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More Memories of Manor Road in the 1920s Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…school. But most went to Upper Mitcham School in St Marks Road. We had to be at school by 9 o’clock, walking all the mile and a half – no…
Bulletin 208
December 3, 2018
…never made it to its fortieth anniversary. In the late 1960s, the destruction of grammar schools meant that it was amalgamated with Rowan Road Secondary School, a similarly designed school…
The Story of the Long Thornton and District Improvement Society
April 14, 2017
…the little ones went to Lonesome School, then to Rowan. There was the Mitcham Secondary School for boys and girls for 14 to 16 year olds. The boys’ school was…
Bulletin 172
April 22, 2017
…George soon gave up the school. A newspaper article from early 1899 refers to the school as having been discontinued ‘about six years ago’, By 1891 George was a widower,…
Bulletin 152
April 22, 2017
…reinstated. I stayed with my parents throughout the war but my school life was erratic. I was a pupil at Raynes Park Council School situated in Whatley Avenue. This was…
Bulletin 185
April 22, 2017
…Crematorium MERTon MoRDEn chEaM Motspur Parkstation school’hidehill’ MaLDEn Sparrowfeld MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY – BULLETIN 185 – MARCH 2013 – PAGE 9 A GLIMPSE OF MORDEN HALL BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…was demolished in the early 1930s to prepare the site for the erection of the present houses, the school transferring to a large weatherboarded house on the opposite side of…
Bulletin 138
April 22, 2017
…convicted by the courts for a petty offence, or they had been .frequenting the company of a known criminal.. Gradually Industrial Schools became known as Reformatory Schools, and I suppose…
Bulletin 207
…schools built were from the practice of Jarvis and Richards, whose office was in Westminster. Keithshowedhis ownphotos ofsomesingle-storey elementary schools (right: Gorringe Elementary MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY – BULLETIN 207 –…
4 A Century of Change
May 19, 2017
…was very happy at Poplar Road School until my Dad decided I was becoming too cheeky and sent me to Blakesley House (left), a private school, next to Nelson Hospital….
I Remember… Childhood Memories of Wartime Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…went to a private school just up the road in a big house. The classes had only eight to ten children in them, as against our Council school norm of…
Bulletin 206
June 20, 2018
…brown brick at 9 Commonside East; the Old School House, 8-10 Cricket Green, built 1788 as Mitcham Sunday School, becoming a National School in 1812; Chestnut Cottage on the Cricket…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
…Loftus hostel, where I had a surprise. A large party of schoolgirls with their teacher had arrived by coach from Haugesund. As it turned out, the teacher Brita Stangeland taught…
Bulletin 181
April 22, 2017
…who lived opposite Meech’s yard. She went to Pelham School and was one of the evacuees to Lord Louis Mountbatten’s house: a very good swimmer, she swam for the school…
Bulletin 174
April 22, 2017
…the estate, most bombs falling in gardens and open spaces. School log books record constant disruption from air- raid warnings, pupils spending long periods in the school shelters, even taking…
Bulletin 205
March 9, 2018
…implied that Merton had a song-school and a school run by the Almoner for outsider pupils, on the basis of an assumption that ‘every monastery ran a song-school’. Much had…
Bulletin 159
April 22, 2017
…the boys. school log-book,1 kept by Edward William Pillinger, the boys. headmaster: July 14 [1897] … Capt. & Mrs. J. Talbot Hobbs visited the Boys. School this Afternoon. The Captain,…
Bulletin 168
April 22, 2017
…Gardens, Oxfordshire, began its existence early in the 1930s, as a school of horticulture for ladies. Today the eight acres of landscaped ornamental grounds offer inspiration to gardeners or simply…
Bulletin 161
April 22, 2017
…Primary School in Commonside East. In 1929 Mitcham Girls County Secondary School was opened on the site of Cranmer Farm. The buildings are now part of Cranmer Primary School in…