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This collection consists of photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and marketing material that chart the companies long service of operation, including the changing location of physical stores, up to the companies closure. Also included are sales catalogues and price lists from the early 1900s that showcase the range of items sold.

Records of school trip to Brittany in 1950 collected by Derek Edward Croissant

2 items:
Lease of messuage and land at Norwood, 1858
Letters of administration of the estate of Jayne Mary Baylis, 1877

Leases of the Gun Tavern in Church Street, Croydon

1) Sales Particular plan of the Remaining Portion of the Ringstead Lodge Estate, 05 May 1870 (see CR/1533). Site of chapel marked but not included in sale. (To be transferred to the Local Studies Library).
2) Lease dated 18 November 1702 for land at Benshamfield in Croydon.
3) Lease dated 28 November 1711 for land at Benshamfield in Croydon.
4) Release dated 29 November 1711 for item 3).

Manuscript notes by F H B Ellis MA for talks given to Womens Citizens Association, February 1932, and Purley Natural history Society, 12 March 1937. With typed copy.

Consists of one ledger marked No.2, includes entries for Widows Fund, Sale and Conversion of Property, Dividends, Debts etc.

Contains name of deceased, cost and details of funeral, name of person by whom the account was settled. The volume includes a name index for the latter.

The ledgers contain very full details of the provision made for each funeral; and also include name indexes.

Mainly arithmetic, used for homework by Leonard Brand of 9 Camborne Road, Addiscombe, when a pupil aged 8 and 9 at Woodside School. The book is designed for, and mainly used for, arithmetic exercises; but it contains one story (A burglar story), Jan 1931.

Photograph album of Leslie Frank Stuttle of the 2nd/16th Bn London Regiment (Queens Westminster Rifles). Album contains postcards of both overseas and home postings, groups of soldiers, friends and pictures taken on leave in England as well as pictures of his grave in the Jerusalem War Cemetery. The album also includes a portrait photograph, copies of the order of service for the dedication of a memorial window to the Queens Westminster Rifles in the St. Benedicts Chapel on 10 March 1923 and a copy of the Daily Telegraph for 29 Feb 1896 (possibly the date of his birth) and an extract from the Daily Telegraph of May 14 1906.

Letter on pre-printed note paper addressed to F.M.Roberts, Hon Sec of the CNHSS: I am so busy with books and correspondence that I cannot say anything about your Society, and I have quite forgotten that I was a member, but I have a recollection of attending the Annual Microscopical Meetings. It is certainly a new idea to have a Sociological148 Committee in a Local Nat. Hist. Society, and I hope it may do good. Yours very truly, Alfred R. Wallace. P.S. I left Croydon I think in 1880. ARW.

The letter is mounted on card with a note of explanation.

1 bundle of letters and family photographs.

School report on Lily Hayley from Dagnall Park School, South Norwood.

Photographs of Croydon events, many including H. Lock Kendall, mayor of Croydon 1958-1960

Log book of 1st Sanderstead Scout Troop, 1938 - 1939 detailing camps in Chipstead and in Taibach near Fishguard as well as other activities and outings. The log book also contains photographs, newsletters and other ephemera. The text was written by Alan R. Wardle, ASM of the Troop and the photographs contributed by various Troop members.

Log book of the Earl Haig Patrol, 15th Southern Croydon, St Peters Rover Scouts. The log book begins on 01 November 1928 as the first log book covering the preceding year had evidently been lost. The purpose of the log was to record a true and unbiased account of the activities of the Patrol, a list of members together with their addresses, a record of Tests passed and any correspondence received.. The volume includes correspondence, programmes and details of camps, including a camp by six rovers at Corbion in Belgium in August 1929 although there is little information after this date.

The log book was compiled by Eric Cleaver, ASM, of 77 St Peters Road.

Log book of the 64th Croydon Scout Troop from its first parade on 01 April 1935 and includes details of camps, sports and other activities. The log book includes photographs and newspaper cuttings.

This collection contains birth, marriage and death certificates of the Loxton and Ward families. It includes a photocopy of a photograph in which Walter Ernest Loxton, Hilda Annie Loxton, and Leslie George Loxton ( father of the donor ) appear. There is also a photocopy of a handwritten page listing names, dates of birth, marriage and death spanning 3 July 1876 - 7 January 1933, which is possibly the reverse of the photograph. A handwritten memo note providing similiar information is included, covering the same dates, but is not as extensive. The family have a connection with the Bird in Hand pub, Sydenham Road, Croydon and so there is a postcard of the pub and a copy of settlement relating to the same with an inventory of stock dated 1884.