Mitcham Roads: Sunshine Way
Channel: Mitcham Notes
Date: 2023-04-11

Named for its 'sunshine' houses that built designed for TB sufferers, Sunshine Way was opened to families rehoused from inner London slums in 1936.

This video tells the story from an article which appeared in the Church Times. 

"The Smith family - there are ten of them – eight children. They lived in two tiny rooms, and had to have a double bed in the kitchen. It stretched right from the wall to the fire-place, so there was no room for a table. They always had their meals off the bed."

The TB patios were converted into bedrooms in 1988. Photos included show an incident when a skip lorry overturned during these works, crushing some parked cars.

Sunshine Way on Mitcham History Notes https://mitchamhistorynotes.com/2015/05/23/sunshine-way/

OS map is reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland, reuse CC-BY https://maps.nls.uk/view/102901582#zoom=4&lat=6662&lon=5303&layers=BT