the quiz book
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Wandle Industrial Museum Quiz Book
Quiz One
Q1 Which friend of William Morris suggested the works at Merton
Abbey?
Q2 The rail line through Merton Abbey Station closed in 1975 but what
year did it stop carrying passengers?
Q3 Who did the company of Morris & Co take over the works at Merton
Abbey from?
Q4 The Hatfeild family are associated with the Morden Hall Estate but
what was the name of the company that operated the snuff mills?
Q5 Which company based on the River Wandle do you associate with
parliament, cars and liners?
Q6 Which family name, better known for its beer, would you associate
with mills along the Wandle Valley?
Q7 What grave of a well known person who worked in the calico
industry can be found in St Mary’s Church, Merton Park?
Q8 The River Wandle was once one of the best for fishing for which fish?
Q9 There was once a mill on Carshalton High Street where today’s
Coach and Horses pub is located. Where was the source of the water from
that drove its waterwheel?
Q10 What historical route are you taking if riding the tram from Mitcham
to Croydon?
Answers can be found on page 14
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Photo Quiz—The Old Mills Can you identify these mills?
Answers can be found on page 14
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Quiz Two
Q1 What took place at The Spread Eagle Inn, Wandsworth on 4th June
1801?
Q2 Which naval leader is said to have fished the River Wandle and
watched cricket at Mitcham?
Q3 There were four mills at Mitcham Bridge. One was a snuff mill.
Which famous Elizabethan person had their name associated with it?
Q4 Which public house stood at what is said to be the start of the
Croydon branch of the River Wandle?
Q5 Which textile designer and printer would you associate with the flora
of London?
Q6 Before they moved to the Morden Hall Estate which home did the
Hatfeild family occupy?
Q7 What was the name of the company based at Wimbledon Mill who
supplied copper vats to Young & Co, Wandsworth?
Q8 What are the bleaching grounds owned by the Reynolds family now
known by?
Q9 John Smeaton, a civil engineer, was well known by millers along the
Wandle Valley. Which type of waterwheel did he design?
Q10 First recorded on the River Wandle in 1303 at a mill in Wandsworth
what industry, lasting into the mid-1600s, are we speaking off?
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Photo Quiz—Birds of the Wandle Valley Can you identify these birds?
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Quiz Three
Q1 Which industry do you associate the Potter & Moore with?
Q2 In 1610 there was a plan to extract water from the River Wandle to
supply London. Which Monarch was on the throne?
Q3 As well as block printing which other method was used for printing
fabric in the 1700s?
Q4 What is the name of the manmade water channel that runs from
Morden Hall Park to Phipps Bridge?
Q5 Which palace was built using stone that was taken from Merton
Priory?
Q6 The largest waterwheel on the River Wandle measured 18 feet
diameter by 14 feet wide. Which mill was it located at?
Q7 “The Adoration of the Magi” was a tapestry work made by Morris &
Co but who designed it?
Q8 What type of stream is the River Wandle?
Q9 Water for Grove Mill, Carshalton came from a tributary to the River
Wandle. Part of it was carried on a length of artificial embankment which
was given what name?
Q10 The Littler family took over the site at Merton Abbey, now Merton
Abbey Mills, in 1883. At the time where else did they have works?
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Quiz Four
Q1 St Mary’s Church, Beddington has an organ loft decorated by which
Victorian designer?
Q2 What is the name of the civil engineers who carried out a survey of
the River Wandle in the mid-1800s?
Q3 Chuter & Sons produced which leather product?
Q4 What is the name given to fine high-quality parchment?
Q5 The name of Josiah Dewye is associated with which product?
Q6 What are the upper stone and lower stone called for the milling of
corn or flour?
Q7 How many mills on the River Wandle were listed in the Domesday
Survey of 1086?
Q8 What was the name given to a person who bleached calico?
Q9 If there is reference made to a ‘Drug Mill’ what are they producing?
Q10 What was the relationship between John Leach and Thomas Bennett
who were calico printers at Merton Abbey?
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Missing Letters Put in the missing letters to identify these people who were involved in the
Wandle Valley textile and calico industry.
1 Wi_l_a_ _or_is
2 _a_u_l M_k_p_a_e
3 P_t_r _a_v_lli_n
4 _o_n A_bu_h_ot_
5 _ra_ci_ N_x_n
6 H_nr_ G_rd_n_r
7 J_h_ _e_ch
8 _dm_nd L_itl_r
9 Th_ma_ _ey_o_ds
10 _il_i_m K_lb_rn
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Photo Quiz—Fish of the River Wandle Can you identify these fish?
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Quiz Five
Q1 There was only one windmill on the River Wandle but which mill
was it part of?
Q2 The Ashby family were operating Lower Mill, Carshalton from 1864
and later Grove Mill, Mitcham. Which mill elsewhere in South London
did they move from and then return to in 1902?
Q3 Which firm would you associate ‘Daffodil’, ‘Poppy’, ‘Fritillary’ and
‘Daisy’ with?
Q4 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Millais were
members, with others, of which group?
Q5 William De Morgan never made money from his ceramics. Instead he
forged a highly successful career as what?
Q6 Which designer for Morris & Co was the author Rudyard Kipling
related to?
Q7 What type of mill are edge runners and pestle and mortar used in?
Q8 Mitcham is known for its lavender but which other plant is it also well
for?
Q9 What was happening in North America at the time Wandsworth
calico printer Henry Gardiner was supplying printed cloth to that market?
Q10 What took place at Merton Priory in 1235/6?
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Photo Quiz All these pictures were taken after 2010. Can you identify the location?
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Quiz Six
Q1 May Morris helped with the founding of which organisation?
Q2 John Smeaton founded which society in 1771?
Q3 What was the location of the works where Francis Nixon and
Theophilus Thompson developed copperplate textile printing?
Q4 What happened at Grove Mill, Mitcham in 1907?
Q5 What was the full title of the report produced by Frederick
Braithwaite on the Wandle?
Q6 Which year was the River Wandle Protection Act put in place?
Q7 William Kilburn was a witness in 1787 for a petition for which Act of
Parliament?
Q8 John Anthony Rucker is known for ‘Rucker’s Cut’ at Phipps Bridge.
How much did he have to pay to Mitcham Vestry annually after building
it?
Q9 Which mill along the River Wandle would you associate the name
“Curteis”?
Q10 The WIM logo on the front of this book shows the remains of a
chimney and waterwheel at Willow Lane Calico Printing Works,
Mitcham. What did the works become after they closed?
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Quiz One
1. William De Morgan
2. 1929
3. George Welch
4. James Taddy & Co
5. Connolly Brothers
6. Watney
7. Francis Nixon
8. Trout
9. Hog Pit Pond, Carshalton Park
10. Surrey Iron Railway
Photo Quiz—The Old Mills
1. Morden Hall Snuff Mills
2. Liberty Print Works (Merton Abbey Mills)
3. Butter Hill, Carshalton
4. Connolly’s Leather Works, Colliers Wood
5. Deeds Mill, Mitcham
6. Grove Mill, Mitcham Bridge
7. Morris Works, Merton Abbey
8. Ravensbury Mill, Morden
9. Middle Mill, Wandsworth
10. Chuters & Sons, Wimbledon Mill
Crossword One
DOWN ACROSS
1 Hawks 7 Walthamstow
2 Domesday 9 Worsfold
3 George 11 Ravensbury
4 Jane 12 Oxford
5 Corn 13 Horses
6 London 16 Wheelhouse
8 Tesco 17 Sainsburys
10 Wandsworth 18 Snuff
14 Nelson 20 Alphabet
15 Thames
19 Upper
Quiz Two
1. Committee of management for the
Surrey Iron Railway formed.
2. Lord Nelson
3. Walter Raleigh
4. Swan & Sugar Loaf, South Croydon
5. William Kilburn (Flora Londinensis)
6. Wandle Villa
7. (Edmund & William) Pontifex
8. The Culvers.
9. Overshot Wheel
10. Fulling.
Photo Quiz—Birds of the Wandle
Valley
1. Wren
2. Robin
3. Great Tit
4. Chaffinch (Male)
5. Mullard (Female)
6. Grey Heron
7. Moorhen
8. Kingfisher
9. Pied Wagtail
Quiz Three
1. Lavender or Herbal Distilling
2. James I of England/James IV of
Scotland
3. Copperplate
4. Rucker’s Cut
5. Nonsuch
6. Wimbledon Mill
7. Edward Burne-Jones
8. Chalk Stream
9. Westcroft Canal
10. Waltham Abbey and West Ham
(River Lea)
Quiz One
1. William De Morgan
2. 1929
3. George Welch
4. James Taddy & Co
5. Connolly Brothers
6. Watney
7. Francis Nixon
8. Trout
9. Hog Pit Pond, Carshalton Park
10. Surrey Iron Railway
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Crossword Two
DOWN ACROSS
2 Vellum 1 Middle Mill
3 Madder 4 Morris
6 Fulling 5 Thirteen
7 Liberty 8 Surrey Iron Railway
9 Galley 10 Mill Pond
11 Young’s 12 Nonsuch
14 Wind 13 Connolly’s
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Quiz Four
1. William Morris
2. Frederick Braithwaite
3. Chamois
4. Vellum
5. Gunpowder
6. Upper—The runner, Lower—
Bedstone
7. 13
8. Whitster
9. Dyes
10. Bennett was Leach’s son-in-law Missing Letters
1. William Morris
2. Samuel Makepeace
3. Peter Mauvillain
4. John Arbuthnott
5. Francis Nixon
6. Henry Gardiner
7. John Leach
8. Edmund Littler
9. Thomas Reynolds
10. William Kilburn
Photo Quiz—Fish of the
River Wandle
1. Perch
2. Stickleback (Three Spine)
3. Chub
4. Dace
5. Roach
6. Gudgeon
7. Pike
8. Smelt
9. Trout
10. Flounder
Quiz Five
1. Middle Mill, Wandsworth
2. Brixton Windmill
3. Morris & Co
4. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
5. Novelist
6. He was nephew of Edward Burne-
Jones
7. Snuff Mills
8. Black Mitcham Peppermint
9. The America Revolution
10. The Statue of Merton was drawn up
in the Chapter House
Photo Quiz—Photos since 2010
1. Cart Run, Carshalton Ponds
2. Fisheries Cottages, Mitcham Bridge
3. Restored Waterwheel, Morden Hall
Park
4. Paper Mill Cut, Watermeads
5. Ravensbury Park route marker
6. Morden Hall Park
7. Canon Bridges’ Bridge, Beddington
Park
8. Stable Block Tower and Clock,
Young’s at Wandsworth
9. Butter Hill, Carshalton
10. Mill Green, Mitcham
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Quiz Six
1. Women’s Guild of Arts
2. Society of Civil Engineers
3. Drumcondra, Dublin
4. The original mill was destroyed by fire.
5. On the Rise and Fall of the River Wandle;
its Springs, Tributaries and Pollution
6. 1908
7. Calico Printers’ Act
8. One Guinea (£1.05)
9. Carshalton Paper Mill
10. To grow watercress and as a pig farm.
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How did you do?
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this book that your knowledge of the heritage
and history of the industries and people of the
Wandle Valley has improved.
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