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Bulletin 228
December 13, 2023
…in keeping the ponds clean!] Compass will be monitoring works by the National Trust to rebuild two sections of the Listed Priory wall in Pickle Park, recording the work and…
Bulletin 189
April 22, 2017
…Boards of Guardians, who were required to build workhouses. Outdoor relief was now officially forbidden. Ratepayers grudged paying poor rates, and conditions in the workhouses were deliberately harsh. The system…
Bulletin 137
April 22, 2017
…Luff, our trenchant reviewer, worked for Liberty’s for many years, and has written his own account of the print works, which will shortly be published by the Society.] MHS HAS…
Bulletin 204
December 15, 2017
…and then to swing it onto my working platform. I climbed up to the platform on a steel ladder permanently fixed to thestack, wearing my ‘safety devices’-works overalls, gloves and…
Bulletin 128
April 22, 2017
…theories can be advanced, the houses were never finished, work on them ceasing after completion of the main structure and roofing, but before the carpentry and joinery work had commenced….
Bulletin 173
April 22, 2017
…this work was carried out by English artisans – the same names recur, for wood carvers (Grinling Gibbons, William Newman, William Grey and William Emmett), stone workers (the three Strong…
Bulletin 226
June 15, 2023
…1954, and he wondered if this work had been done at the Tandem Works in Merton or at one of their other sites. Photo from Tony Matthewman The History of…
Lord Monson’s Schooldays:
April 14, 2017
…to become Gorringe Park. 96 Eagle House – no longer a private academy in 1858, but a workhouse school in the hands of the Guardians of the Poor of the…
Bulletin 190
April 22, 2017
…to unveil a plaque in memory of the people who worked in the secret service during the war. One of the Guild’s members and her husband had worked in that…
On the Wandle
April 14, 2017
…member. He did, however, offer works at several RA Summer Exhibitions. 7 Sir George Clausen, Autobiographical Notes in Artwork, no.25 (1931), mentions this as his first visit to the Low…
A Priory Founded: Sheriff Gilbert at Merton
April 8, 2019
…first page is signed ‘William Howard’, and it is probable that these later annotations were his work. Sheriff Gilbert Gilbert had succeeded his uncle, Roger of Huntingdon, as sheriff of…
Bulletin 150
April 22, 2017
…phase of archaeological work on the Merton Priory site: almost two decades of work here ended with a flourish, with the discovery of the site of the monastic mill, quite…
Fry’s Metals, formerly Eyre Smelting Co Ltd, the Tandem Works
On receipt of an enquiry from Portugal about an ingot from the Tandem Works with the wording ‘The Eyre Smelting Co. Ltd “Tandem” Bearing Metal D E, Merton Abbey, London’…
Bulletin 158
April 22, 2017
…station had the largest span ironwork roof in the world. The speed of construction may be appreciated when it is realised that the last ironwork for the roof was delivered…
Bulletin 201
April 22, 2017
…worked underground in Churchill’s War Rooms. He had always thought of this as ‘not entirely believable’, but now he has discovered documentary proof that his mother did indeed work there….
Bulletin 195
April 22, 2017
…accounts, and leave with the IE the account book, supporting documents (bank statements, invoices, etc.), the cheque book and paying in book. About one day’s work is required to inspect…
Bulletin 213
March 25, 2020
…from the Chair 2019 3 Our Local History Workshops 4 ‘Merton Park Studios’ – David Haunton 5 Local History Workshops Friday 18 October 2019: Tandem Bearing Metal; enclosure at Moreton…
Bulletin 215
September 22, 2020
…in Martin Way (in both directions) immediately outside. The church has a tiny car park, but parking in adjacent streets is free. Note also our Local History Workshops at Wandle…
Bulletin 138
April 22, 2017
…House remained part of the school, which was now used for the Holborn Union workhouse children. The Holborn Union workhouse was not transferred to Mitcham until 1886, after the Guardians…
Bulletin 167
April 22, 2017
…of the Bennett and Leach families. The Leaches were calico printers at Merton Abbey in the 18th century, and Thomas Bennett, from a Wandsworth coal-merchant family, took over the works…