Tag Archives: Armfield Crescent

Acme Printing Works

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Printers that was at 149 London Road, at corner with Armfield Crescent, where the extension to Mitcham Library is now.

12th November 1936

1921 ad
1921 ad

Building demolished possible early 1960s as Mitcham Library extension built there in 1966.

Maps

1949

Merton Memories Photos

149 London Road from Armfield Crescent
from London Road

F.W. Deacon
Printers
Source:
Borough of Mitcham List of Factories,
Town Clerk’s Department,
July 1963.
Available at Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.
Reference L2 (670) MIT

The Elms

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Shown opposite Eagle House in this map of 1865:
1865 Map of The Elms

Montague’s ‘Mitcham Histories: 7 The Upper, or Fair Green, Mitcham’, page 110, says the The Elms was destroyed by fire in December 1896. Merton Memories website says that this house, owned by Peter Waldo, was demolished and ownership passed to the Waldo-Sibthorp part of the family.

The Waldo family name was used in naming Waldo Place and may have contributed to

  • Coningsby Court, Armfield Crescent (after Charles Coningsby Sibthorp)
  • Elm Court, Armfield Crescent (after The Elms)
  • Sibthorp Road (after Waldo Sibthorp)

This is, as at 14/11/2014 a guess.

Montague says that the land was given by the Reverend Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp for the purpose of building a Sunday school.

Charles Coningsby Sibthorp and Mary Georginia Sibthorp

Other family photos at Brookmans Park forum.

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