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How far from Olympic stadium to Wimbledon?
"Richard J." wrote in message news:zFk5o.39249$hz1.21751@hurricane... Franklin wrote on 01 August 2010 16:00:07 ... In a year or two I expect to be visiting the main Olympic stadium. I'm considering a side trip to visit the civic hall for the Wimbledon area. Approximately how far is it and how much time should I allow for the journey? What do you mean by "the civic hall for the Wimbledon area"? Wimbledon is in the London Borough of Merton, whose main headquarters is at the Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, SM4 5DX, near Morden Underground station (Northern Line) and about 2 miles from Wimbledon. Until 1965, Wimbledon was a borough with a town hall (built 1931) at the corner of Queens Road and Wimbledon Bridge, near Wimbledon station. It is no longer a council building; Google Street View shows a Tesco Metro supermarket in the building. I think that the old Wimbledon Town Hall was the Merton Council main offices for a couple of decades after 1965. It is now the frontage to the Centre Court shopping centre, accessible directly from the railway station, opened some around 1988-90. The new council offices in Morden used to be a supermarket (various names ending as a Safeway) with an office block (Crown House) above it until at least 1980. Can't remember when that all changed and the Safeway moved into new premises built on the old Co-op department store, (which was what I can only describe as the most sparsely occupied store this side of the Urals). tim |
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