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Contains an acknowlegement of reciept from the Prime Ministers office (the Prime Minister at the time was Andrew Bonar Law) dated 22nd September 1922. There is also some correspondence concerning industrial conscription.

Printed notices of various meetings. Issued by Croydon and District Branch

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.

A poem by W H Ford addressed to Mary. Formerly inside diary.

Consists of two sets of extracts, one typed ,one handwritten.

Consists of four birth, death and marriage certificates, two transcripts of gravestone inscriptions and one photocopy of the Rogers family tree.

Consists of two handwritten notes of gravestone inscriptions from Beckenham Churchyard, and Queens Road Cemetery. Covers the period 1840-1924. Not dated.

Incorporates drawing of the shop premises and lists produce for sale. The item is undated.

Consists of five photographs, the wedding of Edward William Rogers and Alice Skinner 6 September 1893, Edward William Rogers and Alice Rogers (not dated) c. 1890s, Alice Rogers and Millie Rogers 29 July 1894, Edward William Rogers (not dated) c. 1920s and Miss Hammond, family friend, (not dated)c.1914-c.1918.

Handwritten note on the reverse, gives babys age as five and half months. See entry in diary (AR57/1/1) for 29 July 1894.

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

Printed forms, completed in manuscript, drawn up for half yearly terms (February-June or August-December). Lists Cadets names, with details of items of uniform issued to each, and his signature. Slightly over half the abstracts originally produced in this period have survived.

1. Newspaper cutting relating to evacuation, Evening Argus 15 February 1940

2. Postcard from a Prisoner of War camp 1944, author John Darnley, addressed to Mr A G Hadler

3. Photograph of water wagon c.1914

4. Photograph of the Imperial Airways switchboard, Purley Way, Croydon

5. Pencil list of extension numbers for the Redwing Air Co Ltd switchboard

6. Croydon Letter Card depicting scenes from Croydon

Included in the photograph is a picture of the donors mother Mrs D Hadler who was a telephonist for Imperial Airways. Imperial Airways was based at the Airport of London in Purley Way, Croydon. The airport opened in 1928.

A pencil list of telephone extension numbers. The donors mother Mrs D Hadler worked as a telephonist for Imperial Airways and later Redwing Air Co Ltd, both based at Airport of London, Purley Way, Croydon. An entry for Redwing Air first appears in the street directory for 1934

Register of members (mainly female, but some male), in rough alphabetical order, with addresses and notes of subscriptions paid.

Minute Book

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.

Minute books

Case files of children cared for in the Mission of Hope childrens homes. These were children who were fostered but never adopted. For details of adoption records, please contact AdoptLondonSouth for access to records - https://adoptlondon.org.uk/contact/