Category Archives: Places

Trotts Yard

Adjoining no. 10 Fountain Road, as referred to in these council minutes

From the minutes of the
Housing Committee
7th January 1969

1915. FOUNTAIN ROAD AND WESTERN ROAD, MITCHAM

– Acquisition of houses and land

— The Town Clerk submitted the District Valuer’s report on the terms negotiated for the acquisition of the following houses and land included in the Borough of Mitcham (Fountain Road Area Clearance Areas Nos. 1-9) Compulsory Purchase Order, 1963:

No. 12, Fountain Road;
Nos. 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40, Western Road:
Trotts Yard adjoining No. 10, Fountain Road.

Recommended — That, subject to the Finance Committee making the necessary financial provision, the terms provisionally agreed by the District Valuer be approved and that the houses and land in question be acquired in accordance therewith.

Source: Minutes of Proceedings of the Council and committees, London Borough of Merton, Volume 5 1968-69, page 1199


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.

James Estate

Industrial estate on site of former Holborn Union Workhouse, corner of Bond and Western Road.

Occupants in 1963

Company Business Block
Alltransport (Service) Ltd. Packing cases B
Huntley and Sparks Ltd Light engineering wire work E
T.S. Jackson & Sons/td>

Paint and varnish C & S
Mitcham Foundry and Engineering Castings and engineering
Technical & Scientific Packers Ltd Packers B
Transcription Manufacturing & Recording Co. Ltd. Gramophone records
Wallpaper Consolidated Ltd Wallpaper re-reeling C

Source: Borough of Mitcham List of Factories, July 1963 – L2 (670) MIT


Planning Applications

149/65 Block “O” : Extension of factory for use in connection with record music testing and dinking.
150/65 Block “P” : Erection of heater house and extension to loading bay.