Category Archives: Roads

Bath Road

Road between Phipps Bridge Road and Belgrave Road. No longer exists.

1910 OS Map

1910 OS Map

1871 census includes Bath Road

From the 1936 Health Report

HOUSING ACT. 1936.
The owner of 43 houses in Bath Road took advantage of Sec. 51, Housing Act, 1936, and submitted a schedule of works of improvement which was accepted by the local authority. The work is still in hand, but certificates have already been granted for 12 houses.

Source: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham, Wellcome Trust (PDF), page 44

News Stories

Occupants in 1905

No. or name Terrace Resident
1 James KNIGHT
2 Edward BROOKER
3 James MUNT
7 Joseph MUNT
8 Martha JESSUP
9 Robert HORNIGOLD
12 George CAIN
13 Ann INGHAM
15 Henry SEARLE
17 Solomon KING
18 Charles CAIN
19 Thomas STEVENS
20 Thomas CAIN
21 Joseph HORNIGOLD
23 Elijah GARROD
25 Frederick OSBORNE
26 William WILKS
28 Edmund ILES
31 Elizabeth CARTER
33 James POWELL
34 James Thomas BERRYMAN
36 Charles James WATSON
38 Robert FOWLES
39 Robert WHITING
40 Richard JOHNSON
41 Thomas TEGG
42 Henry WATSON
43 Charles SAVAGE
44 Edwin SMITH
45 John CLARKE
48 Alfred SEARLE
50 Dennis SEARLE
52 Edward BUNCE
54 Richard WALLACE
56 Alfred HARTSHORN
Bath Tavern Benjamin GREEN

See also 1933 Bath Road.

World War 1 Connections
Private George Henry Adaway

Private Alfred Joseph Flint

Private Leonard Victor Harding

From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:

A V ADAWAY of 5 Bath Road, aged 23 Years, Butter Merchant. Conscripted on 9 May 1916 to the Middlesex Regiment (6th Batn).

A J ADDAWAY of 24 Bath Rd, aged 28 Years 7 Months, Labourer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

G A BEACH of 1 Bath Road Mitcham, aged 18 Years 7 Months, Carman. Joined on 28 April 1917 to the Royal Field Artillery.

T CAIN of 30 Bath Road, aged 23 Years, Labourer. Conscripted on 11 December 1915 to the 3rd Reserve Cavalry.

N COOPER of 31 Bath Road, aged 34 Years 3 Months, Labourer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 6 June 1916 to the Middlesex Regiment (25th Batn).

A E FARRIER of 8 Bath Road, aged 27 Years 6 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 19 May 1915 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment.

J FLINT of 34 Bath Road, aged 19 Years, Labourer. Joined on 21 May 1915 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment.

J FLINT of 34 Bath Road, aged 18 Years 3 Months, Enameller. Conscripted on 23 March 1917 to the 25th Training Reserve Batn.

W A FORSTER of 32 Bath Road, aged 19 Years 11 Months, Packer. Volunteered on 22 November 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (11th Batn).

E FOWLER of 13 Bath Road, aged 19 Years 2 Months, Builder. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 20 November 1916 to the East Surrey Regiment (10th Batn).

J A FOWLES of 13 Bath Road, aged 19 Years, Wheeler. Joined on 1 February 1915 to the Border Regiment.

A HARTSHORN of 56 Bath Road, aged 25 Years 7 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 8 April 1915 to the Middlesex Regiment.

E J HOOKINS of 6 Bath Road, aged 29 Years, Packer. Conscripted on 4 January 1917 to the Army Service Corps (k Coy).

Robert JARDINE of 7 Bath Road Mitcham, aged 29 Years 3 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 13 April 1915 to the Middlesex Regiment (18th Batn). (First name kindly provided by his granddaughter via Facebook.)

W J NEWBURY of 40 Bath Rd, aged 19 Years 2 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 6 July 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment.

A E NORRIS of 22 Bath Road Mitcham, aged 28 Years 9 Months, Pig Breeder. Conscripted on 1 January 1917 to the Middlesex Regiment (29th Batn Lab Co).

J NORRIS of 44 Bath Road, aged 24 Years 6 Months, Pig Breeder. Conscripted on 16 January 1917 to the Royal Horse & Field Artillery.

H F OSBORNE of 33 Bath Road Mitcham, aged 18 Years, Ink Grinder. Joined on 28 April 1917 to the Royal Field Artillery.

B PEARCE of 54 Bath Road, aged 18 Years 3 Months, Carman. Conscripted on 19 February 1917 to the 26th Training Reserve Batn.

D SEARLE of 48 Bath Road, aged 18 Years 2 Months, Mixer. Conscripted on 11 April 1916 to the Norfolk Regiment (2/6th Batn).

P SIMMONDS of 50 Bath Rd, aged 25 Years 7 Months, Gravel Digger. Volunteered on 20 September 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

A SMITH of 2 Bath Road, aged 37 Years, Gravel Digger. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 7 June 1916 to the Army Veterinary Corps.

W THEOBALD of 7 Bath Road S W, aged 30 Years, Labourer. Volunteered on 4 July 1915 to the Middlesex Regiment.

Wm WHITING of 41 Bath Road, aged 37 Years 8 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 29 December 1914 to the Royal Field Artillery.

Bank Avenue

Road off south side of Lewis Road, at junction with Oakwood Avenue, which connects to Fox’s Path at its southern end. The houses are numbered from the Lewis Road end, odd from 1 to 53 on the east side, all with the postcode CR4 3DW and even from 2 to 56 on the west side, all with the postcode CR4 3DU.

1952 OS map

1952 OS map

Newspaper Clippings
Norwood News – Friday 13 November 1936

Matches Wanted.

Merton Well first team would like an away game on November 21. Write to C. Weston, 16, Bank-avenue, Mitcham.

Norwood News – Friday 15 April 1932

ALARMING EXPERIENCE

A boy of five, Leslie Caster, of Collingwood-rd., Mitcham, had an alarming experience on Wednesday evening — one he is not likely to forget. He was walking along Fox’s-footpath, Bank-avenue, when he chanced to pick up a disused petrol drum. The drum suddenly exploded, and the boy received the full shock in his face. He was taken to Mr. I. Martin’s, chemist, and first aid rendered until the arrival of the Mitcham ambulance. The boy reached Wilson Cottage Hospital, where he was found to he suffering from shock and burns on the face and head. He was detained in the children’s ward. A workman told the police that the drum had been emptied and evidently thrown away as useless.

Norwood News – Friday 25 July 1930

PRICE £675 freehold. – Mitcham; 12 mins, tube; 2 reception, 3 bedrooms, scullery, bathroom; road charges paid. — 48, Bank-avenue. Mitcham.

Norwood News – Saturday 05 March 1927

COMFORTABLE Bedroom; quiet house; low rent. – 10, Bank-avenue, Lewis-road, Mitcham.

World War 1 Connections
Private 2nd Class A E Swait


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