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Living in Carshalton 1865 - 1880
The Former Circle Library Local History Group
Local events
Local History Events
The Wandle Trail
Men of the Wrythe Exhibition
Local History at The Circle Library
Pre St.Helier
Henry Hoare - Local Landowner
His Lucky Day!
Muschamp Charity and Wandsworth Poor Lands
Farms and Farmers
Agricultural Labourers
Batts Farm
Cottage Farm in the 20th Century
Farm Cottage
Farmers of Batts Farm
Farmers of Hill Farm
Hill Farm
Lodge Farm
Sarah Sprules 1836-1912
The Miller Family of Carshalton
Roads
Green Wrythe Lane
Wrythe Lane
The old houses, cottages and local residences.
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
Early days
Bricks, Tiles and Porches
Building the Roads
Building the Schools
Inside the Houses
Lady St.Helier
Living Conditions in London
Open spaces
Pride and Prejudice
The Builders' Railway
The First Residents
The Houses
World War 2
Air Raid Shelters
Army Cadet Band C Company 3rd Cadet Battallion East Surrey Regiment
Bishop Andrewes Church during the 2nd World War
Cinema in Wartime
Dad's Army
Doodlebug Hit
Gas Masks
Grow Your Own!
Gunfire on St. Helier
Incendiaries
Rationing
School Years during the War
St Helier Congregational Church
Then Came the War
Wartime in Mitcham, April 1941
Personal War memories
Doodlebug Hits Rushen Walk
Doodlebug over St. Helier
The Bomb at Rushen Walk
The Start of the War (1939-41)
War Memories
Wartime memories
Wartime on St. Helier
World War 2 songs
Obey your air raid warden
Run Rabbit Run
There'll Always Be An England
We'll Meet Again
White Cliffs of Dover
Everyday life
Buses
Childcare, School Clinics and Dr Black
The Tyre Dump Fire
Modern times
Good Neighbours
The Big Lunch
Personal memories of St Helier
A Foggy Day in November
Bishopsford Road On Derby Day
Carshalton pre 1953
Childhood Memories
First memories
Happy Estate kid
History at St Helier's
I Remember, I Remember
In search of Elsie Louisa Whittlesay
Life Without
Living in St Helier
Long Distance Links
Memories from a Local Lad
Memories of Canterbury School
Memories of Nan and Grandad Ford
Memories of St. Helier
My early life on the St Helier estate
My Time at St. Helier
Paris and the Bookie's Runner
Particular Memories
Personal St Helier memories
Queueing For Soup
Safety First
Some Local Lads 1950/51
The Hub of the Estate - the Gaumont
The War Years and After
The Winter of 1947
Wheelbarrows and Marshmallows
School life
Attitudes to disability in school
Bullying at School
Education and Expectations
Garth Technical Secondary School
Good Health
Malmesbury Commercial School
No. 4 SCHOOL, MALMESBURY ROAD (1933 - 39)
Number 3 School Juniors
School Days
School discipline
St. Helier Schools
Taking the Dreaded 11+ Exam
The School Choir
We loved our sport at Garth School, Morden
Winchcombe School Song
Life outside
A Foggy Day in London Town
Carts and Scooters
Down Your Way
Drain Clearing
Fun And Games In The Thirties
Grottoes
How Lucky We Were
Let It Snow
Pedal Power
Playing Outside
The Bookie's Runner
The Ice Cream Man
The Milkman
Too Many Cars!
Good times
A Royal Visit
Bonfire Night
Carshalton Carnival
Coronation Day 1953
Street Parties
Sundays
The Gaumont, St. John Ambulance and "Hitler"
The Littlehampton Outing
Treats at Hatfeild's
Bad times
"Nipper" Parish
Bus Crash Opposite Hospital
TB
Home life
Food, glorious food!
Gardens and allotments
High Rents on St.Helier
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Keeping in Contact
Long Trousers
Overcrowding
Replacing the Bathrooms in the 1960s
TB
The Bathrooms
The Laundry
Sports and Clubs
Boxing
Cycle Speedway in the Forties and Fifties
Glastonbury Youth Club
Malcolm Cowen: a boxer's story
Scouting in St. Helier
St. Helier Horticultural Society
St. Peter's Boys' Club
The Tavern Football Team
You're Only Young Once!
Places
A Brief History of St. Helier Hospital
Alfred Smith Funeral Directors
G.H.Zeal, Ltd.
Glastonbury School
Gunners the Butchers
Happy Days At St.Helier Hospital
Hill House
Muschamp Laundry
Newspaper Boy
Rose Hill Area
Shopping on St Helier
Shopping was a Different Experience to Today.
The Cinema
The Circle
The Co-op
The Council Corners
The Crown
The Eel and Pie Shop
The Gaumont Entertainers
The Goat Public House
The History of the Morden Tavern
The Holy Family School
The Library
The Morden Tavern
The prefabs
The Rose Public House
The Running Track
The St. Helier Arms
The Surrey Arms
What was on at The Gaumont
Wrythe Green
Picture gallery
Artwork and Paintings
Paintings and Pictures
Local landmarks old and new
Golden Days
Local pictures
Memory bank photos
Memory Bank
Your pictures
Days Out
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....
Everyday Life
Happy Times on St. Helier
Leisure and social activities
Children had their own Clubs and Groups
Residents enjoyed a variety of activities
Modern times
Cameras became available to everyone
Parties, Celebrations and Events
Coronation Party
Coronations
Everyone Loves a Party
Happy Memories
School days
School Days
School Life
St.Helier Hospital
A Student Nurse at St. Helier Hospital
Life at the Hospital
War years
Do you have any old photos from the war?
Working life
The way we worked
What the Papers Said & Interesting Documents
Appeal for Memories on Eve of St. Helier Hospital Facelift
The County of London (Morden and Carshalton) Housing Order 1925
Wallington and Carshalton Times 1931
Wallington and Carshalton Times 1932
Wallington and Carshalton Times 1933
Wallington and Carshalton Times 1936
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Agricultural Labourers
Life on the land
Open Spaces
The green, green grass of home
Pedal Power
We did get about a bit in those days
The Ice Cream Man
Stop me and buy one
Treats at Hatfeild's
... and he gave us bunches of roses for our mothers
Gardens and Allotments
Gardening was a popular hobby
Heritage Lottery Fund