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I watched Mitcham Police Station being built from the playground at Ss Peter and Pauls...at the time I didn't know what it was but was fascinated by the crane and the whole process. Great times.❤

did you notice at about 1600 the schoolboys clearly looking up at the passing plane. Would have been interesting back then.

So interesting. Subscribed. Grew up in Mitcham 1960 to 1971. Sherwood park Road. Remember the dairy tower so well and spent many a Sunday morning with Dad sitting on the footbridge (near where Mitcham station is today) just waving frantically at passing train drivers. The high point of the day was when one waved back.

Yet again...another excellent Video. Keep up the great work.

Excellent information. We still had working gas mantles in our house (86 London Rd) - emergency use only - during the late 50's early 60's

My parents were married here in June 1942 when the country was at war . My Uncle George decided that the church bells must be rung for his younger brother and so he rang a peal. Only trouble was that church bells had been silent and were to be rung only if there was an invasion . Half of Mitcham thought that the Germans had invaded ! Talk about Corporal Jones and “ Don’t panic!” Eventually a policeman turned up at the wedding reception but Uncle George talked him round . He was great character but sadly died in December 1943 from lung cancer .

I remember Eagle House at the entry to the Bond Road school. If I remember correctly, back in the 50's and early 60's it was a ''Special School'' of some kind - or so I was told by my parents at the time - however 60 + years have passed and we left the area in 63. Keep up the great work, this is a brilliant trip down memory lane for me.

Excellent. I only have a tenuous connection to Mitcham, lived in Carshalton and went to school in Hackbridge but drove though Mitcham often. I find out more about it by watching your vids. So interesting. The Common was always a mystery to me. It was all a bit scary for a Carshalton kid but then Mitcham was quite rough and industrialised back then. In the 80`s it all started to open up, like Morden Hall Park, Wandle Valley, tramways etc. Nice memories of walking around these places with mum. I left a long time ago. Many thanks. RP

Not community now all gone. Place boarded up night. Scary ..I used to hang out Rose Hill. 1970.s ..

The houses were still unchanged in the 1960’s. The gardens looked lovely. Now sadly front gardens have become parking spaces. I was born on the estate and grew up there. My Great Grandparents and Grandparents moved there from Southwark and Lambeth in the 1930’s.

Some folks know how to destroy a good house……

Buckland Walk still looks nice. Most of the others are now car parks with attached houses...

It is apparent that over a span of 40 years the proliferation of the motor car and the need to impose parking restrictions. It is a shame that as a result of the RTB legislation there's a patch work of house facades that has destroyed uniformity of type.

Grew up on the St Helier estate and was a postman there for a few years. Mum still lives there

My 18th birthday, July 7th 1967, I sat outside with Barry Davis on a school friend whose birthday was on the 8th. His father worked behind the bar and we were drinking bottled brown ale - don't judge. I staggered home, said a brief goodnight to my parents then went upstairs to the bathroom to throw up. Ah, those were the days.

I lived right by Watneys pond in the 80s and it had water in it pretty much all year round. In winter it would flood out onto the road where the cars parked.

The greening observed in the satellite images over a span of 20 years only proves that rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been good for plant growth.

It looked like a small country town then...!

Interesting that One Island has seen a lot of tree growth around it and Seven Island not so much at all....

A Great Update Thanks ! ( From The Coulsdon Boy )😊

Ditto earlier comment - I don't remember Watney's Pond being such in the 1960's. Is it a new feature? I notice an additional pond called Bidder's Pond nearby that certainly wasn't there in my day and probably is a crater on top of a rubbish heap filled with water.

One Island Pond used to get quite a lot of hopeful anglers around it in the early 60’s but I don’t ever recall anyone catching anything more than Sticklebacks. I don’t think I ever recall water in Watneys Pond from my time of living in the area up to 1968. Didn’t realise they’ve obviously now closed the road off. Seven Islands although we didn’t go to often as we lived Croydon side of the common, I can remember it drying out quite severely one year in the 60’s to the point where I seem to remember you could get on to one of the bigger islands in the bottom right of the image. Global Warming? Was even happening back then ….. or maybe it just didn’t rain much. Well done. Very interesting.

Snooker hall Morden

A 2012 film was filmed in Abbotsbury road ,Papadopoulos and Sons. .

The photos jumped too quickly and commentary is preferable to dramatic music making the video piece difficult to follow.

A Great Update Thanks ! ( The Coulsdon Boy )😊

There's another weird house in Mitcham... At the top of Love Lane, by Western Road. There's a tyre garage. Right next to it, opposite the Lidl car park. It's a very small cottage. Why did it never get demolished?

I still have a double diamond half pint window glass...

It's amazing how the trees have grown between the two photographs....

The changes from then to now are astonishing....

Thank you to 'Mitcham Notes'. I often wondered what happened to the stones at the Ram Brewery. I grew up in Roehampton (in the Borough of Wandsworth). Thankfully, most of the former Hay Tor Tramway on Dartmoor still exists in situ. But of course, the "rails" are made of granite. I am now convinced that the oldest public railway in the world was not the S.I.Rly, but the waggonway that carried boats across the Isthmus of Corinth. It was similar to the Hay Tor Tramway, and was probably quite old when the Romans were marching around Britain! It fell out of use when the Corinthian Canal was built. Sorry, but it is hard to find out more information about this. Much of the route was obliterated when the canal was built. Peter.

I wondered about these stones too when that wall came down at the brewery site. I never spotted the pile of them you pictured, but it makes sense that there were a number of remnants of the railway on that site near its terminus. The stone “walkway” at the sales centre is kinda weird with no reference to them.

My uncle & aunt lived in Evesham Road in the late 70s/ early 80s. Im sure I remember there was a socal club on St Helier with bands/ entertainment etc??

As always, a great video with outstanding detective work and now a campaign ! Attaboy !

Property developers don’t give a crap about anything but money. History is an irritation and delay to their planning.

I had never heard of them until this - off to have a look at their back catalogue now...!

I'm sorry but your talking nonsense about the risk of freezing water to these stones. Freezing water is only a risk if it is unable to expand, as you have pointed out they are large holes in which the water can collect which also provide an unconstrained area in which the freezing water can expand. In addition they have been laying open to the elements for over 200 hundred years and don't appear to have suffered any ill effects from the effects of freezing water. Whilst I agree more effort could be taken to display and explain there importance I don't think that they are at any more risk of damage than they have been since the Surrey Iron Railway shut up shop.

There was certainly a section of track outside Wallington Library 50 years ago but I think the iron rail was pinched by somebody. What is left now if anything I don't know.

Interesting and facilitating content!! It just goes to show what soulless modern developers are only interested in… Love your work, now subscribed 👍

People are pitching tents all over Greater Manchester and living in them!!!

Nice to see Disc Records. Spent lots of time (and money) there during the 70’s!

Will you be doing the Carshalton side as well?

The Surrey Iron Railway or as claimed 'First Public Railway' was 'powered' by horses. The more successful Railways were powered by steam. First steam line I believe was Shildon to Darlington to Stockton In Co. Durham. Good story . * I had a few beers at the Ram Brewery in the early 70's.

There’s old track in Rotary Field park at Purley plus an iron sculpture of a horse and wagons. I think there used to be some at Wallington library

There used to be a section of the track just south of The Jolliffe Arms on the embankment about 3/4 mile before Merstham. Wonder if that was the section that ended up in the Town. The Jolliffe Arms was Tommy Coopers local. He could be found in there quite regularly being a resident of Kingswood.

Very interesting about the railway and such a shame about the stones. I lived in Morden many years ago and I never knew that mitcham has such a rich and interesting history. Keep up the great work Sir 👍

Great upload ,very sad to see the lack of care from English heritage .i used to pass the ram brewery on the 44 bus on my way to school and would always love to see the drey horses in that yard and the smell of brewing that hung around Wandsworth’s plain