Today, we cast our minds back to the Invisible Hospital (link here) episode, to review the family living at Dalnabreck, A.K.A. the theorised site of the Wallington Red Cross Hospital in Woodcote Road, Wallington. This is a fascinating read that connects the local to the national, centred on one historical figure. With extra special thanks…
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…
With the fourth series of the hugely popular BBC series A House Through Time now well into its stride, we thought it was time to launch the next of our own house history series, which each focus on one particular property in the borough, using it as a means of exploring local history and telling…
In today’s post, our second covering Worcester Park, Colin looks at the Huntsman’s Hall, now renamed as The Brook, at the bottom of the high street where the railway bridge crosses the road. The pub has undergone a number of transformations in the last few years, and currently sports a modern family image with a…
Our series on pubs in the borough moves west today, as volunteer Colin shifts his focus to a couple of establishments in Worcester Park, or in this case, Cheam Common, on the road from North Cheam into Worcester Park. As always the stories published in this series, indeed in any of the recent series we…
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