John Eustace Anderson, the Clerk to the Parish, wrote in 1898, that in 1854 people used generally to call all that part of Mortlake on the south side of the Upper Richmond Road East Sheen. Then some said the railway divided East Sheen and Mortlake.

In a straw poll at the Barnes Home Guard Club last night during a talk on the history of the area, the vote was 45-5 (approximately) in favour of a division by the railway.

That’s settled then!

“Sheen House, Mortlake, and its inhabitants.” British Library