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Manuscript copy of scheme; schedule of property belonging to Hospital, 1854; Governors balance sheet, 1865; notes concerning other Croydon charities.

Second World War Identity Cards; bank pass book 1937-39; other ephemera. Mr Bailey lived at 76 Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, from the 1920s until his death in 1992.

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

Diaries of Alderman Samuel Lee Rymer, who served as Mayor of Croydon 1893-1894.

Mainly correspondance and certificates relating to the deaths (whilst on active service) of William Frederick Martin (1915) and F W and H G Stevens (1918).

Collection includes WVS Housewives Service Organisers Report on Flying Bomb Incidents June to August 1944; registers of persons bombed out during these incidents (2 vols); rough notes on flying bomb incidents and casualties (1 vol); newspaper accounts of WVS activities and an acknowledgement of Mrs Sandisons resignation from the WVS due to her husbands ill health, 1947.

Various programmes, leaflets and booklets; account of the Battle of Arnhem, 1944; report of the Chairman of the Croydon Organising Committee on Croydon-Arnhem Week, September 1947; albums of photographs of visit to Croydon, July 1946; bomb damage in Arnhem, 1946; visit to Arnhem by the Arnhem-Croydon Sport Committee; loose photographs.

Album of photographs of Home Guard activities, including standing down parade, November 1944. Inscribed Capt F G English.

The ledgers contain very full details of the provision made for each funeral; and also include name indexes.

Report book of Margot Sanders as a pupil at Woodford School, Croydon. The book consists of termly reports, entered on printed forms. The last form in the book is used for Summer Term 1939, but Margot Sanders may have remained at school for another term.

Lease of beerhouse, Canning Road (with plan), 1874; extension of lease of Cricketers Inn, Upper Addiscombe Road, 1899; underlease of beerhouse, Addiscombe Road, 1878; statutory declaration re hedge adjoining Addiscombe Court and Addiscombe Cricket Ground, 1894; schedule of deeds re properties, 1824-99.

Sale particulars, Blunt House Estate, with plan, 1887; sale particulars, freehold shop, Selsdon Road, 1928; sale particulars (plan only), land in Selsdon Road and Ledbury Road, 1927. Deeds re: premises in Selsdon Road, 1896; land in Coombe Lane/Water Tower Hill, 1899; South End Church and Parsonage, 1849; St Peters Church and St Peters Infant School, 1870; land in Ledbury Road, 1927.

Letter re: Rhoda Brodie, c.1880, one of the first women to be enrolled as Special Constable during First World War, later awarded OBE; letter to Mayor of Croydon, proposing formation of Home Defence Corps, 1914; letter re: Croydon Church bells, 1932; photograph of Sir Henry and Lady Berney, 1937; handbill and note re: lost blue bag containing estate documents of Samuel Browne, 1824; letter to John Newnham re: 3/4th Bn, Queens Royal Regt, 1917; letter from officer on service in India, 1916; declaration re: estate of Samuel Browne, 1831.

1 bundle of letters and family photographs.

Agreement relating to a furnace patent between Francis Ross of Addiscombe and Alexander Gibson, formerly of Sutton.

With related correspondence

Magazine produced by Selhurst Grammar School for Girls

Marriage contract between James Young Kennedy of Singapore and Anna Maria McCleod, daughter of Major General William Kelly McCleod of Upper Norwood, 1881; deeds to nos 88, 90, 94 and 96 Grange Park Road, Thornton Heath, 1901-1959.

Records of Woodford (House) School, of Woodford Old Girls Association, and material re Woodford House School, New Zealand.

Miscellaneous leases (1960-1975) and sales particulars (1963) of land at old Croydon Airport

Papers re:
1) Beulah Hill properties, Upper Norwood, 1900-1920
2) High Street and Surrey Street properties, Croydon, 1913-1914
3) Land abutting on Amelia Road, West Croydon, 1920
4) 73 Headcorn Road, Thornton Heath, 1920
5) North End properties, Croydon, 1929-1967

Probate of the will of Mary Bell of Croydon

1) Marriage settlement of Marc F Macaire of Angel Court, London, and Marie Louise Maubert of Norwood, Surrey. With settlement of lands at Norwood, 1819.
2) Covenant for the production of title deeds re: property in Crownhall, Croydon [Abraham Burnett; Sir John Sloane] 1835
3) Deeds re White Horse Road, Croydon, 1860-1890
4) Marriage settlement of Francis Woodgate of Beulah Cottage, Norwood, and Jessie Stephens of the same. With subsequent trust deeds, 1864-1902

Leases of the Gun Tavern in Church Street, Croydon