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Westfield Road

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Westfield Road is off the west side of Love Lane, near to its Western Road end. It runs from Love Lane in a line parallel to Western Road. At the end of the road is a footpath that connects to the Field Gate Lane footpath, which runs along the side of the Gas Works site.

The road has a total of 24 houses, which were built in three separate periods.

As seen from Love Lane, there eleven houses on the right, which are from around 1890. A block of six houses on the left, were built in 1934 when Pear Tree Close was built. In around 1986/7, the road was extended to the right at its western end to run parallel with Field Gate Lane, and a block of seven 2-bed, 3-storey, town houses, with integral garages, were built. They are numbered 40 to 46 sequentially and have the postcode CR4 3AL, whereas the earlier houses numbered from 1 to 17 all have the postcode CR4 3AT.

This 1910 OS map shows a terrace of 11 houses, on the north side of the road.

1910 OS map

Occupants in the 1904 street directory
From Love Lane, these houses are on the right hand side:

1,Thomas REMINGTON
2,Edward John BAKER
3,Albert SIVIOUR
4,William Edmund CLAYTON
5,Joseph WHITE
6,John Henry BRAVERY
7,Edwin W HARRIS
8,John JEEVES
9,Edward GREEN
10,William George FULLER
11,John BROWN (hay dealer)

Occupants in the 1896 street directory

1,Mrs REMINGTON
2,Alfred LEONARD
3,Albert SIVIOUR
4,William Edmund CLAYTON
5,Mrs UPSON
6,John Henry BRAVERY
7,William Joseph BAMFORD
8,William Hy NIGHTINGALE
9,Edward GREEN
10,William Henry RHODES
11,William SUDDS

The road isn’t shown in the 1891 directory, and this OS map of 1894 shows the terrace of houses, but the road isn’t named.

1894 OS map

The OS map of 1866 does not show the houses.

The 1951 OS map shows the addition of houses on the left hand, or southern side of the road. These were numbered from 12 to 17 sequentially.

1951 OS map

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

Lavender Walk

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Off of Commonside East, today a footpath that leads to corner of Baker Lane and Gaston Road.

In this 1974 photo from the Collage collection, the footpath is where the white van is parked. Click on the link to zoom in.

Image courtesy of Collage - The London Picture Library - http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk


1974 Image courtesy of Collage – The London Picture Library – http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk

From 1925 street directory:

from Commonside east to Eastfields.

East side

Mint cottages :

  1. Joseph Simmons
  2. Thomas Grace

Cox’s cottages :

  1. Sidney Huggett
  2. William Enever
  3. Bernard Mark Bicknell
  4. William Clarke
  5. Charles Stewart

Helena cottages :

  1. George W Spencer
  2. Thomas Frederick Wadsworth

News Articles

1885 theft of vegetables from Mr Slater

A Convenient Sister.

— On Monday, at the Croydon Petty Sessions, before Mr. Edridge and the Mayor, Fredk. Hazle, of Lavender-walk, Mitcham, was charged with stealing some brocoli and cabbages from East Fields, the property of Mr Slater.

– Prisoner admitted taking the greens, stating that he did so to sell them and get some bread with.- Mr. Edridge told him he knew full well that there was a relieving officer in Mitcham whom he could go if he was in want.

— P.-c. Stratton stated, in answer to the Bench, that he had known prisoner for ten years, and the police had received many complaints of his thieving habits.

— Prisoner was fined the value 3s., a fine of 2s. 6d., and the costs, 2s. 6d. His sister paid the money.

– In reply to the Bench, Mr. Slater, the prosecutor, said he didn’t want the money which the magistrates offered to return him as the value of the vegetables.

— Mr. Edridge: Shall we keep it for the poor box ?

– Prosecutor: Yes, sir.

— Mr. Edridge : That will make a beginning; there’s nothing in it at present. Thank you.

Source: Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter – Saturday 28 February 1885 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)

1886 throwing stones at passing trains

CROYDON COUNTY BENCH.

Saturday.

— Before Mr. T. R. Edridge (in the chair), Dr. Alfred Carpenter, Dr. Hetley, Mr. J. Corry, Mr. J. Judd, and Mr. H. Heath.

A dangerous practice.

Henry Thomas Wadsworth, of Lavender-walk, Commonside, Mitcham, and John Hazel, of Mount Cottage, Mitcham, both lads, were charged on summonses taken out by Inspector Howland, of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, with throwing stones a train. A policeman deposed that he was on duty at the Beehive Bridge, Mitcham Common, when he saw the defendants throwing stones a passing train. One of the missiles struck the train, and another one fell short. Witness went up to the lads and asked them why they had thrown the stones, and they replied, ” Only for a game.” Upon that he took their names and addresses, and reported the matter to the railway authorities.

— In reply to the Bench, the defendants denied that either of the stones hit the train ; they fell on the bridge.

— Mr. Edridge, the chairman, said the charge was a most serious one, and, as a warning other lads, the defendants would be remanded in custody for a few days.

Wednesday.

— Before Mr. T. R. Edridge. To-day the defendants were brought up from the House of Detention, and the Chairman discharged them with a caution.

Source: Surrey Mirror – Saturday 23 January 1886 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)

Note that ‘Mount Cottages’ should have been ‘Mint Cottages’.

World War 1 Connections
Captain William Allison White – VC

1959 map

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