Wimbledon Common has changed a lot in the past century and now there is a book to prove it.
'Wimbledon Common: 100 Years of Change' provides an illustrated account of how time has shaped the space – from the arrival of the bypass to playing fields.
Derek Frampton, commons conservator and one of the book’s five authors, said the publication commemorated a century since Walter Johnson’s work, Wimbledon Common; Its Geology, Antiquities and Natural History.
He said: “Walter Johnson’s book of 1912 represents in many ways a world we have lost, but much has been retained and some of it would even be recognisable to Johnson today.”
The book is available at £5.99 and Wimbledon Guardian readers can get postage and packaging free.
Just quote “Newsquest offer” when ordering.
To purchase the book by cheque write to WSMP, Church Farm House, Wisley, Surrey GU23 6QL, cheque payable to AAPPL.
To purchase by credit card go to wimbledonmuseum.
org.uk and click on "book-shop".
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