Road built off east side of Streatham Road.
1911 OS map
Planning application reported in council minutes in December 1906:
4187 A.C. Ballard – 114 houses in Melrose Road
undated postcard of Melrose Avenue
World War 1 Connections
Warrant Telegraphist Frederick John Lovett
S.L. Gaston, U.D.C. chairman and Mitcham Borough Mayor in 1938, lived at number 61.
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Mr. Otterway was a chemistry teacher at the Western Road School, in the 1930s.
Arthur, pupil in the school from 1933 to 1936, said:
Mr Otterway taught chemistry, and to punish unruly boys in his class, he would hit them around the face and neck with some rubber tubing from a bunsen burner.
One day he hit my cousin George, who had a carbuncle on his neck which burst as a result. Mr Otterway stopped using that form of punishment after that.
Mitcham History Notes 