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Mitcham Korfball Club

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The Mitcham Korfball Club was started in 1946, according to this article from the Mitcham News and Mercury, 9th June 1961

The man who brought the game of korfball to Surrey, Mr Frederick James Lincoln (aged 55), Carlingford Gardens, Mitcham, died last week.

Over 100 people, including many korfball players, attended the cremation at the Streatham Crematorium on Friday.

Mr Lincoln organised Mitcham’s first korfball team about 15 years ago after seeing the game played on the first Hengelo – Mitcham interchange visit.

Soon two other teams followed and the Mitcham Korfball Club was formed.

Mr Lincoln, always “very enthusiastic about korfball,” did not play but he refereed the game for several years.

His wife Mildred said this week: “He was a popular man with many friends.”

Burghley Place

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A road off of the east side of the beginning of Caesar’s Walk as approached from Cranmer Road. There is terrace of 3 houses, numbered from left to right as 1,2 and 3. All have the postcode CR4 3LL.

The name refers to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the chief adviser to Elizabeth I. See wikipedia entry.

This road, and the other roads between the railway line and the Wilson Hospital were on the former estate of The Cranmers which was bought by Isaac Wilson in 1926. All these roads have names related to Elizabeth I.

According to the late Eric Montague, in his book The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place, page 71, the Mitcham Garden Village was built by Charles Higginson, and the Electoral Registers from the 1930s show that he lived at no. 1 Burghley Place. His firm also built Cumberland House. In the 1971 phone book, Charles Higginson is listed at this address as builder, telephone number 01-648 2908.

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