EPW055284 ENGLAND (1937). Western Road, Upper Green and environs, Mitcham, 1937

Traction engine in Grey's Yard.

Bucks Head public house

Sunshine Way built in 1936 The site for Sunshine Way was bought by the Church Army Housing Ltd. and the total cost including building the houses and hall came to £31,000 (or about £1,400,000 in 2013 when allowing for inflation). The estate was officially opened on 20th November, 1936 by Lord Horder, KVCO, and was blessed by the Bishop of Kingston. It consisted of 51 houses, 47 of which had three bedrooms and 4 had four bedrooms. Six were special ‘sunshine houses’, being built for those with TB tendencies. Rents ranged from 8 shillings to 12 shillings and threepence a week, or the equivalent of £18 to £30 in 2013. Mr F.M. Elgood chairman of the company, said that in the 51 houses were 277 children, 167 of them under 10 years old.

Kings Arms public house

'The Old Nags Head' Public House.

'The Fountain' Public House.

Downes Road Cul-de-Sac.

Just some of the greenhouses of Mizen Brothers Nurseries.

Mitcham Baptist Church, still there but now hidden by London Road Shops built after the war.

Mitcham Fair Green named for the ancient fair that was held there every year. It was moved in 1926 to the Three Kings Piece, part of Mitcham Common .

Eagle House, reputedly owned by Sir Walter Raleigh who, it was said, entertained Queen Elizabeth there.

Thomas Francis 'Department' shops. The nearest to 'Harrods' Mitcham ever got ! They had Lamson Paragon overhead money change equipment between departments whose containers whizzed all over the store just above head height.

Love Lane.

The Mitcham branch of the Croydon Co-operative Company.

Gutteridges seed and corn merchants, now Barclays Bank.

Mitcham Methodist Church destroyed by a Parachute land Mine in Sept 1940. Never rebuilt on this site.

St Marks Church badly damaged by a Parachute Land Mine in September 1940 rebuilt and rededicated May 1946.

South Block of Monarch Parade. Note site immediately north where foundations of the North Block are ready for building.

Mizens Farm Retail Shop

Mitcham Library

Mitcham Baths Hall

Majestic Cinema.