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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.
Also available for Kindle.
'MYSTERIOUS
MITCHAM'
Contents:
Front Cover
Introduction
Receive Updates
Map
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 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
The Mitcham Ghost
Ride
Strange Mitcham
(2002): Errata
Strange Mitcham
(2011)
Paperback:
Kindle:
Haunted Wandsworth
(2006)
Covers the London Borough of Wandsworth (Balham, Battersea, Putney, Tooting & Wandsworth):
Haunted London
(2007)
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The Phantom of the 'Folly'
At the top of Phipps Bridge Road stands a row of 19th century cottages known as 'Everett's Place'. Standing beside the last of these, at the northern end, is an unusual building designed to look like a ruined castle tower. Various tales that have grown up around this curious folly were recorded in Strange Mitcham (2002) and, after reading that booklet, DB contacted me to tell the following story.
Above: The 'Folly'. See 'Strange Mitcham' (2002) for more stories attached to this building.
DB moved away from Mitcham many years ago but she remains interested in Mitcham because of her family's long connection with the area. Her paternal grandmother taught at the Star school and her grandfather was a policeman at Mitcham station. While researching her family history she discovered that her maternal grandmother 'was of Gypsy origin and lived on the Common as a child with her family. They later moved to Queens Road. After she was married she moved to Everett's Cottages in the "Folly".'
Recently, DB 'had contact with my uncle who is the last member of this family and he has told me so much about the family history. [...] He told me that when the family were living there [i.e. in the "Folly"] (c. 1905-1910?), they often saw someone climbing the stairs with a candle. This got to be too much for my grandmother so they moved into the cottage next door.'
[Source: personal communication with DB, May 2006.]
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