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Bulletin 208
December 3, 2018
…in which Phase 1 was to replace the south wall by a glass one, to flood the site with light and enable its use as a performance space, combined with…
More Memories of Manor Road in the 1920s Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…hand in front of your face, and the flooding, when the rains filled up the ditches, and the one alongside our house used to swell up and make lakes everywhere….
Bulletin 179
April 22, 2017
…was thrown. The hygienic and health problems associated with this were not of immediate concern to the local people; a far more serious problem for them was flooding caused by…
Bulletin 116
April 22, 2017
…nature conservation. In some areas it is recreating mud flats and salt marshes by allowing high tides to flood reclaimed meadows. New challenges present themselves each year. At the moment…
Bulletin 114
April 22, 2017
…is strongly suspected. This area is now reserved as a Wandle flood plain. In 1942, traces of Stane Street were observed in a ditch cut obliquely across its line, near…
Merton priory
…flush toilets and to control flooding. To the hotel manager, how the traveller enjoyed the hospitality of the monastery. From the humble pilgrim to the proud baron and his entourage….
The Bill Rudd Collection
July 26, 2017
…Flooding on 6 August 1981 (WJR) Change Wares Ltd, 190 Garth Road, Morden (WJR) 1975 H Teale & Sons Ltd factory, Garth Road, Morden (WJR) 1975 The late William J…
Bulletin 225
March 10, 2023
Download Bulletin 225 March 2023 – Bulletin 225 Remembering: a suffragette, an athlete, an author – Dave Haunton Stanton Redcroft and the Copper Mill site – Norma Cox Joseph Bazalgette’s…
Bulletin 215
September 22, 2020
…the bridge marking the historic crossing of the Wandle into Mitcham is being demolished, following flood damage during repair work last year. WIM have teamed up with Mitcham’s two civic…
A Walk around Merton Rush in the early 20th century
April 14, 2017
…Leather Bottle in 1898. Looking at all the surface water, the pub cellars must have flooded, and needed pumping out. It is of particular interest, because across Kingston Road can…
Bulletin 184
April 22, 2017
…of flooding under a bridge were, Cyril thought, of Kingston Road, New Malden. . The 1910 Valuation of Morden was continuing to interest Rosemary Turner, who had been looking at…
Bulletin 205
March 9, 2018
…to her. Dave Haunton undertook to enquire at the Wandle Industrial Museum. [David Luff later suggested that the plansare from a survey in the late 1930s for a flood-prevention scheme…
Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…the park. Plans were put forward for the house to be leased to a commercial golf club, with a floodlit driving range on the vacant grounds, but this was strongly…
Bulletin 224
November 30, 2022
…some of the sylvan beauty of Surrey’, but when roused, it could create torrents strong enough to tear up pavements, and create vast lakes. Our building stands within Flood Zone…
Bulletin 175
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 175 September 2010 Bulletin 175 Lionel Edwin Green P J Hopkins Gilbert of Merton L E Green 1910-2010: A Centenary: from the John Innes Horticultural Institution to the…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 5 by Eric Montague Although it is more than 50 years since Mitcham was finally engulfed by the expansion of London, becoming part of the London Borough of…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
…river, driven by water from an artesian well; and Wimbledon mill, at Copper Mill Lane, subject to flooding, which featured the second largest wheel in the country and fulled cloth…
Bulletin 171
April 22, 2017
…fairy and the gnome (an article for a future Bulletin). . Judith Goodman had been sent photocopies of interesting transport-related images. Shannon Corner used to flood quite often, which presented…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…late 1780s, it was not unknown after periods of heavy rain for the stream to flood the road leading south from the Upper Green to the Cricket Green. Matters were…