EPW017487 ENGLAND (1927). Cheam Common, Worcester Park, 1927

Council cottages built c1925 Brinkley road. Became odd numbers 37-87 in later years.

Location of present day Egham Crescent, North Cheam SM3 9AP

Bridge Wood. This little copse was obliterated when Cronks swamped the area with new housing in 1933. Bridgewood Road is named after it.

Lynwood Drive but, in 1927 called Stoneleigh Drive. When Cronks housing developers expanded the built up area in 1933 (to the right of Lynwood Drive in this picture) the residents of Stoneleigh Drive did not want the new housing to have the same road name. After a consultation they agreed that Stoneleigh Drive would be called Lynwood Drive (as far as the Cattle Arch) where Park Road (now Sandringham Road diverged to the left. The road that continued in a straight line from Lynwood Drive and ran parallel to the railway was originally to be called Meadow Road but was quickly changed to Stoneleigh Avenue. Sandringham Road and Stoneleigh Avenue comprised cheaper "blocks of four" houses which were on sale for about £500 in 1933. I'm afraid that local sensitivities seem to have extended through the 1930's because the more expensive houses which were built in the late 1930's from Stoneleigh Avenue to Stoneleigh Broadway were in a thoroughfare named Rosedale Road.

The Cattle Arch. This carries the Waterloo to Epsom railway line and its electrification in July 1925, less than two years before this photo was taken, was the catalyst for turning this area into a fully built-up suburb before 1939.

Course of the Pyl Brook

Garth Road

Brocks firework factory, just off Gander Green Lane.

Gander Green Lane

Ridge Road with houses at the Sutton Common Road end under construction.

Worcester Park Farm

Sutton Bypass (opened 1928)

Cheam Common School

St Anthony's Hospital

Lindsay Road