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Letter of good wishes sent by Father Arthur Tooth to Woodside [Ashburton] library. Sent from Otford Court: Father Tooth hopes that Every good success welfare attend the people of Woodside in their use of the Library recreation ground; and recalls his happy years spent at Woodside.

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.

Exercise book, evidently intended as a temporary measure, containing photographs of outings, mainly hikes or rambles. The photographs were taken between 1929-1933 (list included) and 1956-1957. Some of the participants are named. A note towards the end of the scrapbooks states that some of the photographs were not inserted until 1983.

Ration book that belonged to the Atkins family of 72 St James Road, Croydon

Florrie Elizabeth Tolfree's photograph album of Holy Trinity School and Selhurst Grammar School

1) Ellen Sarah Dickinson; letters of administration granted 10 August 1876 of the personal estate of Mary Dickinson late of 89 Albert Road.
2) Miss J. Ford, 1896. Abstract of title of Miss Ford and another to leasehold premises known as Elm Bank, Chepstow Road, Croydon
3) Appointment of new trustees of settlement in the will of Ann Skeet
4) Deed of indemnity and creation of power of appointment for the benefit of John Watton Teevan

1 vol

5 volumes of records of the Foxley Hatch-Reigate Turnpike Trust, 1 volume of the Gatton Lodge-Povey Cross Turnpike Trust, and 1 volume of the Surrey Sussex Turnpike Trust. Share books and Trustees declarations.

Photograph of Frank Grant as a corporal in Royal Flying Corps uniform; RFC forage cap, button and sergeants stripes; First World War medal and ribbon; Surrey Flying Services Ltd memorandum and Articles of Association, 1931; photograph of Avro G-EBFW owned by Surrey Flying Services; photocopies of newspaper clipping re purchase of Cessna plane, and photographs of Frank Grant with Cessna C-34 and his pilots.

Frank Grant (uncle of donor) was born in Hooe in 1896, and served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as a Corporal and later as a Sergeant. He moved to Purley in the 1920s, where he met and married his wife Kathleen. He formed Surrey Flying Services, based at Croydon Airport, in 1921, and the firm became a limited company in 1931. In 1936 he went to New York with a Mr Turner, a noted British pilot, where he was appointed agent for the Cessna Aircraft Co in Britain and other European countries. Mr Turner subsequently bought the first Cessna-C34 through Grants agency. Grant spent the Second World War as an Aircraft Engineer at a factory at Sanderstead, and after the war joined the Civil Service. He died in 1959.

Report Book of Fuller, Moon and Fuller. Volume is marked no.3 indicating that there must have been at least two others in existence.

Annuities book, 1760; volume recording various events in the church's history, 1882; 17 Poor Rate assessment books, 1805 - 1839; 6 draft registers, mostly burials, with added notes.

5 items:
Poster: Church calendar 1912.
Ledger 1867 - 1870.
List of donors: Parish Church Restoration Fund, 1890 - 1894.
Rebuilding of the Church, 1867-1870 1 folder of receipts, invoices etc.
Report and Accounts and Annual Parochial Reports, 1879, 1888-1890. 1 folder.

27 items; (5 boxes):
Minutes of Committee Meetings

1945 - 1948 (also Membership minutes)
1948 - 1953 (also Membership minutes)
1953 - 1958 (also Membership minutes)
1973 - 1975 (also Membership minutes)
1975 - 1978 (also Membership minutes)
1979 - 1982
1982 - 1987
1987 - 1994

Minutes of Membership Meetings

1923 - 1927
1928 - 1934
1934 - 1945
1958 - 1961
1968 - 1973
1978 - 1983
1984 - 1990
1990 - 1999

Photographs/Newspaper Articles

1965 - 1973
1965 - 1974
1973 - 1993
1983

Register of Members

1955 - 1961
1961 - 1962
1973 - 1980

Register of attendance at Committee Meetings

1972 - 1981

Register of attendance at Membership Meetings

1948 - 1961
1971 - 1997

Other items

Book: Whistling in the Wind by Roy Topp

18 items:
Minutes 1988 - 1993
Minutes 1996 - 1997

Photograph album: various events c.1998 - 2006

File: examples of work of members and biographical notes

Correspondence etc: c.1997

Newsletters 1991 - 2006

Millennium activities: file

Diamond Jubilee 2005: file (some thinning needed)

Activities in local bookshops (Books Etc, Waterstones)

Material on grant applications

Handling the Media: Press release pack from Croydon Council press office*

Scrapbooks and photographs: strolling writers

Photograph of Ray Donien

Archive Material: copies of archive material: publications, correspondence, photos etc.

Visitors Book 1987 - 1995
Members successes 1997 - 2002
Members successes and visitors book 1992 - 2001

Framed needlework: Golden jubilee 1945 - 1995

Poems 2006 part 2 (06 December 2006) MSS

Poems 2006 (09 August 2007) Fair copy

Poems 2007 part 1 (07 September 2007) MSS

Poems 2007 part 2 (19 December 2007) MSS

The Laws of Dust (Short story, mss, 06 April 2007)
The Laws of Dust/Dirt (Short story, neat copy of above, 06 April 2007)

After the Event (Short story, mss, 14 July 2007)
After the Event (Short story, neat copy of above, 14 July 2007)

The Way Ahead (Play, mss, 06 September 2007)

Two folders of material. Accompanies previous deposit in 2001 (A639) which needs sorting and reboxing.

1 minute book:
6) 1993 - 2001 (final meeting)

Deacons Meeting Minutes: 03 May 1971 - 07 Dec 1976; 04 Jan 1977 - 06 Dec 1982; 10 Jan 1983 - 20 Oct 1990
Church Meeting Minutes: 10 May 1971 - 13 Dec 1976, 11 Jan 1977 - 17 Jan 1983
Missionary Council Meeting Minutes: 06 Apr 1967 - 11 Feb 1980
Teachers Meeting Minutes: 18 Jan 1943 - 10 Jan 1949
B.W.L. Meeting Minutes: 04 Jan 1938 - 19 Sep 1960
Womens Rally: 07 Jun 1937 - 18 Mar 1955; 21 Oct 1955 - 22 Feb 1968; 04 Mar 1968 - 21 Sep 1981; 10 Nov 1982 - 23 Nov 2004
Womens Rally Reports: 1918 - 1974 (some missing)
Baptist Womens League: 16 Jan 1961 - 27 May 1965
Woodside Baptist Sunday School: 10 Jan 1949 - 11 Mar 1957; 09 Apr 1957 - 15 Jun 1964; 14 Jul 1964 - 02 Jul 1972; 25 Sep 1972 - 21 Jul 1980
Settlement Committee: 11 Oct 1941 - 01 Mar 1977
Junior Christian Endeavour: Jan 1978 - 16 Nov 1982
Finance Committee Meeting: 18 Jul 1963 - 21 Feb 1982

Notes and pamphlets re Addiscombe 1807-1901 (list enclosed); original photographs of the Triangle prior to demolition, mid-1890s; handbills and notices re 1895 election; pamphlets, newspaper clippings and photographs re Whitgift Almshouses c.1894-1909; notes, correspondences, sketches, plans and photographs re Waddon Chambers, 1902; street plans (printed) of Croydon, c.1900; notes re lecture on the growth of Croydon from Neolitihic times to the present day, 1909; scrapbook of newspaper clippings re Croydon, 1886-91; photographs and notes re Croydon Old Palace, c.1890s; misc notes, clippings and illustrations re Croydon

One certificate and two notebooks.

19 books of bell and tuning records 1877-1951; 7 cuttings albums 1919-1952; correspondence file 1976-1983; envelope of photographs; printed sales brochures, etc.