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South Croydon Liberal Club

  • AR403
  • Collection
  • 1909-1948

The minutes would indicate that the club met at various venues in Croydon. The collection consists of a minute book covering the period 23 May 1933 - 28 Febuary 1939. In addition several loose pages of minutes from 19 June 1945 - 27 September 1948. There are three copies of the South Croydon Liberal Association Constitution, two have been amended the third is a draft, two reports one detailing a history of the club and four flyers advertising public meetings. The finances of the club amount to a cash book from 28 September 1909 - 23 April 1938; petty cash book 23 April 1929 - 2 January 1938 and loose cash receipts 6 May 1936 - 3 April 1948. There are also two reciepts books covering 23 March 1936 - 26 June 1937.

South Croydon Liberal Club

Caroline Spratt Testimonial Book

  • AR41
  • Collection
  • 1901-1907

Notebook of testimonials by actresses to Caroline Spratt, dresser at the Grand Theatre.

Caroline Spratt

Alexander Sandison Letters

  • AR42
  • Collection
  • 1914 - 1920

Two boxes of letters from Rev Alexander Sandison (minister of the South Croydon Congregational Church, Aberdeen Road) to his brother Tom Sandison (of Unst, Shetland)

Alexander Sandison

Wills of James Wilkinson1732, Nicholas Baldwin of Croydon1639;With Probates

  • AR433
  • Collection
  • 30th Aug 1639-2nd Nov 1732

Two wills, each with probate attached. Both leave a number of bequests, including money and property. Each have a probate attached, showing that in both cases the executors obtained permission to carry out the wishes expressed in the will. Wills in English, probates in Latin.

Wilkinson and Baldwin

Says Plan of Croydon

  • AR47
  • Collection
  • 1785

Plan of Croydon by Jean Baptiste Say. The plan was drawn in 1785, when Say (aged 18) and his brother Horace were staying in Croydon, at the house of Mr Bisset in Pound Street (George Street). The town plan, and the lost plan of the wider region to which the key refers, seem to have been drawn to illustrate the visit to a correspondent at home.

Jean Baptiste Say

Powers Accounting Machines Home Guard and Arp Material

  • AR48
  • Collection
  • 1942-1973

Photographs and other material re Home Guard (32nd Surrey Battalion, especially E Company) and ARP activity, at Powers Accounting Machines Ltd. Associated with Major L E Brougham.

Powers Accounting Machines Ltd

Papers of Mrs Evelyn May Sandison Relating to the W. V. S.

  • AR491
  • Collection
  • 1944 - 1947

Collection includes WVS Housewives Service Organisers Report on Flying Bomb Incidents June to August 1944; registers of persons bombed out during these incidents (2 vols); rough notes on flying bomb incidents and casualties (1 vol); newspaper accounts of WVS activities and an acknowledgement of Mrs Sandisons resignation from the WVS due to her husbands ill health, 1947.

Mrs Evelyn May Sandison

Woodford School

  • AR51
  • Collection
  • 1902-1984

Records of Woodford (House) School, of Woodford Old Girls Association, and material re Woodford House School, New Zealand.

Woodford School

Croydon Foundry Ltd

  • AR52
  • Collection
  • 1920 - 1970

Plans, photographs and other papers of Croydon Foundry Ltd.

Croydon Foundry Ltd

Loxton and Ward Family Papers

  • AR551
  • Collection
  • 1866-1968

This collection contains birth, marriage and death certificates of the Loxton and Ward families. It includes a photocopy of a photograph in which Walter Ernest Loxton, Hilda Annie Loxton, and Leslie George Loxton ( father of the donor ) appear. There is also a photocopy of a handwritten page listing names, dates of birth, marriage and death spanning 3 July 1876 - 7 January 1933, which is possibly the reverse of the photograph. A handwritten memo note providing similiar information is included, covering the same dates, but is not as extensive. The family have a connection with the Bird in Hand pub, Sydenham Road, Croydon and so there is a postcard of the pub and a copy of settlement relating to the same with an inventory of stock dated 1884.

Loxton and Ward Family

Womens International League Records

  • AR56
  • Collection
  • 1918-1976

Two boxes of records of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, including ten minute books (1918-1976); address book; and folder of newsletters and circulars (1940-1949).

Womens International League

Rogers Family Papers

  • AR57
  • Collection
  • 1859 - 1958

Papers of and regarding the Rogers family (including EW Rogers, corn dealer); including diary of Alice Rogers, 1880-1905; album of newspapers cuttings; birth, death and marriage certificates, and genealogical notes.

Rogers

Ledgers of John Hook, Undertakers

  • AR5
  • Collection
  • 1903 - 1945

The ledgers contain very full details of the provision made for each funeral; and also include name indexes.

John Hook

Maria Mee Cooper Letter

  • AR64
  • Collection
  • n.d. [c1860]

Letter: from Maria Mee Cooper to Fred, her son, while he was at school. The letter contains references to gifts from pupils to Mr (Alfred) Twentyman (a school proprietor); Addiscombe Races, prizes given by an Indian Prince to Addiscombe cadets and Cookes Gymnastic Performing Elephants in Croydon.

Maria Mee Cooper

Broad Green Fire Station Occurrence Books

  • AR67
  • Collection
  • Jul 14 1887-Apr 12 1905

2 Fire Brigade Occurrence Books from No 6 Station, Broad Green. 1887-1896; 1903-1905

Broad Green Fire Station

Thomas Mathews Address

  • AR69
  • Collection
  • Sep 1910

Illuminated address presented to Thomas Mathews (Treasurer and Secretary) by the Free Christian Church, Wellesley Road; with approx 140 signatures. It was presented to record Mathews long service as Treasurer and Secretary to the congregation. The text reads: 'Free Christian Church, Croydon. We gratefully record the long and faithful service of our esteemed Friend Thomas Mathews Esq. Honorary Treasurer of the Congregation for Ten Years; Honorary Secretary of the Congregation for Eleven Years; and a valued Member of the Committee since 1875. Wellesley Road, Croydon. September 1910.

The address consists of a bound volume, containing nine board pages. These comprise one page bearing the text the address, seven pages containing 143 signatures of members of the congregation, and one blank page.

Thomas Matthews

George Harrison Wright

  • AR719
  • Collection
  • c.1929

One certificate and two notebooks.

George Harrison Wright

Photograph Album of Visit to Arnhem

  • AR72
  • Collection
  • Apr 1947

Photograph album of a visit made by a Croydon party to Arnhem and elsewhere in the Netherlands at Easter (05 - 12th April) 1947.

Photographs include a reception at Sonsbeek Park and subsequent lunch.

Arnhem and Croydon football and table tennis teams

Damaged buildings in Arnhem

Meeting of the Mayors of Croydon and Arnhem and the presentation of the Union Jack.

The album also includes an envelope of extra material such as photographs, menus, negatives and tickets.

Mr L Woolnough

Grantham Dames Records

  • AR74
  • Collection
  • 1885 - 1947

Four minute Books and membership records of the Dames Primrose League, Grantham Habitation No 105.

Primrose League Grantham Dames

Norbury Junior Imperial League Ramblers Log Book

  • AR75
  • Collection
  • 1935-1936

Log Book of the Ramblers of the Junior Imperial League, Norbury Branch. The book was written up by Ian McLay, joint secretary of the Group, who was the main organiser of rambles.

A short description is given of the route of each ramble, and of incidents which occurred; any newspaper reports are inserted, and a sketch map is added. Attendances are summarised; and at the end of the volume, there is a short chronicle of Imps meetings and other events, 1935 -1936.

Norbury Junior Imperial League Ramblers

Jack T Jones

  • AR763
  • Collection
  • 1914 - 1970

This collection reflects the activities of Jack Jones in his long association with the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in the form of sixteen minute books mostly General Committee and Committee but includes Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee, Organisation Committee and Young Teachers Committee. In August 1950 Mr Jones visited Poland to study educational conditions there and the collection includes material from the visit in the form of seven photographs, two card photographs and seventeen postcards. In addition there are eleven booklets in English spanning the period 1944 - 1950 concerning the rebuilding of post-war Poland and one of Auschwitz and Birkenau in four languages. There are three editions of the magazine New Poland from 1950, some papers on women and higher education in Poland, and a typed article entitled Education in Poland by J T Jones B.Sc. Within the collection there are also items concerning War Pay Allowances, two printed agendas of the Warlingham Park Hospital War Pensions Committee dated 22 January and 19 February 1940 and various miscellaneous correspondence, papers and newpaper cuttings from the same year.

Jack T Jones

Ballards Photograph Album

  • AR76
  • Collection
  • c1910

Photograph album containing 24 photographs of Ballards, the Ballards estate, and members of the Goschen family.

Henry Grantham

Odd Fellows Records

  • AR78
  • Collection
  • 1873 - 1950

9 volumes of records (minute/resolution books, 1912-1950; and account book, 1873-1876) of the (Loyal) Victoria Lodge and King Lewis Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity. 1873-1876; 1912-1950.

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows

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