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1) Large Photograph album showing school groups and activities, c.1960 - 1976.

2) Four school journey booklets: 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969.

3) Eleven reels of 8mm film showing school life and activities, 1960 - 1976

Records of Croydon County Borough Quarter Sessions, including minute books, calendars of prisoners, indictments, depositions and certificates and Highway Diversion Orders.

Photograph album Me and My Girl 1956
Folder containing programmes (orange marked dramatic section)
Loose photographs and envelopes relating to specific shows.
Cutting book owned by Mr Sam Boots containing newspaper cuttings.

Box two

Photograph album: untitled c.1955
Photograph album: Me and My Girl 1984
Envelopes of photographs, cuttings etc for specific named shows 1966 - 2008
Some loose photographs
Centenary certificates and cuttings (2008).

Box three

Folder: General (inc anniversary brochure).
Folder: Music Hall
Folder: Press Cuttings 1909 onwards
Envelope: Croydon Carnival
Mounted reproduction of Croydon Advertiser review of Half a Sixpence 03 Dec 1982
15 folders re: publicity arrangements etc, mid 1960s.

Box four

Rehearsal register c.1930 - 1960.
Rehearsal register undated.
Minute book (committee) 1932 - 1939.
Minute book (committee and AGM) 1939 - 1950.
Minute book (committee and AGM) 1950 - 1957.
Minute book (committee) 1956 - 1957.
Minute book (folder) 1957 - 1961.
Envelope: minutes 1961 - 1962.
Envelope: minutes 1961 - 1965.
Envelope: minutes 1965 - 1967.
Envelope: minutes 1967 - 1968.
Folder: minutes 1968 - 1970.
Folder: minutes 1970 - 1972.
Envelope: minutes of AGM 1958 - 1965.
Envelope: minutes 1972 - 1973; 1975.
Envelope: minutes 1973 - 1974.
Envelope: minutes 1975 - 1977.
Ledger: social fund 1950 - 1955.
Folder: various balance sheets etc
Envelope: AGM minutes and reports c.1968 - 1980.
Loose reports 1937 - 1970.
Envelope: show notes.

Box 5 (large blue bag)

Posters and large photographs

Box 6 (large bag)

Four rolls of posters.

Box 7 (blue plastic crate)

Eleven albums of photographs and programmes etc belonging to Christine Bright. 1968 - 1993.

1. WCBSs hand-written exercise book entitled Stray Verses 1902-1910 1916-1918 with 63 poems transcribed from his notebooks.
   2. 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.
   3. 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.
   4. 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.
   5. 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).
   6. Six slim volumes of manuscript music sheets with words by WCBS and music by several of his friends and occasionally by WCBS too.
   7. 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.

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

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

Box one:
Minute Book 1887 - 1893 (note: mostly unused)
Rough Minute Book 1892
Letter books: 1892, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1910
Agenda Book
Ledger 1893
Stock Book (1887 onwards)
Register of Debentures
Book of Bills Receivable
Register of bills payable 1908 - 1931
Various leases, agreements, debentures. This is split into bundles re:
Debentures (3); Property Agreements/Tenancies; Commercial Agreements and Licences; Miscellaneous property documents including schedule of deeds and original certificates of incorporation.

Box two
Envelope of business documents concerning transport including a riverside crane at Brentford.
Envelope of confidential agreements and F.C.s Trust Deeds
Vehicle Registration Docs
Blue folder: spare copies from share register
Impression of a seal in a box
Ashby badges (3)
Drainage material catalogue (5 copies)
Blue folder: Sale of shares - aborted
Green folder: correspondence concerning close company status
Blue folder: photocopies of various documents concerning the legal takeover of Aldridge and Bardwell
Blue Folder: photocopied minutes of AGMS, 1892 - 1977.
Blue Folder: Insurance and plans etc of depots and premises.
Blue Folder: Photocopied minutes of Directors Meetings, 1957 - 1979.
Grey folder: drawings and papers, Aldridges, Norfolk (timber merchants taken over 1966)
Blue folder: photographs of depot at South Norwood
Posh photo album: Bardwell Sons
Paper Bag: Photos, photographs of depots at South Norwood and Egham on the original station site
Red photo album: Aldridge
2 books unused share certificates.
Brown folder: Directors

Box three
Large envelope with copies of pages of Directors Minutes, 1892 - 1957
Blue folder: Valuation and copy of share register. This dates from 1973 when the sale of the company was first being considered.
Carbon copies, Kitchens Today, 1971 - 1975 (invoices etc)
Large file marked archives includes:
File of Circulars to shareholders concerning the sale of shares which increased the capital of the company.
N. Thames Gas Board, Dealers Order Book
Pad of Kitchens Today paper
Various guarantees
Photos of offices designed by M Crowley, 1974, South Norwood
Civic Trust Award, 1973
Drawings thereof
Folder of Offers for shares
Kitchens Today Drawings
Booklets on Pension scheme
Stationery
Staff dinner, 1977

Big file marked history containing:
Packet of photos of Kitchens Today (showrooms in the 1960s at Beckenham and Sunbury)
Envelopes of small photos
Cuttings from Staines and Egham News 1975 and
Thankyou letters for souvenirs 1975
Photos of Aldridge, Timber Preservation company
Photographs cement works at Greenwich during demolition.
Glossy photos of new buildings at Manor Road South Norwood and Windsor House, Norbury, 1964.
Photographs of proposed office in Greenwich.
Cert of Registration of canal boat
Agreement between Messrs Ashby and Lady Cooper
Other letters of family interest.

7 items

Photograph album presented by manager and staff of the Croydon Times to Miss Edith Purnell on her 21st birthday, 14 April 1904. An inscribed panel gives the names of staff, including Mr T.J. Hatch, the manager, whom she later married (June Quarter 1919). She died in the December Quarter 1980, age 97.
The album also includes posed photographic portraits of various members of the Hatch family and others, including Queen Victoria. The artwork suggests that the album was commercially produced and was purchased from Pritchards at 57 North End.

Army Service Records of Leonard Sydney Lucas: Photographs 1940 - 1946 including training in England and post D-Day service in Europe, service cards and demobilisation documents; dog tag and medal ribbon; NAAFI theatre programmes; maps of France etc.

Correspondence relating to former army service personnel and blue folder with addresses.

Folder relating to 190 Hayes Lane Kenley, including war reparation payments (needs weeding).

12 boxes plus folders
Box one (small wooden):
Scrapbooks containing articles from British Journal of Photography concerning CCC, 1921 - 1956.
Note: box also contains note on Stephen Whitaker collection.

Box two:
Minutes:
1970 - 1972 (loose in clear folder)
June 1963 - Oct 1974
Nov 1974 - Aug 1986

Scrapbook (blue): c.1952 - 1970

Box three:
Minutes of weekly meetings:
05 Oct 1936 - 05 Jul 1948
01 Oct 1947 - 30 Sep 1950
18 April 1934 - 18 May 1938
11 Oct 1950 - 06 Aug 1952

Minutes of council meetings:
17 Jul 1956 - 09 Feb 1960
10 Mar 1960 - 28 May 1963
1 Nov 1950 - 17 Jul 1956
27 Aug 1930 - 11 Apr 1934 (volume included with minutes of weekly meetings 01 Oct 1930 - 11 Apr 1934

Visitor book/meeting attendances: 1967 - 1970, 1970 - 1973.

Cash books:
1963 - 1971
1971 - 1987
1986 - 1990
1990 - 1993 (no book 1994 - 9)
2000 - 2004

Ledger:
1958 - 1965

Subscription account: 1938 - 1950

Ledgers:
1939 - 1954
1965 - 1971
1971 - 1986

Accounts: 1914 - 2000

Box four:
Club syllabus and exhibition programmes and catalogues

Box five:
Mees album 1912. Presented to Dr G. Mees on his appointment to Eastman Kodak to set up a research lab.
Book relating Mees life and retirement
Mees address to Kodak on his retirement

Box six:
Photeurope exhibitions
Various books re: photography

Box seven:
CCC Bulletins:
4 x bound: nos 1-32
Nos 33 - 62
Nos 65 - 93
Nos 94 - 137
Two folders of CCC Bulletins:
1989 onwards
1999 onwards

Box eight:
Draft of club history and various correspondence

Box nine:
Minutes and correspondence:
Letters 1988/9
Correspondence: 1990 - 1993
Correspondence: 1986 - 1988
Premises (folder)
Members 1940 - 1980 (mainly pictures)
Folder: Records of AGMs 1970s - 1980s.
Folder: council minutes December 1989
Folder: Old Council Minutes 1982 - 1991
Green folder: Minutes/correspondence 1986/7.
Red folder: Minutes/correspondence 1982 - 1985
Red folder: Minutes/correspondence 1987/8
Red folder: Minutes/correspondence 1983/4
Green folder: Minutes of meetings 1986 - 1988
Bundle: Council meetings 1990 - 1993

Box ten:
Display photos (board) views of Croydon (Centenary Exhibition, 1990) and captions plus some photos in print envelopes.
Exhibition visitors book 1971-3.
Envelope of old exhibition catalogues
Centenary beermats
Contact sheet (rolled) historic pictures.
Box of prints for centenary exhibition by S. Pickford (some pictures are much earlier).
Separate items:
Loose Carrier bag (Allders): Millenium album 2000 (submissions by members including biographies)

Box eleven (pre 1950, listing taken from list provided by CCC):
Copy negs: Mees album and others
Secretarial duties 1925
War Years 1939 - 1945
Early Exhibition Catalogues
Old Dutch Pictures: (contact prints from plates: see notes on rear H. Stillwell, 1990)
Dorrett and Lady Members Town Hall steps 1896, 1990
Home made calculator (for print exposure)
Design for club button whole badge (one enclosed)
Instructions for salt meter, a method of checking shutter speed)
Exhibition catalogues
Various issues of club rules
Club outing: boat picture 1925
Wratten Hand books

Large black boxes mostly containing material relating to exhibitions:
1960 - 1970 Early Colour Prints
1950s - 1980s
1950 - 1980: material relating to exhibitions and club activities
1980s: material relating to recent exhibitions and display prints including some bromoil prints by N.L.Gryspeerdt.

Loose material:
Yellow folder: club presidents
Yellow folder: photographers pre 1900
Yellow folder: Wettern and Wainwright/Dr Mees
Blue Cardboard folder (cups box): large prints including president
Box (carpet tiles): prints by John Keane
Large grey folder of prints marked Mrs M. Saunders, Edgar Hyman, H.G.Trod, Brian Davies, Peter Lewis
Large envelope: website 2001
Large envelope: orange: E.A.Salt
Envelope: John Keane
Print: The Birthday Party by Nick Vilag, c.1975.
Large envelope: Centenary, 1990
Folder: S.Whitaker, Church Interiors.

200+ letters

Photograph albums:
1) Green Reminiscent photograph album, c.1910 - 1920. Mainly family groups and portraits.
2) Brown: Florrie Tours Scotland c.1902. (Florrie King was born c.1879).
3) Brown: Memories of the Eastbourne Holidays, July and August 1901 also of Pleasant Days spent up the river, 1901 taken by Geo. Gatenby and George E. Cushing. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others). (Note: Gatenby married Rose King).
4) Green: Memories of the Folkestone Holidays, July and August 1902 by George Gatenby. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others).
5) Burgundy: Memories of the Bournemouth Holidays, August 1903) taken by Geo. Gatenby and George E. Cushing. (Holiday pictures etc featuring George Cushing with King sisters an others).
6) Green paperback album of wartime postcards addressed to Florrie King by Will (William) King who was serving in the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. As the postcards seem to stop abruptly in 1915, it is presumed that William (born c.1883) was killed in action (a Pte William King of the 4th Bn Cameron Highlanders died 24 March 1915 (source: CWGC).

7) Material from Cameron uniform together with button with picture of soldier and 1897 Diamond Jubilee coin (probably belonging to William Smith).

8) Three small books of common prayer, two marked F.King (presumably Florrie.) One with clasp intact.

9) Pamorama photograph from Sunny Southern California from Peter Cushing (resident 1766 West Ridge Road, Brentwood, W.L.A, California) to Mr and Mrs G.E.Cushing, Cherry Tree Cottage, Norwood Hill near Horley, Surrey, dated 19 January 1941.

10) Obituary of Mr D. King from the Furniture Record, 20 May 1920. He had worked for James Humphries and Sons of Snow Hill, London, for 56 years.

16 plans showing detailed areas of the following stations and bridges:

Addiscombe
Barclay Road Bridge (2)
East Croydon (4)
Norwood Junction (2)
Purley
Selhurst (carriage washing machine)
Smitham
South Croydon (2)
South Croydon/Stoats Nest/Purley
West Croydon

2 boxes:
Minutes:

1973 - 1980 (personal minute book compiled by Pat Lawrence: original book and subsequent volumes lost)
1998 - 2010 (entries closed for 30 years).

Scrapbooks (compiled by Sylvia Collins to 1988 and subsequently by Audrey Botting)

1979 - 1981
1982
1982 - 1983
1983 - 1984
1984
1985
1985 - 1987
1987 - 1988
1990 - 1992
1993 - 1994
1995 - 1996
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2000
2001 - 2002
2003 - 2004

Photograph albums

4 volumes:
1990 - 1993
1993 - 1996
1996 - 2000
2000 - 2003 plus one album of actors publicity photos c.1982.

Newsletters

Incomplete run of newsletters with more to follow in electronic form: these will be added to Local Studies Library newsletter collection.

Annual reports

A collection of annual reports to follow (in electronic form)

Loose programmes

A collection of loose programmes, autographed, belonging to Mr Norman Edwards and Mrs Hope Edwards, donated to Ashcroft Theatre Club.

Book

Why Janet should read Shakespeare by Norman Hapgood 1929. Inscription shows it was presented to Peggy Ashcroft by the author in 1937. Later given to the Ashcroft Theatre Club.

In addition, a collection of duplicate Fairfield programmes was donated to LSLA to be added to Fairfield programmes collection.

1) Photograph album c.1898 - 9.
Photographs include:
Whitgift Almshouses
St Saviours Church, Croydon
High Street,
Bensham Villas, London Road
Waddon
Duppas Hill
Thornton Road
St Lukes Mission Church
Lifeboat procession
Barnums procession, 1898
Sangers Circus procession
Shirley
Hare and Hounds pub, Waddon
Waddon Marsh Farm
Colliers Farm and Cottage, Thornton Heath
Broad Green Place
Mafeking Avenue
Surrey Street
Canterbury Road
Lodge Road
Agricultural show
Plus views of Mitcham and Beddington

2) Lose photographs, some mounted, showing Beddington, Budleigh Salterton and Bensham Villas, London Road.
3) Photograph of Rev G.Kempe of St Saviours Church, TH.
4) Photograph of Phyllis Kynaston as worker at the Croydon War Depot during WWI.
5) Two billheads for E.C.Chart, Ecclesiastical and Art Needlework, 51 High St.

Photograph with negative of Gillett and Johnston staff, including William Bennett (2nd right) with Berlin Freedom Bell prior to installation in Berlin.
Other photographs of William Bennett installing GJ bells.
GJ brochure.
Limited edition GJ bell made for Coronation in 1953.
Photocopies of correspondence between Barry Bennett and the authorities in Berlin for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the installation of the Freedom Bell in 2000.
CD of Freedom Bell (to be transferred to Local Studies Library) at Rathause Town Hall in Schoenberg, Berlin.

Photograph album of Leslie Frank Stuttle of the 2nd/16th Bn London Regiment (Queens Westminster Rifles). Album contains postcards of both overseas and home postings, groups of soldiers, friends and pictures taken on leave in England as well as pictures of his grave in the Jerusalem War Cemetery. The album also includes a portrait photograph, copies of the order of service for the dedication of a memorial window to the Queens Westminster Rifles in the St. Benedicts Chapel on 10 March 1923 and a copy of the Daily Telegraph for 29 Feb 1896 (possibly the date of his birth) and an extract from the Daily Telegraph of May 14 1906.

Scrapbook of E Newton Lucas (resident of Waddon New Road in 1863) with programmes, cuttings, tickets etc of Croydon Sacred Harmonic Society and Surrey Philharmonic Society, Addiscombe Branch.

Bundle of papers relating to army service, divorce and bankruptcy of Mr Robert Fuller of Melfort Road, Thornton Heath and later Everton Road, Thornton Heath. A fishmonger at Brighton Road, Purley, he was declared bankrupt in 1934 but, following army service, discharged himself from bankruptcy in 1947. He and his wife divorced in 1945.

1 vol

1 volume with some inserts