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A house and market garden that was reached by a track on the west side of Cedars Avenue, and occupied by Mr Pinnock and family.

1955 OS map Anstey

The name ‘Anstey’ was discovered in this news article:

Source: Mitcham Advertiser, 26 January 1928, p. 1 (British Newspaper Archive; rights holder unknown).

Death of Miss Pinnock.

Mitcham Market Gardener Bereaved.

The funeral took place at Mitcham Cemetery on Wednesday of Miss Annie A. Pinnock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pinnock, of Anstey, Cedars-avenue, Mitcham.

Miss Pinnock, who was forty-three, had been in indifferent health for some time, but her death on Saturday was totally unexpected. She became seriously ill on the previous Wednesday. Her death is deeply regretted by a wide circle and especially by the Vicar and members of St. Mark’s Church, where she had been an active worker for many years.

Mr. and Mrs. Pinnock are among the best known and most respected inhabitants of Mitcham, where Mr. Pinnock has been in business as a market gardener for over twenty years. Previously he was in the employ of Messrs. Mizen Bros. Mr. and Mrs. Pinnock have resided in Mitcham over half a century.

The funeral service was conducted at St. Mark’s Church by the Rev. W. K. Roberts, who also officiated at the graveside.

The chief family mourners were Mr. and Mrs. Pinnock (father and mother), Mr. W. Pinnock (brother), Mr. W. Webb (uncle), Mrs. Gillingham and Miss Gibson.

The many beautiful floral tributes included wreaths from all members of the family, Ald. A. Mizen and the Misses Mizen, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mizen, Mr. Edward Johnson Mizen, Mrs. Hicks and family, Mrs. Edwards, Messrs. T. and Charles Turner, Mrs. Huntingford and family, Mr. Pinnock (Hammersmith) and family, Mr. and Mrs. Cottis (cousins), Mr. and Mrs. A. Webb (cousins).

Sold around 1930 according to this news article:

Source: Mitcham Advertiser, 5 January 1950, p. 5
(British Newspaper Archive; rights holder unknown).

Obituary

Mrs. M. Pinnock

At the age of 90, Mrs. Mary Pinnock, of 3, Mitcham Garden Village, died on New Year’s Eve.

The funeral service takes place to-day (Thursday) at St. Mark’s Church, at the opening of which, 50 years ago, Mrs. Pinnock was present. She rarely missed a service there. The service will be conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. A. E. Smart. Interment will be in the parish churchyard.

For most of her life Mrs. Pinnock and her late husband lived in St. Mark’s Parish, and had a flourishing market garden business off Cedars Avenue. The land was sold about twenty years ago, when the Pinnocks retired, and is now covered with houses. Mr. Pinnock, like his widow, died in the Garden Village. Mrs. Pinnock was a member of the Red Cross and the Darby and Joan Club, which meets in St. Mark’s Parish Hall. She was active in the district until a few weeks before Christmas.

Her brother, Mr. Thomas Turner, a retired Mitcham postman, who lives with her son in St. George’s Road, is 92.

Source: Mitcham Advertiser 2nd January 1930
Right margin torn; missing letters restored in the transcription below (notably “East Ward”).

Mr. Thomas Pinnock.

Mitcham Octogenarian Market Gardener Retires.

Mr. Thomas Pinnock, who has been a market gardener in Mitcham for over half a century, retired from business this Christmas at the age of eighty-three.

Mr. Pinnock is a Wiltshire man and came to Mitcham to work for the late Mr. Thomas Allen, of Sherborne Farm, Eastfields. Later he was employed by the late Mr. Edward Mizen, father of the three partners of the firm of Mizen Bros., for whom he worked twenty years. Since then Mr. Pinnock has been in business for himself at Cedars-avenue, where he did a great deal of the work himself. He has enjoyed excellent health. Few men are more respected, especially in the East Ward where all Mr. Pinnock’s days in Mitcham have been spent. He well remembers the lavender blooming in hundreds of acres in Mitcham, and helped to grow it himself.

Mrs. Pinnock, who is a Mitcham woman, is not so old as her husband by thirteen years. At present she and her husband are enjoying a long and well deserved holiday in Yorkshire.

5th November 1936 Mitcham Advertiser

Mr. Thomas Pinnock

Death of Mitcham’s Oldest Market Gardener.

Mitcham has lost its oldest nurseryman and market gardener by the death on Tuesday of Mr. Thomas Pinnock, aged ninety.

He was a market gardener in Mitcham for over half a century—until his retirement seven years ago. He died in Mitcham Garden Village.

Mr. Pinnock was a Wiltshire yeoman farmer’s son and he came to Mitcham to work for the late Mr. Thomas Allen, of Sherborne Farm, Eastfields. Later he was employed by the late Mr. Edward Mizen, father of Messrs. Mizen Brothers, for whom he worked twenty years. Afterwards he started in business as a market gardener and nurseryman in Cedars-avenue, Common-side East, where he remained till he retired.

Mr. Pinnock enjoyed excellent health throughout his long life. He enjoyed life itself and a joke as much as anything. Always cheery and ready to tell a good story, he was a very popular member of the Garden Village circle, and he was esteemed generally, especially in the East Ward, where all his working life in Mitcham was spent. He remembered when lavender bloomed in hundreds of acres of Mitcham, and he helped to grow it himself.

Mrs. Pinnock is a Mitcham woman and is younger than her husband by thirteen years. She has received many messages of sympathy.

The funeral will take place on Saturday. Mr. Donald S. Drewett, Upper Green, Mitcham, is carrying out the arrangements.

Notes on Mitcham Common by H.G. Winbow

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Published in the South Warder, the newsletter of the South Ward Residents Association in August 1962.

Recently the question arose about the origin of the footpath near the Garden Village from Cranmer Bridge to Mitcham Junction. This path is on the site of the old road and when the London and Portsmouth Railway was constructed across the Common in 1863, the present Cranmer Road was realigned, owing to the sharp curve made to approach the junction of the Wimbledon/West Croydon line which was constructed in 1844.

Recently cars appeared to be using this footpath as a short cut from Willow Lane to Cranmer Bridge, and it is satisfactory to note that the Conservators agreed to the Preservation Society’s request to erect posts here.

Walking round the Common, you notice several old cart tracks, one just the other side of the bridge at Mitcham Junction led to a farm near the railway, this is now known as Aspen Gardens. Further on we come to the concrete road, which is called Drakes Road but nobody seems to know how this road got its name, except that it was the entry to the gravel pits which were worked here for many years.

A short distance from here we see another rough track across the Common, this is called Arneys Lane. At one time this went across the fields to some old cottages near the River Wandle. This track now stops at the footpath which runs along the rear of the houses; the footpath is believed to be on the site of the Surrey Iron Railway branch to Hackbridge.

Not far from here is the “Goat Inn”. Beyond here this part of the Common is called Mill Green and is maintained by Beddington and Wallington Borough Council. But opposite this inn there is another track which follows the southern boundary of the Common. This track ends at the railway, but there is a footbridge here, so one can continue the walk on to Beddington Lane Halt. This is one of the best parts of the Common, right away from any roads.

Some years ago a small area was added, so one can now walk through the avenue of trees to the footpath to Beddington Lane, a very pleasant walk in the summer. From here there is no need to follow the road to the Windmill House, but walk across the Common past the one-island pond, and across the Croydon Road to Commonside East,

Proceeding westwards, we come to the new factory of Tower Creameries, this is on the site of the old workhouse which was built about 1790 and for many years was used by the Woodite Rubber Company’s works. Sections of the first Atlantic submarine cable was supposed to have been made here.

Just near here we see two old cart tracks crossing the recently reclaimed part of the Common, these were used as the entrance to Sherwood Farm.
Crossing Manor Road we come to the rough road which runs along the Common to Commonside East; many years ago some wooden cottages stood here, which might explain how this road came into existence.

Owing to building development on the boundary of the Common, these old cart tracks present a problem. As they are all on Common land the question of keeping them in repair is a difficult point.

Further along Commonside East there is a small pond, known as “Pinnocks Pond”. Years ago opposite here there was a small cottage and market gardens, owned by a Mr. Walsh and later by a Mr. Pinnock; this explains how the pond became known by this name. The road from here across the Common to the “Blue House”, now called Cedars Avenue, was called the New Road by the old inhabitants. The end of this road, of course, brings us to the roundabout and the old wooden cottages, shown on old maps as “The Blue Houses”. It has been said that employees of the Surrey Iron Railway stabled their horses here. This could be true because these cottages are not far from the site of the old iron road.

The old “Ravensbury Arms” was the same as these cottages, the present public house was built in 1906. But a shorter walk can be made by taking the footpath from Beddington Lane over the Common and following the railway, this brings us out via the Golf Club House to Carshalton Road.

This is a nice walk, but I would not advise this way in wet weather as this part of the Common is very rough, owing to the extensive gravel digging that took place here before the Common was controlled by the Conservators. Along this path is where the new footbridge over the West Croydon line has been erected by the Golf Club and which is open to the public.