He became a Councillor in 1922, Chairman of the Urban District Council in 1931, and Alderman of the Borough of Mitcham in 1938.
He was a lover of flowers and trees and was a Conservator of Mitcham Common.
He was chairman and secretary of the North Mitcham Plotowners.
He died in the spring of 1940.
Source: ‘The Sentinel’ magazine, September 1949.
Road off west side of Streatham Road, which runs south from Ashbourne Road and bends westward to Edenvale Road.
The road was started early 1920s. The 1921 electoral register shows two houses, named Elm View and Shalimar.
Elm View, Charles and Catherine WILSON; Cordelia REES
Shalimar, Lionel Thomas PAY
The 1925 street directory describes the road from 123 Ashbourne Road:
West Side
21 Mrs C.E. REES
23 Captain Ivor THOMAS
The 1927 electoral shows
21, Catherine WILSON; Cordelia and Malan REES
23, Tuda Iver Griffith THOMAS
The 1935 electoral register lists odd numbers 1 to 53, and even numbers 2 to 60.
This 1949 OS map shows the road, including the North Mitcham Improvement Association Hall.
1949 OS map
News Articles
1923 burglary of Miss Cordelia Rhys (presumably the same Cordelia Rees in the electoral registers)
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Mitcham History Notes 