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Contains rough drafts of the W.V.S. reports as well as details of those involved in the Croydon Housewives Service and the positions they held.

Lists the names of those who it was hoped to give furniture to. A rough handwritten version of the typed list is also included.

Collection includes WVS Housewives Service Organisers Report on Flying Bomb Incidents June to August 1944; registers of persons bombed out during these incidents (2 vols); rough notes on flying bomb incidents and casualties (1 vol); newspaper accounts of WVS activities and an acknowledgement of Mrs Sandisons resignation from the WVS due to her husbands ill health, 1947.

Articles consist of:

Photograph of the annual nurses ball at Croydon General Hospital. Croydon Times and Surrey County Mail. (Date Unknown)

A detailed account of a bombing raid. Croydon Times, 26th February 1944.

Details of the W.V.S. gift scheme. Norwood News, 10th August 1945.

An account of the talk given by the Dowager Marchioness Reading to Croydon Rotary Club. (Newspaper and Date Unkown)

A photograph showing the goods sent by the people of Carlisle to help bombed out families. Croydon Advertiser, 2nd March 1945.

Article detailing the goods sent by the people of Carlisle to help bombed out families. Croydon Times, 3rd March 1945.

A photo and article about Christmas gifts for children sent from Belgium. Croydon Times, December 16th 1944.

Summary of the progress of the war in 1944. Croydon Advertiser, 29th December 1944.

Brief article on the future of the W.V.S. (Newspaper and Date Unknown)

Map showing location of flying bombs which fell in Kent. Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, 29th September 1944.

Map showing location of flying bombs which fell in Croydon (2 copies). Reprinted from the Croydon Times September 30th, 1944.

Register gives the number of houses damaged during the 1944 bombings as well as the extent to which the property was damaged.

The street names are given in alphabetical order which indicates that the register may have been compiled after the air raids had ended.

Register lists the addresses that were bombed and the address each family was moved to.

The names are given in alphabetical order which indicates that the register may have been compiled after the air raids had ended.

The list of names may possibly have been used in compiling the Register of Electors for the General Election of July 1945.

Letter accepting the resignation of Evelyn May Sandison from the W.V.S. accompanied by an address card and a personal note thanking Mrs Sandison for her time in the W.V.S.

Roads are listed by district and give dates of Flying Bomb incidents.

Reports include location of bomb crash sites, details of damage at sites, numbers of casualties and extent of involvement of the Housewives Service in the County Borough of Croydon.