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Westwood High School Clock Faces Project

  • AR958
  • Collection
  • 1997 - 2002

1 box:
10 files of papers documenting the project between 1997 and 2002

Background information
Documents and Reports April 1997 - March 1999
Original proposals (official documents)
Artists proposals
Artist contract and information about previous commissions
Correspondence files Summer 2001 - Winter 2002
Budgets (History)
Final Stage (after installation)
Community contact file
Doubtful items

Westwood High School

Watermains Volume Number 2

  • AR1133
  • Collection
  • 1912-1924

Indexed volume titled Watermains No. 2

Unknown corporate body

Wartime Records of Miss Francis Johnson (1918-2002)

  • AR703
  • Collection
  • 1918 - 1942

a)National Registration Identity card of Miss Francis Johnson.
b)Notice from Croydon War Pensions Committee granting a pension to Mrs Johnson of 4 Helder Street Croydon. Dated 30th December 1918.
c)Notice of appointment of Miss Johnson to the post of General Assistant, NAAFI. Dated 16th October 1942.
d)
e) 2 photographs of the staff of South Croydon NAAFI winning the Silver Cup for Best NAAFI canteen in the Sutton area. One has a newspaper cutting attached. Both photographs undated.

Francis Johnson

Wartime Memories of Mrs Dorothy Lowe

  • AR769
  • Collection
  • c.1973

1) Memories of the Second World War, 1939 - 1945 recorded by Dorothy Lowe and typed by her daughter Evelyn Houghton. Contains descriptions of ARP work, domestic air raid precautions (including Morrison shelters), the flying bomb of June 1944 which destoyed their house in Norbury and the experience of being rehoused.
2) Memories of 1944 recorded and typed by Evelyn Houghton.
3) Four photographs:
a) 12 Acacia Road, Norbury following bombing of June 1944.
b) Morrison Shelter with Evelyn Lowe and Hilary Lowe.
c) Norbury ARP including Arthur Lowe.
d) Montage of contemporary newspapers with revolver.

Mrs Dorothy Lowe

Waghorne Miles Arms and Crests Album

  • AR40
  • Collection
  • c1840-1899

Waghorne and Miles, carriagebuilders: album of coats of arms, crests and monograms; with 63 additional stencils on loose slips of papers; used in carriage painting.

Waghorne and Miles

W.H. Lascelles material

  • AR59
  • Collection
  • c.1880s-c.1993

Research notes, photographs and photocopies of Miss Helen Brooks (1909-1993), relating to W.H. Lascelles (1832-1885), builder

W.H. Lascelles

W.C. Berwick Sayers Collection

  • AR1011
  • Collection
  • 1899 - 1940
  1. WCBSs hand-written exercise book entitled Stray Verses 1902-1910 1916-1918 with 63 poems transcribed from his notebooks.
    1. Olive Emily Clarkes (WCBSs future wifes) autograph Album compiled 1910-1915 with a contribution by WCBS in 1911 (she married him in 1915) and contributions by James Duff Brown and by staff at Islington and Darlington Libraries.
    2. WCBSs notebook early 1940s with notes for the Library Association Classification Examination 18 May 1942, notes for lectures on Classification at Croydon Polytechnic 1941, and details of the blitz on Croydon from 13-24 November 1940. This ends with the 24 / 25 November 1940 and a later note explaining that this was when a bomb hit the South Report Centre in the Town Hall and WCBS was injured and put in hospital for some months.
    3. WCBSs first draft entitled Some Canons of Classification (in a library binding) which was published as Canons of Classification (1915). The draft combines reprints of his thesis submitted for the Professional Diploma and his papers read at the Library Association in 1907 and 1910 with a few pencil annotations.
    4. WCBSs desk diary for 1928 including (amongst other things) a poem by him and the titles of talks given at Croydon Public Library which include Selections from the Works of a Croydon Poet (no doubt WCBS).
    5. Six slim volumes of manuscript music sheets with words by WCBS and music by several of his friends and occasionally by WCBS too.
    6. Two song sheets with words by W. C. Berwick Sayers and music by Herbert Oliver published by J. H. Larway in the 1920s.
  2. A copy of Balaustons Adventure by Robert Browning (1889) inscribed in pencil with a poem composed by WCBS lauding Browning.
  3. the Foremost Trail by C. Fox Smith (1899), a prize book awared to W.C.Berwick Sayers by Heath and Home for Verses on Dreyfus in 1899 with three relevant loose newspaper cuttings, one of them annotated by him.

William Charles Berwick Sayers

Venturas Club

  • AR134
  • Collection
  • 1946 - 1958

Minute Book 1947

Minute Book 1947 - 1948

Minute Book 1947 - 1948 (Sports committee?)

Envelope: Photographs including photograph of Grangewood.

Rolled photograph of 17 Jan 1952 Ratepayers Association Dinner at Caf233 Royal, North End.

Envelope: Newspaper Cuttings

Envelope: Newsletters (7 issues, 1947. 2 issues 1953. 2 issues 1955)

and copies of Thornton Heath Ratepayers Residents Association magazine, 1955-7.

Envelope: Tenancy agreement on Grangewood and related correspondence, 1952 - 1956.

Envelope: Correspondence from celebrities invited to Venturas Club events.

Envelope: Correspondence and cuttings from Mr J.N. Kakad

Envelope: Tickets

Envelope: Programmes to Venturas Club events 1948 - 1954.

Envelope: Club Rules and Draft of Club History.

Signature stamp.

Envelope: Badges and Related material.

Tenth Anniversary Social: Autograph Book.

Envelope: Flattened posters for Venturas Club events.

Three hand painted posters and one rough draft: Junior Section (in separate box)

Three framed photographs

One framed certificate

One framed cartoon

Two trophies

(Handlist included in box).

Venturas Club

Various deeds relating to Croydon

  • AR898
  • Collection
  • 1871 - 1957

4 items:
1) Conveyance of freehold land and premises adjoining the Compton and Selwood Roads, Addiscombe, Croydon [Ormerod to Addiscome Garden Estates Ltd] 1922
2) Agreements re: nos 40, 52 and 60 Penge Road and allotment adjoining Queens Road, South Norwood, 1906 - 1915
3) Appointment of trustees of m/s Jacob Ellery and Charlotte Ann Ellery of Crown Hill, Norwood, 1871.
4) Appointment of trustees re: several properties in Croydon belonging to the late H. Harland with fire insurance policies, 1934 - 1957. Addresses include 1-2 Fairfield Villas, 45, 47 and 83 Waddon Park Avenue, 70 Clarendon Road, 24, 26, 28 and 7 Benson Road, 46-8 Fairholme Road, 59 and 61 Parsons Mead.

Unknown person

Various Croydon football league handbooks.

  • AR794
  • Collection
  • 1928 - 2004

25 vols:
Croydon and District Referees Society:
Rules 1968-1969

Thornton Heath and District Football League:
1) Handbooks: 1928-1929, 1958-1963
2) Directories: 1972-1986
3) Rule Book

Croydon Sunday Football League:
Handbook 1970, 1988-1990

Croydon Football League and Challenge Cup Competition:
Handbook 1956-1965, 1967 - 1968, 1970-1971, 1972-1973

Croydon Minor Football Combination:
Handbook, 1946-1947, 1956-1965, 1965-1966 ( Youth Football Combination)

Southern Amateur Football League:
Handbook, 1966-1967, 1968-1969, 1972-1973

Excelsior Football League:
Handbook, 1929-1933

Croydon and District Wednesday Football League:
Handbook, 1958-1959, 1997 - 1998, 2004 - 2005

Civil Service Football League:
Handbook, 1954-1955

Athenian Football League:
Handbook, 1968-1969

London Postal Region (Inner):
Handbook 1958-1959

London Banks Football Association:
Handbook 1972-1973

Croydon and District Football Leagues

Unidentified Day Book

  • AR871
  • Collection
  • 1914

Day book 29 June - 17 October 1914. The lists of addresses and house names (Purley and South Croydon area) means it is possibly a rent collection book

Unknown person

Turner family papers

  • AR103
  • Collection
  • c1876-c1928

Photographs, letters, newscuttings, printed ephemera, two account books, medallions etc re the Lelasseur and Turner families, and the John Jakson mint and lavender distillery

Turner Family

Tunstall Nursery School

  • SCH141
  • Collection
  • 1971 - 2001

Log books (3): 1971 -1990, 1990 - 1999, 1999 - 2001

Admission registers (4): 1971 -1989, 1989 - 1993, 1993 - 1999, 1999 - 2001

Plus class lists and school rolls (1998, 1999 - 2001) loose inside relevant volumes.

Tunstall Nursery School

Trevor Austin, Elected Member of Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council

  • AR1169
  • Collection
  • 1962-1965

Records relating to Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council collected by Trevor Austin, the last surviving Elected Member of C&P UDC, which was amalgamated with the County Borough of Croydon in 1965. Includes:

Councillor's 1964 diary;

The Councillors' Handbook;

Standing Orders of the Council and Contracts of C&P UDC;

Constitution and duties of Council Committees;

Health Report 1963;

Work of the Coulsdon & Purley Public Libraries 1962-4;

Civil Defence Handbook no.10 - Nuclear Attack;

Coulsdon & Purley Official Guide;

'I want to be a Borough Councillor' booklet, and

Official correspondence between the UDC Town Clerk nd persons nominated, standing and elected for and to the UDC.

Trevor Austin

Tollgate Primary School

  • SCH140
  • Collection
  • 1976 - 2007

Several boxes of photographs, newsletters etc form part of this collection and are awaiting cataloguing.

Tollgate Primary School

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