Search results for ""rail#""
Bulletin 151
April 22, 2017
…chance, Richard Garth and John Tate had land for sale in Merton and Morden, and noticing that there would be a railway station at Lower Merton (now Merton Park), in…
Bulletin 159
April 22, 2017
…which has raised speculation that it was a feature of the Surrey Iron Railway. I think this speculation can be laid to rest for several reasons. It was not only…
Topics
Bulletin 168
April 22, 2017
…Green had noted a railway siding that Lines Brothers had paid £2,400 for off the Merton Abbey line. He circulated a very detailed photograph from a calendar showing the production…
The Bulletin
…School for Young Gentlemen – Judith Goodman Swan Song – Irene Bain Three Railway Accidents at Raynes Park – Geoffrey Wilson James Hine Miller – Anne Galpin Some Hanging Matters…
Memories of Service with the LDV/Home Guard, Mitcham 1940-42
April 14, 2017
…railway from the Golf Club House, off the Carshalton Road, there was an anti-aircraft battery of 3.7″ guns, manned by the Honourable Artillery Company. The first fairway in front of…
Bulletin 190
April 22, 2017
…be the old church of Mitcham, to which, in delight of listening, I turned my steps. Over fields and across the railway between modest dwellings whose gardens received that weekly…
Bulletin 192
April 22, 2017
…on the right trail. “See that white board?” he said, pointing with his whip straight along the dusty road. “Well, go on till you reach that, cross the railway bridge,…
Bulletin 219
August 24, 2021
…been eliminated as too far away or too difficult to acquire. Divided by Hungerford Bridge and railway line, each side of the South Bank had a central building – downstream…
Bulletin 193
April 22, 2017
…Hall Park in 1989, where Bill’s commentary ranged ‘from Roman roads to railways, from St Peter’s Abbey at Westminster to the St Helier Estate, from statues to snuff mills, from…
Bulletin 199
April 22, 2017
…Local papers and church magazines carried regular adverts, while billboards were in use at railway stations. After Frederick died in 1945, Paine’s was sold to the London Necropolis Company, and…
Bulletin 172
April 22, 2017
…David Haunton 5 Local History Workshops: 14 August: a V-1 in Colliers Wood; Merton Board Mills; Wimbledon-Croydon railway; Holiday Fellowship; medieval Lower Morden; Liberty’s; email contacts 6 16 October: wartime…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
by Peter Hopkins Peter Hopkins began his studies of Medieval Morden more than 20 years ago, by copying, transcribing and translating any and every medieval record relating to Morden that…
Bulletin 217
March 8, 2021
…the ‘Malden Blitz’. It affected the railway and the area around Shannon Corner. It was presumed that the bombers were aiming for the transport connections of the railway line and…
Bulletin 229
March 6, 2024
…hypermarket (now Sainsbury’s and Marks and Spencer), and the A24 Merantun Way over the route of the former railway. The name Hancock, Corfield and Waller lives on in Ewell, Surrey,…
Bulletin 169
April 22, 2017
…coming of the railways. The Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 swept the old order away and replaced it with a new administration. In despair at Kingston’s efforts to provide facilities…
Bulletin 131
April 22, 2017
…wound up another flight to the chamber floor. The contract specified a mahogany moulded handrail, twisting to follow the stairs and landings. The present rail curves round decoratively at the…
The Life of Guy of Merton
October 26, 2020
…S. Giles and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, 1897), pp.196-7. xx A pertica, literally ‘rod ‘ or ‘perch ‘, was a hanging rail. P Eames, ‘Furniture in England, France…
Bulletin 191
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 191 September 2014 – Bulletin 191 Mitcham Grove and the Myers family – Peter Hopkins The Priory Wall – David Luff Petty Sessions Minutes for Brixton Hundred, Western…
Bulletin 188
April 22, 2017
…been found. Walking towards Mitcham Station, we pondered the fossil (or palimpsest) route on our left, used by Tramlink (since 2000), the electric railway (from c.1930), the steam railway (from…