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Records of Waddon Hospital (formerly Borough Isolation Hospital)

  • WAD
  • Collection
  • 1930 - 1983

Registers of admission of Waddon Hospital. Some indexed. The building of an infectious diseases hospital was first promulgated in 1890, and in December 1893 pressure increased when permission was refused for the construction of a fever hospital at Grange Wood. This was especially important since in the period 1885 - 90 Croydon had become notorious for its high incidence of epidemic diseases. The hospital opened on 6 June 1896 and was extended in 1900 and 1911. The name was changed to"Waddon Hospital" in 1945, and as the incidence of infectious diseases decreased, the hospital became used for the care of the elderly and pioneering eye operations. In this latter use the hospital became internationally renowned since many of the procedures were filmed as teaching aids. In 1981 large scale bed-closures were proposed in the borough in the light of Government spending cuts, simultaneous with the opening of the new District Hospital and Waddon Hospital was one of the victims. There was little opposition, since the hospital was recognised to be obsolescent. The hospital finally closed in 1984, and the site was given over to residential development in 1991. Croydon Local Studies Library holds several photographs of Waddon Hospital (Photo Ref: 362 Waddon), also a printed report on a proposed new Epidemic Hospital by Leonard Wilde (Ref: pS70 (362) CRO) and an invitation card for the opening of the hospital in 1896 (Ref: pS70 (362) CRO)

Waddon Hospital

Coulsdon Records: the Principal Lands of Coulsdon and Purley and Their Holders [Manuscript]

The volume is an original manuscript with pages numbered 1 to 173. The contents page lists the following main headings; Part 1: Manors and Sub-Manors; Part 2: Freehold Lands; Part 3: Indenture Lands; Part 4: Tithings and Miscellaneous Lands.

Included is a typescript list headed Coulsdon Records and dated 25 January 1952 indicating material sources held at the Central Library in Purley.

In essence the volume deals with place names, estates and families associated with the history of Coulsdon and Purley. A second typescript copy can be found at SJM/4.

Coulsdon: From the Time of Cuthred to the Crusades [Manuscript]

The volume represents a history of Coulsdon, its lands and families during the given period. The contents page lists the following headings; The Downs; The Normans Convert; Cuthraedes-Dune into Coles-Done; The Manor and the Church; Coulsdon and the Crusades and Taunton Manor.

A four-coloured reproduction [greatly reduced in size] of John Speeds 17th century map of Surrey is pasted inside.

The pages are numbered 1 to 29 the last three being Notes to the Text and an Appendix entitled The place name Coulsdon, the latter is given as under revision.

The volume includes some related correspondence dated 1952 - 1953 between the Clerk of the Council and Mr K M G Newbury Chief Librarian of Coulsdon and Purley Public Libraries .In addition there is also an authors note dated 27 October 1952 presenting the volume to the Chairman of the Council along with the full copyright.

Coulsdon and Purley: Source Book of Materials for Local History [With Index]

The Source book of Materials for Local History is broken down initially into the periods Pre-Historic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon and then moves forward in time by century to 1916.

In the form of a notebook it contains, according to the introductory note, all the notes that were entered on cards up to 11 October 1946 with many additional notes that were collected subsequently.

The search for the local material covered 368 volumes from the following series Chancery Records, Exchequer Records, State Papers, Foreign Archives, Pipe Roll Society Publications, Chronicles and Memorials, Record Commission Series and other miscellaneous records.

In essence it offers local history source material in a chronological sequence, giving title, volume and page number accompanied by a brief explanation of the entry.

The second volume acts as an alphabetical index to the chronological entries in the first volume.

Sidney Joseph Madge: Papers Relating to Coulsdon and Purley

  • SJM
  • Collection
  • 1951 - 1953

Three histories of the Coulsdon and Purley area by Sidney J. Madge:

Coulsdon and Purley Source Book of Materials for Local History with Index 1951[SJM/1] Manuscript of Coulsdon: From the time of Cuthred to the Crusades, October 1952, with related correspondence 1952 - 3 [SJM/2]

Manuscript of Coulsdon Records: the Principal Lands of Coulsdon and Purley and their Holders, June 1953 [SJM/3]; and a typescript copy of same [SJM/4]

Sidney Joseph Madge

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