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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.

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Administrative records for Croydon Ramblers including correspondence, hall bookings, annual reports and annual general meeting minutes, programmes, executive committee minutes, ramble reports from 1968-1983 and press reports from 1966-68

Cash book of Clarendon Cash Stores, 24 Pitlake. The name and address of Ernest Wickham is written in inside front cover, donors grandfather.

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Four property documents relating to 125 Sussex Road:
Abstract of title: 1936
Conveyance: 04 February 1937
Supplemental Abstract of title: 1960
Conveyance: 13 October 1960
Extract from property register 1987

The collection includes committee minutes, correspondence, ephemera and Photographs

3 vols

6 Deposit Certificates
2 notes from the official receiver
Summary of the statement of affairs on 04 October 1892, the date of the official winding up order from the City of London Court.

A collection of ephemera relating to various Red Cross activities in Croydon from 1960s onwards: centres at 47 Coombe Road and Spring Park Road in Shirley together with a Red Cross shop on Robert Street.
The Collection contains loose photographs, photograph albums, newspaper cuttings, directories, certificates etc.

Photograph album presented by manager and staff of the Croydon Times to Miss Edith Purnell on her 21st birthday, 14 April 1904. An inscribed panel gives the names of staff, including Mr T.J. Hatch, the manager, whom she later married (June Quarter 1919). She died in the December Quarter 1980, age 97.
The album also includes posed photographic portraits of various members of the Hatch family and others, including Queen Victoria. The artwork suggests that the album was commercially produced and was purchased from Pritchards at 57 North End.

Photographs, letters, newscuttings, printed ephemera, two account books, medallions etc re the Lelasseur and Turner families, and the John Jakson mint and lavender distillery

200+ letters

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.