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228 London Road

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Premises that were on the London Road to the south of number 226, as shown in this 1952 OS map:

1952 OS map reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland. Reuse CC-BY.

The premises are just out of view in this 1950s photo on Merton Memories/

clip from Merton Memories photo from c.1953

Businesses that occupied this address included:

T. Wall & Sons Ltd., ice cream vendors, was here before WW2, and was listed in the 1930 commercial directory. A viewer of my video channel tells me that he passed his driving test in 1963 and sold Walls ice cream from a Ford Anglia van, which was left land drive, and “Fun to Drive at Just 19 Years old !”

The 1951 telephone directory listed the company’s divisional sales office in Croydon, but didn’t mention this depot.

A car hire firm was here from 1965, as described in these Merton Council minutes.

From the minutes of the London Borough of Merton
Volume 2
1965 to 1966
Education Committee
4th October 1965

(14) 228 London Road, Mitcham

The Chief Education Officer reported that the chairman of the Sub-Committee had authorised the opening of negotiations for the letting of No. 228 London Road, Mitcham, a booking office in conjunction with a car hire business. This property adjoins the old London Road, Mitcham, School building, and is at present occupied by the Mitcham Youth Club and the Youth Employment office, and the adjoining yard is let to a timber merchant.

Kandy Kars was the car hire firm in the 1970s and 80s.

Kandy Kars building edited

1976 ad

1976 ad

5th June 1983 receipt for Kandy Kars

Minutes of meetings held by the London Borough of Merton are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.

Wilson Memorial Homes

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Lancashire Evening Post – Friday 05 September 1930

CUMBERLAND MAN’S GIFT TO BRAMPTON.

Canon Sutton, of Bridekirk, chairman of the Cumberland County Council, performed the opening ceremony at Brampton, near Carlisle, yesterday, of a colony of 24 cottages for the aged poor, the gift of Mr. Isaac Henry Wilson, a native of Milton, Brampton, now Mitcham, Surrey. At Milton six homes are being built, six at Lanercost and six at Walton. The cottages will be rent and rate free to the occupants, who will be aged folk.

Fifty years ago Mr. Wilson left his native soil and made fortune in building houses on the Surrey side of London and yesterday he was present at the ceremony to explain that his desire was to do something for his native soil, to lessen the burden of the aged who had borne the heat and burden of the day, and to render the eventide of their life much happier. The houses were not for the young, but for, say, spinster sisters and old couples who had had hard time in life and found their latter days irksome.

Mr. Hugh Jackson, an alderman of the County Council, said that Mr. Wilson had already given 56 cottage homes at Mitcham for aged and deserving people. Less than two years ago built there and equipped and endowed hospital at cost of £60,000, and had since given further £25,000 for extensions. Over 60 applications had already been received for the Brampton houses.

Mr. Wilson presented Canon Sutton with a golden key with which to open the homes. Complimentary speeches wore made Mr. C. H. and Lady Cecilia Roberts, Mr. Leif Jones, M.P., Mr. J. J. Adams, Workington, and Mrs. Lucy Thompson, and among those present were the Mayor and Mayoress of Workington, Mr. R. H. Hodgson, and Sir James Watt.

The next day, the alderman died.

Lancashire Evening Post – Saturday 06 September 1930

ALDERMAN’S SEIZURE.
DEATH AT BRAMPTON OF WELL-KNOWN CUMBERLAND MAN.

The death took place this morning of Mr. Hugh Jackson, an alderman the Cumberland County Council, living at Brampton. On Thursday Mr. Jackson presided the opening of the cottage homes at Brampton, the gift of Mr. Isaac H. Wilson, of Mitcham. Yesterday he, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. John Smith, went for a drive in Mr. Wilson’s car to Scotland. returning tea at Brampton.

After tea Mr. Jackson and Mr. Wilson, who have been friends since boyhood, went for walk, and on the way Alderman Jackson had a seizure. He was taken Brampton Hospital, and despite medical advice from Carlisle and Brampton he died this morning. He was chairman of Cumberland Education Committee, and an active man in the county.

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