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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.

Sir Arthur Bliss Court

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Sheltered housing block of flats, built on the site of the former Holborn Union Workhouse in London Road, south of the junction with Bond Road.

Photo from Apple Maps, June 2021.


After the Second World War, temporary housing was built on this site by the borough council.

1953 aerial view

1953 aerial view

When contacted, the Arthur Bliss Society said that from their archives:

Vol. 8, no. 2, page 34. … says that “the Performing Rights Society, of whom Sir Arthur was President from 1954 to 1975, named one of their sheltered housing projects for the Society’s members and dependants ‘Sir Arthur Bliss Court’. This was to mark the 75th anniversary of the PRS.

PRS refers to the Performing Right Society.

Planning application MER563/86 was granted permission (subject to conditions) on 17th July 1986, for

redevelopment of site by the erection of sheltered housing accommodation comprising 46 x 1 person flats 12 x 2 person flats and 2 wardens’ houses ancillary common rooms car parking and landscaping.

This application referred to the site’s address as

1-9 High Holborn, London Road, 202-218 London Road And, 1-27 Bond Road, Mitcham

High Holborn can be seen on this 1950 OS map:

1952 OS map

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