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Bulletin 229
March 6, 2024
…hypermarket (now Sainsbury’s and Marks and Spencer), and the A24 Merantun Way over the route of the former railway. The name Hancock, Corfield and Waller lives on in Ewell, Surrey,…
Copper Milling on the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…and Wimbledon Railway, authorised on 29 July 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. cap. 325). The Act names the four leading promoters, John Smith Mansfield, Charles Robert Smith, John Leach Bennett,…
Bulletin 179
April 22, 2017
…gap between Chelsea Bridge and Grosvenor Railway Bridge. The next hidden river is the Effra, which appears as a large tunnel outfall under the Albert Embankment near the Fire Brigade…
Bulletin 191
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 191 September 2014 – Bulletin 191 Mitcham Grove and the Myers family – Peter Hopkins The Priory Wall – David Luff Petty Sessions Minutes for Brixton Hundred, Western…
More Memories of Manor Road in the 1920s Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…a smell of its own somewhat! That went on up to Acacia Road and from there we would go up to the steps in Grove Road over the railway, through…
Bulletin 152
April 22, 2017
…goods that required more widespread searches. In addition to the shops on the north side of the railway line, there were also available the bigger shops in Wimbledon such as…
Bulletin 169
April 22, 2017
…coming of the railways. The Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 swept the old order away and replaced it with a new administration. In despair at Kingston’s efforts to provide facilities…
Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
…further upstream, between the present railway bridge and the High Street. It was first recorded in 1504 as a flour mill, but was a brazil mill by 1569. The name…
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Bulletin 188
April 22, 2017
…been found. Walking towards Mitcham Station, we pondered the fossil (or palimpsest) route on our left, used by Tramlink (since 2000), the electric railway (from c.1930), the steam railway (from…
Lost Common Lands – Merton Common
April 14, 2017
…Cannon Hill House. At the other end of the base, near where the railway now crosses Cannon Hill-lane at the junction with Whatley-avenue and Aylward-road, was situated the Common Gate,…
Bulletin 209
March 2, 2019
…Hertsmere Road E14 4AL. This is a free exhibition No need to pre-book, but meet at the museum so that we can go round together Dockland Light Railway to West…
Bulletin 200
April 22, 2017
…designed and built a very large conservatory for the Duke of Devonshire. Musing during a meeting of the Midland Railway Board, he sketched, on a piece of blotting paper (which…
Bulletin 122
April 22, 2017
…wrap up well – or freeze. The pilots were very hardy persons, and they all piloted these craft from open cockpits. They navigated around by following the roads and railways,…
Lord Monson’s Schooldays:
April 14, 2017
…of my first going to school and though now there are two lines of Rail to the Village, yet I preferred to approach it by the old high road. 25…
Bill Rudd Collection: over the parish boundary
August 26, 2017
…boundaries when his attention was caught by an interesting building or group of buildings, or a railway line or station. His photographs within the ancient parish of Merton range from…
The Bill Rudd Collection
July 26, 2017
…his other special interests – his eye for a good photo of sky or weather conditions; his fascination with transport of all kinds – rail, buses and vehicles of all…
Bulletin 133
April 22, 2017
…lectures in May – on Young’s brewery; Price’s candle factory; and the Surrey Iron Railway. Ring 020 8871 7074 for details and tickets (£2.00). The museum is in the old…
A Thirties Childhood in Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…the Common), making our way past the One Island Pond towards the railway crossing at Beddington Halt. The train did indeed halt there and a token was given to the…