Off licence that occupied number 250, London Road, for over 45 years.
It was listed in the 1930 commercial directory as Horace Albert Paine, 250 London Road, telephone MITcham 0836. Advertised in 1954 as H.A. Paine, next to Woolworths and in 1976 as Paines of Mitcham.
1954 ad
1976 ad
In 2018, the shop is occupied by the 7 Days Convenience store:
photo taken 27th August 2017
Listed in the 1930 commercial directory as at 261 Church Road, Mitcham, telephone no. 1562.
A fire at the factory reported in the Norwood News – Friday 04 April 1930, which referred to it as a tin factory:
TIN FACTORY FIRE.
Mitcham Fire Brigade were called on Saturday noon to an outbreak at Messrs. Joyce and Co.’s tin factory, Church-road, and found that a shed at the side of the premises had caught fire. They quickly extinguished the flames, and confined the damage to a quantity of wood.
Mitcham History Notes 