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05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…establishment of thousands of charity schools and Sunday schools throughout the kingdom to provide elementary education and spiritual guidance for the multitude of children for whom no other means of…
Lord Monson’s Schooldays:
April 14, 2017
…school one of the principal was the order that was insisted upon. There were sixteen pegs down the side of the school room, each boy had one according to seniority…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…Harris, of Wimbourne in Dorset, wrote in 1981 UPPER MITCHAM AND WESTERN ROAD … The only time I went in the schools was when Upper Mitcham Boys School played Holborn…
Parishioners of Mitcham 1837/38:
April 14, 2017
…School CHILLINGHAM Do. GARDNER Wade’s Yd better CRESSWELL Do. ill N. School Infant School BOYS C. Lane better Miss HAYDEN Do. unwell WILLIAMS H.A.R. HARMAN Do. better KINGHAM Do. HARRIS…
GROWING UP ON THE ST HELIER ESTATE 1930–1950: School, Wartime and First Jobs
July 20, 2019
…upstairs on the first floor of the same building as the Infants’ school. Our estate schools started life with just numbers; by 1939, when I bought my first-ever school diary,…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
…I know nothing of the leading girls’ schools at Wandsworth, but certainly both Mary and Sarah were well educated and attractive young ladies, and not improbably their mother began to…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
…“The Recovery: A House for Lunatics, Mitcham Green”, 1825 40 The Tate Almshouses, Lower Green, c1976 55 The houses built in 1838 for the National Infants School, 1972 60 Mitcham’s…
12 Church Street and Whitford Lane
April 16, 2017
…railings curving around the playground of Benedict Primary School and, beyond the school entrance, by the old kerb line of Benedict Road as far as the caretaker’s house and Ravensbury…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
…end finally came it was for educational purposes that the land at Eastfields was purchased by Surrey County Council, providing a site for the proposed new Mitcham County (Grammar) School…
07 The Upper or Fair Green, Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…Kingsley Ltd 104 Majestic Cinema 19-20, 114 Majestic Way 5, 9, 17, 102, 108-113 Malex Ltd 104 Manor House School, Chiswick – see Schools Manors, extent of 7-8 lordship of…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…Grammar School, East Lothian. He entered the Public Works Department of the Government of India in 1862, and after a long career during which he became successively Chief Engineer to…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…In 1838, a decision was reached by the trustees of the National Schools at Mitcham to build a separate infants’ school for the growing numbers of village children whose parents…
Memories of a Morden Lad 1932-1957
April 14, 2017
…very little about anything. To be fair to myself, I must have lost quite a bit of schooling due to illness in my early school years, and in my last…
Bulletin 182
April 22, 2017
…of schooling – and not only of schooling. By far the happiest was William Henry Ives (in Lurgashall, Sussex, 1939). ‘At first we attended school in the village hall with…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
…but complained bitterly about the condition of Christchurch Road: “Children going to and from school are faced with thick mud and it is a common sight to see the infants,…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…and during the reign of George IV became a school, a role it was to play, as The Poplars Boarding Academy for Young Gentlemen, until it was demolished in the…
Bulletin 210
July 10, 2019
…In September 1950 I moved to my new school, Gorringe Park County Secondary School, in Sandy Lane, walking there over Figges Marsh. On the first day at the school I…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
…canon Robert, probably a contemporary at the priory school, to be his confessor.60 In 1162/3 Henry II gave £26 13s 4d (£26.66) “for the works of the church”,61 and in…
The Mitcham That I Remember 1927-1941
April 14, 2017
…School for Girls, off Cranmer Road, is now Cranmer Middle School, and Mitcham County Boys’ School, off Commonside East opposite Three Kings’ Piece, is St Thomas of Canterbury R.C. School.]…
Bulletin 183
April 22, 2017
…schools and building non-denominational schools run by school boards. The school in Lower Green was transferred to a school board in 1871. In 1884 Mitcham school board built St Mark’s…