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Three letters, eight gift tags, six greeting cards, three receipts, two delivery cards, one newspaper cutting and one telegram.

Minutes and share certificates of the Croydon Community Theatre Company which administered the Croydon Repertory Theatre.

Club for women in the Services, opened 19 January 1943. Register of members 1943-46; album of photographs; loose photographs; 2 cuttings. 1 small box.

Mainly correspondance and certificates relating to the deaths (whilst on active service) of William Frederick Martin (1915) and F W and H G Stevens (1918).

Copy of satirical drawing by Rowlandson showing A Lord of the Manor receiving Rents, source unknown; Letter written by Mary henman of Croydon asking for payment of board, 1714; Receipt for farm rent, signed by Francis Carew, 1605; Faculty for appropriation of part of St James Churchyard by Croydon Corporation, 1891 (with plan); Receipts for quit rent paid to the Lord of the Manor of Croydon, 1798-1799 (4 docs); Assignment of mortgage, involving William Herring of Croydon, 1758; Lease of Norbury Manor Farm, 1831.

Notebook containing general information useful to Croydon Reference Library staff, compiled by Jenny Hierons (library trainee); mainly copied from training cards compiled by Peter Glover, Reference Librarian.

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

3 letters from Jane E Roper, of Langmere, Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, to Mr Forster, a business adviser.

Eric Wettern laid out his garden at Roselands, Purley Oaks Road in Sanderstead in 1919 and bequeathed it to the London Borough of Croydon in 1965

http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=CRO094

By 1864 there was a Surrey Congregational Union Chapel on the site of the present school. It was then in use as a school room. The Croydon School Board took over the building on 1 August 1871 and it was used as a girls' and infants' school until 1873 when the infants moved to a separate room. This is Croydon's oldest Board School by 14 days. Administrative papers: 1871 - 1890, CBC/3/2/11; 1891 - 1903, CBC/3/2/12; 1903 - 1924, CBC/3/2/13; 1924 - 1945, CBC/3/2/14. There is a history of the school in "The Beulah Story 1873-1973" by Albert E. Oliver in the Local History collection.

Registers of admission of Waddon Hospital. Some indexed. The building of an infectious diseases hospital was first promulgated in 1890, and in December 1893 pressure increased when permission was refused for the construction of a fever hospital at Grange Wood. This was especially important since in the period 1885 - 90 Croydon had become notorious for its high incidence of epidemic diseases. The hospital opened on 6 June 1896 and was extended in 1900 and 1911. The name was changed to"Waddon Hospital" in 1945, and as the incidence of infectious diseases decreased, the hospital became used for the care of the elderly and pioneering eye operations. In this latter use the hospital became internationally renowned since many of the procedures were filmed as teaching aids. In 1981 large scale bed-closures were proposed in the borough in the light of Government spending cuts, simultaneous with the opening of the new District Hospital and Waddon Hospital was one of the victims. There was little opposition, since the hospital was recognised to be obsolescent. The hospital finally closed in 1984, and the site was given over to residential development in 1991. Croydon Local Studies Library holds several photographs of Waddon Hospital (Photo Ref: 362 Waddon), also a printed report on a proposed new Epidemic Hospital by Leonard Wilde (Ref: pS70 (362) CRO) and an invitation card for the opening of the hospital in 1896 (Ref: pS70 (362) CRO)

Coulsdon Roke Infants' School and Coulsdon Roke Post-Infants' School were founded on 27 April 1908. The word "Coulsdon" was later dropped from the title. The Post-Infants' School closed in 1926 when Roke Central School was opened in the building. Roke Junior School opened on 19 April 1950 in premises vacated by Roke Central School. On 1 September 1969 the Infants' School and the Junior School were amalgamated under one head.Primary Education. Roke Primary School/Purley Vale/Purley/Croydon/London/South-East/England

Founded January 1907. The school has been an infants' school throughout its history.

Secondary Education. South Norwood High School/Sandown Road (South Norwood)/South Norwood/Croydon/London/South-East/England. Opened as Portland Road Girls' School on 7 April 1902 and Portland Road Boys' School on 8 April 1902. A separate Portland Road Junior School was opened on 18 June 1906, with the same headmaster as the boys' school. The boys' and junior schools were amalgamated on 31 March 1911. In September 1931, the boys' and girls' schools were reorganised and admitted only senior pupils after that date. In July 1958, the girls' school was closed and the boys' school was reorganised to form Portland Secondary Mixed School. The name of the school was changed to South Norwood in 1969 and in July 1971, it became an 11 - 14 mixed comprehensive school (South Norwood High School). Closed 31 August 1983. Retrospectively accessioned 17 August 2001.

School Records, Primary Education. Coulsdon Roke Infants' School and Coulsdon Roke Post-Infants' School were founded on 27 April 1908. The word "Coulsdon" was later dropped from the title. The Post-Infants' School closed in 1926 when Roke Central School was opened in the building. Roke Junior School opened on 19 April 1950 in premises vacated by Roke Central School. On 1 September 1969 the Infants' School and the Junior School were amalgamated under one head. Roke Primary School/Purley Vale/Purley/Croydon/London/South-East/England. See SCH95 for records of Roke Central School.

Founded 12 January 1920 as a central school for boys. It became a boys' grammar in 1945 and a mixed [boys' and girls'] comprehensive (14 - 18) high school in September 1971. Closed 31 August 1987.

1. WCBSs hand-written exercise book entitled Stray Verses 1902-1910 1916-1918 with 63 poems transcribed from his notebooks.
   2. Olive Emily Clarkes (WCBSs future wifes) autograph Album compiled 1910-1915 with a contribution by WCBS in 1911 (she married him in 1915) and contributions by James Duff Brown and by staff at Islington and Darlington Libraries.
   3. WCBSs notebook early 1940s with notes for the Library Association Classification Examination 18 May 1942, notes for lectures on Classification at Croydon Polytechnic 1941, and details of the blitz on Croydon from 13-24 November 1940. This ends with the 24 / 25 November 1940 and a later note explaining that this was when a bomb hit the South Report Centre in the Town Hall and WCBS was injured and put in hospital for some months.
   4. WCBSs first draft entitled Some Canons of Classification (in a library binding) which was published as Canons of Classification (1915). The draft combines reprints of his thesis submitted for the Professional Diploma and his papers read at the Library Association in 1907 and 1910 with a few pencil annotations.
   5. WCBSs desk diary for 1928 including (amongst other things) a poem by him and the titles of talks given at Croydon Public Library which include Selections from the Works of a Croydon Poet (no doubt WCBS).
   6. Six slim volumes of manuscript music sheets with words by WCBS and music by several of his friends and occasionally by WCBS too.
   7. Two song sheets with words by W. C. Berwick Sayers and music by Herbert Oliver published by J. H. Larway in the 1920s.
2. A copy of Balaustons Adventure by Robert Browning (1889) inscribed in pencil with a poem composed by WCBS lauding Browning.
3. the Foremost Trail by C. Fox Smith (1899), a prize book awared to W.C.Berwick Sayers by Heath and Home for Verses on Dreyfus in 1899 with three relevant loose newspaper cuttings, one of them annotated by him.

Two minute books (1928 - 1939; 1957), membership lists 1930s - 1940s; photographs 1920s - 1930s; posters, ephemera and insignia.

Includes heads of households only.

11 school exercise books, used while at Croydon Boys British School. These exercise books were used for Harold Bings homework; the British School was unusual among elementary schools in Croydon in setting homework in this period. the school was noted for an emphasis on artisitic production (drawing, painting, illumination, etc), which is a feature of these books. The books are marked by teachers, but also by the Headmaster, W H Jarvis, at his weekly inspection (normally with blue pencil in a circle).

Records of the Woodford (House) Old Girls Association; and photographs and mementoes of Woodford School.

Home Guard Duty Book and photographs of Harry Guy Simmons (1909-1964).