From the minutes of the
Housing Committee
2nd February 1956

The Town Clerk reported that the ceremony to commemorate the completion of the Council’s 2,500th post-war dwelling would take place at Glebe Square on Saturday, 18th February, 1956, at 3 p.m., and that the Chairman had arranged for the Rt. Hon. Hilary Adair Marquand, P.C., M.P., to perform the ceremony.

Source: Proceedings of the Council and committees, Mitcham Borough Council, Volume 22 1955 to 1956, page 635

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