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Bulletin 197
April 22, 2017
…History Workshops: 6 November: Trolley-bus pole; Mitcham Military Tribunal; Priory Wall; ‘Wandle Navigation’ 8 22 January: Hadfield’s box; Pelham Girls’ School; John Mantell; Priory Wall; Trolley-bus pole 9 120 Kingston…
Bulletin 194
April 22, 2017
…in Hansard in WW1; houses in Wandle Road; memories of Wandle Industrial Museum and Singlegate School; Hadfield paint factories photos; cholera in 1866 9 A Letter from World War 1…
WW1 Conscription in Mitcham
July 10, 2017
…Dr. Worsfold, said he had two sons employed on the land, one had just left school and the other was going to France to work with the Society of Friends…
Daughter Houses of Merton Priory
April 14, 2017
…and a grammar school. Monasteries were the repositories of knowledge until men like Walter de Merton worked with the priory to found his college at Oxford in 1264. At Taunton,…
06 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and the Wandle Mills
April 16, 2017
…war. In the inter-war years the house had been used as a little private preparatory school – the ‘Ravensbury School’ – but this had closed by the outbreak of war…
Bulletin 219
August 24, 2021
…to Tiffins School). Both were good sportsmen (both playing cricket to a high standard) and entrepreneurial. They came from similar backgrounds, with money in the extended families. They moved in…
Bulletin 156
April 22, 2017
…Service has arranged a whole series of lectures and events on a variety of Nelson themes. . Schools have taken part in drama, dance and music events, and there was…
Bulletin 162
April 22, 2017
…mention the odd ghost! The walk will start at 7.30pm at the Erridge Road entrance to Merton Park Primary School and will last for about 1½ to 2 hours, finishing…
Bulletin 153
April 22, 2017
…on the Mizen family and the history of market gardening in Mitcham. They aim to work with two primary schools in Mitcham as part of their study of Victorian Britain,…
Bulletin 186
April 22, 2017
…The Morden Brook (the what?) School sites closed and developed for housing – Rowan in Mitcham and St Catherine’s in Merton And at the same time schools being expanded e.g….
Bulletin 189
April 22, 2017
…20th century there was a regular round of concerts, school ‘entertainments’, lectures and magic lantern shows. In the 1940s the York Play was put on in the church and there…
Bulletin 125
April 22, 2017
…which from the 1850s were used by a private school. When this closed they were bought at auction in 1898 by James Pain & Son firework manufacturers, as residence and…
The Life of Guy of Merton
October 26, 2020
…Merton, who died in 1124, just ten years after Merton was founded. Guy, an Italian, came to Merton after a career as a ‘director of schools’. He seems to have…
Bulletin 171
April 22, 2017
…in Farncombe and educated at the local grammar school. He was the chief wireless telegrapher on RMS Titanic, employed by Marconi to send messages between passengers and the shore. But…
Bulletin 167
April 22, 2017
…lithography in the Bethnal Green Institute, and then art at Manchester Boys High School, but in 1935 he became Principal of the School of Art at Horsham, Sussex, which developed…
Bulletin 165
April 22, 2017
…schools, a number of local people who remembered the Mizens, and two members of the Mizen family. Edward Mizen, a market gardener and horticulturalist, had a farm in Battersea, and…
Bulletin 199
April 22, 2017
…and its farmyard became Yew Tree Close, filled with prefabs after the war, superseded now by rather boring council development; the village school, originally established by Merton College and providing…
Bulletin 157
April 22, 2017
…Joseph Henry and Mrs L C Rewcastle, master and mistress from c.1905 of Morden School. The family lived at the old school house. Joseph Rewcastle also served as assistant overseer…
Bulletin 147
April 22, 2017
…and school staff. The ruins of the medieval chapel of St Catherine have also been turned into a private garden. We are very grateful to Rosemary for arranging this fascinating…