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Dyne’s

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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

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

2016 Ghost Sign

Photo taken 16th June, 2016

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

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:
CP Dyne Record without name

Ad from 1914 for W. H. Jenner

1914

1914

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

ad from January 1963

Sydney Gedge

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1886

1886

From the British Newspaper Archives:

The Graphic – Saturday 24 July 1886

MR. SYDNEY GEDGE, of Mitcham Hall, Surrey, is the eldest son of the late Rev. Sydney Gedge. He was born in 1829, and educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he took a ” first ” in the Moral Science Tripos. In 1865 he was admitted a solicitor, and in 1871 was elected Solicitor to the London School Board. Mr. Gedge married, in 1857, Augusta, daughter of Robert Herring, Esq., of Cromer.

Weekly Dispatch (London) – Sunday 20 March 1921.

MR. SIDNEY GEDGE RECOVERING FROM HIS ILLNESS.

Mr. Sidney Gedge, the 92-years-old solicitor and former M.P., who lives at Mitcham, now overcoming a severe attack of influenza, is one of the most remarkable men in London and also one of the greatest optimists. Despite his age, he is chafing at his enforced inactivity. The Times contained an ainnouncement yesterday that he has been compelled lo cancel several engagements. Mr. Gedge is still in full harness. He is a frequent visitor to the City, and was at a board meeting when taken ill a week ago. During his illness the leading articles from The Times were read him. Yesterday he was able to them himself. A lifelong cyclist, it is only within comparatively recent years that he gave up pedaling to the City. He lives the life of a man many years younger. He is not a nonsmoker, and prefers the youthful cigarette occasionally.

Gloucester Citizen – Friday 6th April 1923

DEATH OF MR SYDNEY GEDGE.

The Press Association regrets to announce that Mr. Sidney Gedge, Mitcham Hall, Surrey, who was 93 last October, and was a former M.P. for Stockport and Walsall, has died at Mitcham. Deceased was prominent lay churchman, and he was a licensed preacher of the dioceses of London and Southwark.

From Mitcham and Tooting Advertiser
4th February 1954

Their names will not be forgotten

…

The late Mr. Sydney Gedge, of Mitcham Hall, a one-time Member of Parliament and constructor of Mitcham Park, is remembered in Gedge Court on the Baron House Estate opposite his old home.

Photo taken 9th April 2020.

Merton Memories Photos

On a tricycle at Mitcham Hall
1929 Mitcham Park