Road named possibly after the Robinson Crusoe story. Crusoe Dairy Farm was named by its owner on the possible residence of nearby Tooting Hall by Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe.
1911 OS map
Builder Taylor & Kensett had building plans approved in 1903 for 12 houses, and in 1904 for 16 houses. They also had a woodyard in Crusoe Road, which caught fire in 1921:
EXCITING FIRE SCENES Whole Street in Danger. There were remarkable scenes at Mitcham yesterday — a portion of a street being in flames. Fire broke out at the timber yard of Messrs. Taylor and Kensett in Crusoe road, and burned fiercely that adjoining houses caught fire, and the whole street seemed in danger. Householders in considerable alarm carried their furniture and valuables out into the street, and there was scene of great confusion. The combined efforts of the brigades, however, succeeded in preventing the spread of the flames, but not before four houses adjacent to the timber yard had been considerably burned.
Source: Hartlepool Mail – Friday 02 September 1921 from the British Newspaper Archive
Number 52 was damaged by this fire. Minutes of the Urban District Council show that the tenant was Mr F. HAWTHORN, and the landlord was Osmasten Ltd of Barnes.
G. F. Hedges had building plans approved in 1904 for 13 villas.
World War 1 Connections
Sapper William Charles Crisp
Gunner Horace Concannon Richardson
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Mitcham History Notes 