Talk:Thames Ditton

message: "formal tone"
What can we do to ensure a formal tone..? --Lisa halley 19:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The milk marketing board was (still is?) head quartered in Thames Ditton.  It seems the article should mention this.  I don't have sources, otherwise would have added it myself.
Apdevries 19:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The MMB disappeared some 5-10 years ago, and was replaced by an estate of expensive houses.Gavin Wilson 20:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Milk marketing board

message: Just when you think you've seen it all on Wikipedia - a section devoted to listing the various post boxes in Thames Ditton (with their locations). Actually, a list of post boxes is a good idea, if I'm ever driving through Thames Ditton and have a sudden need to post a letter, I could log on to Wikipedia and find this vital information.
Whoever thinks this belongs in an encyclopedia should also compile a list of the locatons of telephone boxes, bus stops, zebra crossings, litter bins, parking meters, etc, etc.
-- I totally agree  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.198.156 (talk) 09:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post Box Locations 

message: The description in the opening paragraphs that:
::The village takes the approximate shape of a triangle, bounded by the Hampton Court Way to the west, and the old Portsmouth Road to the south and east.
is untrue, and quite upsetting to the residents of Thorkhill Road, the Rushett area etc, all of which are to the south of the Portsmouth Road yet still squarely part of TD. Thegn 19:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Boundaries of TD

message: I've removed the tone tag and general edited the contents. I hope it's OK with everyone. It would be nice to have a good picture of the village to put at the top. I don't know how to enlarge the speakers picture. It looks fairly pathetic at the moment. I am concerned that there are no references for Celestion. SuzanneKn 19:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tone

message: I've supplied a photo;  and a ref for Rola Celestion; and also the MMB.  Also added info on the Burton Foundry and on Willans and Robinson. Monority (talk) 22:14, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work Motmit (talk) 00:58, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: I've checked Domesday's ref to Ditone being in Kingston Hundred and also checked the Domesday entry for Weston (Green) in Elmbridge Hundred, then amending the text concerning the possible confusion.  I've been reading a history of Kingston, which suffered a chequered past and was frequently pillaged or despoiled by troops of various fighting factions billeted there. In the 1800s it descended into general iniquity! Just 3.5 miles away, Thames Ditton seems to have been too insignificant to be affected by any of that.  However, along with its belonging to Kingston Hundred, TD's legal (Kingston Assizes and quarter sessions) and police structures (including the Met police 1840-2000), the church (pre-Domesday to 1769), and later the care of the poor (after 1834) along with metropolitan water supplies place the village administratively with Kingston for the most part. After 1769 Thames Ditton became a separate parish incorporating Long Ditton, Hinchley Wood, Weston Green and Claygate (which last split off to form a further parish in 1841. As much petty administration, inlcuding local roads, health, education and elementary justice, was centred on parish structures this must also have marked a divergence from Kingston administration.  It is only after 1894 (Local Government Act) that we find TD emerging under Esher/Surrey administration, where Weston Green had always been.  At least two attempts since by the Royal Borough to reabsorb the Dittons have been rejected (which after WW2 took a good deal of lobbying and presenting of a case to the Boundaries Commission).
Does anyone have material to indicate whether the river was fordable at Thames Ditton in the 1500s, or whether ferries were the only means of crossing at that time? Monority (talk) 08:21, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: At that time the river here was tidal so it may have been possible to cross at low tide. The Thames Ditton Island article suggests so - it also points out that the islands were considered as belonging to the Middlesex side. However it is all poorly referenced. Motmit (talk) 08:34, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ..and a bit more

message: We must add something on Boyle Farm / Home of Compassion!
Also on the two conservation areas and perhaps some other significant buildings.  I'll get round to it unless someone else wnats to have a go first... Monority (talk) 09:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Boyle Farm and other buildings

message: I've now tracked down refs in the Eynsham Cartulary and Thames Ditton, the boundaries of which are there described, was together with land in Esher bequeathed to Aethelmaer.  Salter's footnotes to his translation of the cartulary in 1907 assert that Thames Ditton was in Elmbridge Hundred, and though he gives no reference for that assertion it seems quite possible that in Eynsham days, it was.  However, by Domesday it is in Kingston Hundred along with Long Ditton and 'Ember' - the latter two both 'held by Picot from Richard'.
So I've amended the early history para again.... Monority (talk) 11:16, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: More on Hundreds

message: I've cut out the reference to Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (naval strategist and historian) that someone had inserted.  According to the Dictionary of National Biography he wasn't born nor did he die in TD. Corbett, Sir Julian Stafford (1854–1922), naval historian, the second son of Charles Joseph Corbett, architect and property developer, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Byrne, was born on 12 November 1854 at Walcot House, Kennington Road, Lambeth, London.  He died at Manor Farm, Stopham, Pulborough, Sussex, on 21 September 1922  —Preceding  Monority (talk • contribs) 13:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Corbett excised

message: Andy White, a session drummer notable for replacing Ringo Starr for The Beatles first recording session at Abbey Road studios on 11 September 1962, was at that time a resident of Thames Ditton living at 21 Thorkhill Gardens. Perhaps the article could do with a bit of rock and rolling. I lived in TD for a while - beautiful. Patthedog (talk) 10:37, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Andy White (drummer)]] 

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