret laugh at seeing Failing Grayling trying to get Oyster into Epsom, when that would have been one of the positives from that.

Marmaduke | 19.09.19 - 11:26 p.m. | #

The Cock Inn and Cock Hotel are long gone, with Old Inn House on the site now, but I think Sutton's Cockless period has come to an end, as there is now a Cock (and Bull) pub nearby, in former bank premises along the High Street towards the station.

Andrew | 20.09.19 - 10:51 a.m. | #

I used to live in Morden and the big white ediface of St Helier Hospital was visible from near our house. My Mum told me that the hospital was painted black during the Second World War to make it less visible to enemy planes.

mikeH | 20.09.19 - 12:18 p.m. | #

Sutton always seems to be the area of London people never go to. I've been all over London, but the only main town centre I've never been to is Sutton.

PVR | 20.09.19 - 2:49 p.m. | #

Oyster now works to Epsom (and has been available for every other station in Epsom & Ewell borough for many years now).

Tim Roll-Pickering | Homepage | 20.09.19 - 4:12 p.m. | #

The Rose was originally a cafe - see picture without the roundabout. Lidl took over the Co-op site after the latter moved away from encouraging car-borne shopping, whereas Lidl and Aldi encourage more car use.

felix | 23.09.19 - 3:20 p.m. | #

Had distantly seen the big white building (St Helier Hospital) but have never been to it or made the effort to look it up.

Sutton United have a plastic pitch, so can accommodate more teams without ruining the "grass".

Karl, Dover | 23.09.19 - 10:32 p.m. | #











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