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Victorian Mitcham
…Even the distillation of essential oils could be overpowering in the vicinity of the physic farms. Competition from growers abroad, and the relentless spread of London into the suburbs, combined…
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May 26, 2017
…celebrations excavations farms healthcare horses & horse transport local government & community matters places of worship pubs railways schools & colleges shops sky & weather sport & leisure street furniture…
Bulletin 118
April 22, 2017
…this tiny rural area, with its three farms, contrasts with life in the area today. Photographs and postcards are also reproduced, together with an extract from the 1933 25″ Ordnance…
Bulletin 122
April 22, 2017
…and Manor Farms and had the world not been thrown into the turmoil of the 1914-18 war it might have remained so. It was the need for an aerodrome close…
Bulletin 123
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 123 September 1997 – Bulletin 123 Mitcham becomes smaller – E N Montague The Lock Family of Merton: III – L E Green and much more (The original…
Bulletin 124
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 124 December 1997 – Bulletin 124 Trains to Trams – D Luff Esther Maria Cranmer’s Recipe Book – E N Montague Joseph Chapman Retter – B Webb Bunce’s…
Medieval Merton
…the land was leased out in large farms – Merton Grange in the east outside the priory gates, and West Barnes in the west. The priory retained as demesne land…
Mitcham Gardens and Gardeners of the 18th Century
April 14, 2017
…lords of the Mitcham manors were usually absentees, content, as far as we can tell, to run their estates within the parish as small demesne, or home, farms. The manor…
The Bridges and Roads of Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…was reached via a lane leading past the old Elizabethan farmstead of Biggin. This track, to the east of Figges Marsh, had almost certainly originated as a detour on slightly…
Victorian Merton
The Wandle industries waxed and waned over the 19th century, but managed to survive. Little changed on the farms, and elderly residents in the early 20th century could look back…
08 Phipps Bridge
April 16, 2017
…L Bunce, of Tavistock Crescent, Mitcham, interviewed in 1993, in the 1920s the Bunce family had three ‘farms‘, which she described as being in Mitcham, Morden and Wimbledon. 2 THE…
17th-Century Morden
…and copyholds in Lower Morden, enabling them to complete the enclosure of the open fields and to reorganise the farms there. This was also the period when encroachments began to…
The Parish of Merton in 1844: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
…estate, the owners of former demesne land, such as Bakers Farm and Cannon Hill, and the owners of the four farms formed out of the original West Barnes estate were…
Bulletin 181
April 22, 2017
…north is now outside the park, which now extends further south, to Lower Morden Lane, to include fields formerly belonging to other ancient farms. Peter described his researches into how…
Bulletin 179
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 179 September 2011 Bulletin 179 London’s Rivers and Sewers R A M Scott Memories of Exciting Times: part 2 K Gibbons/D Haunton Manorial Records relating to Medieval Morden…
Bulletin 214
June 26, 2020
…(one named the Cottage of Content), one real pub, and 145 houses. The men were mostly labourers, either on the farms or in the local brickfields. From this crowded location…
Bulletin 177
April 22, 2017
…to stock it with red and fallow deer and enclose it with a brick wall. The land included estates of the gentry and prosperous farms, and their owners were reluctant…
GROWING UP ON THE ST HELIER ESTATE 1930–1950: School, Wartime and First Jobs
July 20, 2019
…livestock. Local authorities collected kitchen waste to be used as pig food at temporary pig farms on waste land. Paper, rags, old iron or non-ferrous metal (collectively called ‘salvage’) were…
05 Lower Green West Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…variety of medicinal compounds, several of which contained natural ingredients derived from herbs for which farms in the Mitcham area were renowned, and it could have been proximity to the…
Bulletin 127
April 22, 2017
…Peter has seen a tithe survey of Morden dated 1583, recording acreages and occupiers of farms and landholdings. Yet another piece in the jigsaw! © ENM reported completion of work…