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'MYSTERIOUS MITCHAM'
Contents:
Front Cover
Introduction
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'Mysterious Mitcham' is the online sequel to the original 'Strange Mitcham', which contains stories not found on this website:
Second (2011) edition is now available in paperback and eBook formats.

Part 1 - Mitcham:
The Phantom Cyclist of Mitcham Common (update to Strange Mitcham)

A Dark Figure on Mitcham Common

Tales from the Vestry Hall

'Calico Jack': The Playful Ghost of Lacks the Drapers

The Faces on the Walls: Hancock's Cottages

The Haunted Cottages in Tramway Path

The 'Haunting' of Hall Place

The Spectral Soldier of Graham Road

The Legend of Mitcham Fair

Remember the Grotto

The Phantom of the 'Folly'

An Apparition at Woof & Sabine

Haunted Rooms at Fry Metals

The Phantom Cat

Mitcham's (not so) Haunted Mansion

The Kingston Zodiac

The 'Ghost Tree'

Ghostly Gardeners, Medicinal Plants and A Magical Tree

The 'Thing'

The Wrath of God

A Ghostly Experience in Morden Road

Mitcham Clock Tower: When Time Ran Backwards

The Rosier Family Legend

The 'Ball of Fire'

UFO over Mitcham Common, 2004

UFO over Tooting Bec Common, 1990
Part 2 - South of Mitcham Common:
Carew Manor

The Ghosts of Beddington Park

Beddington Parish Church & Churchyard

The Figure in the Alley

Under Beddington

A Spectral Cavalier
Other Information:
Author's website


'Haunted Mitcham' Facebook group:

Facebook group set up by Geoff Mynn in January 2015

Heritage maps
Thanks to the Mitcham Society and Merton Council there are some very nice heritage maps of Mitcham available.
Download for free via this link.

The Mitcham Ghost Ride

Strange Mitcham (2002): Errata

Strange Mitcham (2011)
Paperback:
Kindle:

Haunted Wandsworth (2006)
Ghosts and legends of the London Borough of Wandsworth (covers Balham, Battersea, Putney, Tooting & Wandsworth):

Haunted London (2007)
Ghosts and legends of London:

Haunted Lambeth (2013)
Ghosts and legends of the London Borough of Lambeth (covers Brixton, Clapham, North Lambeth, Norwood, Stockwell & Streatham):

The Poltergeist Prince of London (2013)
The remarkable true story of the Battersea poltergeist:

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A Spectral Cavalier
Just behind Carew Manor lies Mallinson Road and it was in one of the houses here that a phantom soldier was seen in around November of 1972. The following account comes from local resident Sue Chester:
"When John and I married, we lived in his parents' house in Mallinson Road [...] There had always been things going on in his house. His dad had always heard breathing, etc. But the worst thing was when we had been married for about six weeks and one night John woke me up and told me not to look, but to turn over the other way.
"He saw, and will swear to this day that he was wide awake, a Cavalier in full dress, right down to the feather in his hat. He was standing with his arm resting on the door handle, just staring at me and him in bed! John was really scared and this was in his prime when he was supposed to be the 'provider & protector'!"
 Above: 'The Wounded Cavalier' by William Shakespeare Burton, painted 1855.
The experience prompted John and Sue to research the area's history and they discovered that the houses in Mallinson Road had been built on the site of the old workers' houses attached to Carew Manor.
The description of the ghost fits that of a Royalist soldier of the English Civil War, and as noted in Carew Manor, the Carew family is known to have been loyal to the Royalist cause. It is tempting to wonder if one of the Carews still lingers around the old family estate, wondering at the many changes that have been made.
Then again, might there be a connection with the stories of the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh that have long circulated this area? (See the chapters about Beddington Parish Church and the alley nearby, and Beddington Park.)

[Source: personal communication with Sue Chester, 2000-2001.]
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