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Bulletin 119
April 22, 2017
…racier account appeared in the hand-written pages of the Mordonian Juvenile Gazette3. This was the newspaper of Morden Hall Academy, the boys. school founded by the Rev. John White, whose…
OUR CONVICT SON: Harold Brewster 1895-1958: A Merton Objector to Conscription
August 22, 2018
…access to their collections: Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle; Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain; Imperial War Museum; Kingston History Centre; Special Collections, University of Leeds; London School…
Bulletin 214
June 26, 2020
…Growing Up on the St Helier Estate 1930-1950, School, Wartime and First Jobs [At the time, Albert, aged 17, was working as a salesperson at Hope Brothers, an old-fashioned ‘Gentlemen’s…
Bulletin 135
April 22, 2017
…of the manor of Wimbledon until he lost his head and Henry VIII’s favour. Our walk took us past Cannizaro House, Chester House, Kings College School, Southside House and Gothic…
Mitcham in 1838: A Survey by Messrs Crawter & Smith
April 14, 2017
…5 3 33 1287 LUBBOCK Sir Jno 77 77 735 1288 } } 1288 LUBBOCK Sir Jno 77 77 736 77 1281 Infant School Etc LUBBOCK Sir Jno Cornelius SLIMM…
Bulletin 139
April 22, 2017
…land on East Hill, where the .French Churchyard. was opened in 1687. A French girls. school was also established in Wandsworth, and it is said that by the early 18th…
The Railways of Merton
April 14, 2017
…to be specially opened each Thursday in school term times to allow the OTC contingent and band to march over and return later. A public footpath had to be accommodated…
Stuart Merton
…children born in this parish as apprentices’ in 1687. In 1894 the Rutlish Charity paid for the establishing of the Rutlish Science School, now Rutlish School. The charity is still…
Bulletin 213
March 25, 2020
…other crime series, providing a school for new talent. Though usually conventional (ie. boring) in screen terms, they did sometimes show some innovation – the last Edgar Wallace has an…
Trouble at Mill: A brief history of the former Liberty Print Works site, including Textile printing at Merton Printers Ltd (Libertys) 1965-1982
April 14, 2017
…returning to Liberty’s in Merton this would be their only break in service from leaving school to retirement. Parnall Aircraft Ltd now had to relinquish their lease at Merton Abbey…
Victorian Mitcham
…red brick Vestry Hall on Lower Green West in the Jubilee Year of 1887. The local School Board opened its first elementary school at Singlegate, Colliers Wood. The great workhouse…
Later Georgian Mitcham
…National School, 1788 and 1812 (D Roe) 2010 In the late 18th century several of the larger houses in Mitcham came to be used as boarding academies for the sons…
Morden in 1838: The Tithe Apportionment Map
April 14, 2017
…Solomon George Smith, William Stanley, Elizabeth National School Stanley, William National School Taddy & Co York, William Lower Morden [Peacock Farm] Profession [TAM] carpenter 262 farmer 11, &c. beer retailer…
Bulletin 141
April 22, 2017
…– ERIC MONTAGUE’s in-tray provides another Mitcham snippet. JOHN ARBUTHNOT OF MITCHAM . GENTLEMAN FARMER Most of us recall from our schooldays how the agrarian revolution of the late 18th…
Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…still in his twenties would join the ranks of our greatest playwrights with such enduring works as The Rivals and The School for Scandal. Both young men, as it happens,…
ENM C&C
JUSTICE TO MEN AND COUNTRY: The Mitcham Military Tribunal, 1916–1918
August 17, 2017
…Europe, one by one.’ I asked for Owen’s poems as my school prize, watched BBC television’s The Great War and absorbed much of the view of 1914-18 promoted in Oh…
Bulletin 226
June 15, 2023
…grown annually’. There were several farmers who grew the crop. A large number of people were employed to gather the flowers. The schools used to close for two months in…
The Influence of Merton Priory
April 14, 2017
…of our oldest grammar schools but it also had a hand in bringing about St Edmund Hall, Oxford, which claims to be the oldest academic society for the education of…