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Wandle Industrial Museum Order Form Wandle Industrial Museum Order Form Ref Publication/Product Price No Ref Publication/Product Price No Code Required Code Required A1 An Hour Passed: Merton Abbey £1.00 C1 Postcards Small £0.30 * A2 An Hour Passed: Mitcham Grove £1.00 each A3 An Hour Passed: Morden Hall Park £1.00 C2 Young’s Brewery Postcards £0.30 * A4 An Hour Passed: Ravensbury Mill £1.00 each A5 Set of four ‘An Hour Passed’ £2.50 C3 Pastime Postcards £0.50 * B1 C4 Wandle Postcards £0.30 * B2 William and Evelyn De Morgan £5.00 each B3 River Wandle Wildlife Guide £2.00 C5 Set of seven ‘Wandle’ postcards £1.50 B4 Historic River Wandle 1 £1.25 C6 Morris Collection Photo Cards £0.20 * B5 each B6 Historic River Wandle 3 £1.25 C7 Wandle Tapestry Postcard £0.30 B7 Ravensbury Mill £0.75 D1 Lavender Bags £0.50 B8 Merton Abbey Mills £2.00 D2 B9 River Wandle Companion £15.00 D3 Pens £1.00 B10 Mills of the River Wandle £3.00 D4 Pencils £0.15 B11 Trouble at Mill £3.00 D5 Bookmarks £0.55 * B12 Wimbledon Historical Glimpse £3.00 D6 Notebook (in Morris Gold Lily Leaf) A4 £2.00 B13 D7 Notebook (in Morris Gold Lily Leaf) £1.50 B14 William Morris (Pitkin) £5.00 219x178mm B15 William Morris at Merton £3.00 D8 B16 Merton Priory £4.50 D9 B17 Town Trails £4.50 D10 B18 D11 Stone Age Bread Recipe £0.20 B21 The Influence of Merton Priory £5.00 D12 Key Rings £0.75 * B22 Surrey Iron Railway Leaflet £0.50 D13 B23 Framed Morris Hand Block Prints £3.50 D14 Fridge Magnets £1.50/£ * B24 Mitcham Fair £3.00 2.00 B26 The ‘Amery Mills’ of Merton Priory £0.75 D15 B27 The Patent Steam Washing Factory £0.75 D16 B28 Copper Milling on the Wandle £0.75 D17 B29 William Morris and London: a personal view £1.25 D18 Lavender Recipes £0.30 B30 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and The £6.00 D19 Wandle Mills D20 Lavender Cards (Set of Two) £3.00 B31 Fulling Mills of Surrey £3.99 E1 A Guide to the Wandle Trail £1.50 B32 ‘On The Wandle’ Dewey-Bates £1.50 E2 Merton Place Timeline £0.20 B33 Ghost Carp 1 £5.00 E3 Textile Pursuit Game (A4) £0.20 B34 Ghost Carp 2 £5.00 E4 Stained Glass Templates £1.00 Page 1 Wandle Industrial Museum Order Form Ref Publication/Product Price No We will aim to send your order within 14 days. Should any item be Code Required unavailable we will contact you. E5 E6 E7 If you have any queries about your order then please contact us on E8 020 8648 0127 or via e-mail to [email protected]. E9 Cricket Green Leaflet £0.30 To enable us to complete your order please give us your name and E10 E11 address. E12 Liberty Works Leaflet £1.00 Name: E13 Address: E14 Set of Four Notelets £1.00 E15 Mill Pictures £0.20 * each Post Code: For items marked with a * please also complete page 2 and 3 of this Contact No: order form. D5 Bookmarks No Required 01 Water Pump - Carshalton Please add the following postage charges to your order: 02 Waterwheel – Morden Hall Park For UK orders totalling less than £2 add £1.75 03 Mill Wheel Run - Watermeads For UK orders between £2 and £5 add £2.50 04 The River at Weir Road For UK orders between £5 and £7 add £3.25 05 Mill Machinery – Grove Park For UK orders between £7 and £12 add £4.50 For UK orders over £12 please add £6.50 D12 Key Rings and D14 Fridge Magnets Keyring Large Small 001 Young’s Beam Engine Your completed form should be sent to the address below along with 002 Merton Priory Model a cheque for payment made payable to ‘Wandle Industrial Museum’. 003 SIR The Wandle Industrial Museum 004 Young’s Show Team Vestry Hall Annex 005 Grove Park Waterwheel London Road 006 Morden Hall Park Waterwheel 007 Snuff Bottle Mitcham Surrey Note: key rings are only one size. CR4 3UD Page 2 Wandle Industrial Museum Order Form Please put the total number of each of these items on to the main Mill Pictures (Images not available) No Required order form. Lambert’s Snuff Mill Garrett Copper Mill Postcards Small No Required Liberty Print Works - Waterwheel Waddon Ponds 1978 Ansell’s Snuff Mill Young’s Brewery Mitcham Calico Print Works Hops being added to Young’s Brewery coppers Eagle Leather Works Wandle Buster Ravensbury Mill – South Wheel Harness Room Glover’s Snuff Mill and the Watermeads Pastime Postcards Ravensbury Mill Mitcham (set of four) Connolly’s Leather Works Morden (set of four) Waddon Mills Wimbledon (set of four) Everett’s Place Wandle Postcards Morris Works – Dye and Stained Glass Croydon Church from the Bleaching Grounds Littler’s Mill Croydon Old Palace Culvers Mill, Carshalton Liberty Site – Wheel House Deed’s Mill, Mitcham The Calver’s Mansion The Wandle at Wandsworth and the Surrey Iron Railway Dye House Works, Wandsworth The Watermeads, Mitcham Paper Mill Cut, The Watermeads, Mitcham Wandsworth Brazil Mill Morden Hall Morris Collection Photo Cards Upper Mill, Wandsworth African Marigold Cray The Grotto, Carshalton Park Kennet Snuff Mill, Morden Hall Park – Waterwheels Lodden Amery Mill Rose and Lily Glover’s Snuff Mill Strawberry Thief Shepley Mill The Forest Wandle Merton Abbey Print Works Snuff Mill, Morden Hall Park St Mary The Virgin, Beddington Merton Parish Church Page 3 .
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