This photo is looking west, from the Church Road end, at numbers 10 on the left, 8, 6 and 4 on the right. As the new Phipps Bridge development of flats can be seen in the background, this photo is assumed to be after 1965. Note the four chimney pots for each house.

World War 1 Connections
Private Leonard Ralph Bradshaw

Private Frederick Albert Simmonds

Absentee from Military Service, as reported in the Police Gazette – Tuesday 26 September 1916

W.PAYNE, 19 Chapel Road. Age and trade not given. Deserted 7th August 1916 from Wimbledon.

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News Articles

Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter – Saturday 17 April 1886

Alleged Theft from a Child.—Yesterday (Friday), before Mr. T. R. Edridge, chairman the Croydon County Bench, a girl named Emily Varnum (14), Chapel-road, Mitcham, described as a nurse, was charged with stealing 5d., from small child, whose name did not transpire.

— Mr. Edridge, without formally going into the case, asked the prisoner what she did with the money.

— She said she only had fourpence, with which she bought cakes and sweets, and gave the other twopence away.

— Mr. Edridge, in discharging the prisoner, warned her to be very careful of her future conduct, and ordered her mother to pay Mrs. Mellor, the other child’s grandmother, the money which had been lost.

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Gloucester Citizen – Thursday 13 September 1928

GASWORKER GASSED.

Alfred H. Stokes, 29, of Chapel-road, Mitcham, was excavating in High-street, Tooting, on Wednesday, for the Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company, when an escape of gas rendered him unconscious. He was taken to St. James’s Hospital, where oxygen was administered, and after a time he recovered, and was later allowed to go home.

Surrey Mirror – Friday 24 April 1931

While repairing the pavement in Chapel-road, Mitcham, on Saturday three Mitcham Council workmen felt the ground give under their feet. They were just in time to leap to safety as the surface fell into well 8ft deep, containing 2ft. of water. The well is bricked one side and heavily the other, and appears to connect with an underground watercourse extending about 30ft. under the pavement.

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Gloucester Citizen – Friday 11 November 1932

SCRAP OF PAPER CLUE
“TELEPHONE COIN-BOX KING” ALLEGATION

A piece paper dropped by a prisoner was mentioned at Croydon when Percy Wallis (41), of Chapel-road, Mitcham, was charged on remand with conspiring with Thomas Robins, Constantine Ferrari, and others to steal money from telephone coin boxes.

Wallis was described at the last hearing as the “telephone coin box king,” and the master mind behind numerous telephone box raids, but he denied it.

Mr. Gordon Fraser, for the Post Office, said that the losses from telephone coin-boxes were very large indeed. In April two men were convicted at the Old Bailey. While one was on remand he dropped a paper, picked it up quickly, and tried to destroy it. That paper gave Wallis’s telephone number and address. After that observation was kept almost continuously on him.

Wallis was remanded and bail refused.

Source the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required).

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1973 : Life is hell for the forgotten residents

Road stopping up order in the London Gazette Publication date:12 May 1988 Issue:51331 Page:5634

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Occupants in the 1911 street directory

27,Mrs Bartripp shopkeeper

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1915 Electoral Register
Odd numbers, south side

Skinner, William				5
Ward, Thomas Edward				7
Simmons, Frederick Albert				9
West, George				11
Pinegar, Robert				13
Clark, Thomas				17
Lambert, Charles				19
Homewood, William				21
Elliott, George Henry				23
Franklin, William				25
Howe, John				27
Pearce, Arthur				29
Ferrier, Thomas Arthur				33
Stagg, William				35
Salter, Henry				37

Even numbers, north side

Whale, Charles Frederick				4
Forgham, James				6
Hawkins, Thomas				8
Skilling, John				10
Arnold, Thomas John				12
Jardine, Thomas				14
Winter, James				16
Marshall, Robert				18
Thompson, Thomas				22
Thurtle, Arthur				24
Halestrap, Henry William				26
Davis, John				28
Bradshaw, Henry				30
Stock, John William				32

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1933 Electoral Register
Odd numbers, south side

Priscilla		SKINNER	5
Alfred		MAY	5
Christion		MAY	5
Mary		WARD	7
Thomas	Edward	WARD	7
John	Henry	WARD	7
Alice	Maud	WHITE	9
Moses	Frank	WHITE	9
Alice	Maude	NYE	9
Emily	May	SIMMONDS	9
Alice		WEST	11
George		WEST	11
Marjorie	Alice	WEST	11
Annie		PENEGAR	13
George	Robert	PENEGAR	13
William	Robert	PENEGAR	13
Emily		FROST	15
William	Jeremiah Thomas	FROST	15
Douglas		CLEMENTS	15
Amy	Isobel	CLEMENTS	15
Eliza		CLARK	17
Edmund		HOMEWOOD	17
Violet		HOMEWOOD	17
William		WARREN	19
Florence		WARREN	19
William		MORLEY	21
Mabel		MORLEY	21
George		ELLIOTT	23
Rose	Mary	ELLIOTT	23
Joseph	Richard	ELLIOTT	23
Job		COLLISON	25
Mary	Ann	COLLISON	25
Annie		HOWE	27
John		HOWE	27
William		HOWE	27
Florence		HOWE	27
Minnie		PEARCE	29
Alfred	Hanson	REEVES	31
Robert	Thomas	ALEXANDER	31
Grace	Winifred	ALEXANDER	31
Alfred		WHEATCROFT	33
Emily		WHEATCROFT	33
Arthur	Edward	CHAPMAN	35
Lucy	Alexandra	CHAPMAN	35
Henry		SALTER	37
Maud	Louisa	SALTER	37
Albert	William	SALTER	37

Even numbers, north side

Leonard		SIMS	2
Charles	Frederick	WHALE	4
Minnie		WHALE	4
Edna		WHALE	4
James		FORGHAM	6
Sarah		FORGHAM	6
Ethel	Evelyn	FORGHAM	6
James	Harold	FORGHAM	6
Albert	James	LIDDLE	8
Nellie		LIDDLE	8
Elsie		WALLIS	10
Reginald		PUTTEE	10
Maud		PUTTEE	10
Amelia	Maria	ARNOLD	12
Thomas	John	ARNOLD	12
William	James	NORMAN	12
Mary		JARDINE	14
Thomas		JARDINE	14
Rhoda		JARDINE	14
Cecil	Frank	CRITTENDEN	16
Edith	Maud	CRITTENDEN	16
Charles		BLACKBURN	16
Annie		BLACKBURN	16
Margaret		MARSHALL	18
Robert		MARSHALL	18
Edward		SMITH	18
Doris	May	SMITH	18
Frank		WALLACE	20
Gertrude		WALLACE	20
Harry		TANNER	20
Rebecca		TANNER	20
Lizzie	Bullock	THOMPSON	22
William		THOMPSON	22
Olive	Eunice	THOMPSON	22
Arthur		THURTLE	24
Grace	Lilian	THURTLE	24
Henry	William	HALESTRAP	26
Cissie		PRIOR	26
Alice	Elizabeth	DAVIS	28
John		DAVIS	28
John	James	DAVIS	28
Eliza		BRADSHAW	30
Henry		BRADSHAW	30
Harry		BRADSHAW	30
Amy		BRADSHAW	30
Emily	Jane	JOHNSON	32
William	Henry	JOHNSON	32
Amy	Emily	JOHNSON	32

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Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.