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Photograph albums:
1) Green Reminiscent photograph album, c.1910 - 1920. Mainly family groups and portraits.
2) Brown: Florrie Tours Scotland c.1902. (Florrie King was born c.1879).
3) Brown: Memories of the Eastbourne Holidays, July and August 1901 also of Pleasant Days spent up the river, 1901 taken by Geo. Gatenby and George E. Cushing. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others). (Note: Gatenby married Rose King).
4) Green: Memories of the Folkestone Holidays, July and August 1902 by George Gatenby. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others).
5) Burgundy: Memories of the Bournemouth Holidays, August 1903) taken by Geo. Gatenby and George E. Cushing. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others).
6) Green paperback album of wartime postcards addressed to Florrie King by Will (William) King who was serving in the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. As the postcards seem to stop abruptly in 1915, it is presumed that William (born c.1883) was killed in action (a Pte William King of the 4th Bn Cameron Highlanders died 24 March 1915 (source: CWGC).

7) Material from Cameron uniform together with button with picture of soldier and 1897 Diamond Jubilee coin (probably belonging to William Smith).

8) Three small books of common prayer, two marked F.King (presumably Florrie.) One with clasp intact.

9) Pamorama photograph from Sunny Southern California from Peter Cushing (resident 1766 West Ridge Road, Brentwood, W.L.A, California) to Mr and Mrs G.E.Cushing, Cherry Tree Cottage, Norwood Hill near Horley, Surrey, dated 19 January 1941.

10) Obituary of Mr D. King from the Furniture Record, 20 May 1920. He had worked for James Humphries and Sons of Snow Hill, London, for 56 years.

16 plans showing detailed areas of the following stations and bridges:

Addiscombe
Barclay Road Bridge (2)
East Croydon (4)
Norwood Junction (2)
Purley
Selhurst (carriage washing machine)
Smitham
South Croydon (2)
South Croydon/Stoats Nest/Purley
West Croydon

2 boxes:
Minutes:

1973 - 1980 (personal minute book compiled by Pat Lawrence: original book and subsequent volumes lost)
1998 - 2010 (entries closed for 30 years).

Scrapbooks (compiled by Sylvia Collins to 1988 and subsequently by Audrey Botting)

1979 - 1981
1982
1982 - 1983
1983 - 1984
1984
1985
1985 - 1987
1987 - 1988
1990 - 1992
1993 - 1994
1995 - 1996
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2000
2001 - 2002
2003 - 2004

Photograph albums

4 volumes:
1990 - 1993
1993 - 1996
1996 - 2000
2000 - 2003 plus one album of actors publicity photos c.1982.

Newsletters

Incomplete run of newsletters with more to follow in electronic form: these will be added to Local Studies Library newsletter collection.

Annual reports

A collection of annual reports to follow (in electronic form)

Loose programmes

A collection of loose programmes, autographed, belonging to Mr Norman Edwards and Mrs Hope Edwards, donated to Ashcroft Theatre Club.

Book

Why Janet should read Shakespeare by Norman Hapgood 1929. Inscription shows it was presented to Peggy Ashcroft by the author in 1937. Later given to the Ashcroft Theatre Club.

In addition, a collection of duplicate Fairfield programmes was donated to LSLA to be added to Fairfield programmes collection.

1) Photograph album c.1898 - 9.
Photographs include:
Whitgift Almshouses
St Saviours Church, Croydon
High Street,
Bensham Villas, London Road
Waddon
Duppas Hill
Thornton Road
St Lukes Mission Church
Lifeboat procession
Barnums procession, 1898
Sangers Circus procession
Shirley
Hare and Hounds pub, Waddon
Waddon Marsh Farm
Colliers Farm and Cottage, Thornton Heath
Broad Green Place
Mafeking Avenue
Surrey Street
Canterbury Road
Lodge Road
Agricultural show
Plus views of Mitcham and Beddington

2) Lose photographs, some mounted, showing Beddington, Budleigh Salterton and Bensham Villas, London Road.
3) Photograph of Rev G.Kempe of St Saviours Church, TH.
4) Photograph of Phyllis Kynaston as worker at the Croydon War Depot during WWI.
5) Two billheads for E.C.Chart, Ecclesiastical and Art Needlework, 51 High St.

Photograph with negative of Gillett and Johnston staff, including William Bennett (2nd right) with Berlin Freedom Bell prior to installation in Berlin.
Other photographs of William Bennett installing GJ bells.
GJ brochure.
Limited edition GJ bell made for Coronation in 1953.
Photocopies of correspondence between Barry Bennett and the authorities in Berlin for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the installation of the Freedom Bell in 2000.
CD of Freedom Bell (to be transferred to Local Studies Library) at Rathause Town Hall in Schoenberg, Berlin.

Photograph album of Leslie Frank Stuttle of the 2nd/16th Bn London Regiment (Queens Westminster Rifles). Album contains postcards of both overseas and home postings, groups of soldiers, friends and pictures taken on leave in England as well as pictures of his grave in the Jerusalem War Cemetery. The album also includes a portrait photograph, copies of the order of service for the dedication of a memorial window to the Queens Westminster Rifles in the St. Benedicts Chapel on 10 March 1923 and a copy of the Daily Telegraph for 29 Feb 1896 (possibly the date of his birth) and an extract from the Daily Telegraph of May 14 1906.

Scrapbook of E Newton Lucas (resident of Waddon New Road in 1863) with programmes, cuttings, tickets etc of Croydon Sacred Harmonic Society and Surrey Philharmonic Society, Addiscombe Branch.

Bundle of papers relating to army service, divorce and bankruptcy of Mr Robert Fuller of Melfort Road, Thornton Heath and later Everton Road, Thornton Heath. A fishmonger at Brighton Road, Purley, he was declared bankrupt in 1934 but, following army service, discharged himself from bankruptcy in 1947. He and his wife divorced in 1945.

1 vol

1 volume with some inserts

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.

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.

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.

1 doc

1 box:
Minutes and accompanying documents (lever arch files):

9/10/1992 - 20/11/1992
29/01/1993 - 21/01/1994
18/03/1994 - 16/12/1994
17/3/1995 - 06/9/1996
27/09/1996 - 3/1998

Plus copies of
Overhead Line System Study Final Report November 1993
Croydon Tramlink Act, 1994
Tramstop Review by Globe Architects and Plan Design Group 1994

25 volumes of bound notebooks containing plans of newly built properties with drainage routes indicated. Volumes are numbered but there appears to be two sequences. Volumes are in poor condition.

6 items

1 bundle

3 items

Various correspondence files, financial records, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia etc of R Mansell Ltd, builders

1 item:
Copy draft deed of co-partnership between Messrs Carpenter, Whitling and Lanchester. A company of doctors based at 53 High Street (1880 Directory).

Deed for land west of Birchanger Road, South Norwood, 1872. Includes part of Brickfield Meadow.

Papers of Mrs Vera Cookes deceased husband, Maurice Cooke, former pupil at the Limes School and onetime Membership Secretary of the Bourne Society. Photographs, school magazine, school report, correspondence and newspaper clipping relating to school reunion.

Deeds and papers relating to nos 203-221 Portland Road, South Norwood