8 - Sanderstead Smithy, Limpsfield Road, Sanderstead
Plaque unveiled Nov 7th 1992
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| Plaque 8 - Holy Family Church Hall. Limpsfield Road (Sanderstead Smithy) |
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| Plaque situated above window to left of front door |
The Old Smithy at Sanderstead was the site of the Bourne Society's latest blue plaque in the series commemorating historical places around the Society's area. After perusing the list of possible sites for the next plaque, Council had in mind the desire to commemorate not only a place or building of historic interest, but an anniversary as well, and negotiations with Father Hartley of the Roman Catholic church at Sanderstead caused a sudden leap in the plans to install the plaque in a hurry.
The design was agreed by a small subcommittee within Council, and the proposed wording refined and augmented with reference to Father Hartley at Sanderstead, and the precise siting of the plaque upon the building was decided upon. Then the plaque was commissioned, manufactured, collected, and fixed with just one day to go before the anniversary which it commemorated, along with the historical aspect.
Members travelling along the Limpsfield Road may like to stop outside the Old Smithy, and read the inscription on the Bourne Society plaque now affixed to the building. The Old Smithy is on the east side of the road, a few hundred yards past the Mitchley Hill junction when travelling towards Croydon, more or less opposite the Mitchley Hill Chapel. It is plaque number 8 in our series, and a detailed account of each of them will appear with the installation of plaque number 10, due late 1993 or early 1994.
From Bourne Society Bulletin 151 (February 1993)
