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Phipps Terrace

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A terrace of 28 houses that was south of Palestine Grove and north of the Merton Abbey Iron Works, to the west off of Church Road. The terrace didn’t have its own road.

1921 aerial view looking north

1921 aerial view looking north

Occupants in 1925:

  1. Henry Greening
  2. William Wadmore
  3. Clarence Weston
  4. Frederick Harrington
  5. Frederick Hamilton
  6. William Richard Blake
  7. William Rowland
  8. Alfred Kent
  9. Hugh Thomas Church
  10. Horace Furlonger
  11. William Henry Taylor
  12. Henry James Sedgwick
  13. Alfred Harwood
  14. William John Dewar
  15. Charles Marshall
  16. William Edgington
  17. Frederick Willmott
  18. Sidney Poulton
  19. George Catlin
  20. Henry Sharp
  21. Frederick Eaton
  22. William Faulkner
  23. Albert Ernest Hockley
  24. James Varnham
  25. Mrs Sparkes
  26. Thomas Brown
  27. Frederick Edwards
  28. Henry Poulton

World War 1 Connections

From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:

W ROWLAND of 7 Phipps Terrace, Church Road, aged 31 Years 11 Months, Carpenter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 9 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

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

Fountain Place

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Terrace of houses at the Western Road end of what is now all called Portland Place. The terrace was on the west or right hand side as seen from Western Road, opposite Bond Road. Demolished as part of a slum clearance scheme, announced in 1962.

clip from 1962 photo of shop at 1 Fountain Place on Merton Memories, copyright London Borough of Merton

1952 OS map

Occupants from Street Directories

1915
From Western Road

1, Mrs Olive BISHOP, shopkeeper

… here is Lavender Cottages

1925
From Western Road to Portland Road

West side

1, Mrs F.J. RICHARDSON, general stores
2, Moses WILKES
3, Mrs SMITH
4, Frederick BENNETT
5, Henry BRAZIER
6, James CHAPMAN
7, Nelson SMITH
8, Mrs TOWERS
9, William PARROTT
10, Thomas CHAPMAN
11, Leonard POWELL
12, Frederick ROBINSON
13, William GARDNER
14, Albert CHAPMAN
15, Thomas Edward GRAHAM
16, Thomas CHAPMAN
17, Henry CRISP
18, George HALFORD
19, Richard JENKINS
20, Mrs BIGNELL

From the Mitcham Urban District Council minutes,
Volume 3, page 120, Finance and General Purposes Committee meeting of 11th September, 1917, Mr Rabbetts reported contraventions under the Shop Act of Mrs F. Richardson of 1, Fountain Place, for serving a customer sundry items at 6.40pm on Wednesday, August 15th.

The 1911 Shops Act dictated the half-day closing of Wednesdays, in order to give staff time off.

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