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GROWING UP ON THE ST HELIER ESTATE 1930–1950: School, Wartime and First Jobs
July 20, 2019
…in foggy or hard winter weather, when he used the Underground from Morden (a dearer way to travel if one used a bus to reach Morden station). The Southern Railway…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
…21 June 2019: Mitcham Home Guard; a rail recovery; the Wandle in two modern poems; Dewey Bates; a Navy stoker; garden crop mark; Mornington Crescent; silks from cigarette packets 5…
Mitcham in 1846: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
…d £ s d £ s d 10 24 FULLER William Himself Pond 36 10 188 FLOUD Henry ALLNUTT, John Part of Bygrove Mead open to Railway meadow 1 4…
Bulletin 180
April 22, 2017
…1, 2 Reports: Wandsworth Museum 3 West Norwood Cemetery 3 New Wimbledon Theatre 5 Local History Workshops: 5 August: post office memories; Stane Street; Wandle bitter; Ravensbury trail; archaeology in…
Bulletin 196
April 22, 2017
…North London Railway, known as ‘Locket’s Siding’, and he and his son were granted life passes on the Railway. George II, a ‘retired coal merchant’, died at 6 Acton Place,…
Growing up in Mitcham (1939-1963)
April 14, 2017
…down its quiet, clean river. A book was written about a police dog called Rex who became famous, catching a criminal at night in the railway yards at Christchurch Bridge….
Bulletin 175
April 22, 2017
…fall of the Surrey Iron Railway 1802-46’ by Dorian Gerhold, the Wandsworth historian, based on newly-discovered documents. . Bill Rudd, having been asked to help with the time capsule commemorating…
20th-Century Morden
…Underground. Ravensbury Park House had been built in 1864 by George Parker Bidder the railway engineer, but the house and most of the land was sold in 1896 on the…
Victorian Merton
…by pauper children from Bermondsey between 1820 and 1845, and then became a boarding school run by the de Chastelain family (see Bulletin 172 ) from 1849 to1893. The railway…
Bulletin 231
September 13, 2024
…a Whiteleys product. Leisure activities visible in Beddington Park included ladies‘ cricket and lacrosse, with tug of war practice at Poulter Park, while the Wandle Trail offers opportunities for walking…
Bulletin 228
December 13, 2023
…gardeners. ♦ David Luff has train-spotted locally a (British Rail) Class 60 heavy freight diesel-electric locomotive, now operated by DC Rail, and built between 1989 and 1993 by Brush Traction…
Mitcham in 1838: A Survey by Messrs Crawter & Smith
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 21: ed. Stephen Turner, with an introduction by Peter Hopkins Among the archives at Surrey History Centre, Woking, is a small folio volume entitled Collected Reference to…