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Heyford Road

Road off north east side of Western Road, south of Western Road school. Built around 1929/30 by H. Poulson. The name was approved by the Mitcham Urban District Council as stated in minutes on page 254, volume XV.

1952 OS map

London Daily Chronicle 3rd May 1930

The houses are numbered even, from 2 to 48, on the left hand side as seen from Western Road, and odd from 1 to 45 on the right hand side. Postcodes CR4 3EU are for even addresses, and CR4 3EW for odd.

In around 2005/6, garages at the rear of number 45 were demolished, Heyford Road was extended, parallel and to the west of Laings Avenue. A terrace of houses was built, numbered 1 to 9 sequentially, with the address Peppermint Mews, 47 Heyford Road, postcode CR4 3FD.


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

Minutes of meetings held by the Mitcham Urban District Council are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.

Hutton’s Fish Shop

2 Upper Green West

fishmongers

Listed in 1954 and 1971 telephone directories as F.A. Hutton. The 1954 phone number was MIT 1549.

The original shop was hit by a bomb during World War 2. A single storey shop was rebuilt.

Clip of photo taken by Eric Montague in 1972. Reproduced by kind permission of the Merton Historical Society. Image reference mhs-em-ug-28

clip from 1962 photo on Merton Memories, copyright London Borough of Merton

1952 OS map

The pre-war shop.

clip from undated photo on Merton Memories, copyright London Borough of Merton, shows the shop before it was bombed in WW2,

In the 1930 commercial directory, Frederick Arthur HUTTON is listed at 1 Upper Green West as butcher, and at no. 2 as fried fish shop, telephone number 1549. Also listed at 5 Abbey Parade, Western Road.

This ad from 1936 shows the meat products on offer at the butcher shop.

From the Sutton & Epsom Advertiser – Thursday 12 November 1936


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