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Bulletin 216
November 20, 2020
…ten years after Merton was founded. Guy, an Italian, came to Merton after a career as a ‘director of schools’. He seems to have had enough of teaching, and to…
The Now and Hereafter Poor:
April 14, 2017
…to a scheme for utilising the Mitcham premises as an industrial school for the children in the care of the Croydon Union, but it was not proceeded with, and the…
Victorian Merton
…it became an Urban District. See data at https://www2.merton.gov.uk/community-living/statistics/censushistory.htm. The old church school was expanded, and new schools were built to the east and the west. EXPLORE LARGE-SCALE ORDNANCE…
Bulletin 140
April 22, 2017
…Like Merton Priory, the one at Reigate was an Augustinian foundation, but its career since the Dissolution has been very different. Audrey Ward, founder of the Reigate Priory School Museum,…
Bulletin 134
April 22, 2017
…World sports ground, was compulsorily purchased by Surrey County Council in 1963, in order to re-build Mitcham County School for Boys there, but the plans were dropped when local government…
Bulletin 144
April 22, 2017
…comment XPMUser 24/05/2017 23:18:09 blank) On the horticulture side the John Innes original testing grounds were shown, which are now the Rutlish School playing-fields. John Innes Park is still in…
Bulletin 166
April 22, 2017
…Roman Catholic School (“mixed & infants”, closed for the summer holiday) and six in the adjoining industrial area, which was occupied by Bradbury Wilkinson (the banknote printers), four smaller concerns,…
Bulletin 215
September 22, 2020
…College School, at some point during WW2? I have it from a couple of anecdotal sources but nothing official.’ The only source we have on this is Charles Toase’s recent…
Bulletin 145
April 22, 2017
…ensure the provision of universal elementary education and as a result, in 1884, the rather attractive red-brick and stone-dressed St Mark’s School was erected just a few metres to the…
Bulletin 170
April 22, 2017
…Innes, and the Masonic Hall, now Merton Public Hall, another Innes initiative. A weatherboard cottage laundry and the old Rutlish School buildings have vanished, as has the long footbridge which…
Bulletin 136
April 22, 2017
…which looks at schooldays in Merton, and runs from 6 February to 21 April. A reprise of .Poverty and Splendour., Tudor Merton, will be on display upstairs from 22 January…
Bulletin 122
April 22, 2017
…at the City of London School. In an outstanding career there he shone at classics, became captain of school and was elected as 1888 scholar of BalIiol College, Oxford. He…
Bulletin 198
April 22, 2017
…– bread was baked next door in the school. A timber and iron ward, added later and designated “V”, was for the treatment of venereal diseases. The Master’s House block…
Around Manor Road, Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…salad sheds. I also remember the greenhouses opposite the Holborn Schools, where as a child I bought a white hyacinth in a pot as a present for someone. Proudly bringing…
Morden Hall
April 14, 2017
…Morden U.D.C. was 9 On 19 August 1850 a lease for 21 years, at £110 10s. a year, was granted by Rev. Richard Garth to Thomas Nickalls White, schoolmaster, who…
A Priory Founded: Sheriff Gilbert at Merton
April 8, 2019
…renowned scholars such as the Italian schoolmaster Guy (I.9), who was himself the subject of a biographical memoir written by a fellow Merton canon.16 He was just one of the…
Bulletin 118
April 22, 2017
…the mid 1840s Mitcham had grown sufficiently to need both church and school. The pace quickened, and in 1853 there were 12 public houses, five houses large enough to be…