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The Mayor of Garratt

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significance to Wandsworth

  • Wandsworth: St. Mary's Church
    In Wandsworth

    …playwright Samuel Foote to write The Mayor of Garratt. Wandsworth Prison (1851; originally named the Surrey House of Correction) held Oscar Wilde in 1895 and was the scene of a sensational escape in 1965 by the train robber Ronnie Biggs. Notable among former Wandsworth residents are the novelist William Makepeace…

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