Tag Archives: Homewood Road

Bomacel Ltd.

Homewood Road

Paints and Colours


Source:
Borough of Mitcham List of Factories,
Town Clerk’s Department,
July 1963.
Available at Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.
Reference L2 (670) MIT

Ad in Streatham News – Friday 27 April 1962:
DRIVER urgently required by paint manufacturers for delivery in Surrey, Kent and Sussex. Good wages and regular overtime. Bomacel Ltd., Homewood Road, Mitcham, Mit 4861.

Ad in Norwood News – Friday 10 February 1961:
STOREKEEPER/DISPATCH CLERK rqd. by paint manufacturers: telephone experience essential: commence £9 10s. per 42-hour week.—Bomacel Ltd., Homewood Road, Mitcham. Mitcham 4161.

Ad in Sussex Agricultural Express – Friday 07 November 1958:
REPRESENTATIVE residing In Sussex required by paint manufacturers. preferably with experience and good contacts; car owner essential: existing accounts handed over; salary, ex- penses, commission. Bomacel Ltd., Homewood-road, Mitcham, Surrey.

Homewood Terrace

A terrace of 12 houses, with 6 on either side of Homewood House, on the west side of Church Road. Originally numbered from south to north, starting at two houses south of Homewood Road, and continuing north to Chapel Road.

1952 OS map

1952 OS map

The 1925 street directory described this terrace, going south from Chapel Road:

— here is Chapel road

Homewood Terrace:
12, Joseph Payne
11, William Reeves
10, Charles Andrew Grant
9, William Bailey
8, James Gough
7, Charles E. Weight, plumber

John George Bowskill (Cologne cottage)
William Morgan (Homewood house)

Homewood Terrace:
6, Mrs Blackwell
5, Henry Siviour

— here is Homewood road
4, John Tutley
3, Henry George Shead
2, Henry Hunt
1, Richard Harding Kisser

On the 1952 OS map, these houses have been renumbered:

Homewood Terrace Church Road
12 145
11 143
10 141
9 139
8 137
7 135
6 129
5 127
4 125
3 123
2 121
1 119

World War 1 Connections
Private Walter William Tedder

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