In today’s blog, the latest in our Pub History series, archives and local history volunteer Colin takes a look at the Harvest Home in Beddington Lane. As always, we love to hear your memories of these local establishments, and to see any photos you may have lurking in the backs of your cupboards which help…
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Black History Month (BHM) was first launched in London in the 1980s, to inspire local communities to challenge racism and educate themselves and others about the British history that was not being taught in schools. To mark the start of Black History Month this year, we launched a new…
In the last episode of our house history series, volunteer Clive introduced us to the short tenure of Rev. Francis Grosvenor at Benhill House, and his fascinating connection to Epsom Workhouse. In today’s blog, we see the first mention of the property as Benfleet Hall, and the origins of this new name. Changing property names…
Carshalton / house history / local history / Pubs / Shopfront / storytelling / Sutton / Volunteers
Cheers! Welcome back to the fourth in our series of posts celebrating the heritage of Sutton’s much-loved local pubs. Pubs are an integral part of most of our lives at some stage; either as a place to socialise & meet friends, or as familiar landmarks and placeholders in our communities. Often they span generations, and…
Emigration / poor law / storytelling / Sutton / Uncategorized / workhouse
Today’s blog continues our house history series by volunteer Clive, focused on Benfleet Hall in Sutton. Today Clive picks up the trail of occupants following the departure of the Brander family, and his story reveals a fascinating connection to the Epsom Workhouse, whose potted history Clive includes here as a fascinating glimpse into the social…
This is the third in a series of posts celebrating the heritage of our much loved local pubs. With thanks to Colin for his research today. As always, we welcome comments, photos or memories of your own. Please comment below, or email us at local.studies@sutton.gov.uk. Please note, Sutton Archives is not affiliated with The Windsor…
Today’s post comes courtesy of John Court, a local historian who has contributed to our site before. John is a also regular contributor of additional information to our Knights-Whittome Flickr set, and he has helped identify many dozens of the subjects pictured there. His subject today is one of the families depicted in the the…
After a brief summer break, we are back today with the third post of our house history series, looking at Benfleet Hall in Sutton. This wonderful series has been researched and written by volunteer Clive. Sutton’s local studies centre is a great place to get started on your own house history. We are thrilled to…
Today sees the second post of our house history series about Benfleet Hall, researched and written by volunteer Clive. Sutton’s local studies centre is a great place to get started on your own house history. We remain closed at present but hope to be open by the Autumn and always welcome enquiries by email at…
Today is the second of our posts celebrating the heritage of our much loved local pubs. Volunteer Colin has chosen for this week’s focus, the Greyhound in Carshalton village, a building which is very much part of the historic landscape, centred around the ponds and a landmark which many who pass through the village will…
Today’s post links neatly to our guest post of last week, which was provided by a local work experience student, Arthur. The subjects of today’s blog – also written by a guest blogger, but this time one with professional interest in military history – are a pair of brothers from the Knights-Whittome collection, whose story…
In current times, much about our daily lives and working practices has had to adapt. For many students, their work experience placements, so eagerly anticipated, have been put on hold, or been cancelled. We were hugely impressed by our most recent work experience candidate Arthur who, undaunted by the fact that a physical placement was…
Today sees the launch of our second A House Through The Ages blog series by Sutton Archives volunteer Clive. This research has been completed entirely by Clive during lockdown from the comfort of his own home, and just shows what can be done with perseverance and a curious mind. We hope that these posts will…
With the reopening of some pubs during July, we thought it timely to celebrate some of Sutton’s best known and loved historic taverns. Today’s post is first in this series, and the research of Archives volunteer Colin, who has been focusing on a pub close to his own heart, The Dukes Head at Wallington Green.…
It has been a while since this blog featured a research subject from the David Knights-Whittome photographic archive. Today, we return to the collection, and focus on one of the female subjects of our glass plates. As always, we welcome feedback and comment on all our posts, and encourage you to share our image database…
