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@Greenbank
Where are you going to/from for the whole journey; exact places make it much easier (although move it a street or two away from the real start/destination if you don't want to give away the exact locations...)
It's much easier to provide a route suggestion if we know everything, there might be a way to avoid the whole lot if you give us more info.
I used to work right next to where you're talking about (in the big red brick buildings, now vacant, opposite the Queen Adelaide and HSS).
Yes, you can turn left onto Point Pleasant. You go'll go back under the Railway Bridge and take the first right past onto Osiers Road (if you go straight on there's an ace pub up on the right called The Cat's Back, say hello to Emile and Monica). Then, after the road bends round to the left turn right into the Enterprise Way industrial estate. Go straight on to the end of this and jink right then left and there's a cycle path over a little bridge over Bell Creek. You carry straight on and end up onto Smugglers Way and past the dump and the recycling centre on your left. Further on past B&Q on the right and the posh flats on the left, turn left just before MacD's (Marl Road) and then right just after MacD's (bus depot on left) and there's a way down into the underpass between MacD's and the roundabout itself.
If it were me going to Spencer Park I'd be tempted to stay on Putney Bridge Road, left onto Frogmore (it looks one way near the end but bikes are allowed to get through to Armoury Way), onto the cycle path alongside Armoury Way and either join the road at the end of Ram Street (if full of cars) or use the lights to cross onto Old York Road, turn right at the Alma (there's a small cycle lane that allows bikes to get from Old York Road onto Podmore Road right by the Alma). Cross Trinity Road at the traffic lights there and use the cycle paths to get onto Bartholomew Road (the back end of the East Hill Estate). Up the hill to East Hill, cross the 4 lanes when traffic is calm or use the zebra crossings at the junction with Marcilly Road and up onto Wandsworth Common Northside.
Again, it depends on the actual start/finish. There may be a way to completely avoid it (such as heading South early), going through King Georges Park onto Mapleton Road, into Borrodaile Road using the cycle path next to GJ's on Garrett Lane and onto All Farthing Lane that way. There's an underpass near the end there (about in line with Quarry Road if it ran all the way to Trinity Road) that'll get you under Trinity Road without having to mess with 4 lanes of angry motons.