Category Archives: Cricket Green Conservation Area

Causeway

Original name of road now called Cricket Green, with even numbers, along south-west side of the green. Prior to that it was called Lower Green East until 1944.


From the minutes of the
Croydon Rural District Council
Roads and Buildings Committee
Volume VIII 1902 – 1903
15th May 1902
page 111

2. Deposited Plans. – The Buildings Sub-Committee reported that they had carefully examined all the plans of new streets and buildings deposited since the last meeting, and on their recommendation, it was Resolved:-
(a) That the undermentioned be approved:

No. 2123, Pitt, G., 3 cottages, Causeway, Mitcham


1891 Street Directory
Page 102

Causeway (Lower Mitcham)
from Mitcham Common to the Broadway.

WEST SIDE

Hughes Mrs. dairy
Revill Rev. Thos. [Catholic]
Catholic Church St. Peter & St. Paul
Dempsey Mrs. (Causeway ho.)
Harwood Miss, shopkeeper
Wilson Miss (Garrawarra)
Queen Victoria P.H. Wm. Webb
Kelton Mrs
……… here is Back la ………
Thompson Ebenezer, cowkpr
Burgess T. upholsterer
Ingham John, smith
Gibbs C. baker
Kirby William, smith
Greenaway John, timber dlr &c.
Police Station
____ George Clay, sergeant
Langridge George, carrier
Brittania P.H. Bird & Garside
Catholic Day Schools
Almshouses
Brookes Miss School house
Sears Miss School house

World War 1 Connections
Private Ernest William Anslow


Minutes of meetings held by the Croydon Rural District Council are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.

Caxton Cottages

Lower Green West. Not listed.

Photo taken May 2016

Photo taken May 2016

Occupants
From the minutes of the Mitcham Parish council
Volume 12 April 1914 to March 1915
Public Health and Burials
Page 155

Grave purchased by Emily Dolan of 2, Caxton Cottages, Lower Green.


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