Tag Archives: 1925

Phipps Terrace

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A terrace of 28 houses that was south of Palestine Grove and north of the Merton Abbey Iron Works, to the west off of Church Road. The terrace didn’t have its own road.

1921 aerial view looking north

1921 aerial view looking north

Occupants in 1925:

  1. Henry Greening
  2. William Wadmore
  3. Clarence Weston
  4. Frederick Harrington
  5. Frederick Hamilton
  6. William Richard Blake
  7. William Rowland
  8. Alfred Kent
  9. Hugh Thomas Church
  10. Horace Furlonger
  11. William Henry Taylor
  12. Henry James Sedgwick
  13. Alfred Harwood
  14. William John Dewar
  15. Charles Marshall
  16. William Edgington
  17. Frederick Willmott
  18. Sidney Poulton
  19. George Catlin
  20. Henry Sharp
  21. Frederick Eaton
  22. William Faulkner
  23. Albert Ernest Hockley
  24. James Varnham
  25. Mrs Sparkes
  26. Thomas Brown
  27. Frederick Edwards
  28. Henry Poulton

World War 1 Connections

From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:

W ROWLAND of 7 Phipps Terrace, Church Road, aged 31 Years 11 Months, Carpenter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 9 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

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

Nursery Road

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Road off of Lower Green West by the side of the National School, which led to Prussia Place and Nursery Cottages. In 2022 it is a short access road. The houses were demolished as part of a slum clearance scheme, announced in 1962.

Photo taken 5th January 2023

1950 Nursery Road map

Eric Montague in his book Mitcham Histories : 5 Lower Green West, page 117, says the the Jubilee Cottages were erected in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee year, 1887.

Occupants from street directories

1896
1904-1905
1912
1925

1896

from National Schools, Lower green

SOUTH SIDE

George BENTLEY, beer retailer
2, Mrs FRY
3, James BOYCE, builder

ALPHA TERRACE:

1, James BASSETT
2, James Herbert BRETT
3, Joseph COWLEY
4, Edward THOMPSON

JUBILEE COTTAGES:

William CHAMPION, plumber
Mrs M. CHILES

NORTH SIDE

Meggeson & Co., jujube manufacturers

In the 1898 street directory, all occupants the same except Charles MURCH instead of Mrs M. CHILES.

1904-1905

SOUTH SIDE

William LEACH, beer retailer
2, Mrs FRY
3, James BOYCE, builder

ALPHA TERRACE:

1, James BASSETT
2, James Herbert BRETT
3, William FRANKLIN
4, Edward THOMPSON

JUBILEE COTTAGES:

Charles Frederick PULLEN

NORTH SIDE

Meggeson & Co. Limited, jujube manufacturers

1912

SOUTH SIDE

1, James BOXALL, beer retailer
Hope & Carrol, motors, Mitcham Garage
George SCHENCK, art pottery manufacturer

1925

EAST SIDE

1, Thomas ROSE
2, Miss FRY
3, Percy Arthur NICHOLAS

ALPHA TERRACE:

1, James BASSETT
2, James Herbert BRETT
3, William FRANKLIN
4, Edward THOMPSON

JUBILEE COTTAGES:

1, Harry SPALDING
2, William Morgan DAVIS

WEST SIDE

Porto Motor Co. motor engineers

World War 1 Connections
Corporal William Herbert Brett DCM

Private William Whitbread

News Articles

6th June 1932 from the Mitcham News & Mercury:
Mr Ernest BURNELL, 52, of Prussia Place, Nursery Road, found hanging.

Auction from Wimbledon News – Saturday 02 May 1914

LOWER MITCHAM.

—Five minutes from the Railway Station, the electric tram’ to Croydon and Tooting and the motor ‘buses to London, and within a few yards of the beautiful old cricket green.

A SOUND FREEHOLD INVESTMENT of £68 . 0 . 0.

BLAKE, SON AND WILLIAMS Have been inetructed to Sell by Auction at the Greyhound Hotel. Croydon. on Thursday, 14th May, at Six o’clock precisely, THREE FREEHOLD HOUSES, known as Nos. 1, 2 end 3, Nursery-road. Mitcham, adjoining the old national schools, let upon weekly tenancies, landlord paying rates and taxes. Good accommodation and large gardens. May be viewed by permission of the tenants. Particulars and conditions of sale of the Solicitors, Messrs. Edridge, Son and Marten, 4, High-street, Croydon, and of the Auctioneers, 45, High-street, Croydon.

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