Marion (Ion) Road, Thornton Heath

[goff153]

I believe Ion Road in Thornton Heath was re-named Marion Road after WW2.  I know many of the houses were destroyed or extensively damaged by a V2 in 1944 but why the change of name?

[lizdb]

Anything about it on here?
http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V1_summary_cr7.html

[Talmage]

Friends of my parents, whom we called aunt and uncle, lived in Marion Road during and after the war and my aunt was badly injured when the house was bombed. Presumably this was the attack to which you refer.
I remember visiting them there after the war so I assume the houses were repaired.
We always knew it as Marion Road and my parents always referred to it as such and I thought it was called that when they lived there during the war so it is strange that it had another name.
Talmage

[Pastmagic]

http://www.cleis.org.uk/cdb-4.0/node/1589

Ion Road
District: Thornton Heath
This road, although very short, only 155 yds long, has had a very eventful history. It dates from 1874 having obtained its planning permission as a cul-de-sac from Bensham Manor Road. It was seven years in 1880 that the first pair of semi-detached houses (originally numbered 1 and 2 but becoming Nos. 10 and 12) were built on the north side, immediately west of the Norbury Brook. Late in the following year five more pairs [3-12](14-32) had joined them while development had begun on the south side. Here, two pairs of houses [1-4](1-7) were erected on the north side of the Norbury Brook and a pair [6,7](11,13) on the other side. These were collectively known as Clifton Villas but in 1882 a detached house [5](9) and three more pairs [8-13](15-25) joined those on the south side. The last two pairs [14-17](27-33) completed that side in 1883. The road was renumbered in 1888 and it is that numbering that is given in round brackets. In October 1938 the name of the road was changed to Marion Road.

Link(s):
Marion Road

Lots of random results for people who lived there at different times - here are two examples:


There was an Ion rd in Thornton Heath in 1900:
The Electrical review: Volume 47
1900  AE Tester, 12, Ion Road, Thornton Heath, clerk

And in 1918:
Rifleman 608406, B Coy 2/5th London Rifle Brigade died of wounds 25th March 1918 age 22. Son of George & Ann of 18, Ion Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Born at Croydon. Buried at Cambrai East Military Cemetery,