Business estate on east side of Church Road, postcode is CR4 3TD.
Four of the office buildings are named after Mitcham cricketers. Links are to the Mitcham Cricket Club website.
Andy Sandham
James Southerton
Tom Richardson
Herbert Strudwick
Enquiries re units at the estate to IPIF.
Photos of Mitcham cricketers courtesy of the Mitcham Cricket Club.
A terrace of 5 cottages that was on the north side of Church Road, near the entrance to Love Lane. Originally numbered sequentially going towards the church from 1 to 5, they were renumbered by 1925 as 82, 84, 86, 88 and 90 Church Road.
1910 OS map, which shows this part of Church Road as Church Street.
1896
1, Edward WEBB
2, Charles ONLEY
3, George BROCKWELL
4, George LAMBERT
1904
1, Arthur Albert BROADBRIDGE
2, John PARLING
3, George BROCKWELL
4, George LAMBERT
5, Mrs CLARKE
1925
82, Arthur Albert BROADBRIDGE
84, Mrs PARLING
86, Samuel WELLER
88, Mrs LAMBERT
90, Mrs RICE
According to Eric Montague, in his book Mitcham Histories: 12 Church street and Whitford Lane, page 69:
two of the cottages were demolished in the early 20th century to provide a site for the works and yard of R. J. Hamer and Sons Ltd.
R. J. Hamer, paints and varnishes, had their head office in Miles Road. The 1963 list of factories listed no. 82 Church Road as the despatch depot for the firm.
This 1953 OS map shows this single property on the site numbered 82:
1953 OS map
As Montague noted further on, this depot was demolished in 1990 and the site languished until being redeveloped for housing.
Entrance to Love Lane from Church Road. Photo taken when four 3-bed houses were being built on this corner by the Beaver Housing Society in 1996/7, which is now numbered as 82A Church Road.
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Mitcham History Notes 