Mitcham Garage – Horsley Brothers

The Mitcham Garage was between the cricket pavilion and the Kings Head (later the Burn Bullock) pub, on Lower Green East (later called Cricket Green).

In Mitcham Urban District Council minutes of 11th September 1917, the address was given as King’s Head Yard, Lower Mitcham. In the 1915 street directory, which listed entries towards the corner with London Road, the garage is after the cricket club pavilion:

Lower Green East

Stephen Chart (Greenview)
Mitcham Cricket Club
Horsley Brothers, garage & motor works

Street Directory Entries
1925 : 2 Lower Green East : Horsley Brothers, cars for hire
1930 : 2 Lower grn. east. : Horsley Bros, motor engnrs. T N 0844

1915 ad

1915 ad

1950s

1950s

1936 ad

1936 ad

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