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GROWING UP ON THE ST HELIER ESTATE 1930–1950: School, Wartime and First Jobs
July 20, 2019
…in foggy or hard winter weather, when he used the Underground from Morden (a dearer way to travel if one used a bus to reach Morden station). The Southern Railway…
Bulletin 180
April 22, 2017
…1, 2 Reports: Wandsworth Museum 3 West Norwood Cemetery 3 New Wimbledon Theatre 5 Local History Workshops: 5 August: post office memories; Stane Street; Wandle bitter; Ravensbury trail; archaeology in…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
…21 June 2019: Mitcham Home Guard; a rail recovery; the Wandle in two modern poems; Dewey Bates; a Navy stoker; garden crop mark; Mornington Crescent; silks from cigarette packets 5…
Bulletin 196
April 22, 2017
…North London Railway, known as ‘Locket’s Siding’, and he and his son were granted life passes on the Railway. George II, a ‘retired coal merchant’, died at 6 Acton Place,…
Modern Merton
…the new parishes which, along with churches and chapels of other denominations, were created to serve the new housing developments which sprang up around new railway stations – St Saviour…
20th-Century Morden
…Underground. Ravensbury Park House had been built in 1864 by George Parker Bidder the railway engineer, but the house and most of the land was sold in 1896 on the…
Mitcham in 1838: A Survey by Messrs Crawter & Smith
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 21: ed. Stephen Turner, with an introduction by Peter Hopkins Among the archives at Surrey History Centre, Woking, is a small folio volume entitled Collected Reference to…
Bulletin 228
December 13, 2023
…gardeners. ♦ David Luff has train-spotted locally a (British Rail) Class 60 heavy freight diesel-electric locomotive, now operated by DC Rail, and built between 1989 and 1993 by Brush Traction…
Bulletin 175
April 22, 2017
…fall of the Surrey Iron Railway 1802-46’ by Dorian Gerhold, the Wandsworth historian, based on newly-discovered documents. . Bill Rudd, having been asked to help with the time capsule commemorating…
Victorian Merton
…by pauper children from Bermondsey between 1820 and 1845, and then became a boarding school run by the de Chastelain family (see Bulletin 172 ) from 1849 to1893. The railway…
Growing up in Mitcham (1939-1963)
April 14, 2017
…down its quiet, clean river. A book was written about a police dog called Rex who became famous, catching a criminal at night in the railway yards at Christchurch Bridge….
WW1 Conscription in Mitcham
July 10, 2017
…railway service. He told the Tribunal his experience in trying to get a substitute for the man applied for when the claim was refused by the local Tribunal. A lady…
Bulletin 201
April 22, 2017
…a railway station photographed by Bill Rudd in 1963, labelled ‘Mitcham Junction’, but Mick was sure it was not. This was agreed by experts present. [David Luff subsequently identified it…