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The new building, which was designed by A. Green in the Modernist style, opened as "Crown House" in 1962. [5] The design involved a 15-storey curved structure with layers of continuous concrete panels above and below a continuous row of glass windows on each floor: the whole structure was 49.4 metres (162 ft) high. [ 5 ]
Morden is a district and town in South London, England, now within the London Borough of Merton, in the ceremonial county of Greater London. It adjoins Merton Park and Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Sutton to the south and Worcester Park to the west, and is around 8 miles (13 km) south-southwest of Charing Cross.
Crosse & Blackwell employed 4,700 workers in production and 1,900 other employees and salespeople at the time of the acquisition. For a while, its head office was in Crown House, Morden, south-west London. The brand was later owned by Premier Foods. A prominent member of the founder's family is Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records.
The London Borough of Merton and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [3] For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's three outgoing authorities, being the councils of the municipal boroughs of Mitcham and Wimbledon and the urban district of Merton and Morden. [4]
Wimbledon (/ ˈ w ɪ m b əl d ə n /) is a town and area of south-west London, England, 7.0 miles (11.3 km) southwest of the centre of London at Charing Cross; it is the main commercial centre of the London Borough of Merton.
The new documentary claims to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the ‘lives, loves and scandals’ of the royal family
The present park and sports fields between Hillcross Avenue, London Road/Epsom Road and Lower Morden Lane are owned and managed by the London Borough of Merton parks department and cover land that previously formed the grounds of Morden Park House, a small 18th-century country estate (not to be confused with Morden Hall Park, the National Trust ...
Lower Morden had grown up around the village green and the Beverley and Pyl Brooks. In the 1870s, the main properties of Lower Morden were Morden Farm (close to the modern school of the same name and on the site of Hatfeild School), Peacock Farm (now covered by Cranmer Close and Cardinal Avenue) and Hobalds Farm. Close by was Morden Common.