1932 | Mitcham History Notes

Cycle shop at 213 London Road (Buck’s Head Parade), from 1932 to 1968, which previously had been occupied by W.H. Jenner.

Listed in the 1938 commercial directory as Clarence Paget Dyne, cycle agent.

8th July 1954 ad

A comment on the Facebook Mitcham History group :

I worked at Dynes in 67. Mr Dyne used to have two shops, one in Battersea. After he died in 66 the Battersea shop was sold off… The Chinese moved in, in 68.

Chinese fast food shop Cheun Hong, can be seen in this 1987 photo on Merton Memories.

A 1959 photo on Merton Memories shows the advertising for Dyne’s on the north wall of Buck’s Head Parade. The words ‘Moped Service’ have been preserved as a ‘ghost sign’ with the mural of 2016.

2016 Ghost Sign

Photo taken 16th June, 2016

An ad from the East Mitcham Ratepayers Association magazine, dated October 1932, said that “Dyne’s of Clapham Junction” had acquired the business of the late W. H. Jenner.

October 1932

News for Mitcham!
DYNE’S
(of Clapham Junction) have acquired the business at 213 LONDON ROAD (Late W. H. Jenner)

Stock Includes

RUDGE AND RALEIGH
CYCLES

from 2/3 weekly

RADIO, GRAMOPHONES AND RECORDS

MOTOR CYCLE AND CYCLE REPAIRS

Official Rudge Sales and Service Depot

ACCUMULATORS CHARGED

Open Sundays Phone—MIT 2435

Notes

1. W.H. Jenner was listed in the 1925 street directory at number 5, Buck’s Head Parade.

2. A. & C. Jenner was listed at 5 Buck’s Head Parade in council minutes of 1916 for petroleum licences.

3. “2/3” meant 2 shillings and 3 pence. Decimalised, this is about 11p, and, adjusting for inflation, is equivalent to £7 in 2016.

A photo of a record from the C.P. Dyne shop in Battersea, from Facebook:

Ad from 1914 for W. H. Jenner

1914

Shop also sold fishing tackle and bait, as shown in this ad from January 1963:

ad from January 1963

Rowan Terrace was a row of 8 cottages near Homewood Road, that were demolished in the 1930s.

The 1925 street directory gives details of how to find this terrace.

from 71 Church Road to Belgrave Road
South Side
Hawthorn Cottages: no.s 5,6,7,8
… here is Century Road
North Side
no.s 4,3,2,1
Benedict Terrace: no.s 1,2,3,4,5,6
… here is Rowan Terrace
… here is Homewood Road

This 1952 OS map gives us house numbers, so the Post Office is number 71 (deduced from adjacent number 73).

1952 OS Map

A photo of this post office, from Facebook, confirms number 71 as a post office.

The alley at the side of the post office was known as Jessop’s Alley, later Adams or Adams’s Alley after the Adams family that ran the post office. ‘Adams Grocers’ can be seen on this photo.

As Rowan Terrace is described in the street directory as being between Benedict Terrace and Homewood Road, this 1932 OS map shows a row of 8 buildings between the back gardens of Homewood Road and a footpath (marked as F.P. on the map).

1932 OS map

The 1934 Health Report identified this terrace as a clearance area. It says there were 8 cottages, which is the same number as seen on the 1932 map.

CLEARANCE AREA NO. 7.

Eight cottages known as 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117 Rowan Terrace. An objection having been made to this Order a local inquiry was held on April 24, 1934. The Order was confirmed.

Source: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham, Wellcome Trust, page 33

Garages were built on the site of Rowan Terrace. These can be seen in this aerial photo from 1937

1937

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