Tag Archives: 1932

Worlds Stores, The Parade

Shop that was at no. 3 The Parade, which was renumbered as 229 London Road, Mitcham.

1915 ad

from Norwood News – Friday 10 February 1922

Norwood News – 9 September 1929

1935 ad for Barley that shows the Worlds Stores as one of its stockists/ From Norwood News – Friday 12 July 1935

Norwood News – Friday 21 October 1932
Stores listed in this ad:

MITCHAM AND DISTRICT.

Brewer, G. A., 110 London Road.
Kiddell. J., 12 Upper Green East.
Millachip, F., 397 London Road.
South Suburban Co-operative Society Ltd., Fair Green.
Stevenson and Rush Ltd., 325/7 London Road.
World’s Stores, Ltd., 229 London Road.
Harry Cusden Ltd., 209 Manor Road.
Harry Cusden Ltd., 77 Sherwood Pork Road.
Parker, W., 55 Manor Road.

EXPERIENCED cashier-book-keeper required.

—Apply Worlds Stores. 229, London-rd., Mitcham. References required.

Newspaper Articles
Norwood News – Friday 05 August 1932

MITCHAM MEN SENT FOR TRIAL

The three men arrested after two policemen had used their truncheons were all before the Croydon County Bench again on Friday. They were Henry Summers (23), labourer, Fortescue-road, Mitcham; Frederick John Stewart (23), labourer. Bvgrove-road, Mitcham: and Frederick Charles Bannister (22), motor driver, Bygrove-road. There was no further evidence on the charge of breaking into the World’s Stores, London-road, Mitcham. Bannister was further charged with two housebreaking, at North Cheam. Finger-print specialists alleged that the marks on a piece of glass in one case and on a glass finger bowl in the other, corresponded with Bannister’s fingerprints as taken at Brixton Prison after arrest. Still another charge against Bannister was of breaking into a shop at Abbey-parade, High-street, Merton, on November 11 last and stealing cash and tobacco goods, valued altogether at £9 10s., the property of Mr. A. J. Bromley. Prosecutor said that on arriving at his shop at nine on November 12 he found everything in disorder. The gas-meter cash-box had been rifled. Entry had been made by smashing the glass panel of the scullery door and of an inner door. The men were all committed to the London Sessions, on bail.

Eldertree Place

A cul-de-sac off Eldertree Way, with 16 houses, accessible by footpath only.

1952 OS map

The houses are numbered odd on its left side, from 1 to 15, and even on the right side from 2 to 16. Royal Mail website says the houses all have the postcode CR4 1AH.

Possibly built around 1930/1. There is an Electoral register for 1932, whose occupants were:

1, Arthur and Violet NEAL
3, Norman Henry and Emily STEVENSON
4, John and Constance Victoria TOWNSON
5, William and Margaretta THOMAS
6, George Albert and Florence Louisa BENNETT
7, Harry Henry and Harriet Eliza TIBBLES
8, Thomas James and Violet May CUMPPER
9, Alfred and Elizabeth TIMMS
10, Frederick and Ann Norah Ellen HOOK
11, Thomas Henry and Dorothy RICHARDSON
12, Alfred Herbert and Annie Rebecca FREEMAN
13, William and Catherine THURSTING
14, Reginald and Doris WOOD
15, George William and Laura Alice COOPER
16, William and Kate Leila THOMPSON


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