Road that runs south easterly from Cedars Avenue to Tamworth Park. Houses are numbered even from 2 to 68 on the south western side, and odd from 1 to 73 on its north eastern side. Even numbers have the postcode CR4 1EB and odd have CR4 1ED,
Contents
Occupants in street directories
Electoral Registers
Photos
News articles
According to Eric Montague on page 95 of his book
Mitcham Histories: 3 Pollards Hill, Commonside East and Lonesome, the houses, with their distinctive Courtrai du Nord interlocking tiles, were built by the Tamworth Park Construction Co., whose managing director, Joseph Owen, lived at the house called Pentlands at the eastern end of St Georges Road.
Pentlands is shown in this map of 1910, and is named in earlier street directories. It was used by the Surrey County Council from 1937 to 1983 as a remand home, and, after it closed, the building was demolished, and houses were built on the site. Planning application MER175/84 was approved 19th April 1984 for the construction of 14 two storey, 3 bedroom houses with car parking.
1910 OS map
This OS map from 1953 also shows the Surrey County Council Pentlands Remand Home.
1953 OS map
>Occupants from Street Directories
Not mentioned in the 1891 directory, but is in the 1896. All entries are listed in the direction from Cedars Avenue to Tamworth Park.
1896 and 1898
WEST SIDE
Northolme, George Rupert UPTON
St. George’s, William WALFORD
1904
WEST SIDE
Northolme, George Rupert UPTON
Glenard, Thomas H. STOUT
Pentlands, James ANNAN
1912
WEST SIDE
Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON
Pentlands, James ANNAN
1915
WEST SIDE
Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON
Pentlands, James ANNAN
1925
SOUTH-WEST SIDE
Northolme, George R. UPTON
Wynberg , Captain Louis Alfred BROOKE-SMITH, R.D., R.N.R. (retired)
Pentlands, Mrs. ANNAN
Electoral Registers
1920
Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON and Margaret Harriett UPTON, and Alan Cuthbert Waylen UPTON
Pentlands, James Ernest ANNAN and Jane Grieg ANNAN
1921 and 1922
Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON and Margaret Harriett UPTON, and Alan Cuthbert Waylen UPTON
Pentlands, James Ernest ANNAN and Jane Grieg ANNAN
Wynberg, Louis Alfred Brooke SMITH and Margaret Frances SMITH
1927
Northolme, George Rupert Thomas UPTON and Margaret Harriett UPTON
Pentlands, Joseph OWEN and Susannah OWEN
Photos
This postcard of 1908 is addressed to a Miss Wheatley of Glenard, the second house from the Cedars Avenue end as shown on the 1910 OS map.
1908 postcard, from the Facebook Mitcham History group
1927 photo on Merton Memories.
World War 1 Connection
2nd Lieutenant Ralph Hamon Weeley UPTON
Newspaper articles
From the Mitcham and Tooting Mercury, 11th May, 1917, page 4:
MITCHAM OFFICER KILLED
Lieut. R. Upton
We regret to learn, just before going to press, that Lieut. R. Upton, younger son of Mr and Mrs Rupert Upton, of “Northolme,” has been killed in action in France. General sympathy will be expressed with Mr Upton, who is Inspector of the Mitcham Special Constabulary, and Mrs Upton in their great loss.
His name is on the west side of the Mitcham War Memorial as UPTON. R.H.W.
Earlist newspaper article found is from the Morning Post – Monday 7th January 1895:
UPTON. — On the 4th inst., at Northolme, Commonside, Mitcham, the wife of G.R.T. Upton, barrister-at-law, of a son.
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
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