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Bulletin 158
April 22, 2017
…in the Midlands and were conveyed by the Midland Railway. The structural .engineering bricks. were made on site from clay excavated when constructing the foundations, and the facing bricks used…
Bulletin 205
March 9, 2018
…Stane Street passed through Morden, roughly on the line of the A24, and a small part was excavated c.1920. Tobacco was ground in the Morden Hall Snuff Mills up to…
Morden Park
April 15, 2017
A booklet on Morden Park, by former Borough librarian Evelyn Jowett, was published by Merton Historical Society in 1977, but has long been out of print. Since then further information…
Bulletin 182
April 22, 2017
…pupil, lined with corrugated iron and covered with the excavated earth).2 Many local education authorities provided brick-built surface shelters for schools without playing fields. However, it appears that no shelters…
Bulletin 218
June 7, 2021
Download Bulletin 218 June 2021 – Bulletin 218 Coralie Glyn’s mythical descendant – Clive Whichelow Varnish, paint, shingle: the Hadfield’s firms (part 1) – Hadfield family The Chilmans of Merton…
Saxon Morden
The Saxons settled in the area, though little has been found in Morden from this period. A large Saxon cemetery has been excavated across the Wandle, within Mitcham. The names…
Bulletin 123
April 22, 2017
…put in in the 19th century, the redundant cess pits were possibly used as rubbish dumps, such as the one excavated behind Gutteridge’s by MHS members some years back. •…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
edited by Judith Goodman This publication is concerned with two families who, for several decades in the 18th and 19th centuries, were important in the industrial north-east of the historic…
Bulletin 222
October 3, 2022
…Merton High Street. Dave Saxby had excavated the remains of the workshop in 1992, exposing firepits from the iron works and an early calico pit.1 The works buildings were first…
The Railways of Merton
April 14, 2017
…and Morden, using the same vehicles to remove excavated clay. This was difficult in wet weather because of the nature of the clay and the fact that workers underground could…
Bulletin 229
March 6, 2024
…the site of Merton Priory. Lt. Col H F Bidder, the archaeologist who excavated the priory site, acknowledged Corfieldʼs having invited him to begin excavations, further to the unearthing in…
Bulletin 219
August 24, 2021
Download Bulletin 219 September 2021 – Bulletin 219 Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 1 – Katie Hawks Varnish, paint, shingle: the Hadfield’s firms (part 2) – Hadfield family Hugh…
Bulletin 166
April 22, 2017
…the 12th and 13th centuries. Curiously, this adopted name echoes an actual Anglo-Saxon water-name meaning an ‘excavated or dug waterway’, implying a stream whose course has been straightened or is…
Bulletin 220
December 30, 2021
Download Bulletin 220 December 2021 – Bulletin 220 Merton Priory – Chapter House developments Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 2 – Katie Hawks A Roman well in Mitcham –…
Bulletin 224
November 30, 2022
…extended Northern Line in 1926. There must have been severe disruption of people’s lives as the line was excavated and the station constructed. It was possibly the final step towards…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 2 by Eric Montague On the map of the new London Borough of Merton, produced after the reorganisation of London Government in 1965, North Mitcham Ward was shown…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 3 by Eric Montague Pollards Hill itself – the dominating topographical feature of the district – is beyond the boundary of Mitcham. The Pollards Hill housing estate and…
01 The Cricket Green
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 1 by Eric Montague The unique character of Mitcham’s Lower Green, the eastern half of which is today known as the Cricket Green, was recognised by its declaration…
Lord Monson’s Schooldays:
April 14, 2017
Reminiscences of Mitcham 1804-1809 Local History Notes 17: by William John Monson, 6th Baron Monson (1853), transcribed by Elizabeth Crisp, edited with biographical and other notes by E N Montague…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
Download Bulletin 203 September 2017 – Bulletin 203 Monumental Sculpture attributed to the Crutcher Family – Katharina Mayer Haunton Incident at Merton Park Primary School – John ‘Sandy’ Catanach Commemorative…