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[edit] Famous Residents

I have heard that Cat Stevens lived in Elm Road, there is a house with a large mural down the side near the junction with Chestnut Avenue. I also heard that Eric Clapton grew up in New Malden. I also think that the footballers Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Gianluca Vialli and other Chelsea footballers lived in New Malden whilst playing for Chelsea.

- R.E. Chelsea footballers. I used to work in Blockbusters in New Malden and the rest of the staff would occasionally get very excited because apparently the Chelsea goalkeeper was a regular and they'd point him out and whisper to each other everytime he came in. I didn't have a clue who he was as I don't like football so i'd just serve him with the normal contempt I had for all out customers.

I grew up in New Malden (22 Poplar grove) Through the war years & until I joined the Royal Navy in 1953, I went to Lime Grove, Elm Road & Beverly schools, Beverley had a link with Chelsea F.C. as we had professional coaching for football, & it was Chelsea goalkeeper Harry Medhurst who came to Beverley for this. (billandkate@hotmail.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.138.172.72 (talk) 16:11, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Not quite what you had in mind... but it is said that in the 1940s Glenn Miller and his band played at Barton Green Pavilion (now Barton Green Theatre) in Elm Road! He apparently rehearsed there for gigs to entertain US troops stationed in Bushy Park. The only evidence is hearsay - some elderly locals told me. JonC

Can't confirm the above, but I read ages ago that Dame Nellie Melba lived here and Lord Liverpool (three-time prime minister) while President Eisenhower's wartime residence was further away at Worcester Park. Any confirmation available on these?

- Eisenhower did live in New Malden during the war, he apparently worked from a house in the estate at the top of trapps lane. I don't know whether New Malden was chosen because it has a depressing atmosphere and so was more conducive to war.

After googling the names of the newer "famous residents" I've got to ask if there's a good reason why they should be included.

The recently- added local politicians/youth representatives get a few hundred hits when googled compared with Alec Stewart 127.000 John Martyn 528,000 Dave Swarbrick 110,000 Max Wall 82,200 Mr. Woo 101,000. If nobody objects in the next few days I'll move these new political ones to this talk page until someone gives a good explanation why they're famous enough to belong in the main article.Zagubov 20:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC) I suggest we move this sentence here; "Youth leader Michael Joslin and politician Nick Parrott are also famous residents". This can be returned if it's shown why they're famous. The Sri Lankan broadcast pioneer Vernon Corea was a New Malden resident who scores a simiilar Google hit rate but was far more famous outside the English speaking world, and so probably better deserves to be included, being a household name for many years in a Commonwealth country.

[edit] Farm?

Hello, there was a farm that ran between the train track and Alric Avenue, I remember animals grazing below the footbridge that connects Dukes Avenue to Alric Avenue. Suddenly it vanished, any history to this eerie disappearance? The land appears to be derelict today, someone said that an old train track used to run from here to Raynes Park.

"Webbies"? Is there any confirmation of this; I've lived in New Malden most of my life, and I've _never_ heard of this...

The land between the railway and Alric Avenue has a huge mains water pipe beneath it so I don't think anything would or could be built on top of it. You could always hear chickens when you were on the railway platform in the 70s.


I lived in New Malden for 20 years and never heard the term, which doesnt nmean its wrong. It is wrong to call NM a new town. Its called new to distinguish it from Old Malden to the south but most of it was developed in the 19th century and as normal suburban development.

Lumos3 09:12, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

About the number of Koreans - httpxxxxxx/newmalden/archive/2005/01/24/gbmg0nlebdj6.htm states a number as high as 20,000, and several other sites say that the number of Koreans in SW London is over 20,000

I have amended the statement of what New Malden comprises, to make clear that it includes the Motspur Park area. Colin McLaughlin 09:41, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leafy?

Leafy is vague. I grew up in New Malden. The areas around the Golf Course are definately leafy but other areas, like near the A3, are grey grey grey. I hate the term leafy it gives the wrong impression of an area.


Hi Something weird's going on- I'm new to this but when I open this page and try to add to it I get the following notice (quoting it here in full:

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I put a gap onto what I think is the dodgy link but am worried I'm breaking with etiquette on this point Now I got this warning even when I didn't change the edit by a single letter! Does this mean this page is uneditable ? Not complaing -have found the wikipedia user-friendly until now, first instance of a user-hostile warning. What's going on? Just how can I bypass this? Zagubov 00:58, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dull intro

Don't mean to be rude, but isn't the intro to a little dull? It reads like it was written by some superannuated Geography teacher. 'Its 3.4 miles east of this and 5 miles west of this, there is a deciduous forest on your right and a steep incline on your left, with a paelolithic grid reference at the back.' If you look at other town pages on Wikipedia they often start with some sort of boast or claim that must make their inhabitants proud to live there. Anyone reading this page would get the impression that New Malden was competing to become known as one of the dreariest places in the British Isles.

So what should go in its place? Whenever I explain New Malden to people the first thing I say (and most people say) is that it has the biggest Korean community in Europe and basically it is close to London without all the downsides - e.g. high crime, bleak architecture, urban alienation etc. The first one is easier to quantify - how about a someone writing down the reason all the Koreans came to New Malden? One story I heard was that the Japanese moved here first in the 1970s and the Koreans followed, but then the Japanese moved out. Goldgreen 4 May 2007


I heard the Korean embassy used to be/ambassador used to live in Wimbledon and advised visiting businesspeople to rent there - until prices rocketed after which they recommended New Malden as being only two stops further out but better schools, crime rate, environment, prices etc. However this needs checking and I don't have great sources for this. Anybody got any info? Zagubov 20:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Constituency

I believe that part of NM is in the Richmond Park parliamentary constituency. 82.163.24.100 12:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beverely Park

Does anyone have a short history of New Malden's park they could include, it doesn't get a mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.14.152.15 (talk) 01:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Google Maps

Does anyone know why the Wiki entry for New Malden appears in Google Maps as being on Kingston Hill? The co-ordinates look OK to me, so where is Google getting the location from?