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Bulletin 125
April 22, 2017
…railway line in Eastfields. John F.Renshaw & Co moved from Battersea in 1920 and built their factory on the old tennis court and paddock of The Chestnuts, buying the houses…
Bulletin 199
April 22, 2017
…Local papers and church magazines carried regular adverts, while billboards were in use at railway stations. After Frederick died in 1945, Paine’s was sold to the London Necropolis Company, and…
Bulletin 193
April 22, 2017
…Hall Park in 1989, where Bill’s commentary ranged ‘from Roman roads to railways, from St Peter’s Abbey at Westminster to the St Helier Estate, from statues to snuff mills, from…
Bulletin 192
April 22, 2017
…on the right trail. “See that white board?” he said, pointing with his whip straight along the dusty road. “Well, go on till you reach that, cross the railway bridge,…
Bulletin 190
April 22, 2017
…be the old church of Mitcham, to which, in delight of listening, I turned my steps. Over fields and across the railway between modest dwellings whose gardens received that weekly…
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Bulletin 151
April 22, 2017
…chance, Richard Garth and John Tate had land for sale in Merton and Morden, and noticing that there would be a railway station at Lower Merton (now Merton Park), in…
Bulletin 159
April 22, 2017
…which has raised speculation that it was a feature of the Surrey Iron Railway. I think this speculation can be laid to rest for several reasons. It was not only…
Bulletin 219
August 24, 2021
…been eliminated as too far away or too difficult to acquire. Divided by Hungerford Bridge and railway line, each side of the South Bank had a central building – downstream…
Bulletin 168
April 22, 2017
…Green had noted a railway siding that Lines Brothers had paid £2,400 for off the Merton Abbey line. He circulated a very detailed photograph from a calendar showing the production…
Memories of Service with the LDV/Home Guard, Mitcham 1940-42
April 14, 2017
…railway from the Golf Club House, off the Carshalton Road, there was an anti-aircraft battery of 3.7″ guns, manned by the Honourable Artillery Company. The first fairway in front of…
Bulletin 172
April 22, 2017
…David Haunton 5 Local History Workshops: 14 August: a V-1 in Colliers Wood; Merton Board Mills; Wimbledon-Croydon railway; Holiday Fellowship; medieval Lower Morden; Liberty’s; email contacts 6 16 October: wartime…
The Bulletin
…Memorial – Tony Scott Dennis Turner 1932-2013 A Glimpse of Morden Hall Boarding School for Young Gentlemen – Judith Goodman Swan Song – Irene Bain Three Railway Accidents at Raynes…
Bulletin 148
April 22, 2017
…PAGE 2 WIMBLEDON PARK HERITAGE TRAIL On Saturday 16 August members of the Society were led on this fairly new historic trail by Douglas Gardiner of Wimbledon Park Heritage Group,…
The Life of Guy of Merton
October 26, 2020
…S. Giles and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, 1897), pp.196-7. xx A pertica, literally ‘rod ‘ or ‘perch ‘, was a hanging rail. P Eames, ‘Furniture in England, France…
Bulletin 217
March 8, 2021
…the ‘Malden Blitz’. It affected the railway and the area around Shannon Corner. It was presumed that the bombers were aiming for the transport connections of the railway line and…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
by Peter Hopkins Peter Hopkins began his studies of Medieval Morden more than 20 years ago, by copying, transcribing and translating any and every medieval record relating to Morden that…
Bulletin 131
April 22, 2017
…wound up another flight to the chamber floor. The contract specified a mahogany moulded handrail, twisting to follow the stairs and landings. The present rail curves round decoratively at the…
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