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Wimbledon
THE WIMBLEDON SOCIETY, formed in 1904 as the John Evelyn Society, has interested itself in the history of Wimbledon for many years, building up an expertise not to be rivalled….
Bulletin 171
April 22, 2017
…or picture to use a large J hook that was hooked over a picture rail (if they had picture rails then). Perhaps in those days a large J hook was…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
…followed a part of the Wandle Trail. The full distance is well documented, mapped and illustrated by Bob Steel and Derek Coleman’s book River wandle Companion and wandle Trail Guide…
Bulletin 214
June 26, 2020
…North America for another two months. He was then put in charge of Tri-ang Railways, which produced trains, track and railway accessories 1950-1965. In the 1950s the firm bought another…
Bulletin 129
April 22, 2017
…a Carshalton Water Tower Trust leaflet) MARGARET CARR briefly reviews some recent Society publications: Railways of Merton by Lionel Green sorts out the tangle of the Borough of Merton’s railways….
Bulletin 204
December 15, 2017
…the other. In the 1840s, with the coming of the railways, widely separated football teams could meet. In 1863 a meeting was held in Queen Street Tavern, to establish the…
On the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…culvert under the railway, near the old church at Croydon. Formerly there were several ponds about the church and archiepiscopal palace, fed by powerful springs, as well as by the…
Bulletin 205
March 9, 2018
…in Kenley Road. St Helier Estate was built in the 1920s and 1930s, employing Topham Forrest as architects. It proved useful to lay its own quite extensive light railway to…
Bulletin 123
April 22, 2017
…land here I find it a pity that Wandsworth cannot find some money to re-create a bit of the Surrey Iron Railway. When you consider the importance that has been…
Bulletin 223
October 3, 2022
…round our pretend railway track! My father made a concrete-lined pond in the garden, with raised sides you could sit on. We returned from one of our holidays in Devon…
Later Georgian Mitcham
…expensive. In 1801 the Surrey Iron Railway, the first public railway in the world, was authorised by Parliament. The track through Mitcham ran along what is now Christchurch Road and…