Build 1 — 18 August 2026

The Metallurgicon Street Directory

Wandsworth, Clapham, Balham, Tooting, Garratt & Wimbledon, 1867
Directory pages 61–111

This page is a full transcription of the 51 surviving directory pages (pp. 61–111) of The Metallurgicon, a Victorian local street directory covering Wandsworth and its immediate neighbours — Clapham, Balham, Garratt, Tooting and Wimbledon — published in 1867 by Gray and Lucas, ironmongers, of 12 High Street, Wandsworth, whose own shop gave the directory its name. Each of the 3,022 entries below records a name, trade or description, the street, and (where the original gives one) a side of the road, a named terrace, villa row or court, and a house number, together with the directory page it was transcribed from.

Use the search box to find a name, trade or street across the whole directory, or browse street-by-street below in the order the original directory presents them.

No entries match that search.

Notes on this transcription

Page numbering. The uploaded scan's own filename (pp. 61–111) matches the directory's printed page numbers exactly, which run 61–111 across the 51 scanned pages; the citations below ("p.87" etc.) are those printed page numbers, not PDF page numbers.

How entries are structured. The original directory is laid out street by street, each with a "From…to…" range description and separate "On right."/"On left." columns; within a side, the printed page sometimes further breaks entries into a named terrace, villa row, place or court (shown as a small side-margin label running down several consecutive entries). Where the original marked a numbered house, that number is preserved; unnumbered entries (the majority, especially for professional/gentry households) are listed in original order without a number. Bracketed notes such as "[Here cross Plough Lane.]" or distance markers ("Four-mile radius from Charing Cross.") are preserved as they appear, since they help place an entry on the ground.

Same street name, different place. Several street names recur in more than one part of the directory's coverage area and refer to genuinely different streets (not directory error) — the directory covers Wandsworth, Clapham, Balham, Garratt/Tooting and Wimbledon as separate named districts, several of which independently had a "High Street", "Church Street", "Merton Road" or "New Road". These have been distinguished in this transcription with a place suffix (e.g. "HIGH STREET, Wandsworth" vs "HIGH STREET, Clapham" vs "HIGH STREET, Lower Tooting") so they browse and search as separate streets; the original printed pages do not carry this suffix.

Uncertain readings. A handful of entries carry a bracketed [name uncertain in scan] flag where a terrace/villa name or a house number could not be read with confidence from the scan, rather than being silently guessed. These are worth a second look against the original scan or a period map/trade directory before being treated as fact. A small number of duplicate house numbers appearing on the same line (e.g. two entries both numbered "9" in the same terrace) are transcribed exactly as printed — this is a known quirk of Victorian directory typesetting (often a shopkeeper and a private resident sharing one building) and has not been "corrected."

Light corrections made in transcription. A few obvious scanning/typesetting slips have been silently normalised (e.g. "Aldreman" → "Alderman"); nothing has been corrected where there was genuine doubt about what the original said.

Cross-reference. This directory sits alongside the site's other primary-source transcription projects (the Cecil Tudor Davis churchwardens' accounts, the Davis 1949 Mount Nod burials transcription) as raw material for future research — for instance, it may help pin down exactly which houses stood where on North Side, Wandsworth in 1867, relevant to the still-open "Lakeview Terrace"/Porden-house question elsewhere in this folder.