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Mitcham Common Filling Station

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Three pumps that were erected in the early 1930s on the grounds of the Victoria Works, on what became known as the Windmill Trading Estate, today the Meadows housing estate, corner of Windmill Road and Commonside East.

1940 OS map reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland, reuse CC-BY

This 1934 ad from the Croydon Times, via the British Newspaper Archive.

WARDOLEUM MOTOR OIL 10/- FOR 5 GALLS CAN FREE TAX FREE XL WARDOLEUM MOTOR OIL
medium heavy HIGH QUALITY ENGINE OIL. XL QUALITY Free delivery in the county of Surrey. Cash with order on delivery. MITCHAM COMMON FILLING STATION WINDMILL ROAD, MITCHAM

From The Merton Historical Society Local History Notes 18: by Iris C Marshall, née Overy on page 3 : “In Samuel Ward’s grounds was the house known as the Woodite Villa. A family by the name of Skinner had lived there and when they vacated the premises, the property served as an office dealing with customers calling at three pumps that were erected in the foreground in the 1930s.”

Mitcham Electrical Fan Co. Ltd.

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Company that was likely at the factory estate at the corner of Commonside East and Windmill Road.

Auction in 1911 lists equipment being sold, and included 6 sets of X-ray machines:

Forest Hill & Sydenham Examiner – Friday 12 May 1911

By Order of the Liquidator.

Re THE MITCHAM ELECTRICAL FAN COMPANY, LTD.

Without Reserve. COMMONSIDE EAST, MITCHAM, SURREY. (near Mitcham Junction Station, L. B. & S C. Rly., and on tram route West Croydon).

Important Sale of the superior and well-kept Equipment and Stock of an Electrical Engineering Works.

MR. HARRY SIMPSON has been favoured with instructions to Sell by Public Auction upon the premises as above, on THURSDAY, JUNE 1st, 1911, at 12 o’clock noon sharp, the whole of the Valuable PLANT, MACHINERY and STOCK comprising:

A 75 h.p. “OTTO” GAS ENGINE, 4 LATHES, DRILLING, PLANING and MILLING MACHINES, Surface Tables, Table Benches, Vices, Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, SEVERAL DYNAMOS, Batteries, large number of Fan and other Motors, about 400lbs Cotton and Silk covered Copper Wire, Cables and Flexible Wire, large and varied assortment of FITTINGS, PARTS, TOOLS, INSTRUMENTS, EXPERIMENTAL APPLIANCES, and STORES. SIX SETS Of X-RAY APPARATUS, also a Motor Car, 2 Chassis, Portable Iron Building, Quantity of Timber, Weighing Machine, Hand Truck, the OFFICE FURNITURE and EFFECTS and numerous sundries. On view Tuesday and Wednesday prior to Sale.

Catalogues and orders for private view may be obtained on and after May 18th. from the Auctioneer, 61, Sydenham Road, Sydenham, SE. Telephone : Sydenham ‘529.