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Further records of Woodside Baptist Church

  • AR905
  • Collection
  • 1918 - 2004

Deacons Meeting Minutes: 03 May 1971 - 07 Dec 1976; 04 Jan 1977 - 06 Dec 1982; 10 Jan 1983 - 20 Oct 1990
Church Meeting Minutes: 10 May 1971 - 13 Dec 1976, 11 Jan 1977 - 17 Jan 1983
Missionary Council Meeting Minutes: 06 Apr 1967 - 11 Feb 1980
Teachers Meeting Minutes: 18 Jan 1943 - 10 Jan 1949
B.W.L. Meeting Minutes: 04 Jan 1938 - 19 Sep 1960
Womens Rally: 07 Jun 1937 - 18 Mar 1955; 21 Oct 1955 - 22 Feb 1968; 04 Mar 1968 - 21 Sep 1981; 10 Nov 1982 - 23 Nov 2004
Womens Rally Reports: 1918 - 1974 (some missing)
Baptist Womens League: 16 Jan 1961 - 27 May 1965
Woodside Baptist Sunday School: 10 Jan 1949 - 11 Mar 1957; 09 Apr 1957 - 15 Jun 1964; 14 Jul 1964 - 02 Jul 1972; 25 Sep 1972 - 21 Jul 1980
Settlement Committee: 11 Oct 1941 - 01 Mar 1977
Junior Christian Endeavour: Jan 1978 - 16 Nov 1982
Finance Committee Meeting: 18 Jul 1963 - 21 Feb 1982

Woodside Baptist Church

Correspondence from Gillett and Johnston re: Addington bells

  • AR907
  • Collection
  • 1913 - 1919

Detailed estimates for restoration and addition to the bells in St Marys Church, Addington for 1913, 1914 and 1919 together with GJ bells brochure (1912), royal visit brochure (1918), two GJ publicity postcards of bell for St Peters, Croydon and frame for Whatton plus 1918 article concerning GJ wartime munitions work.

Gillett and Johnston

Old Croydonians RFC Minute Book

  • AR908
  • Collection
  • 1974 - 1987

Minute book (AGM and committee) of the Old Croydonians RFC, 1974 - 1987

Old Croydonians RFC

Deeds relating to Benson Road, Wellesley Road and Waddon Park Avenue

  • AR909
  • Collection
  • 1888 - 1937

5 items:
Deeds relating to land in Benson Road, 1888
Deeds relating to land in Waddon Park Ave, 1903
Mortgage of 96 Wellesley Road, 1914
Deeds relating to 24-28 Benson Road, 1936
Deeds relating to 45 and 47 Waddon Park Ave, 1937

Unknown person

Horne Brothers Window Photographs

  • AR91
  • Collection
  • 1947-1954

The album is titled 'Window Photographs: Young Mens, and was put together in the branch. It contains photographs of model window displays, and cyclostyled instructions, all circulated by Hornes central Display Department (based at 50/57 Newman Street, London W1). They give detailed instructions for standardised window displays, for set dates, for the Young Mens Department.

Horne Brothers Ltd

Croydon Society

  • AR916
  • Collection
  • c.1975 - 2005

Research papers left to the Croydon Society by Hugh Byford:

Research notes:

W.F.Stanley (blue box file)
South Norwood History (envelope folder)
D.H.Lawrence (envelope folder)
Ron Howards Architectural Class (envelope folder)
Miscellaneous (envelope folder)
St Marks School and Church (envelope folder)
St Marks Church Lads Brigade (envelope folder)
Central Croydon redevelopment (envelope folder)
Goathouse (envelope folder)
South Norwood Trail (red ring binder)
Croydons Built Heritage: South Norwood Conservation Area text (orange ring binder)
Croydon Advertiser: various commemorative editions (envelope file)
Ordnance Survey index (envelope folder)
South Norwood Conservation Area Campaign (document wallet)
South Norwood Conservation Area Current (envelope folder)
South Norwood Recreation Ground: gates (envelope folder)
C.S.Spackman (document wallet)
Queens Road Cemetery (envelope folder)
Photographic Group (1999, document wallet)
Pubs (envelope folder)
Listed Buildings (envelope folder)
Croydon Society miscellaneous (envelope folder)
Cicely Mary Barker (envelope folder)
Buildings Survey (envelope folder)
Croydon Canal (loose)
South Norwood Walk (envelope folder)
South Norwood Country Park (envelope folder)
South Norwood Pubs (envelope folder)
South Norwood High Street (document wallet)
North End (document wallet)
Lunchtime Concerts (envelope folder)
Hornimans/Commbe Cliffe (envelope folder)
Croydon Society Constitution (envelope folder)
Footpath Map (18 sections, envelope folder)
Conference Conservation Areas (envelope folder)
Conan Doyle and D.H.Lawrence (envelope folder)
Focus material (envelope folder)
Friends of South Norwood Lake (loose, now in document folder)
W.H.Hurlstone (loose, now in document wallet)
Drinking fountain, South Norwood Hill (loose, now in document wallet)
Hambledown Gardens, 2003-4 (loose, now in document wallet)
Croydon Canal (loose, now in document wallet)
South Norwood and Selhurst Neighbourhood Partnership (loose, now in document wallet)

Copy of UDP

Copy of Croydon: the future (with cuttings etc enclosed)

Copy of Crystal Palace Campaign Consultation starts here (2002)

South Norwood Draft Improvement Strategy plus notes etc (in Croydon Smarter Borough folder)

Box of Stanley Notebooks

Plus demand from freeholder for ground rent, letter from Council re: smarter streets (2002) and land registry documents re: buildings on corner of South Norwood Hill and High St.

Croydon Society

Army service records of Sydney Lucas of Kenley

  • AR917
  • Collection
  • c.1940 - 1946

Army Service Records of Leonard Sydney Lucas: Photographs 1940 - 1946 including training in England and post D-Day service in Europe, service cards and demobilisation documents; dog tag and medal ribbon; NAAFI theatre programmes; maps of France etc.

Correspondence relating to former army service personnel and blue folder with addresses.

Folder relating to 190 Hayes Lane Kenley, including war reparation payments (needs weeding).

Sydney Lucas

Records of Leonard Evans Parr

  • AR918
  • Collection
  • 1903 - 1973

2 boxes:
Material relating to Leonard Evans Parrs occupation as a house parent and Bandmaster of Shirley Residential Schools and personal items. See attached box list:

1) Shirley Residential Schools 1903-1967

Photographs 1923-?
Incl.
Children/Staff
Aerial
Large mounted photograph of school, staff and board 11 March 1930
Mounted photograph of Shirley Residential Schools Christmas 1926 + hand drawn plan

Magazines 1929-1967
Shirley Schools Magazine 1929-1967

Programmes 1929-1934
Annual Sports Inspection x2 1929 1934

Miscellaneous 1903-?
Luggage tag: Joan Boardman
Five hankies ie. Chestnut 5, 6,8,9,10
Every boys book of hobbies by Cecil H. Bullivant
(inscribed: Stanley Isaacs for Woodwork) n.d
Notebook c1926 (black) incl. paper cuttings (author unknown)
Notebook 1903-? (author unknown)
Shirley Schools History notes n.d (author unknown)
Ration Book Cover (embroidered cloth) owner unknown
Suitcase brown (John Green, Rose Cottage, Shirley Residential School Croydon)

2) Shirley Residential Schools Band 1924-1967

Photographs 1924-?
Incl.
Shirley Residential Schools Band: Various
Shirley Residential Schools Band: Mounted Signed by Mayor Southwell 1924/5

Programmes 1925-1966
Programmes: Venues for Shirley Residential Schools Band 1925-1934
Programme of Music: Shirley Oaks Band Open Day 8 July 1966

Certificates 1933
Shirley Residential School Band: School Orchestra Junior Band Festival 1933
Miscellaneous 1967?
Shirley Residential Schools Band list for Sports Day x2 1967
Sheet music: Three Jolly Sailormen, In the Shadows, Viennese Ladies, Teddy Bears Picnic, Scales

3) Personal 1905-1973

Photographs/Postcards
Miscellaneous bands n.d

Correspondence 1905-1973
Incl.
Testimonials 1905, 1908 1923
Correspondence/Notes concerning estate of late Mrs Parr 1966

Miscellaneous 1914-1970
National Insurance Card 1914/15
Medical Card 1914
Register of Local Land Charges(incl. plan): Bradfield Rural District Council
4 November 1926
Journal Household Calvary 1927?
Certificate Hospital Savings Association 1963
LCC card 30 years service 8 October 1964
Application for National Development Bonds: Leonard Evans Parr March 1967
Rates Valuation 203 Devonshire Way 12 March 1970
Vicarage Garden Party List n.d
National Savings Certificate Book
Photograph of Leonard Evans Parr + two ladies (Mrs Parr on the left?)

Leonard Evans Parr

Records of Marjorie Mather

  • AR919
  • Collection
  • c.1930 - c.2000

1 box:
1) Personal 1930-2000

Various correspondence and photographs 1930-2000

Miscellaneous 1948-1990:
Programme St. Thomas Amateur Operatic Society May 1948
Driving Licence 1957
Coloma School Badge x2 letter 1990
Copy of Shirley Oaks Childrens Home by Adams Coll (signed)
Plan of Shirley Schools: pencil n.d. (It is likely that a photograph originally formed the centrepiece of the plan. This is no longer present).
Masons publications x14 (belonging to John Martin Mather, her second husband. These will not be retained.
Drawings/paintings (one signed)

2) Shirley Red Cross: ? - 1986

Photographs:
Various, n.d.

Journals:
Various issues of Red Cross News 1977-1983 (not retained)

Miscellaneous 1974-1986
Blue Folder containing:
First Aid Instructions/Posters
Training Day Course Folder 19 October 1974
Emergency Aid Course for Instructors 5 January 1975
Attendance Register: Youth Group Shirley Centre (3331) 1979-1986

Marjorie Mather

Croydon Industrial Chaplaincy Records

  • AR92
  • Collection
  • 1950 - 1979

Records of Croydon Industrial Chaplaincy, including 3 minute books and 5 correspondence files

Croydon Industrial Chaplaincy

Records of White House Horticultural Society

  • AR926
  • Collection
  • 1951 - 2005

Committee Minutes:

1951 - 1961
1961 - 1976
Jan 1977 - Mar 1985 (includes historical note)
Apr 1985 - Oct 1997

Ledgers:

1975 - 1977 x 2 (orange and grey covers)
1978 - 1992 x 2 (red and grey)

Meeting signing in book 1973 - 1997

Newsletters 1982 - 1995

Correspondence and newsletters 1998 - 2006 (blue lever arch file).

Correspondence: 1977 - 2005 (Box file)

Correspondence concerning room bookings etc (brown folder) 1994 - 2005

Photographs of 60th anniversary show at All Saints Parish Hall, Sanderstead, 2000 (2 vols)

White House Horticultural Society

Documents relating to Arthur Barnett Williamson, 20 Croydon Grove, West Croydon Surrey, 1931-48 and 7 Palace Grove, Bromley, Kent 1953-55

  • AR933
  • Collection
  • 1931 - 1955

Envelope I

The Croydon British School, Senior Boys Department

(a) Summary of Achievement at the Croydon British School, 1932-33 and at the Heath School, Croydon, 1933-37 (loose)
(b) Cards inviting AB Williamson to attend Junior Scholarship Examinations, Preliminary and Final
(c) Reports

  • 1930? (loose)
  • 1932, 1933 (in book)
    (d) Exercise Book - Dictation, 1931-32

Envelope II

  1. The Heath Clark School, Croydon
    (a) Letter from Headmaster re behaviour
    (b) Annual Sports Programmes 1934 (2), 1935 (3), 1936 (2), 1937 (1)
    (c) Distribution of Prizes, 11 December 1933 (damaged)
    (d) Exercise books

    • History (undated)
    • Maths, 1933-37
      (e) Term Reports 1933-37
      (f) Song sheet
      (g) Ticket for Distribution of Prizes, 1933
      (h) Tickets for Sports Day, 1935, 1936, 1937
  2. Results, 1937
    (a) Royal Society of Arts Examinations, stages 1 and 2
    (b) Oxford Leaving Certificate Examinations

  3. Employers reference written by the Headmaster, The Heath School

  4. Oxford Local Examinations - List of successful candidates for the School Certificate examination, December 1937

Envelope III

  1. Joint Examination for Junior Scholarships at Secondary Schools, 1932
    (a) Papers for Preliminary Examinations taken on 14 March 1932 in Arithmetic (1) and English (1)
    (b) Papers for Final Examinations taken on 2 May 1932 in Arithmetic (1) and English (2)

  2. Preliminary Examination for special places and free places at Secondary Schools and for admission to Day Central Schools, 1933
    (a) Papers for Preliminary Examinations taken on 20 March 1933 in English (1) and Arithmetic (1)
    (b) Papers for Final Examinations taken on 8 May 1933 in Arithmetic (2)

  3. Oxford Local Examinations, School Certificate, 6-15 December1937
    (a) Examination papers in

    • Geography (2)
    • French (2)
    • Heat (1)
    • Design (1)
    • Shakespeare
    • English Composition (1)
    • Algebra (1)
    • Geometry (1)
    • English History (1)
    • Prcis Writing (1)
    • Object Drawing (1)
    • Arithmetic (1)
    • Sound and Light (1)
      (b) Timetable for Examinations, December 1937, with directions for candidates on reverse
  4. Royal Society of Arts Examinations, Stage 1 Elementary, 1936
    Papers in

    • Arithmetic
    • Economic Geography
    • English
    • French
  5. Royal Society of Arts Examinations, Stage 2 Intermediate, 1937
    Papers in

    • Arithmetic
    • English
    • French
  6. Letters
    (a) Handwritten and typewritten copy letters of reference for AB Williamson from H Abbs, BA, Headmaster of the Heath Clark School, February 1938 (original in Envelope I)
    (b) Draft letter of application written by AB Williamson for a post at the National Provincial Bank, 15 Bishopsgate, London

  7. Civil Service Commission Examinations for Boys and Girls, 1938
    (a) List of successful candidates, January 1938 (ABW was successful)
    (b) List of successful candidates, September 1938

Tube

  1. Royal Society of Arts Commercial Examinations, Elementary Stage, 1936
    Certificates in

    • Economic Geography
    • French (with Credit)
    • English (with Credit)
    • Commercial Arithmetic (with Credit)
  2. Royal Society of Arts Commercial Examinations, Intermediate Stage, 1937
    Certificates in

    • Mathematics (First Class)
    • English (Second Class)
    • French (Second Class)
  3. Oxford School Certificate B, 1937
    Subjects

    • English
    • French (written and oral)
    • Mathematics
    • Physics

Envelope IV

  1. Arkubs (News Chronicle Childrens Club) handbook belonging to Arthur B Williamson, 20 Croydon Grove, West Croydon, Surrey

  2. Lettss Schoolboy Diary, 1936

  3. School Reports of Margaret Pocock (later Mrs AB Williamson), County School for Girls, Bromley, Kent, 1935-39

  4. Heathview Wanderers Football Club, West Croydon
    (a) Rules and Regulations
    (b) Fixture List, 1938-39 season
    (c) Statement of Accounts, 1938-39
    (d) Matches, 1938-39 season: opponents played, result, scorers and remarks on each of 15 games
    (e) Individual scoring records
    (f) Subscription receipts (5)
    (g) Sample stationery: 2 postcards and 1 blank sheet of headed notepaper
    (h) Croydon Football League Handbook 1939-40

  5. Permanent privilege ticket belonging to AB Williamson for Winegartens Ltd., Jewellers, 157 Bishopsgate, London

  6. Ye Olde Port Wine House of Dirty Dick, 202-204 Bishopsgate, London - small printed booklet

  7. Dinner Programmes
    (a) Federation of Football Supporters Clubs, second annual dinner, 5 July 1930, held at Slaters Restaurant, 55 High Holborn
    (b) West Lewisham Chamber of Commerce, eleventh annual dinner, 17 February 1932, held at The Green Man Hotel, Southend, Catford
    (c) Civil Service Angling Society, inaugural dinner, 20 May 1935, held at the Feathers Hotel, Broadway, Westminster

  8. Programme, Henry Selfs Aquashow, featuring Johnny Weismuller and Belita (undated)

  9. The Locarno, Streatham, souvenir photograph (Mr and Mrs AB Williamson on the left)

  10. The Soueaster, magazine of the South east London Telephone Area, May 1954

Envelope V

  1. Letter from Civil Defence Wardens Service, Southport (dated 11 December 1944) to Mr AB Williamson, 4 Halsall Buildings, Manchester Road, Southport, thanking him for his loyal service on the occasion of his leaving the service.

  2. LCC students admission card dated 14 April 1947, admitting AB Williamson to LCC Evening Institute classes in Arithmetic

  3. NHS Medical Card for AB Williamson, 20 Croydon Grove, West Croydon

  4. National Health and Pensions Insurance Members Record Card for AB Williamson, 20 Croydon Grove, West Croydon, covering the years 1938-43.

  5. Ration Book holder containing
    (a) Clothing Book 1947-48 and Supplementary Clothing Book, both for AB Williamson, 20 Croydon Grove, West Croydon
    (b) Meat Ration Card, South Suburban Co-Operative Society for |Mrs Williamson, 7 Palace Grove, Bromley
    (c) Ration Books 1953-54 for Arthur B and Margaret A Williamson, 7 Palace Grove, Bromley, Kent
    (d) Welfare Foods Service, Entitlement Book 1954-55 for Stephen A Williamson (b. 8 July 1951).

Envelope VI (received separately)

1) Newspaper cuttings re: Heath Clark School, prize giving 1938.
2) Order of service, Westminster Abbey 1929
3) Papers relating to civil service examinations, c.1947.
4) Correspondence re: appeal against non-promotion, 1946 (Mr Williamson: father of AB?)
5) National savings certificates booklet.
6) Correspondence with Brampton Court Hotel, Torquay, 1949.
7) Telegrams to Mr and Mrs Williamson, 7 Palace Grove, Bromley, 1949.

Some newspaper cuttings relating to historic Croydon were transferred to the Local Studies Library.

Arthur Barnett Williamson

Bound sales particulars and other records of Stiles Harold Williams

  • AR935
  • Collection
  • 1830 - 1994

Please Note:
This collection is currently stored offsite as we are unable to store a collection of this size onsite at present.
If you wish to access any of this material, please contact the team at archives@croydon.gov.uk

The records are organised into 12 broad groups.

1) Two early volumes of sales particulars: 1830 (Eden Park area) and Bletchingly 1835

2) 87 volumes of sale particulars. Some are in poor condition as noted.

The following 39 volumes are indexed chronologically except where noted:

1830 - 1836
1837 - 1840
1841 - 1844
1845 - 1848
1849 - 1850
1851 - 1853
1854 - 1855
1857 - 1858
1859 - 1861
1862 - 1864
1865 - 1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872 - 1874
1875
1876 - 1877 no index
1878
1879
1880
1881 damaged spine; chronological index
1882 damaged spine; chronological index
1883 alphabetical index
1884 alphabetical index
1885 alphabetical index
1886 alphabetical index
1887 alphabetical index
1888
1889 alphabetical
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895 - 1896 chronological index
1897 - 1898
1899 chronological index

The following nine volumes contain an alphabetical index at front of each volume:

1900 - 1901
1902
1903 - 1904
1905 - 1906 damaged spine
1907 - 1908 (March)
1908; 1910 - 1911
1912 - 1913
1914 - 1918
1919

The following 39 volumes contain a chronological index at front of each volume:

1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929 (badly damaged spine)
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938 - 1942
1943 - 1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957 - 1958
1959 - 1960
1961 - 1962
1963
1964
1965 - 1966
1967 - 1968
plus one volume of sales marked 1930 London but includes some Croydon sales.

3) 4 Indexes of auction particulars.

4) Volume of newspaper cuttings 1957 - 1963.

5) Bundles of loose sale/auction particulars, various dates:

a) London Borough of Croydon: commercial properties (now part of our Sales Particular collection)
b) London Borough of Croydon: residential properties (now part of our Sales Particular collection)
c) Bundles relating to properties in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, the Isle of Wight, Surrey, Derbyshire and the London Boroughs of Sutton, Merton, Lambeth, Lewisham, Bromley, Islington and Haringey have been transferred to the relevant archives or local studies centre.

6) 4 Case files concerning sale of Reedham Orphanage site, 1979-1980.

7) Harold Williams accounts 1955 - 1967.

8) Bundle of assorted plans.

9) 3 volumes of locked private ledgers

10) 5 volumes of indexes.

11) Volume of statement of change (receipts), 1907 - 1909

12) 3 Ledgers, 1947 - 1960, 1960 - 1973 (current accounts of staff), 1994 (These records are closed)

Stiles Harold Williams

Croydon Theatre Playbills

  • AR936
  • Collection
  • 1839

2 items:
Croydon, Theatre
Two playbills for a short season arranged and managed by Mr Mears, each headed
Theatre, Croydon
Langford, Printer, Croydon, March 6 and March 27 1839.
a) March 6 1839. Under the Immediate Patronage of The Professional Gentlemen of Croydon and its vicinity.
Love in a Village; Tom Noddys Secret
The list of players quotes which London theatres the actors come from, and includes Mr Mears of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Size 45x18cms; fine apart from a tear in lower part which would disappear if laid down.

b) March 27 1839 Last Night. For the Benefit of Mr Mears. First and Only Appearance of Miss Mears. Double page playbill, the first page listing the many distinguished singers and actors who appear to support Mr Mears .their powerful aid during his short season.. The second page lists the plays and entertainments: Dream at Sea; Petticoat Colonel, Or Venus in Arms; Blue Jackets or Her Majestys Service. Dances and songs interspersed. Size 37 x 37cms., some very faint dust-soiling, otherwise in remarkably good condition.

Mr Mears

Records of the Wellesley Singers

  • AR937
  • Collection
  • 1974 - 2001

4 boxes:
Three boxes and one folder labelled A-D:

Box A:
Carol Concert Programmes
Concert Programmes other than Carols
Minutes and Accounts
Correspondence
plus administrative history and detailed lists of items marked * below.

Box B:
Membership Lists
Press cuttings
Music Lists
Arrangements of carols, sacred and secular works
Archive analogue video tapes*

Box C:
Archive analogue audio tapes*

Box (folder) D:
Archive photographs*

Wellesley Singers

South Norwood Ladies Swimming Club Minutes

  • AR94
  • Collection
  • 1888 - 1934

The minute books contain minutes of General and Committee Meetings; and also newspaper cuttings, seasonal agendas and photos of events.

South Norwood Ladies Swimming Club

School records of Pamela Fawley

  • AR943
  • Collection
  • 1956 - 1962

1) Photograph of PF in production of Robin Hood at Howard Junior School, c.1956.
2) End of year school reports, South Croydon Secondary School, 1959 - 1962 (with accompanying letter to parents, 1961).
3) College of Preceptors, London: examination results, June 1962.
4) Television licence receipts 1959 - 1972 (6 Wandle Road and 115 Aurelia Road).

Pamela Fawley

Further records of Dr Francis J.G. Keen

  • AR947
  • Collection
  • 2006 - 2007

Poems 2006 part 2 (06 December 2006) MSS

Poems 2006 (09 August 2007) Fair copy

Poems 2007 part 1 (07 September 2007) MSS

Poems 2007 part 2 (19 December 2007) MSS

The Laws of Dust (Short story, mss, 06 April 2007)
The Laws of Dust/Dirt (Short story, neat copy of above, 06 April 2007)

After the Event (Short story, mss, 14 July 2007)
After the Event (Short story, neat copy of above, 14 July 2007)

The Way Ahead (Play, mss, 06 September 2007)

Dr Francis J.G. Keen

Records of William Ashby and Son Ltd

  • AR948
  • Collection
  • 1887 - 1979

Box one:
Minute Book 1887 - 1893 (note: mostly unused)
Rough Minute Book 1892
Letter books: 1892, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1910
Agenda Book
Ledger 1893
Stock Book (1887 onwards)
Register of Debentures
Book of Bills Receivable
Register of bills payable 1908 - 1931
Various leases, agreements, debentures. This is split into bundles re:
Debentures (3); Property Agreements/Tenancies; Commercial Agreements and Licences; Miscellaneous property documents including schedule of deeds and original certificates of incorporation.

Box two
Envelope of business documents concerning transport including a riverside crane at Brentford.
Envelope of confidential agreements and F.C.s Trust Deeds
Vehicle Registration Docs
Blue folder: spare copies from share register
Impression of a seal in a box
Ashby badges (3)
Drainage material catalogue (5 copies)
Blue folder: Sale of shares - aborted
Green folder: correspondence concerning close company status
Blue folder: photocopies of various documents concerning the legal takeover of Aldridge and Bardwell
Blue Folder: photocopied minutes of AGMS, 1892 - 1977.
Blue Folder: Insurance and plans etc of depots and premises.
Blue Folder: Photocopied minutes of Directors Meetings, 1957 - 1979.
Grey folder: drawings and papers, Aldridges, Norfolk (timber merchants taken over 1966)
Blue folder: photographs of depot at South Norwood
Posh photo album: Bardwell Sons
Paper Bag: Photos, photographs of depots at South Norwood and Egham on the original station site
Red photo album: Aldridge
2 books unused share certificates.
Brown folder: Directors

Box three
Large envelope with copies of pages of Directors Minutes, 1892 - 1957
Blue folder: Valuation and copy of share register. This dates from 1973 when the sale of the company was first being considered.
Carbon copies, Kitchens Today, 1971 - 1975 (invoices etc)
Large file marked archives includes:
File of Circulars to shareholders concerning the sale of shares which increased the capital of the company.
N. Thames Gas Board, Dealers Order Book
Pad of Kitchens Today paper
Various guarantees
Photos of offices designed by M Crowley, 1974, South Norwood
Civic Trust Award, 1973
Drawings thereof
Folder of Offers for shares
Kitchens Today Drawings
Booklets on Pension scheme
Stationery
Staff dinner, 1977

Big file marked history containing:
Packet of photos of Kitchens Today (showrooms in the 1960s at Beckenham and Sunbury)
Envelopes of small photos
Cuttings from Staines and Egham News 1975 and
Thankyou letters for souvenirs 1975
Photos of Aldridge, Timber Preservation company
Photographs cement works at Greenwich during demolition.
Glossy photos of new buildings at Manor Road South Norwood and Windsor House, Norbury, 1964.
Photographs of proposed office in Greenwich.
Cert of Registration of canal boat
Agreement between Messrs Ashby and Lady Cooper
Other letters of family interest.

William Ashby and Son Ltd.

Records of Croydon Recorded Music Society

  • AR949
  • Collection
  • 1945 - 2007

Minute books: 1945 - 1976; 1976- 2001.
Attendance book: 1980 - 1983, 1983 - 1988, 1989 - 1994 book (blue folder)
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, reviews, photographs etc 1972 - 1978 but with much loose material at rear.
Blue folder: miscellaneous including notes on programmes, equipment, history
Programmes i.e. record of music played: 1975-6 season, 1976 - 1979, 1979 - 1982 season
Covers of a notebook giving past presidents, chairmen etc, c.mid 1970s.
Lever arch file: treasurers file(?) 1977 - 1994.
Pink folder: CGS Correspondence
Yellow folder: History including photos.
Yellow folder: Important letter about former Chairman but also includes correspondence.
Orange folder: various plans for programmes.
Orange folder: CRMS Constitution
Bundle of loose correspondence, newsletters etc.
Red folder of material for 50th anniversary season, 1995
Address and phone numbers, c.1990.
Loose newsletters, 2003-7
Envelope of press cuttings.
Programmes, c.1999 - 2007

[Programmes for local (ie. Croydon Borough) Societies passed to LSL; those of non-Croydon RM Societies transferred to other Boroughs]

Croydon Recorded Music Society

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