Welcome to Part 1 of this summary of the Belgian refugees who resided in Sutton during the First World War. If you have been keeping up with our blog posts, this topic loosely ties in with the history of the White House Cheam, with a more expansive look towards the wider community of Sutton during…
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a mistake in our last post, which accidentally contained an image of The Plough, Beddington instead of Sutton Common (which is also a great read if you haven’t seen it yet, available here). We do apologise for the confusion – obviously we’ve had one too many pints on our adventures!…
Today’s post concludes the story of the White House, Cheam, looking at the last family to live there before it was demolished in the late 1930s to make way for flats [Farnham Court]. Extra special thanks to Clive, for his persistent research, and for bringing this house back to life! To all our readers –…
In this week’s blog post Colin takes us to North Cheam, for a pint at the Lord Nelson. Grab a seat, and learn a little more of the history of this landmark local. On the evening of September 13th 1805 at Merton Place, Admiral Horatio Nelson said his farewells to Emma Hamilton and their daughter…
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During May, Sutton Archives was thrilled to be one of nine UK archives awarded funds from The National Archives Testbed Fund to support archive related events for the Queens Platinum Jubilee. The exhibition that the money has helped put together is now open at both level 2A of Sutton Central Library, and at Whitehall Historic…
Today’s blog continues the chronology of The White House as it approaches the First World War years. In the latter half of the war, The White House operated as an Auxiliary Hospital; these were temporary hospitals set up in buildings such as schools, large or small private houses, or even in town halls. Discover how…
Continuing the pub history research, so well done by our volunteer Colin, today’s post looks at the evolution of “Belmont”. Follow the story of how this place came to be called so, and discover the pubs that are at the very heart of it. Belmont is a relatively recent name for the area along the…
To continue our story of The White House, Cheam, Clive focuses on the Barry family, who rented the property from Ralph Coker Adams Beck in the early twentieth century. The Story of the White House: Episode 5: A Very Suburban Family When Ralph Coker Adams Beck moved to Park Crescent, Marylebone, in about 1900, he…
Our past pub blogs have focused on individual establishments, but today we have a treat for you. Grab your hat and try to keep up: this week Colin is taking us all on an historical pub crawl through Eighteenth Century Sutton… Sutton in the 18th Century was a smaller village than nearby Carshalton, running ribbon-style…
Today we return to the history of the White House, Cheam, as researched by our volunteer, Clive. Today’s episode builds on the Beck family history and follows the different threads of Simon and Sarah Beck’s children; their careers, travels, marriages, and adventures – adventures that frequently saw them return to Cheam. Over to Clive… The…
As one of the more prominent of Cheam’s pubs, one may have expected us to feature The Harrow, which stands on the main crossroads, a little sooner in our series of Cheam pub histories. But our delay in publishing this piece is for good reason. Prior to Christmas the archive was contacted by a number…
You might upon first glance think that today’s episode of The White House history is about to reveal another fearful epidemic striking the heart of Cheam…but be not afeared! We’re just laying some specialist sporting terminology on you (and no, we didn’t know what it meant either until Clive kindly enlightened us in this week’s…
In today’s pub history post, Colin sticks with the Cheam theme (see what we did there), looking at another local landmark which would have been well known to the inhabitants of the house in our current house history (The White House). Cheam Brewery, was last featured on our sister blog, for Whitehall Historic House, but…
Today, our super house history sleuth Clive begins to look at inhabitants of The White House in Cheam, another residence which has yielded the stories of a surprising number of eminent and successful individuals. My story starts with Simon Adams Beck, who moved to The White House in about 1847, as we saw in the…
One of the oldest pubs in the borough is (Ye Olde) Red Lion at Cheam – reputedly at least 450 years old. It has a priest hole in the fireplace, an original (c. 1550) well-shaft (35 ft deep and in use up until the 1930s) in the forecourt and low-beamed ceilings, characteristic of a classic…
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