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Recruitment to the Armed Forces in Mitcham 1522-1815
April 14, 2017
…instructions were issued in Council for the organisation and training of all men to be mustered under what had become the usual arrangements, footmen in May and horsemen in the…
Around Manor Road, Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…I see hyacinths now it reminds me of Mizens. I remember Mr Alfred Mizen and his daughter Alfreda riding horseback along Cedars Avenue on the Common; the only two horse…
More Memories of Manor Road in the 1920s Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…got married. My mother worked at the Horse and Groom for 12 years as a general assistant, doing all jobs and working all hours. Working as she did, she had…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…well-behaved. In wintry weather, when there was sufficient depth of snow, the old horse “to his astonishment” was harnessed to a cumbersome wooden sledge, which in Tom’s opinion resembled the…
Bill Rudd Archive
March 12, 2024
…HIGHWAYS HIGHWAYS including HORSE TROUGH SURVEY Mostly contains material about, or relevant to, horse troughs in the London Borough of Merton. In date order, this is: March 1950 (according to…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
…on horseback, marking out the space for a church”.26 They measured the bounds for the cemetery and decided how to change the course of the river, and where the mill…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…tonnes £1 = 20s (shillings) = 240d (pence) 1 gallon = 4.5 litres 1 (British) horse power = 0.746 Kw RAVENSBURY The Ravensbury estate in 1855, from the sales particulars…
The Railways of Merton
April 14, 2017
…railway over a canal was not a foregone conclusion as the canals could easily hold their own against competition from the horse drawn railways. One horse on a towpath could…