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Eddown & Co.

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Was at 190 London Road, Mitcham CR4 3LD, on the west side and north of junction with Bond Road. Motor parts, engineers tools and accessories shop.

Listed in the 1954 phone book:

1954 phone book entry

Sold in possibly 2013/4, with the owners moving to the south coast.

This Google StreetView is from 2008.

2008 Google Street View

For Sale sign on this Street View from 2012:-

 

2012 Google Street View

A local motor dealer commented on the Mitcham History group on Facebook:

always a great service and nothing was ever too much trouble. Now have to use another car parts company and fifty per cent of the time the parts are wrong

Receipts

Receipt dated 20th April 1976

Receipt from March 1981

Planning application 17/P3987 registered in November 2017 for

demolition of existing part one and part two storey building and development of two detached blocks comprising 9 residential units and 1 commercial unit

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

Russell Road

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Road off west side of Glebe Path, connecting to Love Lane.

Houses are numbered, from west to east, from 1 to 38. They all have the postcode CR4 3AP. Number 1 is divided into 3 flats. There are four terraces of houses. From Love Lane on the north side, houses are numbered odd 1 to 21, and on the south side even 2 to 24. At the Glebe Path end, the terrace on the north side is numbered odd 23 to 31 and on the south side 26 to 38. Source: Royal Mail postcode finder.

It is believed that the road is named after Athel Russell Harwood, as is the nearby Harwood Avenue.

1953 OS map

The Glebe Path end of this road was originally called Bounty Place, presumably a reference to Queen Anne’s Bounty. It was renamed to be an extension of Russell Road, and hence renumbered, by Mitcham Urban District Council in 1930. Source: Mitcham UDC minutes, 24th June, 1930, page 171.

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