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Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…57 Working animals – horses and oxen The development of the padded horse-collar and the associated harness (see pages 18-21) enabled horses to be used for general draught work that…
Morden Manorial Court Rolls
May 12, 2017
…courts in this roll list names among the homage etc that are also listed as defaulting in doing suit of court. **** as opposed to bread for feeding horses British…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
…firm served out free samples for the horses. One could earn welcome coppers by holding a horse’s head while the owner was refreshing inside. The “Six Bells”, or the “Royal…
WW1 Conscription in Mitcham
July 10, 2017
…by making munitions for the boys. Questioned by the Military Representative, appellant said he had lost his Army discharge papers. He was in the Royal Horse Artillery for eleven weeks,…
The Bridges and Roads of Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…everyone priding himself on a good horse. “Then the first omnibus, a three-horse one, was started, and in time nothing else was left on the road but the ‘buses, much…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…besides the first cost has to be considered before the purchase of a steamer is decided upon. It is a heavier machine to horse, and it requires skilled labour to…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
…The movement was well supported in Wandsworth and the Surrey Light Horse was raised by the Surrey Association, together with a regiment of infantry. My grandfather was an early member…
Memories of a Morden Lad 1932-1957
April 14, 2017
…brushed, and brasses polished. Horses and carts were assembled in the yard, as were the many local children who would be going on the parade. The children were helped up…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
…Grouped around the farmstead at Lonesome were four enclosures kept permanently under grass, providing pasturage for horses and other farm stock. One, a meadow of L-shaped plan enclosing the farm…
07 The Upper or Fair Green, Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…wash house, two gardens, two stables for eight horses, a barn and a large yard. A Mr Day held the lease at £15 per annum. Two adjoining freehold properties leased…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
…of a January day in 1884 when Miss Czarnikow of Mitcham Court broke a bottle of champagne over “Caesar”, the parish’s newly-acquired horse-drawn steam engine, hundreds turned out to cheer.21…
Medieval Morden: Landscape and Landholding
March 9, 2022
…the value of the works is 1½d. And he shall do 4 carrying services by horse per year to Westminster. And he shall have 1 loaf of meynebred and 1½…
A History of Fry’s Metal Foundries and the Tandem Works
February 23, 2023
…their vans, and particularly in their horses, which competed in the annual Cart Horse Parade and regularly won prizes. Around 300,000 horses were on the streets of London in the…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…two brothers Wigot and Robert.7 In settlement of this latter grant, the canons paid 12 marks in silver to Hugh and Alice, gave Alice a riding horse, and Galfridus “a…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…an imposing figure on a grey horse – “the King of Mitcham”. “Major Moore in his day was a man of great authority” recalled another old man, “and his word…
06 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and the Wandle Mills
April 16, 2017
…arrival in 1903 of fresh tenants, the Patent Horse Hair Co Ltd.10 At this time horse hair, used very widely for upholstery, was often adulterated by the addition of hogs’…
The Life of James Lackington, Bookseller, 1746-1815
April 14, 2017
…large expensive family I have also observed, that all the above places are as (nine children,) the theatre there, and that also at healthy for horses as they are for…
13 Willow Lane and Beddington Corner
April 16, 2017
…known as the ‘Horse Meads’, were evidently prone to flooding and seem to have been kept as rough pasture or watermeadow until the mid-18th century, after which they were used…
08 Phipps Bridge
April 16, 2017
…wharfs was the only fuel practicable for industrial purposes. In an era when all goods had to be transported on horse-drawn vehicles, proximity to the docks would thus appear to…
Bulletin 213
March 25, 2020
…formal order, such as guards ahead and behind, not as an undisciplined gaggle. They would ride good quality horses, not the heavy destrier war-horse, but the escort would have to…