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Cheam Ladies Swimming Club
The Cheam Ladies Swimming Club used to train here in the winter months when the Cheam baths were closed. Pop Worsell was our coach and trained us. Fanella Webb and Pam Turner represented GB and I won county championships.
Contributed by heather Lee
The Ridgway, Sutton.
I have lived in The Ridgway for the last 42 years and many of these "Windebank" houses will shortly be celebrating their 100th Birthday. Has anybody any old photographs or matters relating this area from c1908 onwards?
Contributed by Alan Grover
My home town
My wife moved to Sutton 1950 aged 4, now aged 60 and living in Norfolk we are rekindling memories of such a warm and inviting town. Memories come flooding back. The railway station, the cinema, the old tree outside Trueforms where my wife worked for 10 years. We are seeking information and photos of what used to be Elm Grove and Lawsons Fish shop (now Barclays Bank we believe). Memories of Sutton from the Green in 1968 to the station. Also any photos of Clyde Road Secondary School for girls.
Contributed by David Buettner-Banks
Surrey memories
The Ridgway, Sutton.
I have lived in The Ridgway for the last 42 years and many of these "Windebank" houses will shortly be celebrating their 100th Birthday. Has anybody any old photographs or matters relating this area from c1908 onwards?
A memory of Sutton contributed by Alan Grover
Extracts From Sutton & Surrey books
To the east of the High Street there were several chalk pits: this was the biggest.
It lies to the south of Carshalton Road, and east of the Congregational Church.
The famous Len’s specialist railway book and model shop was situated here in a
ramshackle building, precariously poised above the pit. It was one of my frequent
haunts in school lunch hours. The site is now infilled, and a B & Q warehouse is
currently under construction (August 2001).
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
The chapel was built in
1884 on the south side
of Carshalton Road,
but has since been
demolished. After 1907,
when the new church
was built in Cheam Road,
it ceased to be a church
and bizarrely became
the Sutton Hippodrome
cinema. Later it became
engineering workshops,
before being demolished
in the 1950s.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
As befitted a growing Victorian
town, the spiritual needs of the new
citizens were vigorously addressed.
Where once there were just a single
crumbling, partly medieval, parish
church and a small Wesleyan Chapel
built in 1841, numerous churches of
numerous Christian denominations
soon sprang up. We have already
seen All Saints in Benhilton, and this
view shows the old parish church of
St Nicholas, which did not escape
the church building fervour - it was
entirely rebuilt in the 1860s.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
The Congregational Church
stood to the east of the
police station on the south
side of Carshalton Road,
until it was demolished in
1976 as part of a scheme
of road improvements. The
site is now part of Chalk Pit
Way on the inner ring road.
It was built in 1888, with
the façade facing the road
constructed to the highest
standards in ragstone with
stone dressings.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
The road to London passes
through The Green, which was
preserved by the 1810 Act of
Parliament that enclosed the rest
of the former common land of
the parish for agriculture. It is an
attractive open area, and this view
looks north past the pond across
Bushey Road, with the row of
elms on the right. The pond was
notorious for its summer stinks,
and in 1894 the new concrete base
and sidewalls were completed.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".