I am hoping your newspapers may be able to help me with my family research.
I have been researching my wife’s family tree for some 15 years and have managed to trace her maternal line, Hornegold, back to Norfolk, circa 1750.
The Hornegold family subsequently moved to Mitcham in 1819 when one Robert Hardy Hornegold married a Mitcham lass and set up home in the Bath Road/Queens Road area which later came to be known by the locals as Redskin Village.
Robert was an ex soldier having served as a Private in the 1st Foot Guards, later known as the Grenadier Guards, at the Battle of Waterloo.
His descendants, namely my wife's family, lived in Nissan huts in Queens Road, Mitcham between 1945-1949/50.
Although I have searched the photographic collection at Morden library and many other sources I have been unable to obtain a photograph of those Nissan huts for my archives.
I am wondering, hoping, as a last resort whether any of your readers might have a photograph of those huts which they would be so kind as to share with me.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Robert Pritchett
Robins Close
Lenham
Maidstone
Kent
ME17 2LE
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