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5 volumes of Registers of Cases, and related loose papers, kept by Elsie Susan Turrell, midwife, of 27 Limes Road, West Croydon

1) Croydon Local Board of Health.
Contract no. 5 Sheet no.1
Plan of dome/Plan at AB on Section thro EF
Scale 4 feet to an inch
N.D.

2) Croydon Local Board of Health
Contract No.5 Sheet No.2
Sections of service reservoir
[Scale bar damaged]
N.D.

3) Croydon Local Board of Health
Contract No.5 Sheet No. 3/4 [Combined on one sheet]
Section of valve pit/Section of Pandrill shewing dormer for Man-hole/Elevation of Discharging Arch H and filling in Spandrill/Elevation [for dormer for Man-hole]/Section of Spandrill shewing waste and cleansing pipes
Scale 4 feet to an inch
N.D.

4) Croydon Corporation Waterworks Park Hill Reservoir
Plan at Base/[Part Section]
Scale 4 feet to 1 inch
N.D.

5) Water Tower Improvements 1889 [Details drawings of plans/sections/elevations shewing tank/internal staircase/roof/turret/ornamental work and windows (exterior) etc]
1889

6) Park Hill Water Tower War Damage Repairs
Drawing No.1 (dated 11 August 1954)
Architect George Lowe FRIBA in association with A.F.Holt AMICE, Borough Engineer and Surveyor.
[Detail drawings showing repairs to damaged turret]
1954

7) Proposed re-roofing to Park Hill Water Tower
[Plan and section dated 30 January 1959]
1959

Scrapbook of cuttings, and printed ephemera, etc, of Ernest W Wimble, mainly re his three campaigns as Labour candidate for election to Croydon Corporation, 1920, 1922 and 1923. 2 cuttings re his visit to Russia in 1934.

Notebook and photographs belonging to Mary Neville-Kaye, a teacher from Overbury School evacuated to Lee, near Ilfracoombe in Devon, 1940 - 1942.

1938 Examination Papers of Violet Botting (nee Quirk) at Lady Edridge School.
1970 Lady Edridge Magazine.

Receipted bills for household furniture supplied to F H Day, of 58 Ashburton Road, East Croydon

Contains authors correspondence and press clippings.

Personal papers of Frederick George Creed (1871-1957), inventor of the teleprinter, including family papers, patents, drawings and correspondence regarding his invention of the 'Seadrome', and other variations on ocean platforms, and the papers of his widow Mrs V.GL. Creed

File of correspondence of Alfred T Underwood with Knight Frank and Rutley, re proposed sale of Fairfield Estate, Croydon.

The Fairfield Halls Collection consists of:

1. programmes and diaries for events in both the main and auxiliary spaces (these comprise the majority of the collection). There is also a finding aid created from the published events diaries which list the majority of public facing events that were held at the Fairfield Halls. This can be searched by staff to resolve queries.
2. marketing materials such as posters and flyers
3. photographs documenting the construction of the building and key events
4. administrative records
5. material relating to the Fairfield Halls Corps of Stewards

1. Newspaper cutting relating to evacuation, Evening Argus 15 February 1940

2. Postcard from a Prisoner of War camp 1944, author John Darnley, addressed to Mr A G Hadler

3. Photograph of water wagon c.1914

4. Photograph of the Imperial Airways switchboard, Purley Way, Croydon

5. Pencil list of extension numbers for the Redwing Air Co Ltd switchboard

6. Croydon Letter Card depicting scenes from Croydon

6 items:

1. Newspaper cutting relating to evacuation, Evening Argus 15 February
   1940
   2.Postcard from a PoW camp 1944, author John Darnley, addressed to
   Mr A G Hadler
   3.Photograph of donors grandfather standing beside a water wagon
   c.1914?
   4.Photograph of Mrs D Hadley, mother of donor, at the Imperial
   Airways switchboard, Purley Way, Croydon
   5.Pencil list of extension numbers for the Imperial Airways switchboard
   6.Croydon Letter Card depicting scenes from Croydon

Letter of good wishes sent by Father Arthur Tooth to Woodside [Ashburton] library. Sent from Otford Court: Father Tooth hopes that Every good success welfare attend the people of Woodside in their use of the Library recreation ground; and recalls his happy years spent at Woodside.

Field Book of Portnalls Farm, Coulsdon. Plans by Moore and Son, with table of reference; inside back cover, plan of field 13-19, in relation to fields existing in 1951.

Exercise book, evidently intended as a temporary measure, containing photographs of outings, mainly hikes or rambles. The photographs were taken between 1929-1933 (list included) and 1956-1957. Some of the participants are named. A note towards the end of the scrapbooks states that some of the photographs were not inserted until 1983.

Ration book that belonged to the Atkins family of 72 St James Road, Croydon

Florrie Elizabeth Tolfree's photograph album of Holy Trinity School and Selhurst Grammar School

1) Ellen Sarah Dickinson; letters of administration granted 10 August 1876 of the personal estate of Mary Dickinson late of 89 Albert Road.
2) Miss J. Ford, 1896. Abstract of title of Miss Ford and another to leasehold premises known as Elm Bank, Chepstow Road, Croydon
3) Appointment of new trustees of settlement in the will of Ann Skeet
4) Deed of indemnity and creation of power of appointment for the benefit of John Watton Teevan

1 vol