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Papers relating to Place Fell, built c.1885. The house was purchased by the Myers family in 1945 and occupied by them until its sale in 1984. A family member deposited 5 photographs of the house from 1944 and then also from 1977, these were accessioned as A1179 in February 2023

1) Papers relating to Princess Court (Canning Road) Residents Association 1966 - 1976.
2) County Borough of Croydon Fuel and Lighting Order 1939.
3) Misc collection of bills/invoices for 7 Princess Court Canning Road.
4) Misc papers relating to Purchase, rental costs etc 7 Princess Court Canning Road Croydon 1964 - 1976.
5) Misc collection of invoices/receipts for 79 Gladeside, Croydon.

An aerial postcard of Ashburton School, 1933, was also donated. This has been added to the Local Studies Library photograph collections.

Correspondence, bill for ring, cards, telegrams, etc.

Papers of Mrs Vera Cookes deceased husband, Maurice Cooke, former pupil at the Limes School and onetime Membership Secretary of the Bourne Society. Photographs, school magazine, school report, correspondence and newspaper clipping relating to school reunion.

Bills and receipts re the Mission Room (part of Addington School), 1875-86; correspondence, receipts and plans re proposed cottages on Addington Hills/Badgers Hole, 1892-98

Correspondence between Mr Anderson and Patent Agents concerning the specification for a grease dispensing device, presumably designed by Charles Edward Anderson, 1935; patent and advertisement for threadless valve, also designed by Mr Anderson, c.1919, with example of valve.

Minutes of the Parish Church War Memorial Sub-Committee, 1921; with other associated papers re the erection of the War Memorial; and copy correspondence etc re the recutting of the inscription 1987-1988. The proposal for a War Memorial to be erected in the churchyard of the Parish Church was agreed by the parish authorities in 1920. A War Memorial Sub-Committee (of the Parochial Church Council) was set up, with Herbert C. Oswald as Hon. Treasurer. An appeal was launched, and a design commissioned from CM Oldrid Scott (architect). (Advice on the siting was also received from Henry Berney, architect but ignored). The initial proposed cost was about 163700: Scotts design subsequently had to be modified to reduce the cost, although the total bill eventually came to 163674. The memorial was consturcted by C Ebbutt Sons; and was dedicated on 11 Feb 1922. The badly eroded inscription was recut in 1988, at the expense of GA Oswald, grandson of HC Oswald.

Notebook contains texts of papers (mainly on philosophical and social topics) by Patrick William Drummond (an articled clerk and solicitor), delivered to societies in Croydon (the Verulam Club; and the B.D. Society) or published in The Debater, later The Articled Clerk and Debater (including various leading articles etc.

The petition reads: We the undersigned deplore the proposal to demolish the Grand Theatre and call upon the Croydon Borough Council to reject outright this attempt to close Croydons only live theatre and presumably was compiled c.1958-9 as the Grand closed on 18 April 1959. The petition is signed by actors and actresses who give their address as various London Theatres so this is presumably where they were appearing. Signatories include Fenella Fielding, Sybil Thorndike, Dora Bryan, Daniel Massey, Peter Finch, Nigel Stock and Jimmy Edwards.

The collection consists of a petition presented to the Corporation of Croydon by the Croham Hurst Preservation Committee in 1899 and reprints of Croydon Advertiser newspaper articles which were evidently used by the Croham Hurst Preservation Committee as publicity material.

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.

Abstract of title of Walton Heath Land Co Ltd to premises at Croydon with calendar of contents. Abstract goes back to 1830.

Photograph album of a visit made by a Croydon party to Arnhem and elsewhere in the Netherlands at Easter (05 - 12th April) 1947.

Photographs include a reception at Sonsbeek Park and subsequent lunch.

Arnhem and Croydon football and table tennis teams

Damaged buildings in Arnhem

Meeting of the Mayors of Croydon and Arnhem and the presentation of the Union Jack.

The album also includes an envelope of extra material such as photographs, menus, negatives and tickets.

The album is a photographic account from June 1958 onwards of the Croydon Rifle Clubs move from the Fairfield to its present on Jessops Way off Beddington Lane (formerly part of the Beddington Lane Sewage Farm). The album shows the dismantling of the Fairfield buildings and the transportation of the materials for use in the construction of the new club premises. The album contains 61 black and white photographs together with 7 loose photographs of the site after completion.

1 vol: Photograph album containing mounted photographs (b/w) of V1 damage in Friern Road, Lordship Lane, Crystal Palace Road (all Dulwich), aircraft at Croydon Airport (30 Aug 1947), air journey to continent from Northolt, RAF personnel 1946-7, views of continental scenes including Mont St Michel, St Malo, Paris, Ireland, Stavangar etc. Some views annotated.

1 vol

Photograph albums:
1) Green Reminiscent photograph album, c.1910 - 1920. Mainly family groups and portraits.
2) Brown: Florrie Tours Scotland c.1902. (Florrie King was born c.1879).
3) Brown: Memories of the Eastbourne Holidays, July and August 1901 also of Pleasant Days spent up the river, 1901 taken by Geo. Gatenby and George E. Cushing. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others). (Note: Gatenby married Rose King).
4) Green: Memories of the Folkestone Holidays, July and August 1902 by George Gatenby. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others).
5) Burgundy: Memories of the Bournemouth Holidays, August 1903) taken by Geo. Gatenby and George E. Cushing. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others).
6) Green paperback album of wartime postcards addressed to Florrie King by Will (William) King who was serving in the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. As the postcards seem to stop abruptly in 1915, it is presumed that William (born c.1883) was killed in action (a Pte William King of the 4th Bn Cameron Highlanders died 24 March 1915 (source: CWGC).

7) Material from Cameron uniform together with button with picture of soldier and 1897 Diamond Jubilee coin (probably belonging to William Smith).

8) Three small books of common prayer, two marked F.King (presumably Florrie.) One with clasp intact.

9) Pamorama photograph from Sunny Southern California from Peter Cushing (resident 1766 West Ridge Road, Brentwood, W.L.A, California) to Mr and Mrs G.E.Cushing, Cherry Tree Cottage, Norwood Hill near Horley, Surrey, dated 19 January 1941.

10) Obituary of Mr D. King from the Furniture Record, 20 May 1920. He had worked for James Humphries and Sons of Snow Hill, London, for 56 years.

Two photograph albums and loose photographs showing HMS Milne, and its crew, on active service together with views taken in Italy, Jerusalem, Malta etc as well as a tour of the ship by HM King George VI. Also included is a newspaper cutting detailing the gift of the ships ensign to the Mayor of Croydon (Cllr Boddington, Mayor 1943 - 4) by Captain L.M.R. Campbell.

1) Photograph album c.1898 - 9.
Photographs include:
Whitgift Almshouses
St Saviours Church, Croydon
High Street,
Bensham Villas, London Road
Waddon
Duppas Hill
Thornton Road
St Lukes Mission Church
Lifeboat procession
Barnums procession, 1898
Sangers Circus procession
Shirley
Hare and Hounds pub, Waddon
Waddon Marsh Farm
Colliers Farm and Cottage, Thornton Heath
Broad Green Place
Mafeking Avenue
Surrey Street
Canterbury Road
Lodge Road
Agricultural show
Plus views of Mitcham and Beddington

2) Lose photographs, some mounted, showing Beddington, Budleigh Salterton and Bensham Villas, London Road.
3) Photograph of Rev G.Kempe of St Saviours Church, TH.
4) Photograph of Phyllis Kynaston as worker at the Croydon War Depot during WWI.
5) Two billheads for E.C.Chart, Ecclesiastical and Art Needlework, 51 High St.

A bundle of photographs, some apparently taken from a scrap book, showing school activities from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Activities include harvest festivals, nativity plays, coronation parade (1953) etc. Also included is a 1927 teachers report from Furzedown Training College for Irene Eveline Barnett. As the collection also includes a couple of personal photographs, it is likely that the collection came from her family.

Photographic prints of Waddon Pumping Station, Addington Pumping Station and Park Hill Reservoir and Water Tower taken by Ronald Arthur Huitson together with m/s notes and drawings

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

Piano tuning book of Mr F.O.Chambers, 1922 - 1964. Details of jobs and payment received. Also includes loose receipts and extracts from a brief hand written diary of national and local events.

Plan of Coombe Farm 1910, Scale 1inch: 60ft. Canvas Mounted
Includes the main farm buildings and adjoining old chalk pit, Spoake Fields, adjoining wood, Hammonds Hill, Barn Field, Kitchen Field, Ricketts Hill and Volcians.
A description of the plan by Paul Sowan is included with the document. It is possible that the plan may have been surveyed in connection with the Valuation Office Survey of 1910-1915.