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6 deeds relating to property in Croydon, 19th Century.
SHS Ref: TD1492 Transfer Ref: CLRO/MM/DF424

1 bundle: Title deeds to properties in Croydon, including 15 Warham Road, 8, 9 11 Ashburton Road and Derby Road. 1 bundle, 3 envelopes and one loose document.
SHS ref: AC1548 part (DF509)

Cuttings, brochures, agendas etc of Tramstop, c.1991-2000

3 items

One certificate and two notebooks.

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.

6 items:
5 Minute Books:
1) 1944-1948 (Society formed in 1944)
2) 1948-1950
3) 1950-1955
4) 1963-1977
5) 1977-1993
Folder of Society Programmes 1944-1953. Includes some membership cards.

Photocopies and original material from Mr Lucass personal collection of material relating to his great uncle, E.G.Handel-Lucas.
The collection contains:
3 pages of photocopied newspaper articles.
Advertisement for Pears Annual 1909 which shows an illustration by E.G.Handel-Lucas.
Photograph of a sepia drawing of Otford Church, Kent by E.G.Handel-Lucas.
5 postcards each showing two views of Croydon.
Scanned copy of a photograph of Mr and Mrs Handel-Lucas in 1935.
Scanned copy of Toryism 1929-No use for aeroplanes by E.G.Handel-Lucas.
Scanned copy of two versions of The Two Voices by E.G.Handel-Lucas.
Mounted copy of Of such is the Kingdon of Heaven by E.G.Handel-Lucas.

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

Notes and papers accumulated by Mr Palt in the course of research for his thesis (see below) concerning Croydons response to town planning legislation in 1950. Includes correspondence and agreements between the County Borough of Croydon and the Surrey Garden Village Trust.

Deed includes a plan showing the property south of the junction between Whitehorse Road and Strathmore Road

2 minute books of the Thornton Heath Ratepayers Association: Committee and General meetings, 1929-1952; and General Purposes/Executive Committee meetings 1942-1953.

A collection of material accumulated by the donors parents, Mr William and Mrs Elsie Paget:
a)7 receipts for furniture bought from Rutter Bros. of Croydon. 1931-7.
b)WWII National Identity Card belonging to Mr Paget who was employed by the Croydon Gas Company, Waddon.
c)Clothing Book, 1947-8 belonging to Mrs Paget.

Note book containing copies of letters from the battlefield 1916 from 2nd Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson and includes some press cuttings.

Household Accounts Volumes
Personal Accounts 01/01/1995-01/01/1997
Income Account and other Household Accounts 01/01/1998-31/12/1994 (with rough workings enclosed).
Household Accounts 01/01/1980-31/12/1981
Household Accounts 01/01/1982-31/12/1984
Household Accounts 01/01/1985-31/12/1987
House Accounts 1946-1998 (mortgage etc.).
Summary of Accounts 1983-1992
Income Accounts 1980-1982
Bills Paid 1970-1990

Other items
File entitled Associate Membership of The Hockey Association but containing items relating to Mr Bootes employment and membership of Croydon Municipal Officers Athletic Club.
Incomplete series of bank statements 1984-1996.
Two passport photographs of Mr and Mrs Boote.
Mr Hobbs has also supplied scanned copies of two extra photographs of Mr and Mrs Boote and some extra biographical information.

File concerning the proposals to demolish Whitgift Hospital and the efforts to save it. Includes correspondence and local newspaper cuttings. Source Ref: AM 50579/100

Third Asylum-County of Surrey; Architects drawings:
1)Front elevation, front offices and residences, colour, 1879
2)Map showing position of buildings on site, 187?
3)Plan and elevation of entrance gates next to lodge, 1879
4)Plan for new iron entrance gates, Brighton Road Lodge, date obscured. In two parts, v. fragile.
5)Plan showing the site and buildings at Coulsdon- 8/7/1880.

London County Asylum - Cane Hill; plans
6)Plan of fields, coloured, n.d.
7)Site Plan, Office Copy, includes markings of bombs landed on site.
8)Road repairs, 1936-7, Chief Engineer.

Ordnance Survey Maps
9)SW Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board 1:2500 TQ2958 1959, showing eastern side of hospital (shaded).
10)1:2500, XIX.12, c.1935 Chipstead with row of houses highlighted in red.
11)1:2500, XIX.12 and XX.9, c.1896-7. V. fragile. Mounted.

Engineers plan of proposed new wards at Queens Road Homes, County Borough of Croydon

Four minute Books and membership records of the Dames Primrose League, Grantham Habitation No 105.

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.

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.

6 items:
1.Croydon Parish Church Service Book 1867. This Service Book was badly damaged in the Croydon Parish Church fire of January 1867. Extremely fragile.

2. Five first editions of J. Corbet Anderson, Monuments and Antiquities of Croydon Church (1855). These copies were mainly gifts from parishioners to the Church

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