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Bulletin 171
April 22, 2017
…The ‘Grasping’ Merton Priory – Peter Hopkins 16 PROGRAMME SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER Thursday 10 September 2.00pm Merton Park walk, led by Clive Whichelow This event is part of Merton’s Celebrating…
Bulletin 118
April 22, 2017
…SOCIETY – BULLETIN 118 – JUNE 1996 – PAGE 3 MEANWHILE, IN NEW ZEALAND… In the last Bulletin mention was made of a scrapbook of early MHS events being presented…
Lord Monson’s Schooldays:
April 14, 2017
…room to commemorate the event. Various alterations and minor additions, notably to provide better service facilities, took place over the following years and, particularly during the late ’50s and ’60s,…
Bulletin 180
April 22, 2017
…Natural Landscape’; ‘The Cultural Landscape’, which tells how local people have modified, and re-modified, the landscape; and ‘The Human Story’, which highlights historic events, local and national, that have made…
A Priory Founded: Sheriff Gilbert at Merton
April 8, 2019
…old Roman road crosses the River Wandle (I.4). Gilbert was eventually persuaded of the benefits of the new location and showed the same enthusiasm that he had shown for the…
A Thirties Childhood in Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…school the next morning all the children were talking about this great event. We had the occasional birthday party to attend, where we would be given fishpaste sandwiches, followed by…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
…and eventually retired to St Helier Avenue, Morden. He served throughout the Second World War, ‘minesweeping’ he told Mark, but actually on exhausting Atlantic and Arctic convoy escort duty (left)….
Bulletin 176
April 22, 2017
…eventually be proposed by the United Kingdom. The priory has a strong case for consideration as an ‘intangible event’. In 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta, and fundamental freedoms…
Bulletin 161
April 22, 2017
…Old London Bridge, with its many openings, each of which was narrowed even further by the ‘starlings. (timber reinforcements to prevent damage by boats). The inhabitants of the houses on…
Bulletin 162
April 22, 2017
…Mitcham Histories series. It was appropriate that the event was held in the new Parish Centre just off Church Road, a most historic part of Mitcham. Mitcham was administratively a…
Bulletin 146
April 22, 2017
…Reigate stone. His first task was to prevent a local authority from permanently blocking the entrance to Godstone quarry. (Was it really God’s stone?) The term .Reigate stone. refers to…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
by Peter Hopkins Peter Hopkins began his studies of Medieval Morden more than 20 years ago, by copying, transcribing and translating any and every medieval record relating to Morden that…
Bulletin 217
March 8, 2021
…wrong by events – so you can see that I have never been a successful gambler. Our intended programme of events – talks, walks and visits – has to remain…
Bulletin 163
April 22, 2017
…Winchester, to preserve secrecy. There was much unexplained delay with sea trials, which faced and overcame numerous technical problems, but sadly the Swallow project was eventually cancelled in July 1944….
Bulletin 135
April 22, 2017
…FSA MIFA VICE PRESIDENTS: Viscountess Hanworth, Arthur Turner, Lionel Green and William Rudd BULLETIN NO. 135 SEPTEMBER 2000 PROGRAMME SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER Saturday 9 September 2.30pm River Wandle walk A Millennium event,…