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From 1997 the school was known as Selhurst High School for Boys. The collection is only partially catalogued.;

Deeds to The Priory, Upper Norwood

Photograph of Frank Grant as a corporal in Royal Flying Corps uniform; RFC forage cap, button and sergeants stripes; First World War medal and ribbon; Surrey Flying Services Ltd memorandum and Articles of Association, 1931; photograph of Avro G-EBFW owned by Surrey Flying Services; photocopies of newspaper clipping re purchase of Cessna plane, and photographs of Frank Grant with Cessna C-34 and his pilots.

Frank Grant (uncle of donor) was born in Hooe in 1896, and served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as a Corporal and later as a Sergeant. He moved to Purley in the 1920s, where he met and married his wife Kathleen. He formed Surrey Flying Services, based at Croydon Airport, in 1921, and the firm became a limited company in 1931. In 1936 he went to New York with a Mr Turner, a noted British pilot, where he was appointed agent for the Cessna Aircraft Co in Britain and other European countries. Mr Turner subsequently bought the first Cessna-C34 through Grants agency. Grant spent the Second World War as an Aircraft Engineer at a factory at Sanderstead, and after the war joined the Civil Service. He died in 1959.

Agreement re erection of fences and the observance of building lines. Includes land around New Lane, Dingwall Road, Lansdown Road, Middle Heath Lane, Bedford Place, St James Road, Brighton and South Coast Railway line. With plan.

Papers relating (mainly) to the estates of Mrs M E Elger, including 38 Albert Road, South Norwood, and 31 and 33 Bynes Road, South Croydon; Jean Winifred Hubbard; and Frank Hubbard. 1914-1974.
Trustees account with the beficiaries of the will of William Neal, deceased, 1919.
File of papers relating to Hubbard/Neal family history, including family tree; funeral bills; birth marriage and death certificates. 1856-1941

Set of six plans of John Newnham School, September 1971
Set of six plans of John Ruskin College, May 1989
Eight miscellaneous plans of John Ruskin School, 1970-1974

Covers 1863 - 1907. Includes plan.

Large, illuminated testimonial, with the names of 140 subscribers, given to William James Pickford, a loyal friend, a true sportsman and a good fellow, on his 50th birthday. Pickford was a partner in Pickford and Newton, outfitters, of George Street, Croydon.

Second World War call up papers and letters written home whilst on active service. Papers include an estimate for his sisters wedding reception at the Cafe Royal, North End, 1938.

Documents include plans of the site, and sale particulars dated 1863.

Includes abstract of title back to 1840, with plan

Two deeds relating to Croydon

4 boxes

Bundle of Deeds Relating to Burgo House, Sydenham Road. SHS Ref: TD1376

1 bundle: Title deeds to properties in Croydon, including 15 Warham Road, 8, 9 11 Ashburton Road and Derby Road. 1 bundle, 3 envelopes and one loose document.
SHS ref: AC1548 part (DF509)

Third Asylum-County of Surrey; Architects drawings:
1)Front elevation, front offices and residences, colour, 1879
2)Map showing position of buildings on site, 187?
3)Plan and elevation of entrance gates next to lodge, 1879
4)Plan for new iron entrance gates, Brighton Road Lodge, date obscured. In two parts, v. fragile.
5)Plan showing the site and buildings at Coulsdon- 8/7/1880.

London County Asylum - Cane Hill; plans
6)Plan of fields, coloured, n.d.
7)Site Plan, Office Copy, includes markings of bombs landed on site.
8)Road repairs, 1936-7, Chief Engineer.

Ordnance Survey Maps
9)SW Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board 1:2500 TQ2958 1959, showing eastern side of hospital (shaded).
10)1:2500, XIX.12, c.1935 Chipstead with row of houses highlighted in red.
11)1:2500, XIX.12 and XX.9, c.1896-7. V. fragile. Mounted.

Engineers plan of proposed new wards at Queens Road Homes, County Borough of Croydon

6 items:

1. Newspaper cutting relating to evacuation, Evening Argus 15 February
   1940
   2.Postcard from a PoW camp 1944, author John Darnley, addressed to
   Mr A G Hadler
   3.Photograph of donors grandfather standing beside a water wagon
   c.1914?
   4.Photograph of Mrs D Hadley, mother of donor, at the Imperial
   Airways switchboard, Purley Way, Croydon
   5.Pencil list of extension numbers for the Imperial Airways switchboard
   6.Croydon Letter Card depicting scenes from Croydon

4 deeds relating to property in Croydon.

10 deeds relating to 141 Bingham Road, Addiscombe

5 items:
Poster: Church calendar 1912.
Ledger 1867 - 1870.
List of donors: Parish Church Restoration Fund, 1890 - 1894.
Rebuilding of the Church, 1867-1870 1 folder of receipts, invoices etc.
Report and Accounts and Annual Parochial Reports, 1879, 1888-1890. 1 folder.