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Memories of a Morden Lad 1932-1957
April 14, 2017
…without a great deal of physical strain and in my case, certainly without the dust pollution of a sheet metal workshop. When the course was nearing the end we were…
JUSTICE TO MEN AND COUNTRY: The Mitcham Military Tribunal, 1916–1918
August 17, 2017
…no open discussion of how to represent working men on the Mitcham tribunal, whereas a ‘direct representative of the labour and working classes’ was elected to the Merton and Morden…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…Bible, Dodderidge’s Works 5 Vols., Moss’ Sermons 4 Vols., Howlett’s Ditto 2 Vols., Robinson’s Scripture Characters 4 Vols., Present State of Society 1 Vol., Whitefield’s Works 6 Vols., Lecker’s Lectures…
GROWING UP ON THE ST HELIER ESTATE 1930–1950: School, Wartime and First Jobs
July 20, 2019
…creating a working bike. He thought that he might need it to travel to work in London. There were more air raid alerts but no actual bombing where we lived,…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…patrons and others who, it was anticipated, would purchase the published works. Thus Daniel Lysons, supplied with extracts from the court rolls of Biggin and Tamworth by Richard Barnes, the…
12 Church Street and Whitford Lane
April 16, 2017
…at least three corn mills were working on the Mitcham side of the Wandle, whilst there were others over the parish borders in Merton and Morden. Two of the Mitcham…
Some Memories of Tower Creameries, Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…feel for working in them, with some lively anecdotes. Her affection for the Creameries shows through: ‘It was a lovely place to work’, she says. And this is a lovely…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
…any works to give us an idea of his personal style. The influence of Grinling Gibbons on many later works attributed to the Crutcher workshop is clearly evident. Is it…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…erection of the Vestry Hall. During these works a well is said to have been uncovered, but no details were recorded and what was left of it is believed to…
07 The Upper or Fair Green, Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…combination of flint and Merstham stone – a mixture most likely recurring throughout the older parts of the building. The only brickwork shown in the various illustrations is in the…
Bulletin 153
April 22, 2017
…roughcast. Adjoining these to the west were the single-storey workshops with a small office for the works manager, an open-fronted forge, and storage racks for the stock-in-trade, mostly galvanized steel…
Bulletin 183
April 22, 2017
…Historian’s Role Cost: £10 LAMAS and the Museum of London are offering this workshop to members of local historical societies, librarians, museum workers and others who visit schools or interpret…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
…the King’s Works was James Needham, but the works group for Surrey was based at Hampton Court under the control of Richard Benese. He was a leading surveyor and a…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
…The work is dated by the lead rainwater cistern installed at the time.18 Apart from alleviating the plainness of the front façade, the effect of the alteration, which is in…
Bulletin 218
June 7, 2021
…had a dramatic effect on the workforce. Many young men volunteered immediately. When conscription was introduced in 1916, more of the young male workforce were called up. Out of sixty-nine…
Bulletin 222
October 3, 2022
…Merton High Street. Dave Saxby had excavated the remains of the workshop in 1992, exposing firepits from the iron works and an early calico pit.1 The works buildings were first…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…wildly inaccurate.7 Research conducted some 40 years ago finally removed all doubt as to the whereabouts of Julius Caesar’s house,8 and more recent work has established the essential details of…
Bulletin 229
March 6, 2024
…history project with Merton Archives and the educational charity digital-works, funded by HLF. It is to preserve the history of Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium through the memories of people who worked…
The Railways of Merton
April 14, 2017
…of population to a new outer suburban area. From 1 January 1914 the 26 Single line train working ‘One train’ working or ‘one engine in steam’ meant that only one…
Bulletin 217
March 8, 2021
…will not be held for the time being, but please send any items of interest to the Editor for inclusion in our Virtual Workshops. MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY – BULLETIN 217…