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WW1 Recruits from Church Road

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From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:

Arn AITKEN of 77 Church Road, aged 25 Years, Baker. Volunteered on 7 February 1915 to the Army Service Corps.

A E ALLAN of 333 Church Road, Merton, aged 18 Years 6 Months, Beltmaker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 1 March 1916 to the Machine Gun Corps (training Centre).

A H ANGLISS of 128 Church Road, aged 18 Years, Munition Worker. Joined on 29 January 1916 to the East Surrey Regiment.

M BATEMAN of 233 Church Road, aged 30 Years, Fireworks Maker. Volunteered on 26 November 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (10th Batn).

C BATT of 361 Church Road, aged 31 Years 4 Months, Labourer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 10 December 1915 to the Dep Lab Comp.

A G BEARD of 4 Abbey Terrace, Church Road, aged 22 Years 6 Months, Foreman. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 28 February 1916 to the East Surrey Regiment (4th Batn).

T BEVAN of 18 Church Road, aged 40 Years 3 Months, Gardener. Conscripted on 11 December 1915 to the 301st Labour Coy (5th Batn).

O L BIRCH of 36 Church Road, aged 25 Years 5 Months, Slaughterer. Conscripted on 28 February 1916 to the Royal Horse & Field Artillery.

D J BISHOP of 229 Church Road, aged 24 Years 11 Months, Printer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

E H BLAKE of 114 Church Road, aged 28 Years, Packer. Conscripted on 18 July 1917 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

Vic BROADBRIDGE of 82 Church Street, aged 19 Years, Labourer. Volunteered on 12 February 1915 to the Royal Engineers (sapper).

F J BULGAR of 223 Church Road, aged 20 Years 10 Months, Fitters Mate. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 21 February 1916 to the Royal Engineers.

T BURGESS of 73 Church Road, aged 34 Years 8 Months, Painter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 12 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

G W CARR of 7 Horathon* Cottages, Church Road, aged 39 Years 7 Months, Brick Maker. Volunteered on 6 February 1915 to the Military Mounted Police Corps. * could be Hawthorn?

G S CARTER of 62 Church Street, aged 20 Years 1 Months, Apprentice. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 31 January 1916 to the East Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

H W CARTER of 62 Church Road, aged 25 Years, Paper Ruler. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 27 January 1916 to the East Surrey Regiment (10th Batn).

T S CARTER of 62 Church Road, aged 22 Years 11 Months, Clerk. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 14 January 1916 to the Huntingdonshire Cyclists (2/1st Batn).

E C CRESSWELL of 1 Benedict Cottages, Church Road, aged 26 Years, Labourer. Conscripted on 26 July 1917 to the Middlesex Regiment (5th Batn).

H W ELLINGHAM of 124 Church Road, aged 30 Years 5 Months, Labourer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 9 December 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (11th Batn).

F A FOX of 118 Church Road, aged 33 Years, Collector. Conscripted on 11 December 1916 to the Royal Field Artillery (no 7 Res Bdge).

A S FROST of 174 Church Road, aged 37 Years 9 Months, Dairy Man. Conscripted on 1 June 1917 to the Royal Engineers (training Depot).

John FRY of 223 Church Road, aged 24 Years 4 Months, Groom. Volunteered on 9 February 1915 to the Army Service Corps.

G H GARNER of 227 Church Road, aged 25 Years 9 Months, Gardener. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

W B GILBERT of 177 Church Road, aged 23 Years 7 Months, Varnisher. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 9 December 1915 to the Royal Fusiliers (16th Batn).

T. HAWKINS of 215 Church Road, Merton, aged 29 Years 11 Months, Locomotive Driver. Volunteered on 16 January 1915 to the Army Service Corps.

H HILLIARD of 201 Church Road, aged 19 Years, Labourer. Volunteered on 20 September 1915 to the Royal Garrison Artillery.

A T HOARE of 67 Church Road, aged 28 Years 11 Months, Drayman. Conscripted on 14 February 1917 to the Army Service Corps (ht).

W HOPE of 14 Lime Villa, Church Road, aged 18 Years 5 Months, Gardener. Conscripted on 19 March 1917 to the 25th Training Reserve Batn.

G HUNT of 101 Church Road, aged 23 Years, Spreader. Conscripted on 13 March 1917 to the Royal Horse & Field Artillery (no 4).

Arth Willm JESSOP of 53 Church Road, aged 24 Years, Painter. Volunteered on 12 January 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment.

W KILLICK of 103 Church Road, aged 36 Years, Carman. Conscripted on 18 June 1917 to the Army Vetinary Corps.

G KING of 19 Church Road, aged 18 Years, Clerk. Conscripted on 30 September 1916 to the 22nd Training Reserve Batn.

W LANGRIDGE of 110 Church Road, aged 23 Years, Belt Maker. Conscripted on 11 December 1915 to the Middlesex Regiment (5th Batn).

G LAWFORD of The Bull Church Road Mitcham, aged 35 Years 11 Months, Publican. Conscripted on 1 March 1917 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (labour Coy).

G R MARSH of 146 Church Road, aged 19 Years 6 Months, Stableman. Volunteered on 1 June 1915 to the Army Veterinary Corps.

H T MARSH of 146 Church Road, aged 32 Years 1 Months, Distiller. Conscripted on 28 February 1916 to the Royal Fusiliers (6th Batn).

T W MARSH of 146 Church Road, aged 18 Years 1 Months, Servant. Conscripted on 30 May 1916 to the 103rd Training Reserve Batn.

G MCMULLEN of 11 Church Street, aged 18 Years 1 Months, Fitters Mate. Conscripted on 15 February 1917 to the 29th Training Reserve Batn.

E E MOUNT of 116 Church Road, aged 18 Years, Colour Mixer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 21 February 1916 to the East Surrey Regiment (11th Batn).

J H L MOUNT of 132 Church Road, aged 27 Years 1 Months, Fitter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Army Ordinance Corps.

A F MUGGERIDGE of Benedict Terrace, Church Road, aged 25 Years, Balata Worker. Conscripted on 9 December 1915 to the East Kent Regiment (3rd Batn).

C O’DOHERTY of 60 Church Road, aged 33 Years, Metal-worker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (10th Batn).

A O PARSONS of 235 Church Road, aged 30 Years 9 Months, Shoe Repairer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (3/5th Batn).

F A PARSONS of 217 Church Road, aged 22 Years 10 Months, Belt Maker. Conscripted on 8 April 1916 to the Norfolk Regiment (3rd Batn).

A T PENEGAR of 223 Church Road, aged 18 Years, Munitions. Conscripted on 1 August 1916 to the 22nd Training Reserve Batn.

R S PHILLIPS of 137 Church Road, aged 31 Years 9 Months, Bricklayer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 6 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

A PUTLAND of 221 Church Road, aged 28 Years, Warehouseman. Conscripted on 2 March 1917 to the Middlesex Regiment (29th Batn).

A E QUIN of 247 Church Road, aged 33 Years 6 Months, Packer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 4 December 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

G ROBINS of 55 Church Road, aged 31 Years 8 Months, Barman. Conscripted on 12 December 1915 to the 301st Labour Coy (5th Batn).

H SANDWICK of 168 Church Road, aged 26 Years, Carpenter. Conscripted on 10 February 1916 to the Royal Engineers.

E SAVAGE of 30 Box Tree Cottages, Church Road, aged 35 Years 4 Months, Carman. Conscripted on 10 December 1916 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (Labour Coy).

W R SEARS of 376 Church Rd Merton, aged 25 Years 3 Months, Iron Worker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 16 February 1916 to the Durham Light Infantry (5th Batn).

A F SIMPSON of 79 Church Road Mitcham, aged 29 Years 6 Months, Fitter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Army Ordinance Corps.

J T SIMPSON of 130 Church Road Mitcham, aged 29 Years 11 Months, Fitter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Army Ordinance Corps.

C STACEY of 255 Church Road, aged 39 Years 11 Months, Carman. Conscripted on 11 December 1915 to the Royal Sussex Regiment (4th Batn).

James Bruce STEVENS of 209 Church Road, aged 18 Years, Firework Maker. Volunteered on 19 February 1920 to the East Surrey Regiment.

V G STOKES of 40 Church Street, Mitcham, aged 19 Years 1 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 15 June 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment.

W STROUD of 33 Church Road, aged 33 Years, Carman. Conscripted on 7 November 1916 to the No 1 Reserve Horse Transport.

H STRUDWICK of 168 Church Road, aged 26 Years, Carpenter. Conscripted on 10 February 1916 to the East Kent Regiment (3rd Batn).

A E TAPPING of 6 Handene Cottage, Church Road, aged 37 Years 6 Months, Bricklayer. Volunteered on 9 January 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment.

W W TEDDER of 127 Church Road, aged 39 Years, Grave Digger. Conscripted on 11 December 1916 to the Royal Fusiliers (6th Batn).

J TULLICK of 379 Church Rd Merton SW, aged 18 Years 10 Months, Varnish Maker. Joined on 1 June 1915 to the Royal Fusiliers.

J T A WARD of 75 Church Road, aged 18 Years, Labourer. Conscripted on 15 May 1917 to the 18th Training Reserve Batn.

J H WEIGHT of 140 Church Road, aged 30 Years, Leather Worker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 12 December 1915 to the Middlesex Regiment (27th Batn).

S WELLER of 86 Church Road, aged 27 Years 4 Months, Bricklayer. Volunteered on 3 November 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

T WEST of 341 Church Road, aged 19 Years 3 Months, Gas Fitter. Volunteered on 19 May 1915 to the Royal Engineers (sapper).

Lewis Road

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Road between Church Road and Western Road. According to the Royal Mail postcode finder, Lewis Road as 119 addresses.

No. 1, Lewis Road is Lime Court, on the corner with Church Road. This has 46 flats, numbered 1 to 46 inclusive, with postcode CR4 3LS. Lime Court was built around 1987/8.

Evens numbers 2 to 10, 10A, 12 to 24 to 34, 34A, 36 to 46, 50 to 70 Lewis Road are CR4 3DE.

Odd numbers 19 to 27, 37 to 47, 47A, 55 to 69 are CR4 3DF.

Numbers 29,31,33 and 35 Lewis don’t exist now, as Dalton Avenue cuts through there.

In the article “Mitcham Notes”, penned by “The Commoner” in the Mitcham Advertiser, 26th February 1909, development plans for Lewis Road included 108 houses and 14 shops.

There is more than one way of calculating the growth of Mitcham besides referring to the annual report of the Medical Oflicer. The 28,000 people — “mostly gipsies,” we are asked to believe — who inhabit this parish, are not going to have it all to themselves. We can find room for plenty more in Mitcham, but of course we want them all to come up to the Parish Council’s standard of respectability. And not only can we find room for them, but we have got to do so. There is no choice in the matter.

The cup of London is evidently so full that it is spilling its people over into the county of Surrey, as I think I have said before, and the builders are busy finding house room for them and estates are being developed at a rate which promises to becomes faster as time goes on, I find support for my remarks, and others can find it too, in the report of the New Streets and Buildings Committee of the Croydon Rural District Council.

That committee passed plans for no fewer than 151 houses and shops ot Mitcham at their last meeting. Of these 105 houses and 14 shops were on one site, viz., at. Lewis-road, while ten are to be erected at Devonshire and Robinson roads. Collier’s Wood, and nine at Seeley-road. It will be noticed that all the property is of the smail class. Mitcham is filling up principally with working people. There is a significant absence in all these reports of plans for villas, semi or wholly detached. Mitcham in evidently the Mecca of the man with the small weekly wage from whose ranks the unemployed are so largely recruited.

1913 OS map

Occupants from 1915 street directory

from Church Road to Western Road

… here is Oakwood Avenue
… here is Ashtree Avenue

7, George READER, shopkeeper
William SEARLE, contractor (Oakwood Villa)

Occupants from 1915 electoral register:

1 Orchard villas : Alfred READER
2 Orchard villas : Albert NEALE
3 Orchard villas : Edward lee GRICE
Cornelia Cottage : Charles HACK
Cornelia Cottage : Henry DAY
Emily Cottage : Frederick Augustus FOSSEY
Violet Cottage : James Edward TOOGOOD
7, George READER
Rose villa : Alfred John SLATER
Orchard villa : Henry SEALE
Westfield farm : Sydney CORNWALL
4 Rosemary cottages : John SEALE
3 Rosemary cottages : Daniel ELLIS
1 Claremont cottages : Henry George SMITH
2 Claremont cottages : William SAVILLE
3 Claremont cottages : Samuel George HUMPHREY
4 Claremont cottages : Alfred Samuel GOODWIN
5 Claremont cottages : John SMITH
6 Claremont cottages : John DOLBY
7 Claremont cottages : James BEARMAN
8 Claremont cottages : Samuel PAYNE
10 Claremont cottages : Griffin CRESSWELL
11 and 12 Claremont cottages : William ASPLAND
13 Claremont cottages : Walter STAGG
14 Claremont cottages : Thomas STEVENS
15 Claremont cottages : Thomas STAGG
16 and 17 Claremont cottages : Charles WILLIAM
2 Rosemary cottages : Isaac SEALE

Occupants from the 1925 street directory:

from Church Road to Western Road
… here is Oakwood avenue …
… here is Ashtree avenuse …
1, George READER
2, John HUMPHREY
3, Charles William HACK
4, Richard STEVENS
5, Edward Charles Le GRICE
6, James E. TOOGOOD (confectioner)
7, George READER and Miss V. READER (fried fish shop)
8, Alfred John READER (metal merchant)
Mitcham Poultry Food Co. Limited
Henry HISLEY
Cavendish villa : Alfred George BROWN
Ivy villa : Harry PATEY
Rose villa : Mrs SLATER
Laurel villa : John W. SALES
Orchard villa : William SEALE
Isaac SEALE (metal merchant)
Rosemary villa : Sidney D. CORNWALL
Westfield farm : John CORNWELL

Rosemary cottages:
1, William SEALE (confectioner)
2, Isaac SEALE
3, Mrs FORDHAM
4, Mrs EVANS

P.J. Nash & Co. Ltd. (sauce manufacturers)

From the 1930 commercial directory

1, George SMITH (dairy)
31, A. Couling & Sons (fried fish shop)
33, Alfred READER (firewood dealer)
41, William SEALE (greengrocer)
59, John CORNWELL (hotel waste contractor tel: 0880)

The following have no number given in the directory:

Mitcham Poultry Food Co. Limited (poultry food manufacturers tel: 0800)
Seal’s Yard : George HARKWRIGHT (haulage contractor tel: 3919)
Isaac SEALS (scrap metal merchant) (note: could be SEALE not SEALS)
Zalmo Pickle & Sauce Works (A. D. Robertson, propr.)

World War 1 Connections
Bombadier Frank Osborne Broster

From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:

G ASPLAND of 9 Lewis Cottages, Westfield Mitcham, aged 31 Years 6 Months, Fitter. Conscripted on 2 March 1917 to the Royal Engineers.

D ELLIS of 3 Rosemary Cot, Lewis Road, aged 38 Years, Scaffolder. Volunteered on 15 January 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

W HUMPHREY of 4 Lewis Cot, Mitcham, aged 19 Years 11 Months, Labourer. Volunteered on 24 February 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment.

A J READER of 1 Orchard Villa, Lewis Road, aged 27 Years 3 Months, Carter. Conscripted on 18 June 1917 to the Army Veterinary Corps.

P O SLATER of 3 Lewis Road, aged 19 Years 8 Months, Machinist. Conscripted on 6 December 1915 to the Middlesex Regiment (29th Batn).

H SMITH of 16 Lewis Cottages, Mitcham, aged 36 Years 11 Months, Iron Worker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 12 December 1915 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment.

H G C SMITH of 1 Lewis Cottages, Lewis Road, aged 33 Years, Labourer. Volunteered on 15 January 1915 to the Royal Engineers.

W G SLATER of Rose Villa, Lewis Road, aged 18 Years 6 Months, Belt Maker. Conscripted on 7 March 1917 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (30th Lab Co).

R T STEVENS of Emily Cottage, Lewis Road, aged 31 Years, Belt Maker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 7 June 1916 to the East Kent Regiment (3rd Batn).

News Articles
West Sussex Gazette – Thursday 15 September 1910

The Royal Humane Society has awarded a life-saving certificate. with £1, to Abraham Bates, of Lewis-cottages, Mitcham, for his pluck in rescuing from drowning two boys who fell into a pond at the gravel-pits. Bates has a crippled arm. and is unable to swim.

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