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1) Evidences of title re properties at North End, Croydon, Surrey, 1845-1906
2) Leases of Woodside Gate Farm (site/property of Croydon Hospital), 1863-1890

1) Marriage settlement by Mary Gilpin and Alderman Winterbottom; grant of annuity; conveyance (by lease and release) and other deeds and papers, all re farm and land in the borough of Bensham, parish of Croydon. 1752; 1762; 1772; 1781; 1800
2) Agreement between Thomas Farrimond of Thrnton Heath, engineer, and Edward Cross, tobacconist of London, re the manufacture and sale of the Farrimond tobacco pipe, 1926

Croydon Borough Council

Seal Registers

No 10 March 1961 June 1964
No 11 June 1964 March 1965
No 1 February 1965 February 1969
No 2 February 1969 October 1973
No 3 October 1973 May 1979
No 4 May 1979 September 1982
No 5 September 1982 June 1985
No 6 June 1985 October 1987
No 7 October 1987 March 1990

Documents signed by the Town Clerk

September 1965 January 1974

Miscellaneous Documents Register

January 1974 August 1982

Registers of Undertakings and Agreements

February 1898 September1910
No 2 July 1911 July 1936
No 3 August 1936 March 1974

Water Mains Extensions Registers of Agreements

No 1 January 1911 January 1974

Property Registers

September 1969 October 1972
November 1972 March 1987

Mortgage Redemption Signature Books

May 1969 July 1992

Sanctions to Loans etc

July 1883 April 1891
No 2 April 1891 January 1897
January 1897 December 1905
February 1906 December 1918
No 3 February 1919 August 1924
No 4 August 1924 July 1929
No 5 September 1929 April 1933
No 6 April 1933 July 1937
No 7 July 1939 May 1940

Record of Disclosures and Notices, Contracts, etc

1938 1965

Coulsdon Purley UDC

Registers of Agreements and Policies

March 1880 March 1965

Registers of Sales

May 1954 February 1961

Mortgage Registers

No 1 October 1923 October 1948
No 2 December 1948 February 1953
No 3 January 1953 January 1955
No 4 March 1955 September 1957
No 5 June 1957 October 1962
No 6 October 1962 October 1964

Declarations on Acceptance of Office

April 1915 April 1922
April 1922 April 1927
April 1927 April 1930
April 1930 May 1936 April 1936 April 1947
April 1947 May 1952
May 1953 December 1960
May 1961 May 1964

Record of Disclosures and General Notices

May 1936 September 1963

6 vols:
1) Minutes of the meeting of Special Sub Committee: Junior College Scheme, Grammar School Places, December 1954-November 1955
2) Special Sub Committee for Secondary Reorganisation 2.10.1961-6.2.1975 (4 vols)
3) Reorganisation of Secondary Education: records of Consultative Meetings, January 1969-1971

Plans, photographs and other papers of Croydon Foundry Ltd.

Special licences for marriages at Addington Church

Deeds to The Priory, Upper Norwood

Typescript copies of minutes (including AGMs); list of of names of former members, taken from available records

Abstract of title re 35, 37, 39, and 41 Macclesfield Road, Woodside

Photograph of Frank Grant as a corporal in Royal Flying Corps uniform; RFC forage cap, button and sergeants stripes; First World War medal and ribbon; Surrey Flying Services Ltd memorandum and Articles of Association, 1931; photograph of Avro G-EBFW owned by Surrey Flying Services; photocopies of newspaper clipping re purchase of Cessna plane, and photographs of Frank Grant with Cessna C-34 and his pilots.

Frank Grant (uncle of donor) was born in Hooe in 1896, and served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as a Corporal and later as a Sergeant. He moved to Purley in the 1920s, where he met and married his wife Kathleen. He formed Surrey Flying Services, based at Croydon Airport, in 1921, and the firm became a limited company in 1931. In 1936 he went to New York with a Mr Turner, a noted British pilot, where he was appointed agent for the Cessna Aircraft Co in Britain and other European countries. Mr Turner subsequently bought the first Cessna-C34 through Grants agency. Grant spent the Second World War as an Aircraft Engineer at a factory at Sanderstead, and after the war joined the Civil Service. He died in 1959.

Messrs A T Bennett and H F Worskett. Recites back to 1885. With plan.

Agreement re erection of fences and the observance of building lines. Includes land around New Lane, Dingwall Road, Lansdown Road, Middle Heath Lane, Bedford Place, St James Road, Brighton and South Coast Railway line. With plan.

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

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

Papers relating (mainly) to the estates of Mrs M E Elger, including 38 Albert Road, South Norwood, and 31 and 33 Bynes Road, South Croydon; Jean Winifred Hubbard; and Frank Hubbard. 1914-1974.
Trustees account with the beficiaries of the will of William Neal, deceased, 1919.
File of papers relating to Hubbard/Neal family history, including family tree; funeral bills; birth marriage and death certificates. 1856-1941

Records relating to school trips to Dieppe, 1972-1989
Records relating to the Save Sylvan High School campaign, 1987-1989
Reports, leaflets and other papers relating to Pilgrim Fort Camp, 1921-1995
Pilgrim Fort Mnagement Committee minutes, 1936-1995
Minutes of meetings with Joint Advisory Body, 1964-1970
Minutes of meetings between Croydon LEA and Secretaries of the Teachers Professional Associations, 1995-1997
Papers relating to school admission, bullying and discipline in schools, 1990-1994
Croydon Crime Prevention Panel minutes, 1992-1996

View of frankpledge and court baron

Roll 1: 1359-1442

Roll 2: 1580-1610

Roll 3: 1683-1692

Photographs (colour and black and white), taken by Roger McCallum, who worked at Mayday, mainly for publication in Croydon Health Authority staff newsletter Newsline

2 boxes and a folder of sketchbooks, watercolours, photographs and cuttings of Edward George Handel Licas (1861-1936), a Croydon artist

Copies of five letters written by Josephine Hall to her husband Edward. Mrs Hall was evacuated with her young daughter (who is now the owner of the letters) and baby son to Brighton in September 1939. She was homesick, and found her accommodation cramped and uncomfortable; her problems were exacerbated by the fact that she was deaf. She returned home, with her children, after a week, and remained in Croydon during the War.

Copy of satirical drawing by Rowlandson showing A Lord of the Manor receiving Rents, source unknown; Letter written by Mary henman of Croydon asking for payment of board, 1714; Receipt for farm rent, signed by Francis Carew, 1605; Faculty for appropriation of part of St James Churchyard by Croydon Corporation, 1891 (with plan); Receipts for quit rent paid to the Lord of the Manor of Croydon, 1798-1799 (4 docs); Assignment of mortgage, involving William Herring of Croydon, 1758; Lease of Norbury Manor Farm, 1831.

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Map shows area covered by 32nd Surrey Factory Battalion in Waddon/Beddington area