Mitcham
This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedSurrey Iron Railway RouteTramline follows it to Mitcham Station. It then forks north from the tramline on the other side of London Road to...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedAcacia Road Had been a bridle path from Lower Green to Common Field and was called Fire Works Lane, went to the Pain factory Pain's Firework...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedCommonside West: Park Place. Plain late Georgian. Four-window front with doorway with engaged Ionic columns, facing away from the road. Later...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedSurrey Iron Railway RouteTramline follows it to Mitcham Junction. (not sure what next!)Going North from London Road, follow Tramway Path. To...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedAlmond Way Beech Grove Cedars AvenueArea around it ploughed up in the Second World War.Chestnut Grove DahliaGardensElmGardensFern Avenue...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBeddington LaneFamlon Place cooling towers, first farm outside London Pylons, always 4.00 and late November; Beddington Sewage works– set up...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedPollard's HillPollards Hill is an area of high ground to the south of Streatham, situated to the west of the London Road on the outskirts of the...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedAtalanta Close Birdhurst Canterbury Road47 Mitre pub50 Duke of York pub132 George Croydon Cemetery, three legged plan, 1876, ext.1955...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBensham Lane Old route. Preserves the name of the old manor of ‘Bencheshom’ 12th century, ‘Bennechisham’ 1372, ‘Bensom’ 1721, that is...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedSurrey Iron Railway RouteOff factory road turn into left Martin Crescent. Take the footpath at the end.CroydonThe ancient market town of Croydon...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedGrange RoadThe first edition of the 6" Ordnance Survey Map gives the layout of the private estate. The Mansion, stood in the middle of the estate...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBedford ParkSome 19th housesLuna House 1967, entrance motifs identical yet larger, of four wings in the four main directions. By Denis Crump...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBelgrave Road: Stanley works. 1867 The door lintel says ‘contractor to H.M. Government, Council of India, Admiralty, Science & Art Department,...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedAcademy Gardens AddiscombeEdescamp 1229, Adescompe 1279, Addescompe 1416, Addescombe 1456, that is 'enclosed land of a man called Eddi, from Old...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedAnnandale Road Anselm Close Crossbrook StreetBaring Road Roman Urn inn Carlyle Road Cheyne Walk Coombe Road St. Margaret’s School, Coombe House,...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedThames TributaryThe Chaffinch flows north east towards the Pool and the Ravensbourne. It join the Beck/Pool coming from the west,Balmoral...
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This post has not been finished, it is not edited or checkedThames TributaryThe Chaffinch flows north east towards the Pool and the Ravensbourne. It join the Beck/Pool coming from the west,Balmoral...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedCheston AvenueLarge 1930s development of modern brick semis and the odd decorative sun ray. Ornamental entrance lodge to the Monks Orchard...
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This post is not finished, it has not been edited or checkedShirley Heath woods Springpark woods Shrublands EstateSugar Corps. Prefabs. 1,000 obelisk Upper Shirley Road 107 Surprise Inn152 Sandrock Hotel
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This post is not finished, it has not been edited or checkedBromley RoadShortlands Housewas partly on the Cator Estate and partly on the Gwydir Estate; George Grote was born there in 1794, and he...
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