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Bulletin 217
March 8, 2021
…will not be held for the time being, but please send any items of interest to the Editor for inclusion in our Virtual Workshops. MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY – BULLETIN 217…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…early 19th-century weatherboarded cottages, part of the former Carew estate, and a small block of shops was built in the Morden Road adjoining a new Ravensbury Arms (now replaced by…
The Bulletin
…– David Haunton Haydon’s Road: (1) History of the chemist’s shops – Norma Cox Haydon’s Road: (2) The shops: change over 128 years – Norma Cox Heath Robinson Museum –…
Bulletin 203
August 31, 2017
…Dates of next Workshops: Fridays 27 October, 1 December 2017 2.30pm at Wandle Industrial Museum. All are welcome. EXHIBITION – WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? John Innes Society and…
Bulletin 167
April 22, 2017
…came a crosier head and three gold and sapphire bishop’s rings, all from the late 11th-12th century. The medieval crosses shown were either pectoral or processional, and it seems that…
Bulletin 162
April 22, 2017
…Nelson’s Monument at Great Yarmouth photo: J Goodman 2007 MERTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY . BULLETIN 162 . JUNE 2007 . PAGE 5 LOCAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS Friday 16 March, evening meeting, Peter…
Some Memories of Tower Creameries, Mitcham
April 14, 2017
…building and are served with tea to demonstrate the products. (There are not many cakes for sale in the shops nowadays.) Mr Crowcher has a handsome married son and he…
Bill Rudd Collection: Morden
October 23, 2020
…Close London Road Love Lane Lower Morden Lane Morden Hall Road Pollard Road Queens Place and Queens Road Rosedene Avenue Rutland Parade, Epsom Road Tudor Drive Wandle Road The shops…
I Remember… Childhood Memories of Wartime Mitcham
April 14, 2017
Local History Notes 7: by Irene Bain Those who remember the War years will have very vivid memories of all that happened:- of the sudden changes – the house and…
06 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and the Wandle Mills
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 6 by Eric Montague The Wandle, probably already in use as a convenient territorial boundary before the Roman period, was crossed by a ford from which, by the…
Bulletin 177
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 177 March 2011 Bulletin 177 Messages over Merton G Wilson In Search of a Lacemaker R Turner V-1s on Merton and Morden : the details D Haunton and…
Membership
Membership currently costs £12 a year (£5 for full-time students). In addition to a warm welcome at our regular events and Workshops, members receive the Society’s quarterly Bulletin, its monthly…
North Mitcham
…early 20th-century housing, shops and light industry. On the south-east it was bounded by what was then British Rail’s Southern Region line from Streatham to Mitcham Junction. Commonside East and…
Mitcham Gardens and Gardeners of the 18th Century
April 14, 2017
by E N Montague In Mitcham Gardens the author explores the surprisingly rich history of 18th-century horticulture in Mitcham, manifested by plantations, shrubberies, walled gardens, glasshouses and gravel walks, as…
A Walk around Merton Rush in the early 20th century
April 14, 2017
…Photograph: R. Guy, June 1913 Numbers 13 to 20 Merton Rush. In the distance the shops on the north side of Kingston Road can be seen. Immediately in front on…
OUR CONVICT SON: Harold Brewster 1895-1958: A Merton Objector to Conscription
August 22, 2018
Studies in Merton History 10: by Keith Penny In March and April 1916 Harold Brewster, a surveyor’s assistant employed by Merton and Morden Council, argued his case in front of…
Copper Milling on the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…furnaces, a steam engine of 36-horse power, and every other requisite for conducting a concern of the very first consequence, with superintendent’s dwelling, counting house, stabling, smith’s and millwright’s shops,…
Mitcham Herbal Industries
November 24, 2021
…peppermint, of which there are above 100 acres. The demand for this herb is not confined to the apothecaries shops, it being much used in making a cordial well-known to…