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Edith Purnell photograph album

  • AR1023
  • Collection
  • 1904

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.

Edith Purnell

Education Department records

  • AR518
  • Collection
  • 1954-1971

6 vols:
1) Minutes of the meeting of Special Sub Committee: Junior College Scheme, Grammar School Places, December 1954-November 1955
2) Special Sub Committee for Secondary Reorganisation 2.10.1961-6.2.1975 (4 vols)
3) Reorganisation of Secondary Education: records of Consultative Meetings, January 1969-1971

Croydon Borough Council

Eleanor Macdonald Obe

  • AR133
  • Collection
  • 1916 - 1982

1) Report books of Eleanor MacDonald, Woodford School, 1916 - 1921; 1922.

2) Photographs of final luncheon of the Woodford Old Girls Association, 1984 and EMs report of the event.

3) Woodford School Old Girls Association, Members lists 1964, 1975, 1982 and newsletter Spring 1960, 1961 and 1963.

4) Scapbooks of Croydon School of Fencing, 1929 - 1933, 1933- 1938. Includes loose photographs.

Eleanor Macdonald OBE

Elsie Turrells Midwife Registers

  • AR112
  • Collection
  • 1926-1970

5 volumes of Registers of Cases, and related loose papers, kept by Elsie Susan Turrell, midwife, of 27 Limes Road, West Croydon

Elsie Turrell

Engineering Drawings of Park Hill Reservoir and Water Tower

  • AR818
  • Collection
  • c.1867 - 1959

1) Croydon Local Board of Health.
Contract no. 5 Sheet no.1
Plan of dome/Plan at AB on Section thro EF
Scale 4 feet to an inch
N.D.

2) Croydon Local Board of Health
Contract No.5 Sheet No.2
Sections of service reservoir
[Scale bar damaged]
N.D.

3) Croydon Local Board of Health
Contract No.5 Sheet No. 3/4 [Combined on one sheet]
Section of valve pit/Section of Pandrill shewing dormer for Man-hole/Elevation of Discharging Arch H and filling in Spandrill/Elevation [for dormer for Man-hole]/Section of Spandrill shewing waste and cleansing pipes
Scale 4 feet to an inch
N.D.

4) Croydon Corporation Waterworks Park Hill Reservoir
Plan at Base/[Part Section]
Scale 4 feet to 1 inch
N.D.

5) Water Tower Improvements 1889 [Details drawings of plans/sections/elevations shewing tank/internal staircase/roof/turret/ornamental work and windows (exterior) etc]
1889

6) Park Hill Water Tower War Damage Repairs
Drawing No.1 (dated 11 August 1954)
Architect George Lowe FRIBA in association with A.F.Holt AMICE, Borough Engineer and Surveyor.
[Detail drawings showing repairs to damaged turret]
1954

7) Proposed re-roofing to Park Hill Water Tower
[Plan and section dated 30 January 1959]
1959

Croydon Borough Council

Eric Alfred Blake Pritchard Letters

  • AR1145
  • Collection
  • 1918

These letters were written to his local meeting and to his family in Thornton Heath, Croydon. They contain details about his work as a medical orderly with the Anglo-American Mission between February and November 1918

He was based initially at Ornans and later at Sermaize les Bains. He is in touch with "Paris Equipe" Based at the Hotel Britannique, 20 Avenue Victoria. He writes every 2-3 days and there are about 50 letters mentioning the following people:
Longstreth Thompson
George Chapman
Norman E. Brooks
Harold Buiks of Eccles
Eric C. Hinde
Arthur Baxter
Morris Burdsall
Bernard McAlpine
Geoffrey Franklin
T. Edmund Harvey and Mrs Harvey
Kenneth Morland
Wilfred Shewell

Eric Alfred Blake Pritchard

Ernest Wimble Scrapbook and Cuttings

  • AR7
  • Collection
  • 1911-1979

Scrapbook of cuttings, and printed ephemera, etc, of Ernest W Wimble, mainly re his three campaigns as Labour candidate for election to Croydon Corporation, 1920, 1922 and 1923. 2 cuttings re his visit to Russia in 1934.

Ernest Wimble

Evacuation Records of Mary Neville-Kaye, Obe

  • AR172
  • Collection
  • 1940 - 1942

Notebook and photographs belonging to Mary Neville-Kaye, a teacher from Overbury School evacuated to Lee, near Ilfracoombe in Devon, 1940 - 1942.

Mary Alicia Neville-Kaye OBE

F H Day Bills

  • AR530
  • Collection
  • 1924-1926

Receipted bills for household furniture supplied to F H Day, of 58 Ashburton Road, East Croydon

F H Day

F.G. Creed Papers

  • AR53
  • Collection
  • c.1890-c.1980

Personal papers of Frederick George Creed (1871-1957), inventor of the teleprinter, including family papers, patents, drawings and correspondence regarding his invention of the 'Seadrome', and other variations on ocean platforms, and the papers of his widow Mrs V.GL. Creed

Frederick George Creed

Fairfield Correspondence (Underwood)

  • AR14
  • Collection
  • 1934

File of correspondence of Alfred T Underwood with Knight Frank and Rutley, re proposed sale of Fairfield Estate, Croydon.

Alfred T. Underwood

Fairfield Halls Collection

  • AR1128
  • Collection
  • 1962 - 2023

The Fairfield Halls Collection consists of:

  1. programmes and diaries for events in both the main and auxiliary spaces (these comprise the majority of the collection). There is also a finding aid created from the published events diaries which list the majority of public facing events that were held at the Fairfield Halls. This can be searched by staff to resolve queries.
  2. marketing materials such as posters and flyers
  3. photographs documenting the construction of the building and key events
  4. administrative records
  5. material relating to the Fairfield Halls Corps of Stewards

County Borough of Croydon

Family Papers of Ken Hadler

  • AR747
  • Collection
  • c.1914 - 1944
  1. Newspaper cutting relating to evacuation, Evening Argus 15 February 1940

  2. Postcard from a Prisoner of War camp 1944, author John Darnley, addressed to Mr A G Hadler

  3. Photograph of water wagon c.1914

  4. Photograph of the Imperial Airways switchboard, Purley Way, Croydon

  5. Pencil list of extension numbers for the Redwing Air Co Ltd switchboard

  6. Croydon Letter Card depicting scenes from Croydon

Ken Hadler

Family Papers of Ken Hadler

  • AR747
  • Collection
  • c.1914 - 1944

6 items:

  1. Newspaper cutting relating to evacuation, Evening Argus 15 February
    1940
    2.Postcard from a PoW camp 1944, author John Darnley, addressed to
    Mr A G Hadler
    3.Photograph of donors grandfather standing beside a water wagon
    c.1914?
    4.Photograph of Mrs D Hadley, mother of donor, at the Imperial
    Airways switchboard, Purley Way, Croydon
    5.Pencil list of extension numbers for the Imperial Airways switchboard
    6.Croydon Letter Card depicting scenes from Croydon

Ken Hadler

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