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The Railways of Merton
April 14, 2017
…of the railway, succeeded gloriously, at Trafalgar. Nelson’s victory removed the urgency for a railway to Portsmouth. Surrey Iron Railway – a description The rails consisted of cast iron plateways…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
…only mention the Surrey Iron Railway as being used for the transport of coal from Wandsworth, suggesting that towards the latter part of the railway’s life the range of materials…
13 Willow Lane and Beddington Corner
April 16, 2017
…and industrial premises on the Willow Lane estate in 1965 MITCHAM HISTORIES: 13 WILLOW LANE AND BEDDINGTON CORNER Line of the Surrey Iron Railway Line of the Surrey Iron Railway…
The Landmark Case of British Railways Board v Herrington
April 14, 2017
…railway line near Mitcham, Surrey, yesterday, lying between a live rail and a running rail. He is Peter Herrington of Love Lane, Mitcham. 2 Above: Railway bridge over a channel…
04 Lower Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…Merstham. Following the example of the contemporary, and generally successful, turnpike roads, the Surrey Iron Railway was financed by tolls levied on the rail users, who provided their own vehicles…
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…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…its account of Mitcham, is only partly correct in asserting that the manor lay “beyond the railway bridge off the Croydon Road”.20 Several houses in central Mitcham are known to…
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08 Phipps Bridge
April 16, 2017
…a terminus for the Great Northern Railway. Folk memory of an enforced removal was still strong in Mitcham some 30 years ago, and old paint workers and residents with whom…
Bulletin 167
April 22, 2017
…used by a good service of District Railway electric trains running over a London & South Western Railway (LSWR) line from East Putney. This line was also used by a…
Bulletin 189
April 22, 2017
…brick arches was expensive. The next railway to be built was the London to Blackwall line. Soon, the Government prohibited railways from entering central London because of the demolition of…
12 Church Street and Whitford Lane
April 16, 2017
…19th century when it was crossed by the track of the Surrey Iron Railway, but originally one enclosure. On the tithe map of 1847 (see extract overleaf) it can be…
Bulletin 182
April 22, 2017
…Railway Preservation Society since 1967 and one of his early memories of it was the great sadness caused by the closure of the Great Central Railway at Loughborough. This has…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…Mitcham Garden Village (beyond the railway bridge) past the houses of Burghley Close, which are set back from an old ditch, as far as the Catholic Church of SS Peter…
A History of Fry’s Metal Foundries and the Tandem Works
February 23, 2023
…he went to Argentina, employed by the Buenos Aires & Rosario Railway as a draughtsman in their workshops at Campana (1893-1895). For the next two years to 1897 he was…
Bulletin 153
April 22, 2017
…to form the Underground Electric Railways Co. in 1902, and others formed the London Electric Railway in 1910, all of London’s underground railways came under control of London Passenger Transport…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
…formed Commons Preservation Committee, was prominent in the fight to stop the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company acquiring powers to enable it to construct yet another railway line…
Bulletin 183
April 22, 2017
…Herrington, from Love Lane, Mitcham, was seriously burnt on the railway line between Mitcham and Morden Road stations in June 1965, he made legal history. In our new Local History…
Coal and Calico: Letters and Papers of the Bennett and Leach Families of Merton and Wandsworth
April 13, 2017
…what must have been the site of the abbey itself. The part south of the Railway is occupied by Mr. Littler, and that to the north by the Abbey House…