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St. Georges Road

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Road that runs south easterly from Cedars Avenue to Tamworth Park. Houses are numbered even from 2 to 68 on the south western side, and odd from 1 to 73 on its north eastern side. Even numbers have the postcode CR4 1EB and odd have CR4 1ED,

Contents
Occupants in street directories
Electoral Registers
Photos
News articles

According to Eric Montague on page 95 of his book
Mitcham Histories: 3 Pollards Hill, Commonside East and Lonesome, the houses, with their distinctive Courtrai du Nord interlocking tiles, were built by the Tamworth Park Construction Co., whose managing director, Joseph Owen, lived at the house called Pentlands at the eastern end of St Georges Road.

Pentlands is shown in this map of 1910, and is named in earlier street directories. It was used by the Surrey County Council from 1937 to 1983 as a remand home, and, after it closed, the building was demolished, and houses were built on the site. Planning application MER175/84 was approved 19th April 1984 for the construction of 14 two storey, 3 bedroom houses with car parking.

1910 OS map

This OS map from 1953 also shows the Surrey County Council Pentlands Remand Home.

1953 OS map

>Occupants from Street Directories

Not mentioned in the 1891 directory, but is in the 1896. All entries are listed in the direction from Cedars Avenue to Tamworth Park.

1896 and 1898

WEST SIDE

Northolme, George Rupert UPTON
St. George’s, William WALFORD

1904

WEST SIDE

Northolme, George Rupert UPTON
Glenard, Thomas H. STOUT
Pentlands, James ANNAN

1912

WEST SIDE

Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON
Pentlands, James ANNAN

1915

WEST SIDE

Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON
Pentlands, James ANNAN

1925

SOUTH-WEST SIDE

Northolme, George R. UPTON
Wynberg , Captain Louis Alfred BROOKE-SMITH, R.D., R.N.R. (retired)
Pentlands, Mrs. ANNAN

Electoral Registers

1920

Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON and Margaret Harriett UPTON, and Alan Cuthbert Waylen UPTON
Pentlands, James Ernest ANNAN and Jane Grieg ANNAN

1921 and 1922

Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON and Margaret Harriett UPTON, and Alan Cuthbert Waylen UPTON
Pentlands, James Ernest ANNAN and Jane Grieg ANNAN
Wynberg, Louis Alfred Brooke SMITH and Margaret Frances SMITH

1927

Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON and Margaret Harriett UPTON
Pentlands, Joseph OWEN and Susannah OWEN

Photos

This postcard of 1908 is addressed to a Miss Wheatley of Glenard, the second house from the Cedars Avenue end as shown on the 1910 OS map.

1908 postcard, from the Facebook Mitcham History group

1927 photo on Merton Memories.

World War 1 Connection

2nd Lieutenant Ralph Hamon Weeley UPTON

Newspaper articles

From the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury, 11th May, 1917, page 4:

MITCHAM OFFICER KILLED

Lieut. R. Upton

We regret to learn, just before going to press, that Lieut. R. Upton, younger son of Mr and Mrs Rupert Upton, of “Northolme,” has been killed in action in France. General sympathy will be expressed with Mr Upton, who is Inspector of the Mitcham Special Constabulary, and Mrs Upton in their great loss.

His name is on the west side of the Mitcham War Memorial as UPTON. R.H.W.

Earlist newspaper article found is from the Morning Post – Monday 7th January 1895:

UPTON. — On the 4th inst., at Northolme, Commonside, Mitcham, the wife of G.R.T. Upton, barrister-at-law, of a son.

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

Carshalton Road

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Road that is the start of the A237 and runs south from the junction with Commonside West, Cedars Avenue and Croydon Road, heading towards Carshalton.

On the west side there is a junction with Cranmer Road and Willow Lane, and on the right just after this is the entrance road to Mitcham Junction railway station and the Mitcham Golf Club. The road goes over the railway and tram lines on a bridge that was rebuilt and widened in the mid 1950s. On the west side of the road and part of the southern slope of the bridge is an access road leading to Aspen Gardens. Further south from here, and set back from the western side of the road is a line of houses that were originally called Rumbold Villas and Tramway Terrace. They are separated by two roads Drake Road and Arney’s Lane. At Beddington Corner is the Goat pub on the corner with Goat Road.

After Beddington Corner, the road is now called London Road and the A237 continues to the A23 at Coulsdon.

Carshalton Road at junction with Croydon Road. The house was one of the Blue Houses. From a Percy Mayhew postcard, from Merton Memories, photo reference Mit_19_1-19

The guide post (marked G.P.) that is on the south side of the tram line in this 1910 OS map is the one seen in the photo.

1910 OS map

The junction with Croydon Road was changed to a roundabout in 1955.

From the Mitcham News & Mercury, 24th February 1955

ROUNDABOUT

Work is to start soon on making a traffic roundabout at the busy junction of Croydon Road with Carshalton Road, on Mitcham Common.

The Transport Minister has approved a grant of up to £4,427 towards the cost of the roundabout. Coun. D.J. Hempstead, Highways Committee chairman, said last week that it was hoped that work would be speedily undertaken.

The bridge over the railway line was widened at the same time, the work having been started in 1939 but was interrupted by the war.

On the east side of Carshalton Road, south of the railway station, was a WW2 anti-aircraft gun site. It was cleared in the early 1960s.

1955 OS map showing the Gun Site.

From the Mitcham News & Mercury, 13th July 1962:

At last – Gunsite is to go

One of Mitcham’s biggest eyesores, the Gun Site, Carshalton Road, Mitcham Common, is at last to be cleared at a cost of about £13,000.

Work on clearing the site is expected to start in about two months time.

The Ministry have approved a tender of £10,800 submitted to them from the Conservators and have further agreed to bear the cost of replacing trees on the site.

WELCOMED

A further cost of £2,000 fees will be included in the work.

This news is welcomed not only by the Conservators but by Mitcham Council and the public.

The Gun Site is one of the few remaining war relics in Mitcham and local people have been pressing for years to clear it.

The conservators hope to replace it with a grass landscape with trees.

WW2 Civilian Casualties

20th October 1940

16 Carshalton Road
Winifred Mabel LARBY, aged 35

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