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Bulletin 148
April 22, 2017
…family also remained in the locality. One of George’s sons-in-law held the leases of two farms in Morden, assigning the lease of the later Lower Morden Farm to another of…
Bulletin 190
April 22, 2017
…the site of Gleesons’ office block. By the late 18th century the Great Park had been broken up to form several farms, and the area became indistinguishable from the older…
WW1 Conscription in Mitcham
July 10, 2017
…Medical Board. [A] Mr. A. G. Mizen, 30, market gardener, said his firm also had farms in Hertfordshire. The incidental point came out as to the value of salad. He…
Bill Rudd Archive
March 12, 2024
…as a step to identifying people in photos). FARMS AND AGRICULTURE FARMS AND AGRICULTURE [mostly about 19th-century Morden] 1805: typewritten transcript of passages describing land in Mitcham/Morden extracted from A…
A History of Lord Nelson’s Merton Place
April 14, 2017
…by Reuben Fletcher, represents West Lord’s Lease. The familiar references to the house, gardens and farms of Merton Place as comprising about 70 acres, of which 30 acres were in…
Excavation of a Romano-British site at Short Batsworth, Mitcham 1966-68
July 17, 2017
…the sterility of the trenches 15 towards the west of the area excavated, it can be assumed that the farmstead or settlement whence the organic waste was derived lay to…
Morden in 1910: The Land Valuation Records (‘Lloyd George’s Domesday’)
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 34: Transcribed and introduced by Rosemary Turner A unique view of Morden just before it was overwhelmed by suburbia. Every property, including building plots, is listed, with…
06 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and the Wandle Mills
April 16, 2017
…farmstead supporting a house of this character, including piggery, mushroom shed, cow house, a four-stall stable with loft over, and a coach house. The “Excellent Kitchen Garden” was said to…
Bulletin 228
December 13, 2023
…significantly thereafter, with long-term repercussions. The accumulation of land in single ownership increased, so that by the 16th century a number of substantial farms emerged, producing goods for market and…
Bulletin 140
April 22, 2017
…Churchyard, on ‘a parcel of waste’ later occupied by a wheelwright’s shop (plots 172-173), so the farmstead would have been on or near plots 170-171. The land on the eastern…
Abbey Roads: a modern pilgrimage
April 13, 2017
…place. The town which grew up on the site is now surrounded by farms and woodland. It has a parish church, St Mary, 1775, and a railway station. It was…
Bulletin 144
April 22, 2017
…in the 13th and early 14th centuries, but the location of the house, which might well have had as an adjunct a grange, or large farmstead, has never been established….
Bulletin 146
April 22, 2017
…Duchess of Cleveland and one of Charles II’s mistresses, obtained permission to demolish the palace and sell its materials. The district once more reverted to arable farming, with five farms…
The Now and Hereafter Poor:
April 14, 2017
…substitutes, were deprived 12s.6d. per week. In some villages in Surrey, the wages on the farms were so small that 40% of the population is said to have been on…
Mitcham in 1838: A Survey by Messrs Crawter & Smith
April 14, 2017
…houses, shops, farms, gardens, fields, meadows, woods and wastelands – together with acreage2 and use – arable, meadow, pasture, wood or ‘sundries’. Entries are arranged according to the name of…
Bulletin 221
March 8, 2022
…theoriginalsoftenhadnamesofearlierownersandcolouredmapsthatshowedthefullextentofapropertydeveloper’spurchaseinthelocality.Ifyouwereverylucky,theremightbeanabstractoftitlethatsummarisedtheownershiphistoryofthesite.So,ifyouholdabundleofsuchpapersforyourhouse,havethemphotocopiedandpassthecopytoyourdescendants! [NBNatAlcockTracingHistoryThroughTitleDeeds;AGuideforFamily&LocalHistoriansISBN:9781526703477(Pen&SwordFamilyHistory,2017)£11-99PublishedundertheauspicesoftheNationalArchives,thisbookexplainswhyTitleDeedsaresouseful, wheretheycanbefoundandhowtheevidencetheyprovidecanbeextractedandapplied.] ♦TonyScottshowedafinecollectionofelderlyphotosofMitchamFair,withsomehistoricalcomments.Abrutallyshortsummaryoftheseensues: TheUpperMitchamGreenwasclearlythefocalpointofthevillagefromveryearlytimes,astheroadsfromCroydon,Sutton,Merton,TootingandStreathamallmeetthere.Afairhadbeenheldatthisjunctionlongenoughforittobenamed’FairGreen’.TheGreenandthepropertiesonitsnorthernandwesternboundarieswerepartofthemanorofBigginandTamworth.ThelordofthemanorheldthefranchisefortheFairandhisstewardcontrolleditsoperation.In1804JamesMoore,thePhysicGardener,purchasedthemanor,andbequeathedittohissonJamesBridger.Whenhediedin1885,thefranchiseoftheFairwasboughtfor£100byafirmofEssexsolicitors,probablyasabusinessopportunity.ThelordshipwaspurchasedbyPrincesGolfClub,whosegolflinkswereontheCommon,theCommonbeingpartofthemanorland.GeorgeParkerBidder(Jr),aneminentlocalQC,foughttokeeppublicaccesstotheCommonandtostoppossibleenclosure.Hewassuccessfulinachievingthepassageof’TheMitchamCommon(Supplemental)Act'(1891),bywhichmanagementoftheCommonwastransferredtothenewlyestablishedMitchamCommonConservators. TheConservatorspurchasedthefranchiseoftheFairin1905andthefaircontinuedtorununchanged. FormanyyearsthefairwasadvertisedasaCharterFairandwasheldon12-14Augusteachyear.IfoneofthesewasaSunday,thefairwouldnotrunonthatdaybuton15Augustinstead.ThecharterwasclaimedtoarisefromavisitofQueenElizabethItoMitchaminthedecade1590-1600,butnosuchcharterhaseverbeenfound.Theearliestwrittenevidenceforthefairdatesfrom1732,whenaninquisitionpostmortemwasheldonanitinerantfiddlerwhocametoMitchamforthefairanddiedthere.Gypsiesandtinkersusedtocometothefaireachyear;whenitwasovertheywouldcampontheCommonandobtaincasualworkinthePhysicGardensoronlocalfarms.TherewasplentyofharvestworkinAugustandSeptember. Thefairwasobviouslyinthemiddleofaroadjunction.Thisdidnotmatterverymuchin(say)1850whenthepassingtrafficwasfarmtrafficandtheoccasionalhorse-bustoLondon.By1906,tramlineswereextendedfromTootingJunctionstation(theboundaryoftheLCCarea) totheCricketGreen,givingMitchamAbove:MitchamFairabout1910B-fromtheTomFrancisCollection ©MertonLocalStudiesCentre. showhowlongtheleasehastorun-andalistofanyrights,suchasaprivaterightofway.Section(B)oftheRegistershowstheowner,andSection(C),headed’Charges’,besidesnotinganymortgagesthataresecuredontheproperty,givesinformationofotherinteresttothehistorian:rightsorintereststhatlimithowthelandorpropertycanbeused,suchasrightsofway,andrestrictivecovenants.Theselastbind(thoughnotunalterably)thebuyertoconditionslaiddownbytheseller,oftenonesthatshowhowthequalityoftheareaistobemaintainedbyfutureowners. WhenKeithwaslookingintothehistoryoftheLonesomeMissionRoom,hewasabletolocateitona1910-15mapanddownloadthetitledeedsofahousethatnowstandsonthesite.TheRegistergaveexactdatesofpurchaseanddisposalsaleoftheland(thoughnotofconstructionofthebuilding)andprovedthatitwasindeedaChurchofEnglandproperty.TheRegisterofanunrelatedhouseintheareashowedhowthelandhadoncebeenoneofoverahundredlotsonsalefromtheStreathamCommonEstatein1894:standardsweretobekeptupbyrequiringaminimumsalevalueofhouses(£200)andbyastipulationthatanybaywindowsweretobebuiltofstoneorbrick. UnfortunatelytheLandRegistrynowonlymakesavailableelectroniccopiesofwhatislegallyessential; theoriginalsoftenhadnamesofearlierownersandcolouredmapsthatshowedthefullextentofapropertydeveloper’spurchaseinthelocality.Ifyouwereverylucky,theremightbeanabstractoftitlethatsummarisedtheownershiphistoryofthesite.So,ifyouholdabundleofsuchpapersforyourhouse,havethemphotocopiedandpassthecopytoyourdescendants! [NBNatAlcockTracingHistoryThroughTitleDeeds;AGuideforFamily&LocalHistoriansISBN:9781526703477(Pen&SwordFamilyHistory,2017)£11-99PublishedundertheauspicesoftheNationalArchives,thisbookexplainswhyTitleDeedsaresouseful, wheretheycanbefoundandhowtheevidencetheyprovidecanbeextractedandapplied.] ♦TonyScottshowedafinecollectionofelderlyphotosofMitchamFair,withsomehistoricalcomments.Abrutallyshortsummaryoftheseensues: TheUpperMitchamGreenwasclearlythefocalpointofthevillagefromveryearlytimes,astheroadsfromCroydon,Sutton,Merton,TootingandStreathamallmeetthere.Afairhadbeenheldatthisjunctionlongenoughforittobenamed’FairGreen’.TheGreenandthepropertiesonitsnorthernandwesternboundarieswerepartofthemanorofBigginandTamworth.ThelordofthemanorheldthefranchisefortheFairandhisstewardcontrolleditsoperation.In1804JamesMoore,thePhysicGardener,purchasedthemanor,andbequeathedittohissonJamesBridger.Whenhediedin1885,thefranchiseoftheFairwasboughtfor£100byafirmofEssexsolicitors,probablyasabusinessopportunity.ThelordshipwaspurchasedbyPrincesGolfClub,whosegolflinkswereontheCommon,theCommonbeingpartofthemanorland.GeorgeParkerBidder(Jr),aneminentlocalQC,foughttokeeppublicaccesstotheCommonandtostoppossibleenclosure.Hewassuccessfulinachievingthepassageof’TheMitchamCommon(Supplemental)Act'(1891),bywhichmanagementoftheCommonwastransferredtothenewlyestablishedMitchamCommonConservators. TheConservatorspurchasedthefranchiseoftheFairin1905andthefaircontinuedtorununchanged. FormanyyearsthefairwasadvertisedasaCharterFairandwasheldon12-14Augusteachyear.IfoneofthesewasaSunday,thefairwouldnotrunonthatdaybuton15Augustinstead.ThecharterwasclaimedtoarisefromavisitofQueenElizabethItoMitchaminthedecade1590-1600,butnosuchcharterhaseverbeenfound.Theearliestwrittenevidenceforthefairdatesfrom1732,whenaninquisitionpostmortemwasheldonanitinerantfiddlerwhocametoMitchamforthefairanddiedthere.Gypsiesandtinkersusedtocometothefaireachyear;whenitwasovertheywouldcampontheCommonandobtaincasualworkinthePhysicGardensoronlocalfarms.TherewasplentyofharvestworkinAugustandSeptember. Thefairwasobviouslyinthemiddleofaroadjunction.Thisdidnotmatterverymuchin(say)1850whenthepassingtrafficwasfarmtrafficandtheoccasionalhorse-bustoLondon.By1906,tramlineswereextendedfromTootingJunctionstation(theboundaryoftheLCCarea) totheCricketGreen,givingMitchamAbove:MitchamFairabout1910B-fromtheTomFrancisCollection ©MertonLocalStudiesCentre. MERTONHISTORICALSOCIETY-BULLETIN221-MARCH2022-PAGE16LettersandcontributionsfortheBulletinshouldbesenttoeditor@mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk. TheviewsexpressedinthisBulletinarethoseofthecontributorsconcernedandnotnecessarilythoseoftheSocietyoritsOfficers. website:www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.ukemail:mhs@mertonhistoricalsociety.org.ukPrintedbyPeterHopkinsMHSisboundbytheEUGeneralDataProtectionRegulation. PleaseseetheMHSwebsiteregardinghowthisconcernsyourpersonaldata. aregulartramservicethroughFairGreen.By1910therewasanothertramservicethroughtheFairGreen,acrosstheCommontoCroydon,inadditiontootherthroughtraffic. Therewasclearlytrafficdangerinhavingmajorroadsbisectingthefair. WiththeestablishmentofMitchamUrbanDistrictCouncilin1923,allthepublicopenspacesinMitchamweretransferredtothecontrolofMitchamUDC,andtheCouncilacquiredthefranchiseforrunningtheFair….
Memories of Lower Morden
April 14, 2017
…moved to her present home in nearby Hillcross Avenue. Her memories of life in this tiny rural area, with its three farms, contrasts with life in the area today. Photographs…
Saxon Merton
Saxon king and nobleman The Saxon name ‘Merton’ is usually understood to mean ‘farmstead by the pool’, though an alternative interpretation might be ‘farmstead by the boundary’. Merton first appears…