Carshalton Carnival, Merton Priory: On Saturday twelfth June 2004 I went to {photograph} the carnival in Carshalton and from there went on to an open day at Merton Priory, a scheduled historic monument.
Carshalton Carnival
It appears unclear when Carshalton Carnival first started, however it was actually going down within the Thirties, often held on the second Saturday in June.
By 2004 many different native carnivals have been fading away however the occasion in Carshalton appeared to nonetheless be going robust, though there have been fewer floats than I had anticipated and virtually all of the teams participating appeared to be teams of youngsters.
Carnivals like this, organised by the native Rotary and Spherical Desk, increase cash for numerous charities and the Rotary had introduced their Santa waving from the chimney of a really small cellular residence. Carshalton’s Lavender Farm was represented by a bike-hauled trailer.
The parade ended on the funfair going down in Carshalton Park. I took a couple of photos there too.
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Merton Priory Chapter Home – Colliers Wooden
Merton Abbey was some of the vital locations in England from 1114 till Henry VIII dissolved it in 1538. The Abbey church was across the similar dimension as Westminster Abbey and as fantastic a constructing as current cathedrals akin to Salisbury, however its fantastic stonework was taken down and utilized in different buildings, notably Henry VI1I’s new Nonsuch Palace in close by Cheam the place constructing started the identical 12 months, although this in flip was demolished in 1683.
Merton Abbey was extra vital than Westminster or Canterbury. Right here the primary English legal guidelines, the eleven ‘statutes of merton’ have been written in 1236, and its faculty established right here moved to Oxford an turned one of many three that began Oxford College within the 1260s.
The positioning remained derelict however half by the River Wandle turned a calico printing works in 1724 utilizing the facility of a big waterwheel.
Alfred Liberty took over Littler’s Print Works right here to print the materials for his Regent Avenue retailer, taking up the location fully in 1904 and utilizing elements of it till 1977.
Somewhat to the north within the Abbey web site William Morris arrange works in 1881 which produced embellished glass, printing materials and different items till 1940. I don’t assume something stays of his works however there’s a William Morris pub on the previous Liberty web site. And the world’s first public railway, the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway, ran by the location beside the River Wandle in 1804, taking items to the Thames at Wandsworth.
Archaelogical investigations of the location between 1914-1920 established the ground plans of the previous Abbey, uncovering its foundations. In 1959 a backyard was created on the location of the primary altar of the church and ‘given in perpetuity‘ to the folks of Merton.
This now lies a number of ft under the floor of the automobile park of the Sainsbury’s ‘savacentre’ together with a lot of the remainder of the massive church web site, with just a bit nonetheless current beneath the sting of the grocery store. Some elements of the unique partitions across the giant Abbey web site have survived.
A brand new twin carriageway, Merantun Method was constructed for the brand new visitors to the varied outlets, and the ruins of the chapter home have been preserved in an enclosed space underneath this. Native volunteers had shaped the Merton Priory Belief in 2003 and have been holding an open day after I visited.
Again then the realm underneath the highway was fairly dimly lit and I don’t assume I took any photos of the inside with its foundations. Cerrtainly I put none on-line. Now it has a lot better lighting and a brand new customer centre with a small museum and is open on Summer season Sundays to the general public. You may see photos on the IanVisits web site. The Wandle Valley web site reveals photos of a number of the work being carried out and there’s rather more on the Merton Priory web site.
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