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WW1 Conscription in Mitcham
July 10, 2017
THE MITCHAM MILITARY TRIBUNAL AS REPORTED IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, 1916–8 The passing of the Military Service Act in January 1916 enforced compulsory military service upon British society for the first…
The Bulletin
…Chris Abbott Shannon Corner flooding 1981 (or was it 1982?) – Mick Taylor & Norma Cox London Archaeological Fieldwork Summary 2018 and much more Download Bulletin 214 June 2020 –…
Bulletin 161
April 22, 2017
…be seen on the right. .Flood cars. were adapted from existing cars to afford service when part of Burlington Road was flooded by the Beverley Brook. MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ….
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 2 by Eric Montague On the map of the new London Borough of Merton, produced after the reorganisation of London Government in 1965, North Mitcham Ward was shown…
Bulletin 180
April 22, 2017
…are two others of 42 and 48 inches. It is a cause for concern that these are nearby, just under the road surface and the station is liable to flooding…
On the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…of its career the river becomes the pet of the wealthy. No longer does it flood water-cress beds, or turn vulgar mill-wheels; but now it winds through lovely gardens, where…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
…the fish stews and turning the Abbey mill wheels.2 The upper part is embanked. The flood waters could always be carried off by the Pickle which formed a natural moat…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…than might be expected for farmlands situated on the rich alluvial soils of the Wandle flood plain. In total they comprised some 600 acres, or very roughly one fifth the…
Bulletin 185
April 22, 2017
…in 1949. MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY – BULLETIN 185 – MARCH 2013 – PAGE 4 ‘THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTMAS CARD’ Anna Flood, an archivist at the British Postal Museum and…
Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
…probably because of flooding, its flow now takes a gentle arc across the south-eastern section of the park. The maps also made clear that an extension had been made to…
Bulletin 165
April 22, 2017
…inert waste material took place on the low-lying land in the northern part of the park to raise the level and reduce flooding. When work had finished topsoil was replaced…
The Life of James Lackington, Bookseller, 1746-1815
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 24: by James Lackington (1791, rev. 1827, ed. Peter Hopkins 2004) James Lackington was born in 1746 in Somerset, the son of a shoemaker. At ten a…
Bulletin 183
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 183 September 2012 Bulletin 183 History is Made in Merton This Summer M Taylor/C Roe An ‘Ancient Relic’ and its Future J A Goodman Some Aspects of the…
Around Manor Road, Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…one with the lantern did not get lost. We were also blessed with floods in the lane, Manor Road, where we lived. The ditch alongside our cottages used to swell…
Bulletin 123
April 22, 2017
…in winter. It was damp, got flooded frequently, and was cold, with no “mod cons” at all! In 1913 Jane, Morris’s widow, bought the house. Their daughter May inherited it…
Bulletin 194
April 22, 2017
…in a U-shaped glazed earthenware channel. The stream runs under the pub cellar of the Queen’s Head (and occasionally floods it), along the south side of Cricket Green, and turns…
A Priory Founded: Sheriff Gilbert at Merton
April 8, 2019
Merton Historical Society is delighted to publish the first full translation of four medieval Latin documents which form the major part of College of Arms manuscript Arundel MS 28, which…
Bulletin 162
April 22, 2017
…was followed by a thaw, heavy rain, gales and floods. Rationing was still in full swing, and there was a housing shortage, with delays in the repair of buildings damaged…
Lower Morden and Morden Park
April 15, 2017
Discovering the Past 1: by Peter Hopkins In producing this booklet of 25 double-spread pages, Peter offers us a rich source of material, most of which appears in print for…
Bulletin 124
April 22, 2017
…frequent flooding that occurs during very heavy periods of rain, just to the west of Mitcham station. Here there is also extensive buttressing to retain the northern wall of the…