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On This Day 12 March 1756, The Streatham Vestry ordered, a pair of stocks to be made forthwith to punish all offence to the laws of this land, it was erected on the Village Common- Tooting Bec Common.

12/3/2021

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In December 1756 application was made to the Duke of Bedford for a piece of ground on the waste (Tooting Bec Common) to build a cage for the confinement of loose and disorders persons
(extracts JW Brown)
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John Brown's book Streatham Village is available from the Society https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/histories.html
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