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Heritage Walks – Lower Mitcham Gelder; erected 1908/9 on part of the old Elmwood estate at Liberty/Windsor Ave to riverside walkway) has been used for educational purposes ever since; alongside Figges Marsh; culverted in early 20thC and Road until at least the mid 1930’s. Upper Green; destroyed during an air raid in 1940 and never currently Islamic centre. only evidence of it now is the occasional manhole on the Fair Green (cont) 33 MERTON ABBEY MILLS – remains of textiles 24 ST MARKS CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY rebuilt; Langdale Parade of shops built in 1950’s now on pavement. industry on River Wandle for many centuries; William Morris 3 BOND PRIMARY SCHOOL – Bond Road alley – Acacia Road – formerly Eastfields Boys School opened the gate with a horse’s skull fixed to it, advertising a horse site; a brick wall surrounding the site before the shops were produced fabrics here in late 19thC; refurbished 1990 and – named after John Bond who lived at Eagle House; 15 Site of BIGGINS FARM & GORRINGE PARK in 1962; the Academy opened 2006; it is independently slaughterhouse. erected, bore the date of 1664. 9 Site of GUTTERIDGES – Montrose Gardens/Upper now a craft/farmers market with shops and restaurants. extensive grounds allow pupils to practice gardening in the ESTATE – Gorringe Park Avenue – site of Biggin Farm in governed but state funded and free for students; managed 22 Site of THE FIRS, ELMWOOD HOUSE – Langdale school allotment – a link to the past use of the site. by an Academy Trust rather than the local authority. Green East – corn and seed merchants shop built early 34 WHEELHOUSE [GII listed] – now a pottery, with 15thC with land extending over what is now Streatham Parade/London Road – built around 1788; occupied 18thC on site of 13thC buildings; occupied by Gutteridge working watermill powering the potters wheel. 4 Site of HOLBORN UNION INDUSTRIAL Road and east towards the current railway line; Biggin Grove 25 THE GABLES – Tamworth Lane – first shown on OS by various well-to-do families until the extension of the family from 1919; sold in 1969 to Barclays Bank who house occupied by various owners during 16th/17thC maps 1895; succession of uses – home for elderly people, tramways to Mitcham opened up the area to development 35 SCHOOL & WORKHOUSE – London Road/Bond demolished site in 1970 and built the current bank. COLOUR HOUSE [GII listed] – 17thC building, including Sir Nicholas Carew, John Manship and Lord hostel for young homeless people, currently houses people potential; house demolished 1903 and Elmwood estate of Road – extensive site purchased in 1870 by the Holborn thought to be built using stone from the Priory Chapel Redesdale (Lord Chancellor of Ireland); renamed Tamworth with disabilities. 10 JOHN CHART’S SHOP [GII listed] – 55 Upper Green Edwardian shops and houses were erected nearby demolished in the dissolution; used by Arthur Liberty Poor Law Union; already the site of Mitcham Industrial House in 1815; put on market several times without success East – dating from early 1800, one of the few part weather to dye silk fabrics in 19th/early 20thC hence the name; now School run by the Guardians of the Poor Law Union of 26 Site of BRENLEY HOUSE – Cedars Ave – home of 23 GLEBE COURT – London Road – built on the site of so in 1821 Tamworth House was demolished and the land boarded buildings left; corn and seed shop kept by John a theatre. St George the Martyr Southwark since 1856; most of the Farewell-Jones family for 40 years; sold to Surrey County Glebe Villas on Wickford Lane (now London Road) on part was put on market again as farm and occupied by tenants R Chart; 1932 acquired by Alfred Crisp & Son as boot and land formerly part of Sir Walter Raleigh’s estate including until late 1860’s; by then the farmhouse had gone and Council in 1950; used as children’s home; passed to LBM of the parish glebeland; the villas were largely destroyed by 36 MERTON PRIORY, remains of CHAPTER HOUSE shoe repairs until 1990; converted to private home in 1991. Eagle House; large complex of impressive buildings; Gorringe Park House had been erected in popular Italianate in 1965; demolished in 1973; remaining land used as a flying bomb in 1944; post-war the Glebe Court housing [Scheduled Ancient Monument] – built 12thC and was most Mitcham Workhouse built 1885; during WW1 the style; by 1898 the house was owned by the Wilson family playing fields by Eastfields Boys School; by early 21stC had 11 CLARENDON HOUSE – 5 Commonside East – early estate was erected by Mitcham Council. influential monastery in Britain; demolished in the dissolution workhouse was used as a military hospital and then used who were responsible for donating some of their land to been sold for development of the Brenley Fields housing 19thC weather boarded house; associated with the Chart 24 to house refugees from the Russian revolution; at the end family including John Chart – builder of Mitcham Parish Site of LONDON HOUSE, WICKFORD LANE – erect St Barnabas Church; when Wilsons left, house used constructed in 2011. now London Road – village emporium founded in 1830 and of the war was mothballed pending a decision on its fate; as Barbican Mission for Jews and the Naomi Home for Church, and Edwin his son – an architect, also his grandson 27 MITCHAM EASTFIELDS RAIL STATION – run by the Francis family from 1869; selling everything from in 1920’s used for industrial purposes including Mitcham Children; after WW1 in 1920’s the estate was sold off and John R Chart who kept the corn and seed shop nearby Eastfields Road – level crossing on road since 1868 when tools and hardware to clothing and footwear; home of Tom Lavender furniture cream; by the 1980’s all the buildings house building in the area was completed. (#10) the railways were constructed; line was electrified in 1929; Francis Jnr – local historian and amateur photographer who had been demolished to make way for modern industrial by the 1930’s with the increase in housing in the area, 12 PROSPECT HOUSE [GII listed] – 9 Commonside bequeathed his notes and slides to Mitcham Library when units; the frontages onto London Road were demolished residents started lobbying for a station to serve the area but East (adjoining no 11 also listed) – built late 18thC; home of he died in 1953; London House was demolished in 1960’s in the 1930’s to make way for Monarch Parade shops and they were unsuccessful until the early 21stC when Network Thomas Pratt where dissenting Protestants met to pray until to make way for Deseret House (supermarket) flats. Rail finally agreed to install a station, the first new one to be Pratt built the Zion Chapel on Upper Green West; renovated 5 25 Site of DURHAM HOUSE – Upper Green West Site of THE SWAN PH – London Road – erected built in the country since WW2; it opened in 2007 and has in 1977; note the original Georgian fanlight above flush c1808 for travellers from London going south, especially panelled door; until recently used as private school. – built in 1722 as three storey house; from 1890 until it been very well used, giving residents a much needed link to was demolished in 1971, was the headquarters of the on Derby Day; extended in the 1890’s; demolished early central London. 13 ROSE COTTAGE – 13 Commonside East (entrance local Conservative Association; site redeveloped to house 21stC and is now flats and a medical centre. 28 EASTFIELDS ALLOTMENTS – Eastfields Road – Esher Mews) – substantially rebuilt in 1977 and now virtually supermarket; also still houses Conservative Association; 6 Site of POTTER & MOORE DISTILLERY last remnant of the East Fields growing fields of Mitcham – identical to its original Georgian form. constructed in Brutalism style popular in 1970’s. – Eveline Road – by 1802 over 500 acres of land in now public allotments administered by LBM. 14 THE THREE KINGS former PH – Commonside 26 Site of ZION CHAPEL, BRITISH DAY SCHOOL North Mitcham had been given over to the cultivation of 29 RENSHAWS CORNER [1 & 5 GII listed] – London East – original 18thC building replaced in 1928 in popular – Raleigh Gardens/Western Road – built in 1818 to house Lavender, Peppermint and many other herbs which were Road/Locks Lane – built 1750 by Oxtoby a local builder; mock-Tudor style; the pub closed in 2007 and reopened dissenting Protestants meeting at Commonside East house in demand across the country; Potter & Moore built their two residences known as The Chestnuts and a dower as restaurant; it’s not clear which three kings it takes its led by Thomas Pratt; Zion Chapel with small burial ground; distillery overlooking Figges Marsh on what is now Eveline house; partly used as boarding school for young ladies name from. the Sunday School was erected next to the Chapel in 1819 Road; the distillery was fed by one of the districts first in 1850’s; part used as offices for Pains Firework factory; and further extended in 1857 to provide accommodation artesian wells. 15 ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY RC PRIMARY surrounding land bought by Renshaw & Co Ltd in 1920 for British Day School founded by the Non-Conformists; the 7 Site of THE POPLARS & BORDERGATE housing confectionary factory which closed in 1980’s; SCHOOL – Commonside East – originally housed Mitcham school was closed at end of 19thC; Chapel closed in 1932 “HOMES FOR HEROES” – London Road/Lavender factory site developed as housing; still known as Renshaws Boys County Secondary School, opened by Surrey County when a new Congregational Church was built on current site 33 Merton Abbey Mills Council in 1922 on the site of former Upper Mitcham Boys Ave – land overlooking Figges Marsh owned by Peter Corner. of Temple Gate Mews; the remains in the burial ground were Waldo; The Poplars was Mitcham’s first workhouse Council School. 30 removed to the new cemetery in London Road opposite – the remains of the Chapter House were excavated in the from 1737 to 1782; 1825 Boarding Academy for young 109/111 LONDON ROAD [GII listed] – pair of 16 Site of BEEHIVE PH – Commonside East – in use Figges Marsh; buildings used as offices and warehouses 20thC and are housed under Merantum Way. (back to gentlemen; closed down after an outbreak of scarlet weather boarded cottages c early to mid-19thC; double as a pub until early 21stC; in very small bar that appeared until demolished in late 1980’s for current building, now used Western Road) fever; demolished 1880’s; now part of Bordergate estate pitched machine tiled roof to eaves; square headed to be converted front room; in WW2 pigeons were trained by Lidl supermarket. erected after WW1 as municipal ‘Homes for Heroes’; the doorways with moulded architraves; decorative timber 37 [local listed] – by Sgt Davidson for search and rescue operations by RAF; 27 LIBERTY PRIMARY SCHOOL Urban District Council of Mitcham was at the forefront of aprons below windows; central stack. Site of GAS WORKS, ROMAN WELL – Western Western Road – formerly Western County Secondary; lofts of the Beehive pub were used for one of their fleets; providing homes after the war; the estate was designed on 13 31 GARDENERS ARMS PH [local listed] – London Road – Mitcham Gas Light & Coke Co was established in opened 1928; school has extensive grounds, which includes Figges Marsh Sgt Davidson was father of the current vet on Mitcham the garden village principle and roads were given names Road – known as the Jolly Gardeners Beer Shop in mid 1849 and started clearing the site to develop the gas works; playgrounds, a field, an all–weather ball court, a beach and Fair Green; pub closed 2005 and converted to flats whilst recalling the plants grown in nearby physic gardens. 19thC; opposite was Manor Farm, home of James Moore during excavations in 1882 a Roman Well was discovered outdoor classrooms for Early Years Foundation Stage. retaining the original façade. 16 ST BARNABAS CHURCH & CHURCH HALL from c1807 until 1851, and base for extensive cultivation of along with other artefacts, evidence of a thriving community 8 TAMWORTH RECREATION GROUND & on the site in the early Roman period; gas power was 38 SADLER CLOSE – on site of Gladstone & Fountain [GII listed] – Thirsk Road – by the early 20thC housing herbs and medicinal plants. – London Road – land part of the needed to serve the growing development of the Holborn Roads – Most of Mitcham’s slums had been demolished ALLOTMENTS was spreading out from the railway station at Tooting and
Industrial Schools and Workhouse being built on the other before clearance was stopped in 1939 because of war; farming estate of the Manor of Ravensbury; 1923 land there was concern that new residents needed a local 32 Site of POUND FARM, ELM NURSERY & substandard housing in Sibthorp, Fountain and Gladstone side of Western Road in the late 19thC; smells from the purchased by Thomas Mason and donated to Mitcham church to encourage them in God-fearing ways; building ALFRED MIZEN MARKET GARDENS – London Road Roads was cleared in the 1970’s to make way for the gas production were quite overpowering; site continued to Urban Council as a gift to the community to provide a of St Barnabas Church started in 1906; the hall next door – the Mizens first set up business in 1868 in Grove Road Quadrant housing scheme, now named Sadler Close; this operate until 1965 when gas production ceased due to use pleasure ground and allotments; first recreation ground in was started in 1908 and completed in 1909 and used for (East Fields); took over Pound Farm site in 1893 calling it scheme received an award. of North Sea Gas, and site became a service centre; closed Mitcham to provide netball court; original chalet replaced services until 1914 when the church was consecrated; Elm Nursery after Elm House; large pond Armfield Crescent in the mid 1970’s for redevelopments; most of the site by Childrens Centre in 2003; has been several changes the war intervened and the church was never completely 39 Site of OLD NAGS HEAD PH – Upper Green area filled in with spoil for Northern Line excavations and has been cleared but the locally listed gas holder remains, over the years but still has most of the same facilities as finished (the North Aisle was never built) West – now Holborn Way road; thought to be on the site of greenhouses erected; trade in aromatic herbs declining, awaiting demolition. (left at Mount Rd, cross Church Rd to the original complex and is well used and enjoyed by the mid-18thC inn; demolished and rebuilt in 1903; further along 17 so they concentrated on salad vegetables; shop set up Haslemere Ave) community. VICTORIAN/EDWARDIAN SHOP FRONTAGES in the parade of shops, in the 1870’s, one of the shops later – Streatham Road – known as the Grand Parade, and in 1930 (Dreams); business declined in 1950’s and land 28 REMAINS OF PRIORY WALL – Phipps Bridge to become Hutton’s Fish Shop displayed a sign – “Nothing 9 LONDON ROAD CEMETERY & CHAPEL [local typical of the terraces of shops with flats above built to serve urgently needed for housing; Elm Nursery housing estate Road – built of flint with random ashlar stone from ruins of Over 6d” (Mitcham’s first Pound Shop); Old Nags Head listed] – land acquired after WW1 when burial grounds the new housing estates in North Mitcham – the Ballard erected and by 1962 Eastfields Boys School had been built Merton Priory c17thC; in poor condition. demolished in 1991 as part of pedestrianisation of Fair were becoming scarce; chapel built by Robert Masters Estate of Caithness, Park and Melrose, and further on the on the remaining growing fields; last member of the Mizen family, Freda, died in 1980; the Mizens were pillars of local 29 Green. Chart. grid-patterned roads of the Links Estate (formerly Tooting END OF TERRACE FOLLY [local listed] – Everetts Junction Golf Course); most of the frontages remain little government and society, remembered at St Marks Church, 40 THE KINGS ARMS PH [local listed] – London Road 10 Place, Phipps Bridge Road – cottages erected 1824, FIGGES MARSH MILESTONE [GII listed] – changed. Long Bolstead Rec and Alfred Mizen School. probably for workers at nearby textile mills; gothic tower – rebuilt in 1900 in popular mock-Tudor style; replaced London Road/Victoria Road – it is rumoured that this was erected c1875 allegedly to prevent fifth cottage collapsing; mid-18thC weather boarded inn which was owned in 1790 removed during WW2 in case German planes landed 18 Site of PASCALL’S SWEET FACTORY – 33 MITCHAM LIBRARY [local listed] – London Road now owned by National Trust. by Thomas Bowyer, father of one of Mitcham’s best-known on Figges Marsh and realized how close they were to Streatham Road – following a fire at their Blackfriars works, – built in 1933 on land donated by Joseph Owen, a local builder, who also helped with costs of building work. 30 cricketers; next door in what is now the pub garden, was a London. Pascalls erected factory in Streatham Road in 1905; factory 18 Three Kings Pond DEEN CITY FARM – Morden Hall Park – relocated slaughterhouse and butcher. dominated North Mitcham with many local people working 11 34 Site of ELM HOUSE, DOWNE ROAD – substantial from Church Road during re-modelling of Phipps Bridge Site of FIGGES MARSH TOLLGATE – junction there and the smell of sweets covering the surrounding area; 41 FAIR GREEN CAFÉ – Fair Green – built in the 16thC house with parts reputed to date from reign of estate in early 1990’s; on National Trust land. London Road/Swains Lane – the turnpike gate at Figges 1959 Pascalls joined the Beecham group who in 1964 sold inter-war years in mock-Tudor style; originally Public Edward II; home of Waldo family in 18thC; early 19thC 17 THREE KINGS PIECE – Commonside West – part 31 Marsh was erected to avoid loss of revenue if the Merton their confectionary interest to Cadbury-Fry; rationalisation BUNCES MEADOW – Morden Hall Park – along with Conveniences, but refurbished during the pedestrianisation private school; 1850 acquired by Guardians of the Poor; of Mitcham Common until railway line divided it off in mid- gates were bypassed by those seeking to avoid payment followed and within 7 years production had ceased and the Linton’s Rushy Meadow were part of farm added to Admiral of the Fair Green in 1993; it took some time for some demolished in 1894 after a fire; houses in Downe Road built 19thC, remained grazing ground until 1923; from 1923 was of tolls; during race weeks the crush of impatient travellers works were awaiting demolition; Mitcham Industrial Estate Lord Nelson’s estate in 1802; one-time water meadows and Mitcham people to use a café that had formerly been a toilet. in 1920’s along with the shopping parade in London Road, the site of annual Mitcham Status Fair which had grown caused many a scene; attempts to circumvent the gate bleaching grounds; Bunce was farmer and stock dealer who now occupies the site. which still retains Art Deco frontages. too large for the Fair Green; also site of various community frequently resulted in vehicles overturning or becoming leased land by Rucker’s Cut – later used for prize fights and 19 events including annual Mitcham Carnival; a fruit hedge was stranded in the nearby pond – 19thC road-rage. GORRINGE PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL – Sandy 35 Site of MITCHAM BATHS HALL – London Road/ related activities; also used as allotments with garden flowers Upper Mitcham Lane – built in 1913 and known as Sandy Lane School. planted on the eastern edge by local school children and gone wild; now owned by National Trust. 12 Site of TOOTING OLD HALL – Woodley Close St Marks Road – built in 1933 in Art Deco style; public Scouts in 2011. 20 baths, washing facilities and swimming pool; in winter pool 32 & Growing Fields off London Road – land owned by Humphrey Waldo- Site of TOOTING & MITCHAM FC – Sandy Lane Site of HARLAND’S JAPAN & VARNISH was boarded over for use as public hall; pool closed 1974; 18 – Commonside East – pond Sibthorp; built mid 18thC on site of 17thC house said – originally on land belonging to Gorringe Park estate in THREE KINGS POND FACTORY – Brangwyn Crescent – just one of the many Start Eagle House demolished 1986 to make way for road to multi-storey car has existed for 350 years or more and referred to in early to be occupied by author Daniel Defoe in 1688; Tooting late 19thC; used from 1932 until 1990’s and now moved varnish works prolific in the area by the end of the 19thC; 1 EAGLE HOUSE [Grade 1 listed incl gates, railings] Workhouse was nearby; land originally in Tooting parish to The Hub at Bishopsford Road; site now housing estate park. documents as “Heathernderry Pond” or “The Great Pond”; raw materials were volatile so there were often instances of – London Road – Queen Anne style, built in 1705 on land – transferred to Mitcham in early 20thC; surrounding with roads named after former players – Hasty, Slade and 36 it is the oldest of the several ponds on Mitcham Common fires and explosions right into the 1970’s; site sold to GLC ST MARKS PRIMARY SCHOOL [local listed] – and fed by a stream running alongside Commonside belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh’s estate; occupied by land developed as housing in 1920’s and roads named Stepney; Lavender forms part of the club badge. originally the Mitcham School Board Elementary School built as part of the original Phipps Bridge housing estate. (over Fernando Mendez who was physician to Charles II’s wife Robinson, Pitcairn, Island, Friday and Crusoe to show the East which has recently been reinstated; the approach to 21 – Sandy Lane – in 1884 and one of the first school buildings to be erected in Queen Catherine; at this time Mitcham was attracting the Defoe connection. Site of MITCHAM STADIUM allow carthorses to drink can still be seen; the pond and 23 Glebe Court originally planned as a greyhound stadium; Alfred Mizen Mitcham. wealthy and nobility from London because of reputation surrounding area was completely refurbished in 2006 by 13 – named after William Figge used his influence to refuse permission for this; used for for fine air; 1711 leased to James Doliffe founder director FIGGES MARSH 37 LAMMAS AVE – end of St Marks Road – once LBM in partnership with Groundwork Merton; the pond who held nearby Pound Farm in sergeantry to the king Irish football, rugby, exhibitions and displays; demolished in of South Sea Co; 1766 John Bond a city banker; 1825 part of the growing fields; derives name from the ancient attracts huge flocks of Canada geese, and heavy traffic on in mid-14thC; boundary with medieval Biggins Farm 1950’s and developed as Ormerod Gardens housing estate. boarding school for young gentlemen run by James practice followed by commoners ‘turning out’ their livestock the adjacent road often has to stop to allow geese with their estate on current Carlingford Gardens/Manship Road; (at end of Sandy Lane cross railway bridge to Grove Road) Dempster; 1850’s became part of the Holborn Union to forage on the open fields at Lammas time, once the young families to cross the road. rumoured that plaque victims buried here in 17thC but complex and sold in 1870 to Guardians of Holborn Union as 22 crops had been harvested. no records to substantiate this; as part of Mitcham ACACIA INTERGENERATIONAL CENTRE – 19 THE LAWN [local listed]– 4 Commonside West – part of workhouse complex; early 20thC was convalescence Common land was used for grazing until 1923 when the Grove Road – erected in 2010 on land formerly Eastfields 38 [local listed] – designed by 18thC Georgian house with weather boarded extension home; 1924 girls hostel; used for various educational ST MARKS CHURCH Urban District Council assumed control of Figges Marsh Youth Centre; first purpose-built intergenerational centre in Robert Masters Chart and built on land donated by Edward to rear; Robert M Chart’s home for 30 years; substantially purposes and ownership passed to LBM in 1965; building along with other greens in Mitcham; mostly meadow until the country. Mizen in 1897; consecrated in 1901; Mizen family were renovated in 2010 after fire ravaged original building. restored in 1976 for use as adult education centre; sold in mechanical mowing became possible in 1930/40’s; used 23 committed church people and were actively involved in the 1987 and converted to offices; currently in use for private Site of JAMES PAIN & CO FIREWORKS 20 NEWTON HOUSE [GII listed] – 1 Commonside West as allotments in both World Wars; outdoor gym and table community; church badly damaged by mine/bomb in 1940; SEN education. FACTORY – Acacia Road/Clay Ave – Pains came to – mid-18thC; weather boarded barn at rear; believed to have tennis tables installed in 2009 by LBM with help from local Mitcham in 1870’s; sited on part of the East Fields and repaired and reopened 1946; upgraded in 1980’s; new 2 been built for Edward Foster, a mill-wright; renovated 1983; 226 LONDON ROAD [local listed] – the only survivor Friends group. Stainbank Fields – well away from any houses because of church hall built nearby in early 21stC. (back down Majestic currently offices. of the Holborn Union complex; erected in 1892 with boys Way to Fair Green) 14 – Carlingford the danger of explosions; major suppliers of employment classrooms on ground floor and girls on the first floor; LITTLE GRAVENEY STREAM 21 Site of FAIR GREEN METHODIST CHURCH Gardens – the brook at Figges Marsh flowed from Pollards during the ‘slump’ in 1920/30’s along with the Mizens; transferred to Surrey County Council in 1922 when it was – Upper Green East/Langdale Parade – designed by Sir Hill to join the Graveney River near Tooting Junction closed in 1966/7 and moved factory to Salisbury; site now known as London Road Boys School, and to LBM in 1965; Station; it was originally visible as an open stream, running Eastfields Housing estate; Acacia Road was called Firework