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WW1 Conscription in Mitcham
July 10, 2017
…Worsfold: Which part do you particularly do? — Oven work. Dr. Worsfold: How many men are working there with you? — About twenty-five. Dr. Worsfold: You have very poor health,…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…‘works’ per acre. These works were insufficient to reap the whole harvest, and the rest was done by piecework [ad tascam] for cash, though rye bread was sometimes provided as…
Trouble at Mill: A brief history of the former Liberty Print Works site, including Textile printing at Merton Printers Ltd (Libertys) 1965-1982
April 14, 2017
…Works to full-time working. Had the War not intervened, their 1937/38 redevelopment would have seen a doubling of the staff at the Merton Abbey Print Works. The post-war years brought…
A History of Fry’s Metal Foundries and the Tandem Works
February 23, 2023
…Works Back then the Tandem Works was a very different place. In the early days, the bases of No.1 and No.3 chimney stacks were surrounded by fowl houses, complete with…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
…1780-83 Rennie had worked as a millwright during his vacations, and following a short engagement to gain practical experience with James Watt at the latter’s Soho works (outside Birmingham) he…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
…century before giving way to marketgardens, a firework factory and other light industry, gravel extraction, brickworks and chemical works – each making its own contribution tothe economic history of the…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…work in the factories.”56 The Ravensbury Print Works, the cottage and ground were mortgaged for £3,400 by Simpson immediately on purchase, and then let to James Wilkinson of Sydenham for…
Poor Relief in Morden 1750–1834
October 12, 2022
…100,000 inhabitants. The conditions of the workhouse also varied greatly, both in their situations and also in the workhouse itself. Chester’s workhouse, for example, was ‘situated near the river: the…
08 Phipps Bridge
April 16, 2017
…Paint manufacturers ‘Harlequin Works’, Willow Lane, Mitcham James Ferguson & Sons Ltd, Synthetic resin and ebonite manufacturers 278 Western Road, and ‘Lea Park Works’, Prince George’s Road, SW19 Hadfields (Merton)…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…all), and between each of these blocks, one-storied buildings are provided for useas workrooms,whilsttheinterveningspaces formenclosed exercise-yards. The central one-storied building is reserved for workshops, such as wood-cutting, stone-breaking, and oakum-picking;…
13 Willow Lane and Beddington Corner
April 16, 2017
…from the notebook kept by the Revd Herbert Randolph, one of the curates at Mitcham parish church, in 1838.9 A workman at the works in Willow Lane received 15 shillings…
The Now and Hereafter Poor:
April 14, 2017
…Poor that shall be placed therein”. Peter Waldo agreed to satisfactorily “new-rip his House and make good all the Brick-work, Plaistering-work and other Work so as to put the Same…
Medieval Morden: Landscape and Landholding
March 9, 2022
…¾d. And he shall find 1 man at the shearing of the lord’s sheep with bread and cheese after dinner and the value of the works is ½d. And he…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
…and Works, which would give me free entry to NT and MPBW properties and save money. After work I spent the weekend in preparations for the tour. Unfortunately the weather…
Parishioners of Mitcham 1837/38:
April 14, 2017
…work. Son nearly 21 no work for last 8 months. Badly off”. For the labouring classes the inevitable consequence of sickness was increased poverty and hardship, as is shown by…
OUR CONVICT SON: Harold Brewster 1895-1958: A Merton Objector to Conscription
August 22, 2018
…satisfied no one to use objectors in work that was in the national interest, in outdoor camps and in former prisons used as work centres. After the war ended, the…
Liberty Print Works: Wartime Remembrances
April 14, 2017
…Works Office 17 Wheelhouse 18 Sports Pavilion LIBERTY & Co. Ltd. Silk Printing Works, SW19 © W. J. Rudd 1993 LOCAL HISTORY NOTES – 8 Liberty Print Works Wartime Remembrances…
06 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and the Wandle Mills
April 16, 2017
…one, and in default of the parishes it was customary for the works to be carried out by the county. Local records do not tell whether the bridge was of…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
…Newton, who continued to reside in the houses they had before occupied. With the exception of the water wheel & works on the Wandle, & some of the adjoining workshops…
The Life of James Lackington, Bookseller, 1746-1815
April 14, 2017
…as I offered to lead the van, they I continued with him several years, working when he were prevailed on to make the attempt once more; worked, and while he…