EPW017329 ENGLAND (1926). Cheam Common, Worcester Park, 1926

The Raynes Park to Epsom railway line. Opened in 1859 and electrified in 1925, the year before this picture was taken. Electric trains stimulated the desire for suburban housing and the fields in this picture were to vanish under new housing developments within the space of ten years.

Junction of Donnington Road and Windsor Road. Site of a doodlebug incident on 27 July 1944.

This is Stoneleigh Drive as it was called at the time. In 1933 when Worcester Park expanded to the house Cronks developers built "blocks of four" red roofed houses extending from the Cattle Arch towards the newly opened Stoneleigh station. The residents of Stoneleigh Drive at that time wanted name changes to separate them from the newcomers. So Stoneleigh Drive became Lynwood Drive and the continuation was to have been Meadow Road but ended up as Stoneleigh Avenue.

This is Bridge Wood. It only had six or seven years left before Sandringham Road and Bridgewood Road were built in 1933. Cuddington Recreation Ground is also partially at this spot but all was cleared for the expansion of Worcester Park.

This bridge spanned the railway leading to Meadow Road (re-named Stoneleigh Avenue); houses built here in 1933.

Council cottages built 1925 Brinkley road. Became numbers 37-87 ( odds)

Washington road

Cattle Arch - Dewsbury Gardens

Shadbolt House and Park

Worcester Park Farm, where William Holman Hunt and John Everett Milais lodged in 1851

Brickworks , now Cardinal Close. Pond was still there up to about 1959-60

St James's, Worcester Park

Idmiston Square

Worcester Park Station