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Bulletin 138
April 22, 2017
…Then, last year, the former Furnitureland site was excavated, prior to redevelopment. Recently, work has been taking place on the car park/car boot sale area, as part of the application…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…the site selected for excavation in 1968, and with consent from the building contractor’s site representative being willingly given the three trenches opened but not completely excavated in 1968 were…
08 Phipps Bridge
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 8 by Eric Montague At Phipps Bridge the River Wandle marks the ancient boundary between Mitcham and Merton. The first reference to’Pypesbrige’ is in a Tudor document, but…
Bulletin 141
April 22, 2017
…carried an article by John Hawks of Merton Abbey Mills about the Wandle, with a photo of the recently excavated wheel-bed of Bennett’s Mill at Merton Abbey Mills, as well…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 11 by Eric Montague For some 250 years the Cranmers and their descendants the Simpsons held the lordship of the manor of Mitcham Canons and were major landowners…
Bulletin 124
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 124 December 1997 – Bulletin 124 Trains to Trams – D Luff Esther Maria Cranmer’s Recipe Book – E N Montague Joseph Chapman Retter – B Webb Bunce’s…
Bulletin 140
April 22, 2017
…cedar of Lebanon on what had been the lawn of Mitcham Grove, the mansion of banker Henry Hoare from 1786 to 1828. The site was excavated by Surrey Archaeological Society…
Bulletin 186
April 22, 2017
…individual holes had to be excavated. PCA dug many of these holes, both to investigate the archaeologically interesting ‘made ground’ and the depth of bedrock. This was found to lie…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
by W J Rudd William John (‘Bill’) Rudd was born in Brixton, south London, in 1925. But in 1930, when he was five, the family moved to Morden (now in…
Bulletin 143
April 22, 2017
…2m, and 8m x 2m. A 10th-12th century roadside ditch was the earliest feature excavated, and ran across the eastern limits of the site. A possible 10th-12th century wall foundation,…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…but, disappointingly, nothing of archaeological significance was observed. This lack of success was perhaps due in part to the fact that the trenches were excavated mechanically, and partly also to…
Lower Morden and Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…Morden. A large Saxon cemetery has been excavated across the Wandle, within Mitcham. The names of local settlements date from Saxon times. Morden probably means “hill in a swampy place”….
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 9 by Eric Montague An outlying settlement within the future parish of Mitcham, Colliers Wood can be identified with a Saxon estate, and a substantial house may be…
Bulletin 189
April 22, 2017
…first modern underground railway. It had been found that electric locomotives caused excessive ground vibration and so the Central London Railway used electric multiple units. They also excavated a larger…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…century.3 Until the 1920s the grounds of Mitcham Hall terminated to the south at the cutting excavated for the Wimbledon to Croydon railway, opened in 1855. Before the advent of…
Bulletin 231
September 13, 2024
…approximate site of the priory church is here marked on a 1929 aerial photo (right).4 The priory church and chapter house foundations were excavated by Lt. Col H F Bidder…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
…permission of the site director) A PRIORY REVEALED Archæology of the Cemetery Over 700 skeletons of burials at Merton priory were excavated between 1976 and 1990. Some interesting conclusions have…
Bulletin 227
September 29, 2023
…to have used the same layout. Only one was fully excavated. Substantial remains of thick brick walls divided several rectangular rooms, mostly of uncertain function. One would have been a…
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May 26, 2017
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