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10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
………………………………………….. 44 The Gardens, Ravensbury Park – postcardc.1960 ………………………………… 46 One of the new metal bridges in Ravensbury Park 2005 ………………………… 47 River Wandle, Ravensbury Park – postcard postmarked 1950…
Bulletin 201
April 22, 2017
…along the line of London Road (at a distance from it), reaching the two railway bridges under threat of demolition. The second one offered the first opportunity to get back…
Bulletin 200
April 22, 2017
…‘Thames Road Bridges’ An illustrated talk by Richard Fitch of Carshalton and District HA Society Thursday 23 February 12 for 12.30pm Annual Lunch at Taste Restaurant, South Thames College: Merton…
Bulletin 146
April 22, 2017
…as the trinoda necessitas: service in the royal army, repair of bridges, and a contribution to the upkeep of town defences. What folkland most emphatically was not, was, as Jessel…
Mitcham in the Mid-17th Century:
April 14, 2017
…16th century by a Thomas Roe, one-time master of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. Contributing towards the cost of repair of local bridges often became a source of contention, particularly where…
Bulletin 156
April 22, 2017
…Hall itself, which was standing in for Merton Place, onto one of the park’s pretty bridges walked Nelson and Lady Hamilton (aka Alex Naylor and Finni Golden from Portsmouth, who…
Bulletin 214
June 26, 2020
…which became the ‘first steamer to navigate the Thames bridges to Wandsworth’, and the action of another collier, the SS Wandle, which was shot at by a German submarine in…
Memories of Service with the LDV/Home Guard, Mitcham 1940-42
April 14, 2017
…placing barrels of oil on the railway bridges to be poured on the road and set alight. Weapons courses took place at Nonsuch Park, Cheam, and we practised firing at…
On the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…where money and ingenuity are devoted to developing its beauties, where bowers and charming vistas, rustic bridges, glens, glades, and varied vegetation form a fit setting for its crystal loveliness….
Bulletin 181
April 22, 2017
…occasions in 1944. Her orders were to organise and lead the Maquis in sabotage operations against enemy communications such as road and railway bridges and telephone lines. Her second mission…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…a variety of offences – failure to keep ditches and watercourses scoured and buildings and bridges in good condition; felling of trees or demolition of buildings without licence; trespass, by…
Bulletin 183
April 22, 2017
…not been identified, but Druce was the Wimbledon Borough Surveyor. 19. Fox had just been knighted. He was a prominent engineer, mainly of railways and bridges. 20. Widow of H…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
…the bridges across the Cut are unsafe. After crossing the road, we stopped on the modern pedestrian bridge above the former cart run, which ran alongside the ford that preceded…
Bulletin 186
April 22, 2017
…centuries. Some channels and small bridges survive, but before long they may be gone. . Peter Hopkins had received a few copies of a book, Centenary History of the Old…
Bulletin 143
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 143 September 2002 – Bulletin 143 Chestnut Cottage, Mitcham – E N Montague The Birth of a Publication – W J Rudd The Two Wives of Sir Richard…
JUSTICE TO MEN AND COUNTRY: The Mitcham Military Tribunal, 1916–1918
August 17, 2017
Studies in Merton History 8: by Keith Penny In this study Keith Penny describes how a volunteer tribunal of local men dealt with the hundreds of appeals against conscription that…
Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 142 June 2002 – Bulletin 142 J W Bazalgette in Morden – W J Rudd Sgt P K Walley – J A Goodman Roger of Salisbury and the…
Bulletin 191
April 22, 2017
…evening. Business is almost at a standstill, electric light cut off, all our roads and bridges gone; [these] the Chinese themselves have destroyed’. There is nothing more until May 1941,…
Bulletin 188
April 22, 2017
…going eastwards, crossed various confusing bridges. We passed the site of the bailiff’s house on our left, to inspect the mill weir and speculate where exactly all the water wheels…
Bulletin 139
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 139 September 2001 – Bulletin 139 The Huguenot Heritage in Mitcham – E N Montague St Olave, Mitcham – R Ninnis Two Mitcham Mysteries – E N Montague…