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12 items:
1) Alderman Donald G. Stewart: the press cuttings of a mayorality (bound volume compiled by Croydon Public Libraries and bearing CB coat of arms)
2) Photograph album: official events 1956/7 (lined notebook, red, marked Advertiser press photos.)
3) Photograph album: various official events 1950s presented by Croydon Times.
4) Photograph album: visit to International Language Club, Addiscombe Grove, 16 Sep 1950, visit of King of Benin, Nigeria (DGS was Deputy Mayor).
5) Photograph album presented by Croydon Times to commemorate mayoral year1956/7 (includes loose photographs). Note: different to 3).
6) Scrapbook (green, bearing the County Borough coat of arms) containing cuttings etc concerning 1956/7 mayoral year.
7) Loose photograph album (rough cut pages), early 1950s. Year as Deputy Mayor (1950/1) and beyond.
8) Framed picture: Town Hall Mayors Day 28 May 1956
9) Framed photograph: Cllr Stewart in Mayoral robes.
10) Framed photograph: Mrs Stewart with Mayoral chain.
11) Framed certificate of thanks from the Council to Ald. Stewart for his services as Mayor, dated 29 April 1957.
12) Framed colour photograph of Town Hall from Town Hall Gardens (presented to the Stewarts by Ernest Taberner).

2 boxes:
Minutes:

1973 - 1980 (personal minute book compiled by Pat Lawrence: original book and subsequent volumes lost)
1998 - 2010 (entries closed for 30 years).

Scrapbooks (compiled by Sylvia Collins to 1988 and subsequently by Audrey Botting)

1979 - 1981
1982
1982 - 1983
1983 - 1984
1984
1985
1985 - 1987
1987 - 1988
1990 - 1992
1993 - 1994
1995 - 1996
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2000
2001 - 2002
2003 - 2004

Photograph albums

4 volumes:
1990 - 1993
1993 - 1996
1996 - 2000
2000 - 2003 plus one album of actors publicity photos c.1982.

Newsletters

Incomplete run of newsletters with more to follow in electronic form: these will be added to Local Studies Library newsletter collection.

Annual reports

A collection of annual reports to follow (in electronic form)

Loose programmes

A collection of loose programmes, autographed, belonging to Mr Norman Edwards and Mrs Hope Edwards, donated to Ashcroft Theatre Club.

Book

Why Janet should read Shakespeare by Norman Hapgood 1929. Inscription shows it was presented to Peggy Ashcroft by the author in 1937. Later given to the Ashcroft Theatre Club.

In addition, a collection of duplicate Fairfield programmes was donated to LSLA to be added to Fairfield programmes collection.

Deed to a parcel of land north of Haling Farm

1938 Examination Papers of Violet Botting (nee Quirk) at Lady Edridge School.
1970 Lady Edridge Magazine.

Apprenticeship Indenture, dated 09 May 1871, of Thomas Woolnough apprenticed to Mr Owen King, plumber and house decorator. 15 was paid by Lauds charity.

Florence Shephard (c.1894 - 1984) worked for the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate at Croydon Aerodrome in 1929 having previously been based in the AID at A.V.Roe at Hamble near Southampton. In c.1939 she transferred to Leatherhead but continued to commute from the Croydon area.

A full description has been provided by the donor:
A: Journal: The Flying World (1937) by Florence Shephard

B: Final drafts for a possible book on early aviation. Donor has included a list of the chapter headings.
C: Preliminary Drafts
D: Strays
E: Strays with items of local interest.
For further information on the organisation of B-E, see accompanying note by the donor.

F: Imperial Airways Weekly News Bulletin (1935 - 1939, with gaps).
G. Imperial Airways Gazette (1935 - 1939, with gaps)
H: Miscellaneous. Includes press cuttings, copy of Air Navigation Bill, copy of history of Battle of Britain (Air Ministry)

Leases relating to land in High Street, Croydon dated 18 July 1823 and 23 March 1866 (no. 43 High Street).

1 bundle:
Bundle of pre-registration documents relating to 62 Fernhurst Road, Croydon, CR0 7DG.

1 item:
Copy draft deed of co-partnership between Messrs Carpenter, Whitling and Lanchester. A company of doctors based at 53 High Street (1880 Directory).

5 volumes:
Minute books:
1) 1933 - 1950
2) 1950 - 1968
3) 1968 - 1976
4) 1976 - 1982
5) 1981 - 1987

1 box:
Collection of property transfer documents relating to the sales of Herons Croft to the Dreyer family in 1968 and by the Dreyer family in 1997. Also includes newspaper cuttings, information relating to listed building status and sales particulars from previous sales as well as research notes.

A bundle of photographs, some apparently taken from a scrap book, showing school activities from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Activities include harvest festivals, nativity plays, coronation parade (1953) etc. Also included is a 1927 teachers report from Furzedown Training College for Irene Eveline Barnett. As the collection also includes a couple of personal photographs, it is likely that the collection came from her family.

Various correspondence files, financial records, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia etc of R Mansell Ltd, builders

25 volumes of bound notebooks containing plans of newly built properties with drainage routes indicated. Volumes are numbered but there appears to be two sequences. Volumes are in poor condition.

Deed for land west of Birchanger Road, South Norwood, 1872. Includes part of Brickfield Meadow.

Papers of Mrs Vera Cookes deceased husband, Maurice Cooke, former pupil at the Limes School and onetime Membership Secretary of the Bourne Society. Photographs, school magazine, school report, correspondence and newspaper clipping relating to school reunion.

Deeds and papers relating to nos 203-221 Portland Road, South Norwood

Bills and receipts re the Mission Room (part of Addington School), 1875-86; correspondence, receipts and plans re proposed cottages on Addington Hills/Badgers Hole, 1892-98

Deeds to properties in Church Street and Surrey Street

2 files:
Correspondence, clippings, etc, relating to 1915 air raid;1908 flooding; overflowing of ditch in Kensington Road 1911; ditch above Downsviw Road Ingram v Derby; land adjacent to conquering hero pub, Beulah Hill; ditch in Virginia Road, 1926.

Miscellaneous legal papers, including correspondence, draft agreements and deeds, copies of wills

Miscellaneous records, unsorted.

Photographs of Croydon events, many including H. Lock Kendall, mayor of Croydon 1958-1960

Minute books, balance sheets, etc. Hand list on accession file.

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