Minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee
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- Collection
- 1911 - 1914
2 volumes of minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee, including newspaper cuttings.
Purley Urban Powers Committee
Minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee
2 volumes of minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee, including newspaper cuttings.
Purley Urban Powers Committee
Diary for the year 1908 written in a Northern Assurance Company memo booklet. The diary is mostly the minutiae of the daily life of a seventeen year old girl (age 10 at 1901 census; birthday 12 June) who lives with her aunt and other family members at 2 Dagnall Park, Selhurst. There are references to her father. Occasional references to local events e.g. she was a member of the Primrose League; wins a prize at the meeting on 04 April.
Edith Dickinson
Records of the Pure Lemon Juice Company
Minute Book 1922 - 1933.
Accounts, including some printed ephemera, 1922 - 1940 (with gaps).
Pure Lemon Juice Company
Records of Croydon Flower Society
Minutes 1958 - 1995 (5 vols)
Minutes of AGM and Balance Sheets (1 vol)
Newsletters (1 vol)
Typed history
Croydon Flower Society
Records relating to the Literary and Scientific Institution, Croydon
1 bundle
Croydon Literary and Scientific Institution
HM Customs and Excise Blue Books relating to flights from Croydon
HM Customs and Excise
1) Bundle of correspondence and receipts relating to 26 Cuthbert Road, home of Mr Bull, 1951 - 1971
2) 1 printers block of H.R.Grubbs shop (North End?)
3) 2 printers instruments.
Mr W. F. G. Bull
Autobiographical notes of F.H.B.Ellis
197 pp. Handwritten autobiographical notes of F.H.B. Ellis. Appear to have been written in 1925 and updated until 1944.
F. H. B. Ellis
Certificates of Gwendoline Beatrice Pratt
Two certificates of Gwendoline Beatrice Pratt
1) Certificate awarded by Heathcote House School, Croydon, to Gwendoline Pratt for Scripture, Christmas 1928.
2) Certificate Awarded by London College of Music, Gt. Marlborough Street, London to Gwendoline Pratt for pianoforte playing, 13 July 1928.
Gwendoline Beatrice Pratt
Copies of letters of 2nd Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson
Note book containing copies of letters from the battlefield 1916 from 2nd Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson and includes some press cuttings.
Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson
HM Customs and Excise: Boards Report Book, Croydon, 1940-1946
Boards Minute Book. 1940-1946. Includes air raid report
Sources ref: DR/HD/4
HM Customs and Excise
Map shows area covered by 32nd Surrey Factory Battalion in Waddon/Beddington area
Home Guard
Cuttings album concerning formation and early activities of 25 Croydon (1st Woodside) Scout Troop
Cuttings books of newspaper cuttings, letters, flyers etc from formation of troop in 1911 - early 1913.
25th Croydon (1st Woodside) Scout Troop
1) Retiring Report of the First Librarian in Charge of the Ashburton Library, Mr R.D.Hilton Smith (handwritten, 1929).
2) Report on the use of Stock 1929 - 1947.
Ashburton Library
Postcard, photograph and slide collection of John B. Gent (1932 - 2011)
35 boxes plus loose bags:
A POSTCARDS
These, estimated to number over 14,000, are housed in 25 cardboard boxes, three two-drawer filing units, and seven albums as follows:
Boxes
Boxes 1 - 16 contains Croydon cards arranged topographically.
Boxes 17 - 25 contain Croydon cards arranged thematically.
[1] AD Addington (including New Addington)
AS Addiscombe (including Park Hill)
[2] CN Coulsdon
[3] CA Croydon Airport
[4] CC Croydon central
[5] CC Croydon central
[6] KY Kenley
NY Norbury
[7] OT Old Town (including Waddon and the river Wandle
[8] PY Purley
[9] PY Purley
[10] ST Sanderstead and Selsdon
[11] SH Selhurst
SY Shirley
[12] SC South Croydon including Croham Hurst
[13] SN South Norwood
[14] TH Thornton Heath
[15] UN Upper Norwood
[16] WC West Croydon
WS Woodside
[17] ADV Advertising and message cards
AE Aerial views
ALM Almshouses
BOU Bourne flows
CAF Cafes
CEM Cemeteries and crematoria
[18] CHU Churches
[19] COM Composite / multi-view cards
EVE Events
FIR Fire brigade and fires
FLO Floods
[20] GRO Groups
[21] HOS Hospitals
HOU Houses
HUM Humorous and novelty cards
[22] LET Letter-cards
MIS Miscellaneous subjects and buildings
PAL Croydon Palace
PEO People
[23] PUB Public houses
RAD Radio amateurs contact cards
SCH Schools
[24] SHO Shops and other business premises
THE Theatres and cinemas
TOW Town Hall
[25] TA Transport (all modes)
WAR Wartime hospitals and other wartime scenes
WOR Works and factories
Two-drawer filing units
The total of six drawers contain cards relating, mostly, to districts near Croydon but beyond the LB Croydon boundary; also Collectorcard and Pamlin Prints cards, and some modern cards.
Albums
The seven albums contain cards as follows:
[1] C.H. Price cards numbered 20001 - 20099
[2] C.H. Price cards numbered 20100 - 20399
[3] C.H. Price cards numbered 20400 - 20720
[4] C.H. Price cards numbered 30000 - 30299
[5] C.H. Price cards / Croydon Airport
[6] Croydon Times cards
[7] South London cards
B PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
Numerous photographic prints, currently on a LSLAS trolley, in course of cataloguing and processing. All are being labelled as the property of / on loan from Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Ltd. As catalogued and labelled they are filed in the main LSLAS files of photographic and other images.
C SLIDES
Photographic slides including those deposited by the Society and those deposited directly by John Gent before his death.
John B. Gent
Deeds relating to land in High Street Croydon
Leases relating to land in High Street, Croydon dated 18 July 1823 and 23 March 1866 (no. 43 High Street).
Unknown person
Pre-registration documents relating to 62 Fernhurst Road, Croydon
1 bundle:
Bundle of pre-registration documents relating to 62 Fernhurst Road, Croydon, CR0 7DG.
Unknown person
Miscellaneous legal papers relating to Croydon
Miscellaneous legal papers, including correspondence, draft agreements and deeds, copies of wills
Unknown person
Records of Co-Operative Wholesale Society, South Suburban Branch
Minute books, balance sheets, etc. Hand list on accession file.
Co-operative Wholesale Society, South Suburban Branch
Notebook on Antiquities of Croydon
Compiled by Nora F Oclee, with sketches. Undated, but inscriptions inside cover dated July and August 1915.
Nora F Oclee
Receipts from property in Croydon and the Manor of Croham; estate accounts for house in Lincolnshire and property in Leicestershire; accounts for members of the Croft, Green, Jervaise and Walker families. Possibly kept by or for James Croft.
Unknown person
Minutes of Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Local Tribunal
Appointed to deal with claims for exemption under the Military Service Act, 1916, under Order in Council dated 3 February 1916.
Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Local Tribunal
Croydon and Purley UDC Public Libraries Dept, Staff Absence Record
Staff Absence Record for Croydon and Purley UDC Public Libraries Department
Croydon and Purley UDC
Croydon University Extension Committee records
Minutes 1946-67 (2 vols); list of courses held at Croydon 1881-1967; posters; lists of lectures; lists of candidates who received certificates; correspondence; Croydon Education Committee A Plan for Leisure booklets.
Croydon University Extension Committee