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Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
…further upstream, between the present railway bridge and the High Street. It was first recorded in 1504 as a flour mill, but was a brazil mill by 1569. The name…
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Bulletin 152
April 22, 2017
…goods that required more widespread searches. In addition to the shops on the north side of the railway line, there were also available the bigger shops in Wimbledon such as…
More Memories of Manor Road in the 1920s Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…a smell of its own somewhat! That went on up to Acacia Road and from there we would go up to the steps in Grove Road over the railway, through…
Bulletin 179
April 22, 2017
…gap between Chelsea Bridge and Grosvenor Railway Bridge. The next hidden river is the Effra, which appears as a large tunnel outfall under the Albert Embankment near the Fire Brigade…
Copper Milling on the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…and Wimbledon Railway, authorised on 29 July 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. cap. 325). The Act names the four leading promoters, John Smith Mansfield, Charles Robert Smith, John Leach Bennett,…
Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…such heavy and easily broken materials was too difficult before the building of railways and canals, since roads were so poor. So, at Morden Park, clay dug the previous winter,…
Bulletin 133
April 22, 2017
…lectures in May – on Young’s brewery; Price’s candle factory; and the Surrey Iron Railway. Ring 020 8871 7074 for details and tickets (£2.00). The museum is in the old…
Bulletin 132
April 22, 2017
…illustrated talk on Charles Darwin by two members of the Society who have been on the trail of the great naturalist – in Kent and much further afield. Saturday 12…
Bulletin 209
March 2, 2019
…Hertsmere Road E14 4AL. This is a free exhibition No need to pre-book, but meet at the museum so that we can go round together Dockland Light Railway to West…
Bulletin 200
April 22, 2017
…designed and built a very large conservatory for the Duke of Devonshire. Musing during a meeting of the Midland Railway Board, he sketched, on a piece of blotting paper (which…
A Thirties Childhood in Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…the Common), making our way past the One Island Pond towards the railway crossing at Beddington Halt. The train did indeed halt there and a token was given to the…
The Bill Rudd Collection
July 26, 2017
…his other special interests – his eye for a good photo of sky or weather conditions; his fascination with transport of all kinds – rail, buses and vehicles of all…
Bill Rudd Collection: over the parish boundary
August 26, 2017
…boundaries when his attention was caught by an interesting building or group of buildings, or a railway line or station. His photographs within the ancient parish of Merton range from…
A History of Lord Nelson’s Merton Place
April 14, 2017
…to some more quiet and secluded spot … and if this is not sufficient to disfigure and transform the place, they are going to make a railroad right through the…
Bulletin 184
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 184 December 2012 Bulletin 184 Evidence for the Construction and Development of Grove Mill, Mitcham G Potter Newton House, Commonside West, Mitcham R A M Scott/D Haunton Ravensbury…
North Mitcham
…early 20th-century housing, shops and light industry. On the south-east it was bounded by what was then British Rail’s Southern Region line from Streatham to Mitcham Junction. Commonside East and…
Lord Monson’s Schooldays:
April 14, 2017
…of my first going to school and though now there are two lines of Rail to the Village, yet I preferred to approach it by the old high road. 25…