Tag Archives: Western Road

1911 Decision to divide into 4 wards

1 Reply

From the minutes of the Mitcham Parish Council on 7th November, 1911, pages 113 and 114.

It was resolved on the recommendation of the Committee—

That the Parish Council accept the proposal made by the Committee of the County Council, viz. :—

That the Parish be divided into four Wards formed by dividing the existing Polling Districts into two by a line drawn from the Christchurch Boundary in London Road to the Parish Boundary at Tooting Junction, and by a line drawn down the centre of Western Road, Upper Green and Commonside East, from the Christchurch Boundary in Western Road to the Parish Boundary at Commonside East as shown on the plan, and that the Council recommend that the representation allotted to each Ward be as follows :—

DistrictMembers
Christchurch 4
St. Barnabas 3
St. Mark 4
St. Peter & St.Paul 4 
It was proposed on the recommendation of the Committee-- 
   That the Council recommend.— 
        That the Wards be named by the points of the Compass, viz. :—

              North, South, East and West.

to which an amendment was proposed by Mr J.M. Leather, seconded by Mr J.D. Drewett
that the council recommend that the wards be named by the names of the ecclesiastical parishes viz,: – Christchurch, Saint Barnabas, Saint Mark, and Saint Peter and Saint Paul
and upon the moment being put to the meeting there voted

In Favour

Mr E. Birch
Mr J.R. Chart
Mr J.D. Drewett
Mr J.M. Leather
Mr W.H. Parslow
Mr A. Mizen

Against

Mr G.H. Barson
Mr W.M. Bland
Mr G.J. Dale
Mr A. Dendy
Mr E.E. Mizen
Mr H. Mount
Mr J. Thompson.

and the chairman declared the amendment to be lost, and upon the following resolution being put to the meeting, the chairman declared it to be carried nem. con. –

That the parish be divided into four Wards formed by dividing the existing polling district of Christchurch into to by a line drawn down the centre of London Road from Tooting Junction to the Christchurch boundary in London Road, and by dividing the existing polling district of St. Peter and St. Paul into two by a line drawn down the centre of Western Road, Upper Green, and Commonside East, from the Christchurch boundary in Western Road to the boundary at the borough of Croydon, at Commonside East, and that the names be given to the respective Wards and that the representation allotted to each would be as follows: –

WardMembers
North 3
South 4
East 4
West 4

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

Mount Road

Leave a reply

Road of council housing built after World War 1 between Western Road (opposite the junction with Lavender Avenue) and Church Road. First mention in electoral registers is for 1922.

Named after Councillor H.L. Mount JP, district chairman in 1920. It was an attempt at being a ‘Garden Village’ development with low density and cottage style homes.

House numbering is from east to west, i.e. from Western Road to Church Road. Even numbers are on the south side of the road, from 2 to 86; and odd numbers are on the northern side of the road, from 1 to 69.

The centre part of the road split around an oval shaped green. Before being named Mount Road the road was referred to in council minutes as the Oval Road. During the second world war, this green space was converted to allotments for the war effort. This clip, from an aerial photograph by the RAF in 1946, shows the outline of the plots.

clip from Merton Memories photo 31375, copyright London Borough of Merton.

This green was sold by Merton council to property developer Costain Homes (Southern) Ltd for £2,515,241 in 1988, and subsequently built upon. (Source: Merton Council minutes, 1988 volume 24, Development Committee, page 238, 29th September 1988). Houses built on this oval plot are numbered from 101 to 153 sequentially.

1933 OS map

Mount Road on Google street View, from Western Road end. The houses on the left were built in 1988/9 on the oval green mentioned above.

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

Minutes of meetings held by the London Borough of Merton are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.