Charles William Blackburn, the last agricultural labourer left in Mitcham, died, aged eighty-nine. For over fifty years he worked at Sherwood Farm, on the edge of Mitcham Common. The farm is now covered with streets of new houses.
Source: Illustrated Police News – Thursday 15 October 1931 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)
House, also known as Grove Cottage, on Commonside East, west of the corner with Cedars Avenue. Now demolished. Site to corner has a block of flats.
According to the London Gazette (Publication date : 15 December 1931
Issue : 33780 Page : 8077 ), the land was registered in December 1931 with H.M. Land Registry by Ellen Dorothy Bird of 1, Camomile Road, Mitcham,
The 1867 private residents directory has a Misses Ewer living at Grove Cottage, Mitcham Common.
There are three photos of this cottage, taken in 1978, on the Collage website:
1978 Image courtesy of Collage – The London Picture Library – http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
1978 Image courtesy of Collage – The London Picture Library – http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
1978 Image courtesy of Collage – The London Picture Library – http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
183 and 185 Commonside East
Mitcham History Notes 