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Bulletin 178
April 22, 2017
…was to link up at Pitlake with the Surrey Iron Railway (opened 1803) and the Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway (opened 1805). Coal was probably the main load from…
Bulletin 124
April 22, 2017
…being well, and on time, you will at the end of 1999 be able once more to ride the rails to West Croydon and then beyond. The railway opened in…
Bulletin 161
April 22, 2017
…an illustrated lecture on this sometimes overlooked extension to the Surrey Iron Railway. High Path is close to bus routes and to the Northern Line at South Wimbledon. There is…
Bulletin 198
April 22, 2017
…dower/dowry, trolley-bus pole, John Mantell, Lady Capel, Holborn Union Workhouse, C H Blume, home movies, railway stations 10 15 April: unarchived.co, priory wall, Hall Place, Wandle Trail, 120 Kingston Road,…
Beating the Bounds:
April 14, 2017
…Right to Hedge of iron railway, follow iron railway on Left about 20 Yards to X cut in old Willow Tree. thence on Left in ditch (bearing to Right) to…
Bulletin 136
April 22, 2017
…the 1950s, and went on long rambles in the heart of Surrey, visiting many historic sites, making full use of party rates on the railway. Archaeological excavations began with Stane…
Bulletin 176
April 22, 2017
…Studies Centre, including: a local section from an ‘official railway map of London and Environs’ published at the Railway Clearing House in 1915 (which omits all roads and buildings and,…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…and it was eventually abandoned in favour of a horse-drawn tramway – the Surrey Iron Railway.19 By September 1800 alternative plans had been prepared to bring a branch of another…
Bulletin 212
December 4, 2019
…subsequently demolished. CONTENTS Programme December 2019-April 2020 2 Walk in Morden Park – trees and history 3 Visit to the Post Office Museum and Mail Rail 4 Visit to the…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…first step in a career which took him to many parts of the World, and included involvement in what became the Great Eastern Railway, and also railways in Denmark and…
Bulletin 210
July 10, 2019
…3 http://www.crossrail.co.uk/sustainability/archaeology/bedlam-burial-ground-register, accessed 10 September 2018 4 https://www.livescience.com/50104-archaeologists-excavate-bedlam-graveyard.html, accessed 10 September 2018 5 Vanessa Harding The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670 (2002) p.96 6 http://www.crossrail.co.uk/sustainability/archaeology/liverpool-street/ 7…
Bulletin 185
April 22, 2017
…(not forgetting millers of copper, flour and leather), all using the water or the water-power of the Wandle. The Surrey Iron Railway arrives and departs. There are legal tussles over…
Bulletin 120
April 22, 2017
…10-acre railway yard where many steam locomotives and general railway memorabilia are displayed. The one loco in steam is used for kids of all ages to have rides. We learned…
Bulletin 127
April 22, 2017
…with the opening in 1838 of the first part of the London to Southampton railway. Seven of us had had enough of walking in the heat and departed at this…
Bulletin 160
April 22, 2017
…Inn, Epsom Road, Morden Annual Dinner Please see enclosed booking form. Saturday 24 March 2.30pm St John’s church hall, High Path, Merton ‘The Croydon Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway’ Paul…
Bulletin 222
October 3, 2022
…the Council belatedly adopted them. The mud, and the paths made with railway sleepers, drew extraordinary comparisons – the Giant’s Causeway or the shell-holed roads of Flanders – and parents…