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Bulletin 194
April 22, 2017
…passes under the railway. The Little Graveney then follows the boundary of the present Mitcham Industrial Estate, runs alongside Streatham Road to its junction with Sandy Lane, follows the footpath…
Bulletin 134
April 22, 2017
…railings. Most of these tombs, which were the memorials of the more prominent parishioners (or their relatives), have now lost their railings, and one such, standing close to the north-east…
Bulletin 135
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 135 September 2000 – Bulletin 135 Athletic Fame of Mitcham: Dorothy Tyler – R Kilsby Place names as surnames – L E Green It’s good to talk –…
Bulletin 116
April 22, 2017
…Hill was an astute business woman and fundraiser for good causes. Whilst the third founder, Canon H.D. Rawnsley was rousing public opinion to prevent the building of a railway around…
Bulletin 137
April 22, 2017
…journey at the Swan. The end of the great era of coaching came with the development of the railway network in the 1840s and 1850s, and the steady decline in…
A Mitcham Childhood Remembered 1926-45
April 14, 2017
…born in a new house near the edge of it on the east side – opposite the railway that ran across that part of the common and under the bridge…
Bulletin 122
April 22, 2017
…wrap up well – or freeze. The pilots were very hardy persons, and they all piloted these craft from open cockpits. They navigated around by following the roads and railways,…
Admiral Lord Nelson
…various monuments and celebratory events (see Bulletins 140, 143, 151, 155, 156 and 162) THE NELSON TRAIL Merton Library Service has produced The Nelson Trail – A visitor’s guide to…
Bulletin 163
April 22, 2017
…service commemorates him. In the park, large, with many mature trees and unexpectedly wild in parts, which was once Sir Richard’s private grounds, there is a pond, a miniature railway,…
I Remember… Childhood Memories of Wartime Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…work on the notorious Burma railway. A friend of mine lived seven doors up the road from me. In those days one knew the names of nearly everyone in the…
Bulletin 156
April 22, 2017
…were arrested and imprisoned at Lancaster Castle and, after trial at Lancaster Assizes, 11 of them were hanged. Local sites now form a heritage trail. . The ‘childhood memories’ theme…
The Story of the Long Thornton and District Improvement Society
April 14, 2017
…formed the Association. Everyone was grumbling about the conditions – nearly everyone on the estate joined. There were no proper pavements or roads – there were railway sleeper tracks instead…
Bulletin 155
April 22, 2017
…childhood, survives in the grounds. Despite the growth of Hatfield to a sizeable town at its gate, and the railway station opposite, the house retains its dignity unimpaired. Of red…
Bill Rudd Archive
March 12, 2024
…troughs on 29 May, “led by the famous Young’s horse drawn brewers dray”. Copies of “Merton’s Horse Trough heritage trail, devised for Environmental Action in Merton by Logan” for BT…
Bulletin 147
April 22, 2017
…congratulate Wandle Industrial Museum on their new exhibition, which marks the bicentenary of the opening of the Surrey Iron Railway. They have also produced an all-colour fold-out guide to The…
Bulletin 145
April 22, 2017
…the Fair green by 1906, and the rails and rolling-stock are seen crossing the Green in a number of pre-1914 postcards. Later, a trolleybus route once connected Mitcham with Croydon…
Bulletin 187
April 22, 2017
…as did the news that the Bluebell Railway has now reached East Grinstead, and, when its southern end is extended to Lewes, this London-Brighton route, axed in the 1960s by…
Lost Common Lands – Merton Common
April 14, 2017
…Cannon Hill House. At the other end of the base, near where the railway now crosses Cannon Hill-lane at the junction with Whatley-avenue and Aylward-road, was situated the Common Gate,…