Records of the Britannia Club, Croydon
- AR479
- Collection
- 1943-1946
Club for women in the Services, opened 19 January 1943. Register of members 1943-46; album of photographs; loose photographs; 2 cuttings.
Britannia Club
Records of the Britannia Club, Croydon
Club for women in the Services, opened 19 January 1943. Register of members 1943-46; album of photographs; loose photographs; 2 cuttings.
Britannia Club
Powers Accounting Machines Home Guard and Arp Material
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.
Powers Accounting Machines Ltd
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.
Dr J M Hobson
Papers relating to Hammond Hussey, ironmongers
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)
Hammond Hussey
Papers relating to J W Jones, professional footballer
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.
J W Jones
Papers Relating to J W Jones, Professional Footballer
Letter inviting Mr Jones for a months trial at Crystal Palace, two photographs and his obituary.
J W Jones
Copy of Charity Scheme, Whitgift Hospital
Manuscript copy of scheme; schedule of property belonging to Hospital, 1854; Governors balance sheet, 1865; notes concerning other Croydon charities.
Whitgift Hospital
Papers of Charles Bailey of Purley, 1937-49
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.
Charles Bailey
Ration book that belonged to the Atkins family of 72 St James Road, Croydon
Atkins family
Diaries of Alderman Samuel Lee Rymer
Diaries of Alderman Samuel Lee Rymer, who served as Mayor of Croydon 1893-1894.
Samuel Lee Rymer
Martin and Stevens Family Papers.
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).
Martin and Stevens Family
Papers of Mrs Evelyn May Sandison Relating to the W. V. S.
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.
Mrs Evelyn May Sandison
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.
Croydon-Arnhem Link
32nd Surrey Battalion Home Guard photographs
Album of photographs of Home Guard activities, including standing down parade, November 1944. Inscribed Capt F G English.
32nd Surrey Battalion Home Guard
Ledgers of John Hook, Undertakers
The ledgers contain very full details of the provision made for each funeral; and also include name indexes.
John Hook
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.
Margot Sanders
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.
Unknown person
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.
St Peters Church
Documents Donated by P. E. Newnham, Son of John Newnham
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.
Unknown person
Letters to Mr and Mrs Wells of Addiscombe Road, Croydon, c.1950s
1 bundle of letters and family photographs.
Unknown person
Agreements relating to furnace patent, 1899-1904
Agreement relating to a furnace patent between Francis Ross of Addiscombe and Alexander Gibson, formerly of Sutton.
Francis Ross
Draft will of Herbert Christopher Male of South Croydon, MD
With related correspondence
Herbert Christopher Male
Selhurst Grammar School for Girls School Magazine: March 1941
Magazine produced by Selhurst Grammar School for Girls
Selhurst Grammar School for Girls
Marriage contract, and deeds to Grange Park Road, Thornton Heath
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.
James Young Kennedy