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'Mysterious Mitcham' is the online sequel to 'Strange Mitcham':
Second (2011) edition now available.
'MYSTERIOUS
MITCHAM'
Contents:
Front Cover
Introduction
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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)
Haunted Wandsworth
(2006)
Covers the London Borough of Wandsworth (Balham, Battersea, Putney, Tooting & Wandsworth):
Haunted London
(2007)
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An Apparition at Woof & Sabine
The following story took place in around 1968 and was related to me by Mrs Yvonne Green whose husband Peter had been works manager at the old Woof and Sabine factory that used to stand just to the south of Mitcham Station
(now Mitcham tram stop), on Tramway Path.
Above: Tramway Path. Mitcham tram stop lies to the left in this picture, while the factory stood on the right. (James Clark, 2010)
Peter Green was in charge of three men and during one night shift, said Yvonne, 'the men had been in the little side room where they had an evening snack. They came back out into the main workshop - of course it was only a very small factory - one of the men came out into the shop and just as he got out someone followed on behind him, and the first man shouted out: "Hey! What are you doing there? How did you get in? Where are you going?"
'And they saw this figure of a man ... and he just disappeared through the wall. They said he was a little man, with a long raincoat and a cloth cap. And they were quite badly shaken, obviously. Particularly as they were going to be there all night.'
Peter told Yvonne about the incident, and she later mentioned it to a friend of hers: 'I happened to know Kitty Tilley - she was a very well known Mitcham athlete. She was a friend of mine and I happened to be talking to her and I said, "Tell me, did anything unforeseen happen at Tramway Path?" She said, "What do you mean?" So I said, "Well, was there a tragedy or anything along there?" "Well," she said, "you know that they used to excavate sand along there?" And she said one of the [holes] apparently was filled up with water and this man was drowned.'
When Yvonne told Kitty that the apparition had been of a 'little man with a cloth cap and a long coat', her friend 'just went very, very white and she said, "Oh, Mr Smith."
'So I said, "Well, did you know him?" and she said, "Oh yes. He was my best friend's father."
'And apparently he must have just [drowned]. How he got into the [water] I have no idea - I don't think they ever knew. But he must have fallen in and he was drowned. And it was really the fact that Kitty was so distressed at the description - straight away she just said, "Oh, Mr Smith" ... I don't know whether anyone else has ever seen anything.'
[Source: personal communication with Yvonne Green, 2005.]
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