Where in Mitcham? Leather from fish skins! - Video

A 1949 British Pathe newsreel is reviewed to find out where two Polish sailors had set up a factory in Mitcham to make leather from fish skins.

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Article from the Mitcham News & Mercury of Jan 1950 is on Mitcham History Notes at https://mitchamhistorynotes.com/2017/08/30/fish-leather-at-beddington-corner/

1953 Ordnance Survey map reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland, reuse CC-BY (NLS) https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.9&lat=51.38890&lon=-0.15933&layers=170&b=1&o=100

Pubs of Sutton and the surrounding area - https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1i2Z3cyiiuBI-anANyZdv-9ha69U&usp=sharing

Photo of The Goat pub taken by Eric Montague in 1971. Reproduced by kind permission of the Merton Historical Society. Image reference mhs-em-wjr-91-34 https://mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/mhs-wjr-91-34-the-goat-public-house-goat-road-mitcham-07-71/

Article on the Groundnut scheme from the Western Morning News - Wednesday 19 July 1950
via the British Newspaper Archive. Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19500719/009/0001