MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY Search results for ""excavate#""
The Railways of Merton
April 14, 2017
…and Morden, using the same vehicles to remove excavated clay. This was difficult in wet weather because of the nature of the clay and the fact that workers underground could…
Bulletin 229
March 6, 2024
…the site of Merton Priory. Lt. Col H F Bidder, the archaeologist who excavated the priory site, acknowledged Corfieldʼs having invited him to begin excavations, further to the unearthing in…
Bulletin 219
August 24, 2021
Download Bulletin 219 September 2021 – Bulletin 219 Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 1 – Katie Hawks Varnish, paint, shingle: the Hadfield’s firms (part 2) – Hadfield family Hugh…
Bulletin 166
April 22, 2017
…the 12th and 13th centuries. Curiously, this adopted name echoes an actual Anglo-Saxon water-name meaning an ‘excavated or dug waterway’, implying a stream whose course has been straightened or is…
Bulletin 220
December 30, 2021
Download Bulletin 220 December 2021 – Bulletin 220 Merton Priory – Chapter House developments Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 2 – Katie Hawks A Roman well in Mitcham –…
Bulletin 205
March 9, 2018
…Stane Street passed through Morden, roughly on the line of the A24, and a small part was excavated c.1920. Tobacco was ground in the Morden Hall Snuff Mills up to…
Bulletin 224
November 30, 2022
…extended Northern Line in 1926. There must have been severe disruption of people’s lives as the line was excavated and the station constructed. It was possibly the final step towards…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 2 by Eric Montague On the map of the new London Borough of Merton, produced after the reorganisation of London Government in 1965, North Mitcham Ward was shown…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 3 by Eric Montague Pollards Hill itself – the dominating topographical feature of the district – is beyond the boundary of Mitcham. The Pollards Hill housing estate and…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 1 by Eric Montague The unique character of Mitcham’s Lower Green, the eastern half of which is today known as the Cricket Green, was recognised by its declaration…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
Download Bulletin 203 September 2017 – Bulletin 203 Monumental Sculpture attributed to the Crutcher Family – Katharina Mayer Haunton Incident at Merton Park Primary School – John ‘Sandy’ Catanach Commemorative…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
Download Bulletin 211 June 2019 – Bulletin 210 Windsor Floors (the continuing story) – Mick Taylor My Life in Mitcham 1939–1966 part 2 – Michael Pollock Curving Boundaries in Morden…
Bulletin 119
April 22, 2017
…on why the Croydon cemetery should be excavated, John Hines on the early Anglo-Saxon evidence, Bob Cowle on the Middle Saxon trading and manufacturing settlement along the Strand, Peter Rowsome…