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Bowron family papers, including bank pass book and correspondence. List on accession file. 8 items

Manuscript notes by F H B Ellis MA for talks given to Womens Citizens Association, February 1932, and Purley Natural history Society, 12 March 1937. With typed copy.

Manuscript information for obituary notice on Francis James Webb, builder and developer, 1953; correspondence relating to Great Roke, Coulsdon, 1937; manuscript list of Purley paths, c1930s

Deeds and correspondence relating to the purchase of 92 Tower View, Monks Orchard, Shirley, including abstract of title back to 1885

Field Book of Portnalls Farm, Coulsdon. Plans by Moore and Son, with table of reference; inside back cover, plan of field 13-19, in relation to fields existing in 1951.

House plans, with bill for construction, and later (c1960s?) plan for adjoining garage.

On paper slips. Original deeds transferred to Surrey Record Office in 1960.

Cuttings, correspondence, balance sheets, membership slips, etc. Very brief list on accession file.

Plan of Croydon by Jean Baptiste Say. The plan was drawn in 1785, when Say (aged 18) and his brother Horace were staying in Croydon, at the house of Mr Bisset in Pound Street (George Street). The town plan, and the lost plan of the wider region to which the key refers, seem to have been drawn to illustrate the visit to a correspondent at home.

Minutes 1985-7; correspondence; files on affiliation, education, conference, Area and Branch; circulars; membership records 1985-8; file on Community Roots Trust; Area and Executive Councils material; membership print outs and financial statements 1987-8.

List on accession file.

Issue of series of 260 Debentures of 25 each. Each certificate bears unique number and name and address of registered holder.

Minutes 1932-36, etc. List on accession file.

Minutes and share certificates of the Croydon Community Theatre Company which administered the Croydon Repertory Theatre.

Annual Reports 1903-24, 1927-52; miscellaneous leaflets and pamphlets; newspaper clippings; correspondence 1907-53; draft rules; list of members and addresses; treasurers accounts 1924-53 (1 vol); minutes 1902-8 (1 vol); registers of photographs 1902-1958 (2 vols).

Includes correspondence from Major (later Lieutenant) Walter Rennie to Miss P A Ratcliffe, 1918-1920 (with First World War battlefield descriptions); letter from Private S E A Johnson to parents, 1943-5; collections of In Memoriam cards and wedding invitations 1892-1945; loose photographs; photo album (Croydon) 1927-37. Handlist with accession file. 1 box.

Letters from former pupils of Selhurst Grammar School for Boys, most on active service. Three bundles, each with typescript name index.

Mainly correspondence, account books and receipted bills. John Bowron was a previous occupant of 43 Stanhope Road.

Club for women in the Services, opened 19 January 1943. Register of members 1943-46; album of photographs; loose photographs; 2 cuttings. 1 small box.

Club for women in the Services, opened 19 January 1943. Register of members 1943-46; album of photographs; loose photographs; 2 cuttings.

Photographs and other material re Home Guard (32nd Surrey Battalion, especially E Company) and ARP activity, at Powers Accounting Machines Ltd. Associated with Major L E Brougham.

Relating mainly to local history, including draft of The Book of the Wandle, draft of historical novel, and miscellaneous historical notes. Served on Croydon Borough Council 1890s, keen student of archaeology ansd natural history. Died 1931.

Historical notes on the firm, and the Hammond and Hussey families; some items of family ephemera, including In Memoriam cards, orders of service for burials. Box list (July 2005)

Letter offering Mr Jones a trial with Crystal Palace FC, 1924; copies of his obituary (1968), and press photographs of Crystal Palace players and the new ground at Selhurst Park, 1924.

Letter inviting Mr Jones for a months trial at Crystal Palace, two photographs and his obituary.