Tag Archives: 1956

Peggy Payne, hairdressers

Was at 67 Eastfields Road, listed in 1954 telephone directory as number MIT 3672. Closed between 2009 and 2014, when the shop became part of the Sre Ramana convenience store next door at number 69.

2012 view on Google Street View:

clip from photo, c. 1956, Merton Memories, copyright London Borough of Merton. The hairdressers shop is on the left.

Wavy Canopy Edge of Mitcham Junction

From an article called “Houses That Go With The Job”.

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Mitcham Junction is architecturally more conventional, with the Stationmaster’s house forming the block lying parallel with the down-line. A canopy with a wavy instead of the more usual jagged edge projects below the level of the upstairs windows, out over the platform.

Source: The Sphere – Saturday 28 January 1956 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)