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Bulletin 178
April 22, 2017
…seems to have been used as a school until it was demolished to make way for the Theatre. PPS Students of continuity should note that, in 1887, no.19 Merton Road…
The Life of James Lackington, Bookseller, 1746-1815
April 14, 2017
…better than my brothers and sisters. I was put for two halfpenny apple-pies and halfpenny plum-puddings, or three years to a day-school, kept by an old so that in a…
Bulletin 184
April 22, 2017
…trust for the benefit of the schools in Merton in Surrey. £10,000 left in trust for the benefit of schools in Mr. Thornton’s native village Burton; £1000 left for the…
Bulletin 223
October 3, 2022
…another picture stamp to stick in our book. I still have two Sunday School stamp books (and five postcards, sent annually by St James’s church to celebrate my birthday and…
A Thirties Childhood in Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…and the school caretaker put them into the boiler to cook. At Christmastime, when the puddings had matured, the whole school, sitting in the hall on the cork floor, would…
Bulletin 130
April 22, 2017
…adjacent. Today the Whitgift Foundation includes two schools for boys and, since 1993, the Old Palace School for Girls, as well as the Hospital, and Whitgift House (1988) at Haling…
Bulletin 225
March 10, 2023
…Tabori and Chris Chataway (who thus became the third and the fourth sub-four-minute milers). He was educated at Mitcham Grammar School, and had to eat lunch at another school half…
Bulletin 187
April 22, 2017
…in 1792 for the use of the children of the Sunday School, for which a hall was also built adjoining the old school house opposite the church. The gallery obscures…