The Bulletin

March 2024 – Bulletin 229
Wimbledon Palais de Danse – Norma Cox
A Conversation at Mitcham Heritage Day – irene Burroughs
The Probate Inventory of Rebecca Cranmer, 1815 – Peter Hopkins
Corfield Industries – John Sheridan
and much more

June 2024 – Bulletin 230

Model of Merton Priory – Christine Pittman
Harvey and Knight, Floor-Cloth Manufacturers – Norma Cox
Pystyll Hyll and the Cuddington/Cheam parish boundary – John Pile
Help wanted: Gas Lighting in Mitcham – Patricia Hillsley
and much more

September 2024 – Bulletin 231

More Memories of the New Merton Board Mills – Kevin Naylor & John Fitzgerald
Commemorating Merton Priory – John Sheridan
Potter and Moore’s ‘Powder Cream’ – Rosemary Turner
Reelstreet.com – Dave Haunton
Reid Cameras – Norma Cox
and much more

March 2023 – Bulletin 225
Remembering: a suffragette, an athlete, an author – Dave Haunton
Stanton Redcroft and the Copper Mill site – Norma Cox
Joseph Bazalgette’s country retreats – Peter Hopkins
Abraham Goldsmid’s house at Morden – Peter Hopkins
Death of Mr Glass – Mick Taylor
and much more

June 2023 – Bulletin 226

Some ‘Memories of Mitcham’ by Benjamin Slater – Rosemary Turner
Cannon Hill Common Pavilion
Dorset Hall’s Secrets (1): Militant Suffragettes – Hugh Morgan
The New Merton Board Mills Site – Norma Cox
‘Merton Abbey’ Photograph Album –
and much more

September 2023 – Bulletin 227

A letter to a trustee of Mary Tate’s Almshouses – Karen Ip
An incident in the Battle of Britain – Dave Haunton
Dorset Hall’s Secrets (2): fabric and garden – Hugh Morgan
The factory of Reid and Sigrist Ltd at Shannon Corner – Norma Cox
and much more

December 2023 – Bulletin 228

George Schenck: an art pottery manufacturer in Mitcham – Ben Angwin
Endecotts, G H Zeal Ltd and Foster Engineering Co Ltd: three factory sites in South
Wimbledon – Norma Cox
Devonshire Dining Rooms – a moveable feast? – Christine Pittman
Dorset Hall’s Secrets (3) – Hugh Morgan
and much more

March 2022 – Bulletin 221
Chairman’s Report November 2021 – Keith Penny
Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 3 – Katie Hawks
Three Morden factories: BOC, Agfa and Dean’s Rag Books – Norma Cox
Do buildings ever lie about their age? [Hall Place Mitcham] – Tony Scott
Short talks at the November meeting: a mysterious building in Morden; title deeds; a fine collection of elderly photos of Mitcham Fair – Peter Hopkins, Keith Penny & Tony Scott
and much more

June 2022 – Bulletin 222
Long Thornton, 1926-1939: ‘One of the most charming residential districts’ – Keith Penny
William Morris writes of the ‘Beautiful Wandle’
A portrait of Nelson with his chelengk – Dave Haunton
Coxeter and Son Ltd, anaesthetic apparatus manufacturer – Norma Cox
These we (should not) have lost – David Luff
West Barnes: making sense of a Merton ward’s identity crisis – Edward Dutton
Feedback on the Hadfields – Christine Pittman & Adrian Gault
May Gibbs and Merton – Christine Pittman
and much more

September 2022 – Bulletin 223
Morden in the Forties and Fifties – Marian Heath
The view from ‘The Woodman’s Bridge – Norma Cox
The Woodman figure – Dave Haunton
The West Barnesuda Triangle – Elaine McCormack
Claes Oldenburg’s London Knees – Clive Whichelow and Peter Hadfield
and much more

December 2022 – Bulletin 224
The Obelisk in the grounds of The Canons, Mitcham – Tony Scott
The British Newspaper Archive – Peter Hopkins
Shock and Awe in Colliers Wood – Christine Pittman
Two factories and the High Path estate – Norma Cox
and much more

March 2021 – Bulletin 217
Coralie Glyn, a feminist in Merton – Clive Whichelow
The east window at St Lawrence church, Morden – Peter Hopkins
Bert’s refreshment bar – Robert Bradbury
The Young Accumulator Company of New Malden – Norma Cox
House numbering in Merton Park – David Haunton
and much more

June 2021 – Bulletin 218
Coralie Glyn’s mythical descendant – Clive Whichelow
Varnish, paint, shingle: the Hadfield’s firms (part 1) – Hadfield family
The Chilmans of Merton – Peter Maggs
The hutted camp on Bushey Road – Mike Strange
Surrey church bell ringers serving in the First World War – David Underdown
and much more

September 2021 – Bulletin 219
Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 1 – Katie Hawks
Varnish, paint, shingle: the Hadfield’s firms (part 2) – Hadfield family
Hugh Hadfield, Surrey Cricketer
The political career of Lucy Norman – Michael Norman-Smith
The Trafalgar pub – Clive Whichelow
The art deco factory in Raynes Park – Norma Cox
and much more

December 2021 – Bulletin 220
Merton Priory – Chapter House developments
Merton Priory’s Gatehouse and Guesthouse: Part 2 – Katie Hawks
A Roman well in Mitcham – Christine Pittman & David Bird
The funeral of Mr. Fenton – Mick Taylor
Some memories of 1951 – John Pile, Eric Shaw & Rosemary Turner
Two Mr Pooleys and the car in the stained glass window – Norma Cox
and much more

March 2020 – Bulletin 213
King John’s travels before Runnymede – 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 – Chris Abbott
Shannon Corner flooding 1981 (or was it 1982?) – Mick Taylor & Norma Cox
London Archaeological Fieldwork Summary 2018
and much more

June 2020 – Bulletin 214
Message from the Chairman – Keith Penny
The Shannon Corner flooding 1981 – Mick Taylor
Tew many Roberts: just who was the first prior of Merton? – Katie Hawks
Memories of VE Day – Albert A J Smith
Where are those stall risers? – David Haunton
Ravensbury Manor plaque
Richard Lines 1929–2020
and much more

September 2020 – Bulletin 215
Variations on the post box – Mick Taylor & Rosemary Turner
Locating telephone kiosks – Mick Taylor
Isaac Wilson, Mitcham philanthropist – Tony Scott
The mystery of the missing container wagons – Bruce Robertson
Haunton’s horse hunt II: Boniface and the bishops – Katie Hawks
Carters Tested Seeds and the Woolworths connection – Norma Cox
and much more

September 2020 – Bulletin 216
Farewell to Finch & Co – Charles Toase
The opening of John Innes Park 1909 – Jennifer Bromfield
RG Jones Recording Studios – Clive Whichelow
War Savings Week 1942 at South Merton Station – Jennifer Bromfield
Last journey of a Mitcham-born taxidermist – Rosemary Turner and David Haunton
and much more

March 2019 – Bulletin 209
Annual Report for 2017-2018 – Keith Penny
Some thoughts on John of Tynemouth – Katie Hawks
Archaeology in Merton 2017
Recent Books
Hawes Bros Department Store in Morden – Norma Cox
and much more

June 2019 – Bulletin 210
Jane Atterbury 1650–1685: At Peace in Bedlam – Robert Atteberry
My Life in Mitcham 1939–1966 part 1 – Michael Pollock
Recent Books
The Berkeley Grill – David Haunton
and much more

September 2019 – Bulletin 211
Windsor Floors (the continuing story) – Mick Taylor
My Life in Mitcham 1939–1966 part 2 – Michael Pollock
Curving Boundaries in Morden and Merton – Peter Hopkins
Bushey Road Camp – David Haunton
and much more

December 2019 – Bulletin 212
A drug store in Merton in the early twentieth century – Norma Cox
The Wandle in Literature (9) Carol Rumens – Judy Goodman
Beating the bounds in 2019 – Rosemary Turner
From our postbag – John W Brown
The post-war camp on Prince George’s Playing Fields – David Haunton
and much more

March 2018 – Bulletin 205
A Much-Moving Mitcham Lady – Winnie McAllan
Nelson’s Patent Sideboard and Dining table – Peter Hopkins
One Thing Leads to Another: The Berkeley Teetotal Society – Rosemary Turner
George Blay, The Raynes Park Housebuilder – Norma Cox
and much more

June 2018 – Bulletin 206
Augustus William Louis Schermuly – Rosemary Turner
Sunday School at Holy Cross – Hilary Nethersole
1918 and After: The rather longer fight for the women’s vote and an equal franchise – Melinda Haunton
Photographs of the George Inn, Morden – Bill Rudd
and much more

September 2018 – Bulletin 207
Betty Beal, Some Documents – David Haunton
Windsor Floors Ltd – Neil Hepple
The East Window at St Lawrence Church, Morden – Peter Hopkins
and much more

December 2018 – Bulletin 208
Mitcham County Grammar School for Girls – Jane Smith (née Stark)
More on the Berkeley 100 – Rosemary Turner
Windsor Floors Co (continued) – Tony Scott
Peace Souvenir and programme of Merton festivities, 1919 – David Haunton
Fields Unsown: Where are they now? – Attic Theatre Company
More ‘bits and pieces’ – Hilary Nethersole
and much more

March 2017 – Bulletin 201
Chairman’s Report for 2015–2016
John Innes Marches On
Colonel Stuart Archer: from an Obituary in The Times
Archaeological Summary for Merton 2015
Morden’s Masons/Sculptors: The Crutcher Family – Peter Hopkins
Something for FROG fans – Peter Cousins & David Haunton
‘Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity’ – Melinda Haunton
and much more

June 2017 – Bulletin 202
Four More Pharmacies in the London Borough of Merton – Norma Cox
The Two Wives of Sir Gregory Lovell – Peter Hopkins
More Memories of Eric Montague – Charles Toase & Pat Robins
and much more

September 2017 – Bulletin 203
Monumental Sculpture attributed to the Crutcher Family – Katharina Mayer Haunton
Incident at Merton Park Primary School – John ‘Sandy’ Catanach
Commemorative Plantings (continued) – David Haunton
and much more

December 2017 – Bulletin 204
Wartime Childhood in SW19 – John ‘Sandy’ Catanach
A Task Unfulfilled: Fry’s Metals Ltd (Tandem works) 1972-1997 – Eric Shaw
The Berkeley Teetotal Society First 100 – Rosemary Turner
and much more

March 2016 – Bulletin 197
Five Merton Pharmacies – Norma Cox
Who was George Parker Bidder? – Janet Morris
Ealdorman Ælfheah – Judith Goodman
and much more

June 2016 – Bulletin 198
A Nelson Descendant – Anna Bullock
For your Bookshelf: Windows onto the Poor Law, All Change on Mitcham Common
Memories of The Canons – Irene Burroughs
John Mantell, vicar of Morden, curate of Merton, but NOT canon of Merton priory! – Peter Hopkins
34-40 Morden Road, Merton – Peter Hopkins
and much more

September 2016 – Bulletin 199
Sindy and her Family Tree – David Luff
William Arthurbury, Brownist and Seditious Publisher – Robert Atteberry
George C Wood, Master Builder of Merton – Paul Featherstone
and much more

December 2016 – Bulletin 200
Liberty Yule-tide Gifts 1929-1930 – David Haunton
A List of Commemorative Plantings – various contributors
‘My Grandfather was Nelson’s Garden Boy’ – Gill Humphries
WW2 Private Air-Raid Shelters – David Haunton
and much more

March 2015 – Bulletin 193
Bill Rudd – an appreciation
Lady Hanworth, FSA 1918–2014
A Note on Harry Bush, Merton Artist – Judith Goodman
Direct Mineral Water Supply Lorry – David Haunton
‘The Smith a Mighty Man is He’ – Judith Goodman
Another View on Mitcham and The Great War – Mavis Priestley
and much more

June 2015 – Bulletin 194
A Letter from World War 1 – Peter Hopkins
Correction: Enzeli Expedition – David Haunton
Anthony Toto, Tudor Artist and Lessee of the Manor of Ravensbury (1) – Peter Hopkins
and much more

September 2015 – Bulletin 195
Ode to the River Wandle – Rosemary Turner
Stability after Change? The London Borough of Merton is 50 years old – Tony Scott & David Haunton
Death, Disease and Damnation – Rosemary Turner
The Society Store – Keith Penny
Anthony Toto, Tudor Artist and Lessee of the Manor of Ravensbury (2) – Peter Hopkins
and much more

December 2015 – Bulletin 196
‘England’s Immigrants – Aliens in Southwark and Surrey 1330–1350’ – Andrea Ruddick
The Locket Family, Coal and Mitcham Brewery – Ruth Sear
The George Inn and the ‘Manor House’ Residential Home – Peter Hopkins
A Royal Opera House Dance Ticket – Peter Brunton
Memories of Two Mitcham Churches – June Smith
Growing Up in Colliers Wood in the 1920s and ’30s – Winifred McAllan
and much more

March 2014 – Bulletin 189
Book reviews: Upper Mitcham and Western Road; The Church of Blue Columns
Robertson’s Pickle & Sauce Works Ltd (concluded) – Bruce Robertson
Eric Montague and the Mitcham Histories – David Haunton
and much more

June 2014 – Bulletin 190
The British Rototherm Co Ltd – a Life in their Times – John Sargeant
Down Lonesome Way – E Brinsmead Gough
Notes on ‘Down Lonesome Way’ – Keith Penny
Book Reviews: two books on Worcester Park by David Rymill
and much more

September 2014 – Bulletin 191
Mitcham Grove and the Myers family – Peter Hopkins
The Priory Wall – David Luff
Petty Sessions Minutes for Brixton Hundred, Western Division – Sheila Gallagher
Mitcham Brewery – Rosemary Turner
‘Interesting Times’ in China 1923-1950 – David Haunton
and much more

December 2014 – Bulletin 192
Some Thoughts on Mitcham and the Great War – Tony Scott
Merton’s Medieval Rebels – Peter Hopkins
More about Lonely Lonesome and ‘Blake’s Follies’ – John W Brown
and much more

March 2013 – Bulletin 185
A Mitcham Home Guard Memorial – Tony Scott
Dennis Turner 1932-2013
A Glimpse of Morden Hall Boarding School for Young Gentlemen – Judith Goodman
Swan Song – Irene Bain
Three Railway Accidents at Raynes Park – Geoffrey Wilson
James Hine Miller – Anne Galpin
Some Hanging Matters – Judith Goodman
and much more

June 2013 – Bulletin 186
Mariqita Moberly, Artist, of Mitcham
‘The Most Interesting Political Fight of Recent Years’ – Keith Penny
A ‘Small Token’ from Emma Hamilton
Hearts of Oak Benefit Society – Roger Logan
The End of a Chain – Raynes Park 2013 – David Haunton
Garth Lodge – Geoff Cooper
Let’s Save the Merton Priory Wall – David Luff
The End of a War – Mitcham 1945 – David Haunton
Memories of 4th East Surrey Boys’ Brigade 1933-1938 – Leslie A Leney
and much more

September 2013 – Bulletin 187
Blakesley Remembered – Judith Goodman
Local Church Bells – Whitechapel and Otherwise – David Haunton
Merton, Morden and Wimbledon in 1963 – David Roe
Merton & Morden’s AFS Film and its Makers – Eric Wrate and David Haunton
‘The Most Interesting Political Fight of Recent Years’: Part 2 – Keith Penny
Robertson’s Pickle & Sauce Works Ltd – Bruce Robertson
and much more

December 2013 – Bulletin 188
The Origins of Morden Common – Peter Hopkins
Mrs Louisa Boyce at Park Place, Mitcham – Tony Scott
The Ruff Memorial Stone – Adrian Gault
Up Memory Lane! – Irene Bain
Doodlebug Summer – Geoff Cooper
Robertson’s Pickle & Sauce Works Ltd (cont.) – Bruce Robertson
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine – David Luff
and much more

March 2012 Bulletin 181
Tower Creameries Commemorative Plaque D Haunton
Builders, Wardens and Pig Clubs S Gallagher
The Coronation of Queen Eleanor P J Hopkins
Child Evacuees of World War II – Part 1: Where did they go? D Haunton

and much more

June 2012 Bulletin 182
That Other Diamond Jubilee J A Goodman
The Nelson Hospital 1912-2012 J A Goodman
A Hero from Mitcham R E Kilsby
Spital/Lodge Farm, Morden R Turner
Child Evacuees of World War II – Part 2: Memories D Haunton
The Old Oako I Bain

and much more

September 2012 Bulletin 183
History is Made in Merton This Summer M Taylor/C Roe
An ‘Ancient Relic’ and its Future J A Goodman
Some Aspects of the Bulletin’s History D Haunton
Merton Park’s Level Crossing G Wilson
389-393 London Road, Mitcham C Reid

and much more

December 2012 Bulletin 184
Evidence for the Construction and Development of Grove Mill, Mitcham
G Potter
Newton House, Commonside West, Mitcham R A M Scott/D Haunton
Ravensbury Mills in 1910 R Turner
‘One of Merton’s Benefactors’ J A Goodman

and much more

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 much more

June 2011     Bulletin 178
The Morden Tavern: a pub for Heroes    D L Ingram
A Red Herring on the Antiques Roadshow    D Haunton
The East Window of St Lawrence’s Church, Morden  P J Hopkins
Memories of Exciting Times     K Gibbons/D Haunton
and much more

September 2011    Bulletin 179
London’s Rivers and Sewers      R A M Scott
Memories of Exciting Times: part 2    K Gibbons/D Haunton
Manorial Records relating to Medieval Morden   P J Hopkins
Bath Commemorates Merton’s Leading Suffragette   G Wilson
and much more

December 2011    Bulletin 180
Making a Meal of a Really Quite Simple Question (1943)  D Haunton
Transports of Delight       G Wilson
Merton High Street and Nelson’s Merton Place   C Maidment
The Domesday Settlement in Morden    P J Hopkins
Merton and Morden in 1951 – the year of the Festival of Britain D Roe
and much more

March 2010     Bulletin 173
V-1s on Mitcham. Part 1: Memories     D Haunton
Merton’s First Commuters      G Wilson
The Priory Wall       D Luff
and much more

June 2010     Bulletin 174
Littler’s Cottages       J A Goodman
V-1s on Mitcham. Part 2: The Details    D Haunton
and much more

September 2010    Bulletin 175
Lionel Edwin Green       P J Hopkins
Gilbert of Merton       L E Green
1910-2010: A Centenary: from the John Innes Horticultural Institution to the John Innes Centre        J A Goodman
The Merton Abbey Volunteers     J A Goodman
The Raynes Park station arch      G Wilson
One Night in the Blitz: Mitcham 16/17 April 1941   D Haunton
Another Mitcham Doodlebug      M Priestly
and much more

December 2010    Bulletin 176
Amy Shuard – Memories      L Trodd
Merton Park Remembrance Society     D Haunton
Raynes Park (Railway) Skew Arch     L E Green
The Wandle in Literature 7. John Betjeman    J A Goodman
Collective Rights and Enclosures in 13th-century England L B Mir/J C L Rasch
and much more

March 2009     Bulletin 169
A Cricket Souvenir       C Maidment
Jean Reville: Merton’s Racing Motorist – Part 1   D Haunton
The ‘Highgate’ of Merton Priory     C Maidment
The Wandle in Literature 6. John Ruskin    J A Goodman
and much more

June 2009     Bulletin 170
What’s the Connection? (Mitcham photos)    P J Hopkins
Morden Parks Sales Announcement    C Toase, J A Goodman
Jean Reville – Part 2       D Haunton
Wandle Trout Spotted       J A Goodman
The Search for Nelson’s Staircase     R Jewers
and much more

September 2009    Bulletin 171
A Discovery at Godalming (Gertrude Jekyll)    J A Goodman
Monumental Sculpture      L E Green
Jean Reville – Part 3       D Haunton
Morden Women’s Institute – celebrating 90 years   B Oliver
The Wall of Merton Priory      C Maidment
The ‘Grasping’ Merton Priory      P J Hopkins
and much more

December 2009    Bulletin 172
Growtes – the home of a rich man in 1554    D Haunton
The de Chastelains at old Church House    J A Goodman
The (Society’s) Photo Project      D Roe
and much more

March 2008     Bulletin 165
A Mitcham Tragedy       J A Goodman
The First Bombs on Merton  Part 1: The Raiders   D Haunton
The Wandle in Literature 5. Harry Graham    J A Goodman
and much more

June 2008     Bulletin 166
The First Raid on Merton  Part 2 Where the Bombs Fell  D Haunton
Musings on Merton Water-Names     D Haunton
A Tudor ‘Plott’ in Morden      C Maidment
Richard James Wyatt: ‘Accomplished Sculptor …’   J A Goodman
and much more

September 2008    Bulletin 167
The First Raid on Merton  Part 3 On the Ground   D Haunton
The Wimbledon and Sutton Railway     G Wilson
Some Early Prints by Vincent Lines     K Mayer Haunton
and much more

December 2008    Bulletin 168
The First Raid on Merton: Amendments    D Haunton
Vincent Lines: a life in art      D Haunton
Miss C E M (Maud) Gummow MBE     D Roe
Another Air-Raid       L Green
and much more

March 2007     Bulletin 161
Some notes on Spital and the Hoares     R Turner
The Church at Cahagnes, Normany     L Green
The Mizens of Mitcham      R A M Scott
A Georgian Schoolboy in Mitcham     J A Goodman
Trams in Merton – a Centenary     G Wilson

and much more

June 2007     Bulletin 162
The Mystery Buildings [at Merton Abbey]    W J Rudd
Merton, Morden and Mitcham in 1947    D Roe
Landholding in Morden around the year 1200   P J Hopkins
Faramus of Boulogne       L Green
Fifide and Shelwood       L Green

and much more

September 2007    Bulletin 163
Lines Bros’ Wartime Pilotless Aircraft    D Haunton
Merton Abbey Mills: heritage site or commercial tat?  D Luff
Searchlight Cottages       W J Rudd
Probate Inventories for Local Residents    P J Hopkins
Merton Priory and the ‘Curse’: is it about to strike again?  D Luff

and much more

December 2007    Bulletin 164
Goodbye to Lampert’s      J A Goodman
Madder at Mitcham       J A Goodman
St Martin’s Church, Lower Morden     P J Hopkins
Flooding in 1903       C Maidment
What did Tri-Ang do in the War, Mummy?    D Haunton

and much more

March 2006     Bulletin 157
Mitcham and some Recusant Catholic Families   J Pile
200 Years ago – Merton Place after Nelson    J A Goodman
Kate Vaughan – an Ornament to the Musical Stage   J A Goodman
Cricket at Streatham – the early days     J W Brown
From Monty’s Postbag      E N Montague
Wandle in Literature 4. Rudyard Kipling    J A Goodman

and much more

June 2006     Bulletin 158
Sir Frank Brangwyn RA      J A Goodman
Three Kings Pond       R A M Scott
Local Cases at Surrey Assizes … (1603-1625)   P J Hopkins
Morden’s Post Office       W J Rudd
John Donne – of Mitcham      J A Goodman
SS Peter & Paul Catholic church, Mitcham    R A M Scott

and much more

September 2006    Bulletin 159
Surrey Probate Inventories 1558-1603    P J Hopkins
Mitcham station and its rear extension    M Watts
‘Little Hobbs’ [Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs]   J A Goodman

and much more

December 2006    Bulletin 160
Morden’s other post offices      W J Rudd
The Master Mason comes to Merton     L Green
The 1851 Religious Census: Surrey     R Ninnis
Movement of Livestock between Morden and other manors of Westminster Abbey     P J Hopkins

and much more

March 2005 – Bulletin 153
The Smith Tomb, St Mary’s Merton Park – D Muirhead
Return to ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Oct 2004 – T Kelley
The Knights Templar – L Green
Young & Co, Merton Abbey, in 1950s – J Pile
The Archbishopric of York 1139-1154 – L Green
Wandle in Literature: Leigh Hunt – J A Goodman

June 2005 – Bulletin 154
Measure for Measure – L Green
200 Years Ago (Nelson): June-Sept 1805 – J A Goodman
Times Winged Chariot: Evans’ cart – W J Rudd
A Road ‘very farr out of repair’ – J A Goodman
The Lovells of Merton Abbey – J A Goodman

September 2005 – Bulletin 155
Recusancy in Mitcham – J A Goodman & J Pile
Trafalgar 200 – J A Goodman
200 Years Ago (Nelson) Sept-Dec 1805 – J A Goodman
A Note on Nelson’s Gardener – J A Goodman
‘Hatfeild’s Park: the untold story’ – S Harris
Mitcham Cricket: an anthology – J A Goodman

December 2005 – Bulletin 156
Trafalgar 200 in the Borough of Merton – J A Goodman
200 Years Ago and Afterwards – J A Goodman
Our War Memorials – JAG, RAMS & WJR
Newton House, Commonside West – E N Montague
Foundation Date of Mitcham Cricket 1685? – R Packham

March 2004 – Bulletin 149
Wimbledon’s Lord Mayor of London – E Lilley
Charles Greaves of Merton Place & his Family – J Latham
John Mantell Canon of Merton Priory – P J Hopkins
James Lackington – J A Goodman
Wandle in Literature: Davy’s Salmonia – J A Goodman
My Hat! The Medieval Titfer – L E Green
Jim Hadland of Manor Farm, Mitcham – J Goodson

June 2004 – Bulletin 150
The Grove Mill and Crown Mill site, Mitcham – G Potter
Access to the Priory – C Maidment
The site of the First Abbey Mill – English Heritage
Edward II and Isabella – L Green
Mitcham’s Cholera Outbreak in 1866 – E N Montague
Morris & Co Tapestries at Westminster Abbey – R Turner

September 2004 – Bulletin 151
The Admiral’s Sicilian Patch – L Cowell
The First Wandle Valley Festival – W J Rudd
John William Godward (1861-1922) – D Bazley
The Centenary of John Innes (1829-1904) – J A Goodman
Tooting Bec – L Green

December 2004 – Bulletin 152
Photographic Record Project – D Roe
The Oxford Movement in Mitcham – R A M Scott
A War-time Childhood in Raynes Park – I Lawrence
William Nicholson – J A Goodman & R Ninnis
Wandle in Literature: Camden, Drayton, Pope – J A Goodman
A Conundrum from the Past – L Green
Rhodes-Moorhouse and Whalley – J A Goodman
A writing family of Cannon Hill (Edna O’Brien) – J A Goodman

March 2003 – Bulletin 145
‘A Philological Discipline’ – J Pile & E N Montague
Town and City Wards (2) – D Fleming
Henry III and Merton Priory 1216-72 (2) – L E Green
Mitcham Windmill Base and Timbers – R A M Scott
Time Team Comes to Merton – L E Green
A Job to Dye For – W J Rudd

June 2003 – Bulletin 146
Missing Piece of the Puzzle (Abbey Lodge) – P J Hopkins
Samuel John Tracy – J A Goodman
‘This Sickly Gaol’ (Southwark) – J A Goodman
54-56 Church Road, Mitcham Excavations – R A M Scott
Beating the Bounds of Morden 1882 – W J Rudd
Merton Priory: What does it mean? – L E Green
The Evidence of Place-names: Discussion – various

September 2003 – Bulletin 147
G A Storey RA at Morden Hall Academy – J A Goodman
A Treasure Map of Merton Priory? – P J Hopkins
Walter de Merton, ‘The Clerk of Basingstoke’ – R Ninnis
Merton Priory: 13th-Century Church Disputes – L E Green
Robert de Bethune, Bishop of Hereford – L E Green
The Excavation of Bennett’s Mill 2002 – D Luff

December 2003 – Bulletin 148
Morden Hall before Morden Hall! – P J Hopkins
A Personal History of Morden Hall Park – M Healey
The Destruction of a Priory – L E Green
Eagle House, Mitcham – R A M Scott

March 2002 – Bulletin 141
John Arbuthnot of Mitcham – E N Montague
The Mitcham Virgate: comment – E N Montague
In the Midst of Life [Merton Priory 1344-56] – L E Green
The Wandle Navigation – E N Montague
Welch’s Table-Cloth Printing Works – E N Montague
The Catherine Gladstone Home, Morden – J A Goodman

June 2002 – Bulletin 142
J W Bazalgette in Morden – W J Rudd
Sgt P K Walley – J A Goodman
Roger of Salisbury and the Augustinians – L E Green
John Arbuthnot: more facts – J Pile & J A Goodman
The Welch Family – J Welch
The Weller Family of Mitcham – J Herbert
Medieval Field Names in Morden – P J Hopkins

September 2002 – Bulletin 143
Chestnut Cottage, Mitcham – E N Montague
The Birth of a Publication – W J Rudd
The Two Wives of Sir Richard Hotham – P J Hopkins
The Evidence of Place-names (1) – E N Montague
The North Mitcham Mission District – E N Montague

December 2002 – Bulletin 144
The Evidence of Place-names (2) – E N Montague
The Pishiobury Ha-ha – W J Rudd
Town and City Wards (1) – D Fleming
Henry III and Merton Priory 1216-72 (1) – L E Green

March 2001 – Bulletin 137
The Swan Inn – E N Montague
Mitcham in AD 1000 – E N Montague
The Mitcham Home Guard Memorial Plaque – R Turner
Saxon Merton, or ‘Battles Long Ago’ – J Pile
Merton Priory: Some 13th Century Episodes – L E Green
The Artists of Queensland Avenue – J A Goodman

June 2001 – Bulletin 138
Recent Work on the Site of Merton Priory – P J Hopkins
The Industrial School in Mitcham – R A M Scott
Ralph de Cahaigns & the Keynes’ Beneficence – L E Green
John Donne in Mitcham – E N Montague
Abraham Goldsmid of Morden Lodge – J A Goodman
The Statute of Merton – L E Green

September 2001 – Bulletin 139
The Huguenot Heritage in Mitcham – E N Montague
St Olave, Mitcham – R Ninnis
Two Mitcham Mysteries – E N Montague

December 2001 – Bulletin 140
The Pommeroy Beneficence – L E Green
The Mitcham Virgate – J Pile
Rev Henry J Wharton, Vicar of Mitcham – E N Montague
The Story of No.70 Christchurch Road – E N Montague
A View of London Road Morden c.1760 – P J Hopkins

March 2000 – Bulletin 133
Chronology of Merton Priory buildings – L E Green
Thomas Vernon of Mitcham (1781-1846) – E N Montague
George Frederick Hall (1811-93) – R Reid
Mitcham Vicarage – E N Montague

June 2000 – Bulletin 134
Ann Hallam, actress (1696-1740) – R Ninnis
The Athletic Fame of Mitcham – R A M Scott
Seeking Sanctuary at Merton – L E Green
Before the computer sent the bills – R A M Scott
The impact of the Scandinavian raids – E N Montague

September 2000 – Bulletin 135
Athletic Fame of Mitcham: Dorothy Tyler – R Kilsby
Place names as surnames – L E Green
It’s good to talk – L E Green
Saxon Merton – J Pile
The Mauduit lords of Mitcham – P J Hopkins

December 2000 – Bulletin 136
Fifty years of Merton Historical Society – L E Green
The Scandinavian impact on Surrey – E N Montague
The Odways or Otways of Mitcham – E N Montague
Christina Steevens – J A Goodman

March 1999 – Bulletin 129
Adrian IV – L E Green
The Rudd monument in Morden churchyard – W J Rudd
Francis Merritt of Mitcham, victualler – E N Montague
Policing Old Mitcham – B Brown
Flt Lt R S Cumming – R Potter
‘The Kennels’ Lower Morden – P J Hopkins
A Peninsular War veteran – E N Montague

June 1999 – Bulletin 130
Monastic glass of Merton – L E Green
Flitwick Cottage, Morden Common – J Pile
Copyholds on Morden Common – P J Hopkins

September 1999 – Bulletin 131
The man who loved Irises: W R Dykes – J A Goodman
Local Landlubbers – L E Green
Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) – E N Montague
Hamnett Pinhey & Rose Cottage Wimbledon – B S Elliott

December 1999 – Bulletin 132
Morden, Novia Scotia – E N Montague
Taunton Priory, daughter house of Merton – L E Green
Stane Street in Greater London – C E Sole
William De Morgan at Colliers Wood – J A Goodman
Wyevale Garden Centre, Lower Morden – P J Hopkins

March 1998 – Bulletin 125
Admiral Isaac Smith – J A Goodman
The Lawn, 138 Kingston Road Merton – J A Goodman
May Day revels in old Mitcham – E N Montague
George Hait? of Mitcham – J A Goodman
The Locks of Merton: IV – L E Green

June 1998 – Bulletin 126
Looking at Tramlink – D Luff
Calwich Priory, Staffordshire – L E Green
Dunkirk 1940 – R A M Scott
An 1836 murder in Merton – J A Goodman
The archives of St Mary’s Merton – L Cowell

September 1998 – Bulletin 127
A Merton murder story – J Pile
Merton Copper Mills – P McGow
To Runnymede via Merton – L E Green
Richard Simpson, Vicar of Mitcham 1844-6 – E N Montague
‘In Pursuit of Spring’: Edward Thomas – J A Goodman
Some Merton Field Names – J A Goodman
Memories of Wandle Road Morden 1920s – M Vandervlies

December 1998 – Bulletin 128
Richard Simpson, Vicar of Mitcham 1844-46 – R A M Scott
Buildings at risk in Merton – R A M Scott
Abbeys and or Priories – L E Green
Blake’s Folly, Long Thornton, Mitcham – E N Montague

March 1997 – Bulletin 121
The Lock Family at Merton: II – L E Green
The Blacklands – E N Montague

June 1997 – Bulletin 122
John F Renshaw & Co. Ltd of Mitcham – E N Montague
‘A refrain of dear long ago’ – J A Goodman
George Warrington Steevens – J A Goodman

September 1997 – Bulletin 123
Mitcham becomes smaller – E N Montague
The Lock Family of Merton: III – L E Green

December 1997 – Bulletin 124
Trains to Trams – D Luff
Esther Maria Cranmer’s Recipe Book – E N Montague
Joseph Chapman Retter – B Webb
Bunce’s Ditch – E N Montague
Admiral Isaac Smith of Abbey Gatehouse – E N Montague

March 1996 – Bulletin 117
Morden Park House: an inventory of 1867 – J A Goodman
Morris & Co. stained glass in Australia – E N Montague
White Cottage, Morden Road Mitcham – E N Montague

June 1996 – Bulletin 118
Mitcham, South Australia – E N Montague
The Coronation of Queen Eleanor – P J Hopkins
Copper Milling in Mitcham – E N Montague
Merton Hockey Club – R A M Scott

September 1996 – Bulletin 119
A ‘Melancholy Occurrence’ at Morden – W J Rudd
An aspect of New Wimbledon – C E Sole
St Lawrence Church Morden – W J Rudd
The Lock Family at Merton: I – L E Green

December 1996 – Bulletin 120
The Unknown Warrior – R A M Scott
National Railway Museum, New Delhi – P & R Kilsby

March 1995 – Bulletin 113
Coles Shop, Liberty’s – W J Rudd
Our First Local History Workshop – E N Montague
The ‘Hay Furlongs’, Western Road, Mitcham – E N Montague
The Sewer Press!! (Morden extracts from the 16th century Minutes of the Surrey and Kent Sewer Commission) – W J Rudd
A Mitcham Man: Ben Slater – M Ledgerton

June 1995 – Bulletin 114
Stane Street in Historic Surrey – C E Sole

September 1995 – Bulletin 115
The Wandle Industrial Museum – P D Harris
Lord Monson’s Schooldays – E N Montague

December 1995 – Bulletin 116
Local Archaeology: Morden Lodge and Morden Hall – W J Rudd
Oseney Abbey,a Sister House to Merton Priory – R A M Scott