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Minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee

  • AR872
  • Collection
  • 1911 - 1914

2 volumes of minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee, including newspaper cuttings.

Purley Urban Powers Committee

Diary of Edith Dickinson

  • AR868
  • Collection
  • 1908

Diary for the year 1908 written in a Northern Assurance Company memo booklet. The diary is mostly the minutiae of the daily life of a seventeen year old girl (age 10 at 1901 census; birthday 12 June) who lives with her aunt and other family members at 2 Dagnall Park, Selhurst. There are references to her father. Occasional references to local events e.g. she was a member of the Primrose League; wins a prize at the meeting on 04 April.

Edith Dickinson

Records of the Pure Lemon Juice Company

  • AR855
  • Collection
  • 1922 - 1940

Minute Book 1922 - 1933.
Accounts, including some printed ephemera, 1922 - 1940 (with gaps).

Pure Lemon Juice Company

Records of Croydon Flower Society

  • AR810
  • Collection
  • 1958 - 1995

Minutes 1958 - 1995 (5 vols)
Minutes of AGM and Balance Sheets (1 vol)
Newsletters (1 vol)
Typed history

Croydon Flower Society

HM Customs and Excise Blue Books relating to flights from Croydon

  • AR788
  • Collection
  • 1926-1939
  1. Ships Blue Book. Aircraft No: GEBFO. Date stamped 13 March 1926 at Croydon Aerodrome. Includes Air Navigation Report of same date. 1 doc.
  2. Ships Blue Book. Aircraft No: (?) GEGTS/ GEBTS. Date stamped 30 April 1930 at Croydon Aerodrome. Includes Air Navigation Report of same date and Prime Entry for Baggage form: cinema film and negative, 71 feet. Note: Captain Barnard with Duchess of Bedford as passenger having made return journey England to Cape Town in 21 days. 1 bundle.
  3. Ships Blue Book. Aircraft No: G-AEXF. Date stamped 9 February 1939 at Gravesend, Kent; Entry Visa (Volet dEntre) dated 9 February 1939; Declaration of Compliance with Acts to a Delivery of Letter, in name of A. Henshaw (pilot) dated 9 February 1939. 1 bundle.

HM Customs and Excise

Records of Mr W.F.G. Bull

  • AR783
  • Collection
  • 1951-1971

1) Bundle of correspondence and receipts relating to 26 Cuthbert Road, home of Mr Bull, 1951 - 1971
2) 1 printers block of H.R.Grubbs shop (North End?)
3) 2 printers instruments.

Mr W. F. G. Bull

Autobiographical notes of F.H.B.Ellis

  • AR767
  • Collection
  • 1925 - 1939

197 pp. Handwritten autobiographical notes of F.H.B. Ellis. Appear to have been written in 1925 and updated until 1944.

F. H. B. Ellis

Certificates of Gwendoline Beatrice Pratt

  • AR744
  • Collection
  • 1928

Two certificates of Gwendoline Beatrice Pratt
1) Certificate awarded by Heathcote House School, Croydon, to Gwendoline Pratt for Scripture, Christmas 1928.
2) Certificate Awarded by London College of Music, Gt. Marlborough Street, London to Gwendoline Pratt for pianoforte playing, 13 July 1928.

Gwendoline Beatrice Pratt

Copies of letters of 2nd Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson

  • AR731
  • Collection
  • 1916

Note book containing copies of letters from the battlefield 1916 from 2nd Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson and includes some press cuttings.

Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson

Home Guard Map

  • AR545
  • Collection
  • c1940-1945

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

Home Guard

Ashburton Library Reports

  • AR1073
  • Collection
  • 1929 - 1947

1) Retiring Report of the First Librarian in Charge of the Ashburton Library, Mr R.D.Hilton Smith (handwritten, 1929).
2) Report on the use of Stock 1929 - 1947.

Ashburton Library

Postcard, photograph and slide collection of John B. Gent (1932 - 2011)

  • AR1075
  • Collection
  • 1932 - 2011

35 boxes plus loose bags:
A POSTCARDS

These, estimated to number over 14,000, are housed in 25 cardboard boxes, three two-drawer filing units, and seven albums as follows:

Boxes

Boxes 1 - 16 contains Croydon cards arranged topographically.
Boxes 17 - 25 contain Croydon cards arranged thematically.

[1] AD Addington (including New Addington)
AS Addiscombe (including Park Hill)

[2] CN Coulsdon

[3] CA Croydon Airport

[4] CC Croydon central

[5] CC Croydon central

[6] KY Kenley
NY Norbury

[7] OT Old Town (including Waddon and the river Wandle

[8] PY Purley

[9] PY Purley

[10] ST Sanderstead and Selsdon

[11] SH Selhurst
SY Shirley

[12] SC South Croydon including Croham Hurst

[13] SN South Norwood

[14] TH Thornton Heath

[15] UN Upper Norwood

[16] WC West Croydon
WS Woodside

[17] ADV Advertising and message cards
AE Aerial views
ALM Almshouses
BOU Bourne flows
CAF Cafes
CEM Cemeteries and crematoria

[18] CHU Churches

[19] COM Composite / multi-view cards
EVE Events
FIR Fire brigade and fires
FLO Floods

[20] GRO Groups

[21] HOS Hospitals
HOU Houses
HUM Humorous and novelty cards

[22] LET Letter-cards
MIS Miscellaneous subjects and buildings
PAL Croydon Palace
PEO People

[23] PUB Public houses
RAD Radio amateurs contact cards
SCH Schools

[24] SHO Shops and other business premises
THE Theatres and cinemas
TOW Town Hall

[25] TA Transport (all modes)
WAR Wartime hospitals and other wartime scenes
WOR Works and factories

Two-drawer filing units

The total of six drawers contain cards relating, mostly, to districts near Croydon but beyond the LB Croydon boundary; also Collectorcard and Pamlin Prints cards, and some modern cards.

Albums

The seven albums contain cards as follows:

[1] C.H. Price cards numbered 20001 - 20099
[2] C.H. Price cards numbered 20100 - 20399
[3] C.H. Price cards numbered 20400 - 20720
[4] C.H. Price cards numbered 30000 - 30299
[5] C.H. Price cards / Croydon Airport
[6] Croydon Times cards
[7] South London cards

B PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS

Numerous photographic prints, currently on a LSLAS trolley, in course of cataloguing and processing. All are being labelled as the property of / on loan from Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Ltd. As catalogued and labelled they are filed in the main LSLAS files of photographic and other images.

C SLIDES

Photographic slides including those deposited by the Society and those deposited directly by John Gent before his death.

John B. Gent

Notebook on Antiquities of Croydon

  • AR394
  • Collection
  • c1915

Compiled by Nora F Oclee, with sketches. Undated, but inscriptions inside cover dated July and August 1915.

Nora F Oclee

Account book

  • AR400
  • Collection
  • 1754-1778

Receipts from property in Croydon and the Manor of Croham; estate accounts for house in Lincolnshire and property in Leicestershire; accounts for members of the Croft, Green, Jervaise and Walker families. Possibly kept by or for James Croft.

Unknown person

Croydon University Extension Committee records

  • AR429
  • Collection
  • 1946-1967

Minutes 1946-67 (2 vols); list of courses held at Croydon 1881-1967; posters; lists of lectures; lists of candidates who received certificates; correspondence; Croydon Education Committee A Plan for Leisure booklets.

Croydon University Extension Committee

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