Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam charter commemoration tablet
The Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam was one of the local authorities that merged to form the London Borough of Sutton in 1965.
A tablet commemorating the grant of the charter of incorporation to the borough on 12 September 1934 stands in the car park of The Woodstock pub at the junction of Stonecot Hill and Sutton Common Road. The tablet was erected on the 21st anniversary of the granting of the charter, presumably on or around 12 September 1955.
It bears an image of the coat of arms of the borough and the inscription:
BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND CHEAM
ON THE 12TH SEPTEMBER 1934
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE ACTING LORD MAYOR OF LONDON,
ALDERMAN THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD EBBISHAM OF COBHAM. C.B.E., D.L.,
ACCOMPANIED BY THE SHERIFFS AND BEARING THE CHARTER OF INCORPORATION
GRANTED TO THE BOROUGH BY HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V.
WAS RECEIVED NEAR THIS SPOT BY
THE CHARTER MAYOR, COUNCILLOR SIDNEY H. MARSHALL. J.P., C.C.,
TOGETHER WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND
THE CHARTER TOWN CLERK H. BOLTON ESQ., M.B.E.
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY ORDER OF THE
BOROUGH COUNCIL ON OCCASION OF THE
21ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE GRANTING OF THE CHARTER.
ALDERMAN D. SPARKS. M.B.E., J.P., MAYOR
