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Unichem, Ltd.

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1-37 Fortescue Road

Listed in the 1963 Borough of Mitcham List of Factories as Drug Distributors.

1951 OS map

According to the book The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to Historical Records By Lesley Richmond, Julie Stevenson:

in 1946 (Unichem) established warehouse premises on site at Broadwater Road, Tooting … a second warehouse was acquired at Fortescue Road, Colliers Wood, during the 1950s, to enable the company to distribute chemists’ sundries

Sheila recalled starting work there in 1964 in the Sales Office. She said that not long after the firm moved to New Addington and the staff were given a bus service from the Fair Green in the morning and back again in the evening. The fields around New Addington at that time were still farms and she remembers seeing cows in them.

Fortescue Road

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1911 OS Map

1911 OS Map

Building applications

20/4/1899:
F.C. Chapman : houses

27/7/1899:
F.C. Chapman : 2 houses

8/2/1900:
G. Lawrence : 3 houses (4 tenements)

19/4/1906:
D. Shaw : 4 houses

20/10/1906:
C. Nash : 1 house

Slaughter Licences

1934 :
Mr. Hector Cook, 61, Fortescue Road
Mr. A. W. Stopher, 67, Fortescue Road

Building applications are from council minutes. Minutes of meetings held by the Croydon Rural District Council are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.

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