Croydon Archives: Collections

Programmes, leaflets, posters and press cuttings relating to performances of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's works, including concerts in which Samuel Coleridge Taylor was both conductor and composer. The material also includes items relating to lectures on his life and works.

County Borough of Croydon

Published Works and Press material relating to Samuel Coleridge Taylor

AR1149/2
Series
1885 - 2010

Part of Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Photocopies of book extracts and press cuttings related to the life and works of Samuel Coleridge Taylor including biographical pieces and reports of concerts of his work.

County Borough of Croydon

AR1149/3
Series
1898 - 1987

Part of Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Papers, programmes and press material relating to Samuel Coleridge Taylor's family including his daughter Avril Coleridge Taylor, a composer in her own right, and several family friends including the Pethricks, noted musicians.

County Borough of Croydon

AR1149/4
Series
1901 - 2012

Part of Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Papers collected by members of the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Network relating to his life and works as well as the 2012 festival held in Croydon as a celebration of him. The material in this section was donated by the society in 2017.

County Borough of Croydon

Published Music by Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

AR1149/5
Series
1890 - 1912

Part of Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Published music written by Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

County Borough of Croydon

Photographs

AR1182/1
Series
c.1894-2008

Part of L. H. Turtle Ltd.

This series contains photographs of the premises, family, staff, products and services of the company across the its 114 year history. This includes there shops, carts, presence at fairs and other locations including museums.

Catalogues and Price Lists

AR1182/2
Series
1900 - 1929

Part of L. H. Turtle Ltd.

Catalogues and Price Lists for a range of items sold by the company. They include images, descriptions, and cost for items associated with outdoor goods, tools, cutlery and specialist hobbies such as model trains.

Correspondence

AR1182/3
Series
? - 2008

Part of L. H. Turtle Ltd.

A small series containing letter templates used by the business and letters sent to them.

Press cuttings and marketing material

AR1182/4
Series
From 1940

Part of L. H. Turtle Ltd.

Range of materials including flyers, newspaper cuttings and shopping bags.

Waddon Water Pumping Station

AR128/1
Series
Oct 1969

Part of Photographs of Ronald a. Huitson

27 black and white photographs of Waddon Water Pumping Station made by Ronald and Muriel Huitson of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society in 1969 together with two sheets of manuscript notes

Addington Water Pumping Station: Photographs

AR128/2
Series
1969 - 1974

Part of Photographs of Ronald a. Huitson

Park Hill Reservoir and Water Tower: Photographs

AR128/3
Series
Mar - Oct 1971

Part of Photographs of Ronald a. Huitson

32 black and white photographs taken by Ronald Arthur Huitson (1916 - 1986) and his wife Muriel (1915 - 1987) of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society during the course of the reservoirs demolition and the gutting of the water tower.

Croydon Gasworks Photographs

AR128/4
Series
1969-1971

Part of Photographs of Ronald a. Huitson

Photographs of exterior and interior views of the Gasworks in Purley Way and detailed views of machinery. Also two letters from Lee, Howl and Co. Ltd (manufacturers of pumping machinery) of Tipton, Staffordshire, and also 16 sheets of notes and sketches of mechanical details

Ronald Arthur Huitson

Woodford School: Eleanor Macdonald Report Books