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Photographs (colour and black and white), taken by Roger McCallum, who worked at Mayday, mainly for publication in Croydon Health Authority staff newsletter Newsline

2 boxes and a folder of sketchbooks, watercolours, photographs and cuttings of Edward George Handel Licas (1861-1936), a Croydon artist

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.

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.

1 bundle

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

1 bundle

Plan, elevations, designs and correspondence relating to Stanley Halls and Technical and Trade School, including details of masonry, roof and stage. Many of the plans and designs are signed by W F Stanley.

Deeds 1884-1930
Plan 1858
Correspondence 1974

Scrapbook, compiled by Sydenham Renaud. It contains a watercolour plan of the College and surrounding properties (dated June 1859; measures 28.5cm x 22cm; scale c9 in :1mile = 1:7040]; 147 albumen prints, mainly of cadets, staff, College buildings and surrounding area; and cuttings relating to the College. These are accompanied by captions and commentary on the photographs (mainly referring to the images, but sometimes to the photographic techniques) which extend in places to memoirs of the College Life. Non-Addington photographs include : Addington Palace; Beddington House and Church (2 photos), Cadet Alexander (son of General Alexander)s home; Lord Ashburtons Farm; General CA Browne, his house at Secunderabad, Deccan, and memorial to Elizabeth, his wife (3 photos; 1863); cadets at Sandown, Isle of Wight (1859 or 1860); room at University College, Oxford; and 4 copies of paintings or prints. Cuttings towards the end of the volume include cartoons from Punch etc; cuttings on military subjects; portraits of political and military public figures (including William Gladstone and Earl Roberts) articles re the Fens and re Egypt; etc., mainly undated, but some 1885 - 1905.

Photography was included in the Addiscombe curriculum from 1855 (taught by Aaron Penley, professor of civil drawing). The photographs mainly date from 1858-1859, and an early title for the book was 'Photographs taken by Cadets of the H.E.I.C.s Military College, Addiscombe. A.D. 1858-59. The photographs appear to have been stuck into the book soon afterwards, with brief captions. The captions were added to and amended over the years, particularly in the period 1891-1905, when the scrapbook assumed its present form. At times they extend into fairly long passages of text. These have been wrapped idiosyncratically around the pictures, or written on interleaved pieces of paper. Renaud comments 'the whole thing is go as you please over the patchwork so imperfectly hashed up. The book was used for reminiscing with other old cadets (for example, at a lunch in 1891), and some of the amendments may be the result of these shared memories. A few of the photographs were taken away from Addiscombe, or at a later date. Towards the end, the volume degenerates into a scrapbook for miscellaneous cuttings etc on military and other subjects, dated around 1885-1905. Renaud calls the book 'quite a preliminary canter to The Race, in the magnum opus of Colonel H.M. Vibart; a reference to Vibarts history, Addiscombe: its Heroes and Men of Note (1894) (shelved in Local Studies Library at S70(355)VIB).

This collection contains birth, marriage and death certificates of the Loxton and Ward families. It includes a photocopy of a photograph in which Walter Ernest Loxton, Hilda Annie Loxton, and Leslie George Loxton ( father of the donor ) appear. There is also a photocopy of a handwritten page listing names, dates of birth, marriage and death spanning 3 July 1876 - 7 January 1933, which is possibly the reverse of the photograph. A handwritten memo note providing similiar information is included, covering the same dates, but is not as extensive. The family have a connection with the Bird in Hand pub, Sydenham Road, Croydon and so there is a postcard of the pub and a copy of settlement relating to the same with an inventory of stock dated 1884.

Blueprints of main and mezzanine balcony girders

Cash journals 1926 - 1939 (6 vols)
Tenancy agreement re 3 Saxon Road, Dec 1903

Set of six plans of John Newnham School, September 1971
Set of six plans of John Ruskin College, May 1989
Eight miscellaneous plans of John Ruskin School, 1970-1974

Kenwood was apprenticed as warehouseman and cutter to Sir Alfred William Tyler.

Deeds to: Saxon Road, Selhurst, 1923-47; 74 Waddon Road (Haling House), 1906-11; Old Lodge Lane, Purley, 1938; Canning Road, Addiscombe, 1869-1977; Pampisford Road, Croydon, 1885-1945; Purley Downs Road, 1953-4; Napier Road, Croydon, 1881-1909; Osborne Road, Thornton Heath, 1862-1908; Harewood Road, South Croydon, 1899-1947; Coniston Road, Woodside, 1911-1928; Shirley Park Road, Addiscombe, 1913-1945; Tanfield Road, Croydon, 1882-1948; Oval Road, East Croydon, 1898-1966; Brighton Road, South Croydon, 1869; Vicarage Road, Croydon, 1882; Waddington Avenue, Old Coulsdon, 1960; 49 Kiddermisnter Road, Croydon, 1936; 72 Croydon Grove, Croydon, 1891; Beulah Park Estate, 1925; Kensington House, Sanderstead Road, South Croydon, 1881; Everton Road, Addiscombe, 1907; Ross Road, South Norwood, 1933-1953; 76 Valley Road, Kenley, 1949-57.
Miscellaneous probate copies of wills.

Two boxes of records of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, including ten minute books (1918-1976); address book; and folder of newsletters and circulars (1940-1949).

Accounts of the original foundation, 1829
Reports of HM Inspectors of Schools, c1869-95
Contracts between Governors and pupil teachers, 1870s-1880s
School accounts and bills
Correspondence c 1886 re school reports and the Headteacher, who resigned as a result of a bad report.
Letter 1893 re the suitablility of the position of the earth closets

Covers 1863 - 1907. Includes plan.

Plans of the BRIT School, Oct 1989 (10 docs)
Correspondence, committee report and press clippings re the BRIT School, 1989 (1 bundle)
BRIT School feasibility study, May 1989 (1 doc)
Correspondence re the building of Harris CTC, 1990-91 (3 files)

1 doc

Large, illuminated testimonial, with the names of 140 subscribers, given to William James Pickford, a loyal friend, a true sportsman and a good fellow, on his 50th birthday. Pickford was a partner in Pickford and Newton, outfitters, of George Street, Croydon.

Documents include plans of the site, and sale particulars dated 1863.

Papers of and regarding the Rogers family (including EW Rogers, corn dealer); including diary of Alice Rogers, 1880-1905; album of newspapers cuttings; birth, death and marriage certificates, and genealogical notes.

Includes abstract of title back to 1840, with plan