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11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…opposite what Robert Cranmer styled his ‘Capital House’. The sands and gravels of the Wandle flood plain underlie much of Mitcham, and excavation of a trench across Cranmer Green by…
Bulletin 216
November 20, 2020
…barn. When the workmen had finished clearing the field the bones were re-interred. ♦ More Shannon CornerFloods: Judy Brickell was interested to read about the Shannon Corner flooding in 1981,…
The Parish of Merton in 1844: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
…John Garden garden 1 11 3 Bond Trustees 165 Budge, Thomas Winterflood, John Plat meadow 19 1 Bond Trustees 166 Cribb, William & others Winterflood, John 5 Cottages & garden…
07 The Upper or Fair Green, Mitcham
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 7 by Eric Montague Although no buildings survive predating the close of the 18th century, the road pattern suggests that from the earliest times this must have been…
12 Church Street and Whitford Lane
April 16, 2017
…avoid flooding of what was to be the storage area for Tesco supermarket, it was necessary to construct a sump in the basement floor completewith float-actuated electric pumps. 6 M&B…
GROWING UP ON THE ST HELIER ESTATE 1930–1950: School, Wartime and First Jobs
July 20, 2019
…the Royal family and Churchill on the floodlit balcony, each to an ear-splitting roar. The atmosphere was almost unreal, everyone with a permanent smile on their face, crowds everywhere, the…
Morden in 1910: The Land Valuation Records (‘Lloyd George’s Domesday’)
April 14, 2017
…strip from Sutton Road The centre of meadow adjoining Wandle is low and subjected to flood water. The land generally is wet & not very suitable for Building purposes. There…
Bulletin 212
December 4, 2019
…railway ticket; Wandle poems 6 13 September: Gentleman’s Magazine; Wimbledon Chase flood 1968; 25in OS drainage dots; hand colouring postcards 8 A drug store in Merton in the early twentieth…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
…of the village centre, on the Wandle flood plain, and the house was not a direct successor to the Roman site. From the 16th century it was operated as a…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
…three trial trenches, each of which showed the natural sands and gravels of the Wandle flood plain to exist relatively undisturbed at a depth of roughly 1 metre below ground…
Bulletin 227
September 29, 2023
…water main which flooded the station), ‘Brother Rundle, trapped below, stayed on the phone calmly giving information to those responding to the emergency on the other side of the blocked…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
…statue of Pieter, the ‘boy who saved the dyke’, the legendary figure who stopped a flood by sticking his finger in a hole. North up the coast to Bakkum hostel….
Bulletin 181
April 22, 2017
…end of 2005. In November 2009 the council revoked a decision to dispose of part of the land to Goals Soccer for a floodlit facility, after opposition from members of…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 3 by Eric Montague Pollards Hill itself – the dominating topographical feature of the district – is beyond the boundary of Mitcham. The Pollards Hill housing estate and…
Ravensbury: a poem written after a visit in 1850, recollecting childhood memories of people, places and events
April 14, 2017
…the grass; And ere His Reverence had made his dish, Or, as some say, had even hooked a fish, His form was seen recumbent in the flood, Next moment to…
Bulletin 126
April 22, 2017
…down in their thousands. The process was speeded up with the repeal of the Corn Laws, when wheat from all over the world flooded into the Port of London, to…
Mitcham in 1846: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 22: ed. Peter Hopkins The tithe apportionment records of 1846 supply a very detailed picture of Mitcham, including every property and providing field names for almost every…
A History of Fry’s Metal Foundries and the Tandem Works
February 23, 2023
…the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune’. The position (Holland Street), paying promptly, turning over their capital rapidly many times a year, the records…
Trouble at Mill: A brief history of the former Liberty Print Works site, including Textile printing at Merton Printers Ltd (Libertys) 1965-1982
April 14, 2017
…requiring all paddles, as it was not intended to restore it to working order. The flood prevention does work to a point, but in 1968 and 1974 the river did…