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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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The 'Ghost Tree'
Somewhere in the vicinity of the Wilson Hospital once stood an ancient and eerie-looking tree, so sinister in appearance that
the young children who played in the area told stories of it in hushed voices. It was known as the 'Ghost Tree'.
Kevin Green, who grew up in this part of Mitcham during the 1950s, remembers that the tree stood in an alleyway located
between Bramcote Avenue and Caesar's Walk 'that backed on to the old Girl's Grammar school'.
'It was a very old hollowed-out oak,' he recalled, 'from which strange lights were supposed to emanate at night according to
the story that passed around the small children from that end of Mitcham. When we were little we used to run past it as fast
as we could but it became a sign of growing up when you were brave enough to actually climb it – although never in the dark!'
Another tree with a strange tale attached to it once stood a short distance to the east of this spot. See
Ghostly Gardeners, Medicinal Plants and a Magical Tree for
more about this.
[Source: personal communication with Kevin Green, March 2010.]
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