1940s Memories

A Memory of Mitcham.

The road on the right of the picture, which runs obliquely in front of the Majestic cinema, was a route used by trolleybuses (I believe the routes were 630 and 612). In the right middle edge of the photo, the trolleybuses ran to Croydon (certainly the 630 did but I am not so sure of the 612) and both routes passed the cinema on their way into west London (such as Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith). It looks as though there was a telephone kiosk there in 1959 under the tall tree which is central. In the 1940s there stood a London transport office where the passing of the trolleybuses was electrically recorded and where the inspectors took their tea. I stood by it often as I collected bus and trolleybus numbers during my lunch hour.