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1879 Two Pints of Beer

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Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter – Saturday 13 September 1879

The Intoxicating Properties of Two Pints of Beer.—

At the Croydon Police Court Tuesday, James Lawrence, dealer, living at Queen’s-road, Mitcham, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Church-road, Mitcham.— Prisoner denied the charge, adding that he had only had two pints of beer all day.—

P.-c. Winemark found prisoner in the Church-road, Mitcham, in a fighting attitude, making a great noise, with a crowd of persons round him. The person whom prisoner had been fighting with made off, but prisoner remained behind, and as he would not away when desired, he was taken into custody.—

Dr. Carpenter, after telling prisoner that two pints of beer was good deal more intoxicating drink than he ought to take, fined him 3s., the alternative being seven days’ hard labour.

Mount Road

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Road of council housing built after World War 1 between Western Road (opposite the junction with Lavender Avenue) and Church Road. First mention in electoral registers is for 1922.

Named after Councillor H.L. Mount JP, district chairman in 1920. It was an attempt at being a ‘Garden Village’ development with low density and cottage style homes.

House numbering is from east to west, i.e. from Western Road to Church Road. Even numbers are on the south side of the road, from 2 to 86; and odd numbers are on the northern side of the road, from 1 to 69.

The centre part of the road split around an oval shaped green. Before being named Mount Road the road was referred to in council minutes as the Oval Road. During the second world war, this green space was converted to allotments for the war effort. This clip, from an aerial photograph by the RAF in 1946, shows the outline of the plots.

clip from Merton Memories photo 31375, copyright London Borough of Merton.

This green was sold by Merton council to property developer Costain Homes (Southern) Ltd for £2,515,241 in 1988, and subsequently built upon. (Source: Merton Council minutes, 1988 volume 24, Development Committee, page 238, 29th September 1988). Houses built on this oval plot are numbered from 101 to 153 sequentially.

1933 OS map

Mount Road on Google street View, from Western Road end. The houses on the left were built in 1988/9 on the oval green mentioned above.

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

Minutes of meetings held by the London Borough of Merton are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.