Category Archives: Roads

F. Joyce & Co., sheet metal workers

Listed in the 1930 commercial directory as at 261 Church Road, Mitcham, telephone no. 1562.

A fire at the factory reported in the Norwood News – Friday 04 April 1930, which referred to it as a tin factory:

TIN FACTORY FIRE.

Mitcham Fire Brigade were called on Saturday noon to an outbreak at Messrs. Joyce and Co.’s tin factory, Church-road, and found that a shed at the side of the premises had caught fire. They quickly extinguished the flames, and confined the damage to a quantity of wood.

Anti-tank blocks near Willow Lane bridge

According to the Defence of Britain Archive, these blocks by the side of the tram tracks were revealed when undergrowth was cleared in 2000, presumably part of the tramlink construction. There are seven blocks, or cubes, on the south side of the track, on the eastern side of the Willow Lane bridge, i.e. the hump back road bridge nearest to the industrial estate.

photo taken 29th August 2018

Video on how to find these blocks, and view them from the bridge over the line.