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Second World War Identity Cards; bank pass book 1937-39; other ephemera. Mr Bailey lived at 76 Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, from the 1920s until his death in 1992.

Ration book that belonged to the Atkins family of 72 St James Road, Croydon

Diaries of Alderman Samuel Lee Rymer, who served as Mayor of Croydon 1893-1894.

Various programmes, leaflets and booklets; account of the Battle of Arnhem, 1944; report of the Chairman of the Croydon Organising Committee on Croydon-Arnhem Week, September 1947; albums of photographs of visit to Croydon, July 1946; bomb damage in Arnhem, 1946; visit to Arnhem by the Arnhem-Croydon Sport Committee; loose photographs.

Lease of beerhouse, Canning Road (with plan), 1874; extension of lease of Cricketers Inn, Upper Addiscombe Road, 1899; underlease of beerhouse, Addiscombe Road, 1878; statutory declaration re hedge adjoining Addiscombe Court and Addiscombe Cricket Ground, 1894; schedule of deeds re properties, 1824-99.

1 bundle of letters and family photographs.

Marriage contract between James Young Kennedy of Singapore and Anna Maria McCleod, daughter of Major General William Kelly McCleod of Upper Norwood, 1881; deeds to nos 88, 90, 94 and 96 Grange Park Road, Thornton Heath, 1901-1959.

Miscellaneous leases (1960-1975) and sales particulars (1963) of land at old Croydon Airport

Papers re:
1) Beulah Hill properties, Upper Norwood, 1900-1920
2) High Street and Surrey Street properties, Croydon, 1913-1914
3) Land abutting on Amelia Road, West Croydon, 1920
4) 73 Headcorn Road, Thornton Heath, 1920
5) North End properties, Croydon, 1929-1967

Probate of the will of Mary Bell of Croydon

Leases of the Gun Tavern in Church Street, Croydon

1) Evidences of title re properties at North End, Croydon, Surrey, 1845-1906
2) Leases of Woodside Gate Farm (site/property of Croydon Hospital), 1863-1890

1) Marriage settlement by Mary Gilpin and Alderman Winterbottom; grant of annuity; conveyance (by lease and release) and other deeds and papers, all re farm and land in the borough of Bensham, parish of Croydon. 1752; 1762; 1772; 1781; 1800
2) Agreement between Thomas Farrimond of Thrnton Heath, engineer, and Edward Cross, tobacconist of London, re the manufacture and sale of the Farrimond tobacco pipe, 1926

6 vols:
1) Minutes of the meeting of Special Sub Committee: Junior College Scheme, Grammar School Places, December 1954-November 1955
2) Special Sub Committee for Secondary Reorganisation 2.10.1961-6.2.1975 (4 vols)
3) Reorganisation of Secondary Education: records of Consultative Meetings, January 1969-1971

Special licences for marriages at Addington Church

Deeds to The Priory, Upper Norwood

Typescript copies of minutes (including AGMs); list of of names of former members, taken from available records

Abstract of title re 35, 37, 39, and 41 Macclesfield Road, Woodside

Photograph of Frank Grant as a corporal in Royal Flying Corps uniform; RFC forage cap, button and sergeants stripes; First World War medal and ribbon; Surrey Flying Services Ltd memorandum and Articles of Association, 1931; photograph of Avro G-EBFW owned by Surrey Flying Services; photocopies of newspaper clipping re purchase of Cessna plane, and photographs of Frank Grant with Cessna C-34 and his pilots.

Frank Grant (uncle of donor) was born in Hooe in 1896, and served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as a Corporal and later as a Sergeant. He moved to Purley in the 1920s, where he met and married his wife Kathleen. He formed Surrey Flying Services, based at Croydon Airport, in 1921, and the firm became a limited company in 1931. In 1936 he went to New York with a Mr Turner, a noted British pilot, where he was appointed agent for the Cessna Aircraft Co in Britain and other European countries. Mr Turner subsequently bought the first Cessna-C34 through Grants agency. Grant spent the Second World War as an Aircraft Engineer at a factory at Sanderstead, and after the war joined the Civil Service. He died in 1959.

Agreement re erection of fences and the observance of building lines. Includes land around New Lane, Dingwall Road, Lansdown Road, Middle Heath Lane, Bedford Place, St James Road, Brighton and South Coast Railway line. With plan.

Receipted bills for household furniture supplied to F H Day, of 58 Ashburton Road, East Croydon

Papers relating (mainly) to the estates of Mrs M E Elger, including 38 Albert Road, South Norwood, and 31 and 33 Bynes Road, South Croydon; Jean Winifred Hubbard; and Frank Hubbard. 1914-1974.
Trustees account with the beficiaries of the will of William Neal, deceased, 1919.
File of papers relating to Hubbard/Neal family history, including family tree; funeral bills; birth marriage and death certificates. 1856-1941

Records relating to school trips to Dieppe, 1972-1989
Records relating to the Save Sylvan High School campaign, 1987-1989
Reports, leaflets and other papers relating to Pilgrim Fort Camp, 1921-1995
Pilgrim Fort Mnagement Committee minutes, 1936-1995
Minutes of meetings with Joint Advisory Body, 1964-1970
Minutes of meetings between Croydon LEA and Secretaries of the Teachers Professional Associations, 1995-1997
Papers relating to school admission, bullying and discipline in schools, 1990-1994
Croydon Crime Prevention Panel minutes, 1992-1996

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.

Map shows area covered by 32nd Surrey Factory Battalion in Waddon/Beddington area