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Bulletin 119
April 22, 2017
…of Lorne. Gas works and tramways came and went. Council estates have superseded the cottages. Does hard work ever kill prematurely? There was a jovial little fellow who ran the…
Bulletin 149
April 22, 2017
…and she then sublet it as a sulphuric acid works. From 1753 it housed the short-lived Battersea enamel works . flagons and crucibles have been found . and it has…
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Bulletin 225
March 10, 2023
…visit to the newly-reopened museum with its new exhibits 22 Ridgeway, SW19 4QN Local History Workshops: 24 March and 19 May 2023 from 2.30pm at the Wandle industrial Museum, next…
Bulletin 185
April 22, 2017
…the work would be delayed until most of the properties on the site were completed and occupied. Since then, detailed arrangements for the unveiling ceremony were made by the Mitcham…
Bulletin 151
April 22, 2017
…their work. Judy’s discovery of the location of William De Morgan’s workshop had been the subject of a two-part article in the local Guardian, and the industrial history chapter in…
Bulletin 117
April 22, 2017
…it was a product of the Morris works. Joe Blake, a local school teacher who is much involved in the work of the Settlement, has undertaken to make a few…
Bulletin 115
April 22, 2017
…Smith Evelyn Jowett Memorial Lecture Friday 20th October 8.00 pm Snuff Mill Environmental Centre The Work of the Surrey Record Office Julian Pooley will be referring to records relating to…
Bulletin 198
April 22, 2017
…though the Army declined to use the workhouse beds and bedding. The mills were dismantled and the gas works sold. Though the latter might have improved the air quality, a…
Bulletin 134
April 22, 2017
…much admired also in the character of Lady Touchwood.1 To this, Brayley merely adds that these are .two very opposite characters.,2 as indeed they are. However, the published work of…
Bulletin 135
April 22, 2017
…while Mason’s Yard has preserved a common feature of yesteryear, the yard with workshop concealed behind the house fronting the road. Similarly, a glimpse of a timber-framed building beyond the…
Bulletin 192
April 22, 2017
…one child’s shoe of similar date and a heavy work shoe of c.1660. A witch’s bottle of c.1670 was found in a wall, its odd contents originally sprinkled with urine,…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
…PAGE 2 LOCaL HISTORY WORKSHOPS Friday 10 May 2019 Six present – Keith Penny in the Chair The workshop was held in a room in Vestry Hall as the Wandle…
Bulletin 178
April 22, 2017
…and East Surrey’s Integrated Transport System’ 6 Local History Workshop 25 March: Photos of Abbey Road; a wartime evacuee; art in wartime restaurants; poet Emma Lazarus; location of Merton Place;…
Bulletin 176
April 22, 2017
…at the Merton printworks from 1965 until its closure in 1982. David began his talk by acknowledging his debt to Harry Fairman, who worked there for 50 years, and to…
Bulletin 196
April 22, 2017
…Voles’): two free-standing Wistaria are a feature, as is a 200-foot long rose walk, with its restored Victorian ornamental iron framework. William Francis Gamul Farmer installed long greenhouses, mainly for…
Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…with a water supply for over 100 years. In 1879 it was still described as a ‘capital well, worked by a horse, with gear complete’.18 With the coming of a…
Bulletin 113
April 22, 2017
…Arthur Coles Limited, Calico print works were at Merton Abbey (alias Station Road) from 1909 to 1919. Possibly backing on to the Morris works who were at 11 Merton High…
Bulletin 171
April 22, 2017
…10th-century, but there have been many changes since. Many of the High Street buildings have interesting features, such as timber framing or fancy brickwork. The King’s Arms (1753) is a…