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Colliers Wood takes its name from a wood that stood to the east of Colliers Wood Road approximately where Warren and Marlborough Roads are now located. This wood remained at least until the 1870s. // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ...

The Savacentre in Colliers Wood is one of the largest supermarkets in Europe. The market and heritage centre at Merton Abbey Mills is nearby.

The 'Colliers Wood Tower' (aka 'The Vortex'), was voted the ugliest building in London in a 2006 BBC poll [1] and one of the twelve ugliest in the UK in a 2005 Channel 4 poll for its programme Demolition [2]. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Demolition is a 2005 television series from Channel 4, which can be seen as being the reverse of the BBCs 2003 series Restoration. ...

History

For a history of this part of the borough, see Merton.-1...

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