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Bulletin 173
April 22, 2017
…amelioration came later when the newly expanding railways were compelled to initiate cheap fares for workmen, and to that extent the railways can be seen as a social leveller. The…
Bulletin 222
October 3, 2022
…the Council belatedly adopted them. The mud, and the paths made with railway sleepers, drew extraordinary comparisons – the Giant’s Causeway or the shell-holed roads of Flanders – and parents…
Bulletin 174
April 22, 2017
…a site railway to move building materials around, and after it was removed, some gardens were extended over its former route. The houses were well-planned for the period, and seemed…
The Parish of Merton in 1844: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
…South Western Railway Company South Western Railway Company Waste Ground 1 2 Bond Trustees 41 South Western Railway Company South Western Railway Company Part of line of railway 9 1…
Bulletin 213
March 25, 2020
…and the railway at Merton Abbey to illustrate an article on the railways of the Wandle Valley, to be published in a quarterly magazine called The Southern Way. David Bird…
Liberty Print Works: Wartime Remembrances
April 14, 2017
…fixed metal flat-sided rail down each side. Metal blocks were slotted to run on the rail and were screw- bolted to it. The top of each block had a hole…
Bulletin 216
November 20, 2020
…a signalman on the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) and lived in Fairlawn Road, Wimbledon. The LSWR operated from 1838 until 1922, when it became part of Southern Railway….
Bulletin 225
March 10, 2023
…landings, about 500,000 bricks, a capital iron closet; a large dinner bell, and sundry chamber bells, with cranks, pulls and copper wires, two forcing pumps, a quantity of iron railing,…
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
…printing shop and office complex. DAVID LUFF COLLECTION Joy is pushing a colour-pad trolley which ran on wheels with a guide-rail on one side only. The trolley had a tub…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…their journey at the Swan. The end of the great era of coaching came with the development of the railway network in the 1840s and ’50s, and the steady decline…
Bulletin 128
April 22, 2017
…not always successfully, involved in railway promotion in association with his friend Richard Garth of Morden, and to a minor degree in land development in West Barnes in the 1860s….
Bulletin 224
November 30, 2022
…a well-illustrated booklet of children’s responses to the recent epidemic, sponsored in part by Merton Priory Trust; one copy of Railway Modeller featuring the Surrey Iron Railway; and a second…
ENM Abbey
Bulletin 170
April 22, 2017
…preserved railway at Corfe Castle, Dorset. The original tall signal box for the old railway line has gone (as has its successor). Adjacent to it, the old White Hart looked…
Modern Merton
…the new parishes which, along with churches and chapels of other denominations, were created to serve the new housing developments which sprang up around new railway stations – St Saviour…