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Victory Day Parties

Victory Day Street parties – from Mitcham News & Mercury, May and June 1945

Almond Way
Bordergate
Bramcote Avenue
Caithness Road
Biggin Avenue and Camomile Avenue
Carshalton Road
Dalton Avenue
Dearn Gardens
Deer Park Gardens
Fernlea Road
Lavender Avenue
Love Lane
Manship Road
New Barnes Road
Pear Tree Close
Raleigh Gardens
Rodney Road
Steers Mead
Tamworth Lane

Almond Way

Almond Way

Biggin Avenue and Camomile Avenue

Biggin Avenue and Camomile Avenue had a joint party. These photos were kindly provided by Alison via the Mitcham History Facebook Group.

Biggin Avenue and Camomile Avenue

Biggin Avenue and Camomile Avenue

Outside no. 19, Biggin Avenue

Bordergate

Bordergate

Bramcote Avenue

Bramcote Avenue

Caithness Road

Caithness Road

Carshalton Road

Carshalton Road

Dalton Avenue

Dalton Avenue – photo kindly provided by Debbie, via the Mitcham History Facebook group.

Dearn Gardens

Dearn Gardens

Deer Park Gardens

Deer Park Gardens

Fernlea Road

Fernlea Road

Lavender Avenue

Lavender Avenue

Love Lane

Love Lane

Manship Road

Manship Road

New Barnes Road

New Barnes Road

Pear Tree Close

Pear Tree Close

Raleigh Gardens

Raleigh Gardens

Rodney Road

Rodney Road

Steers Mead

Steers Mead

Tamworth Lane

Tamworth Lane

De’Arn Gardens

Road off the north side of Love Lane, west of Taffy’s How. It’s a T-shaped cul-de-sac.

August 2019, from Apple Maps

1953 OS map, reproduced by permission of National Library of Scotland (re-use CC-BY)

Possibly built in the 1920s. A newspaper article from 1931 refers to the road:

SERIOUS CHARGES.

Arthur R. Booth (47), haulage contractor of De’Arn Gardens, Mitcham, was charged on Friday with obtaining £100 each by false pretences from Alfred J. Rawlings, of Leyton, and Herbert Smith, of Shoreham, Kent. The prosecutors answered an adver- tisement offering partnership for £100 in a lorry transport business. Booth, they said, told them he had large transport contracts. They each paid the amount named, but were I greatly disappointed with the results. At the garage in Mitcham there was no evidence of the big business alleged, end they had difficulty in getting their wages. Rawlings said he received only half what was agreed to be paid. He and Smith eventually went to the police. Booth, who denied the charges, remanded on bail for a week.

Source: West Sussex Gazette – Thursday 26 November 1931

On 15th March 1935, Gordon Victor DEARN of 77 Love Lane, registered a strip of land with the Land Registry. It is believed that the name of the road had the apostrophe added to make it sound more desirable.

Odd numbered houses, on the left or west side, have the postcode CR4 3AY, and even numbered house on the east side have CR4 3AZ.