Category Archives: Commerce

Eddown & Co.

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Was at 190 London Road, Mitcham CR4 3LD, on the west side and north of junction with Bond Road. Motor parts, engineers tools and accessories shop.

Listed in the 1954 phone book:

1954 phone book entry

Sold in possibly 2013/4, with the owners moving to the south coast.

This Google StreetView is from 2008.

2008 Google Street View

For Sale sign on this Street View from 2012:-

 

2012 Google Street View

A local motor dealer commented on the Mitcham History group on Facebook:

always a great service and nothing was ever too much trouble. Now have to use another car parts company and fifty per cent of the time the parts are wrong

Receipts

Receipt dated 20th April 1976

Receipt from March 1981

Planning application 17/P3987 registered in November 2017 for

demolition of existing part one and part two storey building and development of two detached blocks comprising 9 residential units and 1 commercial unit

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

Connect House

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Office building, 21 Willow Lane, Mitcham, CR4 4FL.

Bought on 29th January 2015 for £3,100,000 by CONNECT HOUSE LTD (Co. Regn. No. 9296558) of Unit 9, Ravensdale Industrial Estate, Timberwharf Road, London N16 6DB. Source: Land Registry, title number TGL100496, obtained November 2017.

The land was used to grow watercress by Gaston DUTRIEZ, who bought the property from William Francis Joseph SIMPSON in 1922. Source: Land Registry title and 1930 Commercial directory.

In 2012, Google Street View shows the building as Connect House Serviced Offices, by a company called Frendcastle. On 8th November 2017, BBC London reported that the building was being used by four local councils as temporary housing, with rooms costing between £30 and £40 per night. A Royal Mail postcode search for the address shows 84 flats.

2016 Street View

2012 Street View

1938 OS map

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