Terrace of houses at end of Nursery Road. Demolished as part of a slum clearance scheme, that was announced in 1962. The actual date of demolition is not known. As is pointed out in a comment below, there are still entries in the 1965 electoral register for Prussia Place.
In 1925 the occupants were:
- Mrs Devoy
- Ernest Arthur Finch
- Arthur Rands
- Arthur Skillings
- Herbert C. Mackey
- Percy Green
- George Boyce
- Horace Deane
- Henry Rayner
- James Matthews
- Arthur Sheppard
- Mrs Palmer
- Mrs Whitbread
- William Wade
In the Nursery Cottages:
- Albert French
- Mrs Davidson
On the west side of the road was Porto Motor Co. (motor engineers)
Stories
Morning Chronicle – Tuesday 15 February 1820
Freeholds, Mitcham, Surrey, with Votes for the County.
– By Mr. BURRELL, at Garraway’s, on Tuesday, 23d instant, at twelve, in twelve Lots.A valuable freehold estate, called Prussia-Place, situate at the back of the School of Industry, at Lower Mitcham; comprising a row of 12 neat substantial brick houses, containing four rooms each, with gardens in the front and back, now in the several occupations of Messrs. Franklin, Kitchen, Buckle, Hayward, Croucher, Foster, Savage, Dalton, Hughes, Willett, Mitcheson, and Hodges, at rents amounting to £120 per annum.
– May be viewed ten days preceding the sale, when particulars may be had at the Buck’s Head, Mitcham; the King’s Head and White Hart Inns, Lower Mitcham; at Garraway’s; and of Mr. Burrell, Throgmorton-street.
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Residents still in Prussia Place 1965.
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