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Lower Morden and Morden Park
April 15, 2017
Discovering the Past 1: by Peter Hopkins In producing this booklet of 25 double-spread pages, Peter offers us a rich source of material, most of which appears in print for…
Medieval Morden: Landscape and Landholding
March 9, 2022
by Peter Hopkins Peter Hopkins presents another painstaking analysis of medieval legal documents, found in a remarkable array of archives, his research buttressed by delving into an impressive array of…
Morden in 1838: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
…were made to the apportionment of rent charge over the years, as land was used for railways and later for housing. Copies of these are filed with the photostats of…
Bulletin 164
April 22, 2017
…also where the Skew Arch at Raynes Park and the Cattle Arch at Lower Downs Road breach the high railway embankment of the main line. The Wandle flooded the area…
Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
…followed the extension of the railways. Colliers Wood House was not demolished until 1904, but suburban villas and terrace houses already covered much of its grounds. The last of the…
Urban Mitcham
…recreation grounds were provided in the new housing estates. Mitcham Common, which had suffered much at the hands of the railway companies, and was extensively dug for sand and gravel,…
Victorian Mitcham
Whereas Wimbledon and Croydon received a stimulus to suburban expansion in the early Victorian period from railways, Mitcham did not, and instead it attracted somewhat offensive industries. Paint, varnish and…
Lower Mitcham
Although seemingly never defined precisely, Lower Mitcham can be considered as occupying the area north of the former Wimbledon to Croydon railway line (now the Tramlink) and between Baron Walk…
Publications
…volume covers one area of Mitcham. In-house publications include a series of A5 booklets on a variety of local subjects, including historic buildings and estates, industries and local railways. Our latest…
The ‘Amery Mills’ of Merton Priory, the Copper Mills and the Board Mills
April 14, 2017
…supplied, and the mills’ output included newspaper, cartridges, “common and superfine middles”, card for railway tickets, and printing papers. Both steam and water power were used. The following year the…
Bulletin 181
April 22, 2017
…occasions in 1944. Her orders were to organise and lead the Maquis in sabotage operations against enemy communications such as road and railway bridges and telephone lines. Her second mission…
The Life of James Lackington, Bookseller, 1746-1815
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 24: by James Lackington (1791, rev. 1827, ed. Peter Hopkins 2004) James Lackington was born in 1746 in Somerset, the son of a shoemaker. At ten a…
OUR CONVICT SON: Harold Brewster 1895-1958: A Merton Objector to Conscription
August 22, 2018
…MP for Devonport, Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, complained that the ‘cowards and shirkers’ had been allowed rail warrants to travel at Easter and were allowed gloves and overcoats. Though this particular…
Parishioners of Mitcham 1837/38:
April 14, 2017
…since killed on the rail road. The parents pd all expenses – wants a Bible. [1412] 6 John & Ann CHAPMAN day labourer out of work, 3 children 1 goes…
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St Helier Estate: Easby Crescent (PJH) 2014 Wheel from Surrey Iron Railway Cricket on the Green, Mitcham, 1931 Postcard Cinema 100 plaque, 2/4 Quintin Avenue (JAG) 1999 Flower beds and…
Poor Relief in Morden 1750–1834
October 12, 2022
…old 1 frying pan 1 iron oven door 1 iron scraper, 1 iron fork, 1 rail for oven 2 tea kettles 1 tin cullonder 2 tin saucepans 1 copper boiling…
Bulletin 207
…the much more fashionable sash windows, while the brick front wall was replaced by railings, to display the full façade. (The large Coade Stone statue of Old Father Thames was…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
by Lionel Green A Priory Revealed, which bears the subtitle – ‘using material relating to Merton Priory’ – draws upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources in order…
Bulletin 227
September 29, 2023
Download Bulletin 227 September 2023 – Bulletin 227 A letter to a trustee of Mary Tate’s Almshouses – Karen Ip An incident in the Battle of Britain – Dave Haunton…
Photos arranged by Topic
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…