Road that runs alongside Three Kings Pond and Piece, then Mitcham Common Common to the boundary with Croydon.
Maps
Occupants from street directories
Maps
These Ordnance Survey maps are reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland, reuse CC-BY. Click on a map to go to the NLS website.
Commonside East from Three Kings pond to the Beehive Bridge.
From Beehive Bridge to Cedars Avenue
From Cedars Avenue to Pentlands Close
From Pentlands Close to Donne Place.
From Donne Place to Windmill Road
Windmill Road to Abbots Road
From Abbotts Road to Beech Grove
From Beech Grove to Chestnut Grove
From Chestnut Grove to Galpins Road
Occupants from street directories
1912 street directory
(Clarendon cottage), David JONES
(Clarendon house), William Lawrence DRIVER
John Hunter RIGDEN, timber merchant
(Clarendon works) A. & C. JENNER general engineers
(Laburnham cottage), Mrs. E. BRETT
(Prospect house), Charles HARRIS
(Prospect cottage), William SMALL
(Rose cottage), Miss BURTON
(Hyde villa), Albert John STINTON
(Verandah cottage), Stanley Henry DAVIS
Arthur Mrs. S. laundress (Elm house)
Three Kings P.H. Edwin NEWMAN
George ROSIER, carman
Richard TOWNSEND, confectioner
ALSTON COTTAGES :
1, Thomas BAKER
2, Charles OSBORNE
3, Henry CHILES
4, George Arthur STEWARDSON
5, Mrs IVES
Sidney COX, boot maker
Fernbank Laundry Limited (receiving office)
MAY COTTAGES :
1, James HAYCOCK
2, Henry ELLIS
3, Henry Thomas JAHRNS
Mrs. M. TYLER, greengrocer
OAKLEY COTTAGES:
1, George FORTMAN
2, Mark WHEELER
3, Charles RICHARDSON
… here is Lavender walk …
Richard ROWLAND, shopkeeper
…here are Smith’s buildings …
Beehive P.H. James Frank DELL
(Beehive cottage), P. L. BURGE
Joseph BARTLETT, contractor
Arthur SKILTON, greengrocer
… here is Railway bridge …
… here is Grove Road …
… here is Spencer Road …
WALL LETTER BOX
(Woodlands), Charles Edmund HITCHINGS
(Grove cottage), Henry BIRD
(The Hut), Mrs. LEFTWICH
… here is Cedars avenue …
(Cedar cottage), Thomas PINNOCK
(Oriel cottage), David BEGGS
Potter & Co. Streatham Ltd. gravel pits
… here is Tamworth Park …
(Epworth), William Ernest KEITH
Bentham Davies A. W
(Elmslie), Edward George GIBSON
(Cobdene), Mrs. WALL
(Kendrick), Henry WINBOW
(Dalveen), William Robert GILPIN
(Trevena), Alfred FRENCH
(Trentham), William DALTON
(Alveston), George BENNETT
(South cottage), William Henry SCREETON
TAMWORTH VILLAS:
1, John LEATES
2, Percy H BUSS
3, Thomas Clement GOODMAN
4, Edward GREEN
5, Henry HARTLEY
6, John William HORSFALL
8, William BILLINGTON
9, Samuel AGUTTER
11, Norman NIGHTINGALE
12, Mrs TITE
(Mitre cottage), Frederick COLLINS
Mrs. F. A. ROBINSON confectioner
PILLAR LETTER BOX
… here is Tamworth Lane …
… here is Manor Road …
(Sherwood Lodge), Alfred BONNET
(Norfolk villa) John Joseph BARKER, market gardener
(South Lodge farm) Arthur Ralph DAUNTON, farmer
Tooting Bec Golf Club (J. Wilford Taylor, sec. )(South lodge)
Mitcham Margarine Co. Ltd. (Towers works)
WOODITE VILLAS:
1, Barthelemy ENGEL
2, Frederick E SKINNER
….. here is Windmill Road …
… here is road to Mitcham Junction Railway Station & Common side south.
1938 Commercial directory:
(south side)
10, BRANDIS & Co. Ltd. bakers’ sundriesmen
10, Tower Creameries Ltd. margarine manufacturers
(north side)
23, Frank Ernest PENNEY, Three Kings P.H.
29, Townsend Rd. & sons, coal merchants
31, W. ROSIER, carman
73 – 79, Mrs Mary J, TYLER, shopkeeper
85, T. POSTANCE, Mitcham Stores grocers
95, Leonard Frank UNDERWOOD, cafe
145, Alfred Frank PAYS, Bee Hive P.H.
159, John SPARROWHAWK, marine store dealer
295, Typke & King Ltd. chemical manufacturers, Crown chemical works T A “Valerianic, Mitcham”
325, Mrs Florence A. BECK, shopkeeper
415, R.C. Monty HELLIER, solicitor
News Articles
25 May 1962, page 1 Mitcham News & Mercury
‘RACE TRACK’ COMPLAINT BY RESIDENTS
Residents of Commonside East, Galpins Road and Watneys Road, Pollards Hill, complained to the Conservators, police and council about motorcyclists using part of the Common outside their homes as a race track, especially a small track leading from the Common to Galpins Road. The Conservators planned to erect strong posts across the tracks; earlier concrete and metal posts had mostly been ripped out. A Conservator said riders had threatened Commonside East residents who tried to stop them.
World War 1 Connections
2 October 1914 Mitcham & Tooting Mercury
COMMONSIDE EAST STOKER SURVIVES SINKING OF THE CRESSY
Stoker T. B. Smith, of Tamworth Cottage, Commonside East, was on HMS Cressy when she and the Aboukir were torpedoed in the North Sea. After his family had given up hope he arrived home on the Sunday evening, having swum for two and a quarter hours before a Dutch trawler picked him up and landed him in Holland.
World War 2 Connections
No. 269, D. NEWNHAM joined Home Guard on 6th March 1941
11 October 1945
FIRST TWO FAR EAST POWS HOME
The first two Mitcham prisoners of war to reach home from the Far East were Gunner H. A. Dalton, R.A., son of Ald. W. Dalton, a former Mayor, and Mrs. Dalton, of 205 Commonside East, and L/Cpl. T. Walls of 2 King’s Road. They were met at Waterloo by Mr. C. H. Selwood of the Mitcham Prisoners of War Association.
