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These books largely comprise pages of the printed Council minutes, pasted into larger volumes, and signed. Vols 1-4 have handwritten marginal headings, and marginal indexes, but in general these minutes contain no information which is not in the printed editions: noteworthy exceptions are indicated. Some further supplementary documents are also bound into the volumes, notably signed copies of Notices declaring Streets Public Highways, and signed copies of Particulars of Properties recommended for purchase etc. (with prices).

This Series covers personal correspondence between nuclear and extended family members and those with whom the Byrons had social contact. With a timespan of 100 years, there are over 300 letters in the Series. The 1890s-1920s feature most prominently. This period covers the correspondence of Edmund Byron, his wife, Charlotte Emily, and their children Lucy, Thomas, Cecil and Mary Eva during their young adulthood in the 1890s onwards, both as the writers and recipients of letters.

All aspects of family life can be charted in this Series, including family issues, their relationships with each other, issues relating to employed staff at Coulsdon, affairs and events in Coulsdon, holidays and travel in the UK and across Europe and, for many years, annual fishing visits to Norway. Two of the children – Thomas and Cecil – migrated to Canada when young men, where they followed the life of cattle ranching. Their experiences for the whole period in Canada, from preparations for departure through to their deaths (Cecil in 1911; Tom in 1940) are covered in detail. The letters include detailed information on the financial/business side of Thomas’s ranching career.

This large collection of letters provides personal and, being written for private use only, unguarded insight into the family’s life, which serve to fill out the information to be garnered in the various items across all the other Series in this archive.

Available upon request: Supplementary papers to the catalogue including chronological listings of all the letters and detailed summaries of the letters found in AR1057/1/75, 77 & 172. These supplementary papers are ‘working papers’ compiled by members of The Bourne Society during the initial arrangement of the collection. The final catalogue reference numbering has been much refined since this work was done.

This Series provides insight into the sporting activities of a landed gentry family during the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. It features a game book of shoots, fox hunting journal and a fishing book providing details of one of Edmund Byron’s fishing visits to Norway. There is also some information on cricket in Coulsdon.

There is extensive documentation on the Old Surrey Fox Hounds, focusing on Edmund’s period as Master for 25 years up to his retirement from the role in 1902. But, with newspaper cuttings and other miscellaneous material, a picture of the hunt is provided covering much of the nineteenth century.

Additional information on the Byron’s sporting activities may be acquired from AR1057/1 – Personal Correspondence and AR1057/6/112 – Journal kept by Charlotte Emily and Edmund Byron, 1865-1875.

This Series covers transactions regarding properties on the estate before the death of Edmund Byron in 1921 and the sale of the entire estate. It covers properties in Golders Green and Hendon as well as Coulsdon. Sales particulars, correspondence illustrating the associated negotiations and valuations of the entire estate are included in the Series.

There is overlap with AR1057/14 – Solicitors Accounts; these itemise the fees charged by solicitors from which transactions regarding property can also be gathered.

This Series covers items relating to the sale of the Coulsdon estate by auction from 1921 onwards. The process took several years. The Series includes sales particulars, plans, maps and how the estate was divided into discrete sales plots.

There are inventories of the contents of Coulsdon Court, with detailed listings and information on how some of these domestic items, including some of significant value, were distributed within the family. These inventories overlap with an insurance inventory in AR1057/3.

To acquire a full picture of the sale of the estate, it is necessary to include items from AR1057/8 – Business Correspondence and Estate Management and AR1057/14 – Solicitors Accounts

This Series covers a substantial volume of documents detailing the arrangements for letting the components of the Byron estate, all of which were owned freehold by the family.

Types of documents comprise leases, deeds, conveyancing particulars, tenancy and letting agreements and cover all properties on the estate both large and small.

AR384, which comprises an archive donated by Eric Byron to the Museum of Croydon in 1934, also includes a number of leases issued between 1795-1886.

This Series comprises a substantial and varied volume of documents that provide detailed insight into the running of the Coulsdon estate, enabling a close examination of the nature of nineteenth century mixed farming.

Items in this Series include running rentals covering a succession of years from the large farms through to cottages and small holdings, account books covering maintenance and repair costs, sales of timber cuts and farm account books with running records of expenditure, sales, income and profitability. The account books cover a range of years from 1833 to 1922. An account book for 1916-1922 and a set of estate accounts/valuations for 1922 capture the very last years when the estate was intact through to the period when the estate was in the process of being sold.

AR1057/12 is complemented by items in AR1057/8 on the bailiffs and staff employed on the Coulsdon estate.

The Series is small with the information somewhat scattered in nature, lacking coherence at times. The material consists of such items as notices of purchase and sales.

It provides an indication of the importance of share and bond holdings in the Byrons’ overall wealth and annual income. Tax schedules, listed under AR1057/8, show that the greater part of Edmund’s annual income was from shares and bonds, which exceeded what he received from rental and farming income.

This Series covers the accounts rendered by the Byron’s solicitors, predominantly Tylee & Co.

The records in this Series are highly detailed and comprehensive, recording all the substance of all contacts and time spent in dealing with the family’s affairs and the fees charged. It amounts to a substantial quantity of documentation which provides insight into the family’s business and personal life, for example, legal advice and services provided for the purchase and sale of land, for a range of business transactions and disputes, for settling wills and handling trusts.

There is particular strength for the period following Edmund Byron’s death, with advice by Tylee and Co, the executors, to the trustees of the will, Eric Byron and Theodore Hall Hall (husband of Lucy Byron) concerning the sale of the estate. This includes information on the actual sales options available to the family, the decision making on these land sales and the pricing of individual lots, distribution of the contents of Coulsdon Court amongst family members, handling family trusts arising from the will and dealing with the queries of the trustees about the whole complex process. Handwritten marginalia throw light on Eric’s private response to some of the issues raised.

This Series provides additional sources of information for a good part of the archive, notably AR1057/2, 3, 8-13.

These volumes are bound files of correspondence, reports and other papers compiled by Croydon School Board, (1870 - 1903) and its successor, the Education Office of Croydon Corporation, from 1903 onwards. They fall into two groups: those on general topics and those relating to individual schools, (the school portfolios). Many of these sets of papers appear to have been bound up as volumes in 1903 (when education became the direct responsibility of the local authority; in 1914; and about 1932 (when there was a major reorganisation of the education service). The 1920s and 1930s files were kept in spring-backed binders, until they were bound as volumes in the early 1990s. The files seem to have fallen into disuse during World War Two (when, for example, the system of regular annual returns from schools was discontinued) and were only added to sporadically in the 1940s.

Subcommittee formed 14 Sep 1903 on recommendation to report on constitution of subcommittees. Finance and General Purposes originally seperate sub-committees, merging in 1911.

Correspondence, including extract from council sub-committee minutes.

35 boxes plus loose bags:
A POSTCARDS

These, estimated to number over 14,000, are housed in 25 cardboard boxes, three two-drawer filing units, and seven albums as follows:

Boxes

Boxes 1 - 16 contains Croydon cards arranged topographically.
Boxes 17 - 25 contain Croydon cards arranged thematically.

[1] AD Addington (including New Addington)
AS Addiscombe (including Park Hill)

[2] CN Coulsdon

[3] CA Croydon Airport

[4] CC Croydon central

[5] CC Croydon central

[6] KY Kenley
NY Norbury

[7] OT Old Town (including Waddon and the river Wandle

[8] PY Purley

[9] PY Purley

[10] ST Sanderstead and Selsdon

[11] SH Selhurst
SY Shirley

[12] SC South Croydon including Croham Hurst

[13] SN South Norwood

[14] TH Thornton Heath

[15] UN Upper Norwood

[16] WC West Croydon
WS Woodside

[17] ADV Advertising and message cards
AE Aerial views
ALM Almshouses
BOU Bourne flows
CAF Cafes
CEM Cemeteries and crematoria

[18] CHU Churches

[19] COM Composite / multi-view cards
EVE Events
FIR Fire brigade and fires
FLO Floods

[20] GRO Groups

[21] HOS Hospitals
HOU Houses
HUM Humorous and novelty cards

[22] LET Letter-cards
MIS Miscellaneous subjects and buildings
PAL Croydon Palace
PEO People

[23] PUB Public houses
RAD Radio amateurs contact cards
SCH Schools

[24] SHO Shops and other business premises
THE Theatres and cinemas
TOW Town Hall

[25] TA Transport (all modes)
WAR Wartime hospitals and other wartime scenes
WOR Works and factories

Two-drawer filing units

The total of six drawers contain cards relating, mostly, to districts near Croydon but beyond the LB Croydon boundary; also Collectorcard and Pamlin Prints cards, and some modern cards.

Albums

The seven albums contain cards as follows:

[1] C.H. Price cards numbered 20001 - 20099
[2] C.H. Price cards numbered 20100 - 20399
[3] C.H. Price cards numbered 20400 - 20720
[4] C.H. Price cards numbered 30000 - 30299
[5] C.H. Price cards / Croydon Airport
[6] Croydon Times cards
[7] South London cards

B PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS

Numerous photographic prints, currently on a LSLAS trolley, in course of cataloguing and processing. All are being labelled as the property of / on loan from Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Ltd. As catalogued and labelled they are filed in the main LSLAS files of photographic and other images.

C SLIDES

Photographic slides including those deposited by the Society and those deposited directly by John Gent before his death.

This collection contains material relating to theatres in Croydon, dating between 1755 and 1940, including 56 playbills, four programmes, one file of newspaper cuttings, two prints, and one songbook:

Cuttings from local papers and MS notes collected by J. Corbet Anderson, relating to theatres mainly in Croydon but also in London, dating between 1830 and 1905. Also includes one volume: 'The Theatre: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts', Vol. XVI, No 91 (London: Eglington & Co., July 1890).

Playbills for the following theatres (non-exclusively):
Widow Yeates's Large Theatrical Barn (1755)
Gygnell's Theatre, Fairfield (1822)
Croydon Theatre (1823, 1831, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1849, 1850)
Royal Olympic Theatre, London, including Madame Vestris in Beulah Spa, Croydon (1833)
East Surrey Theatre, Croydon (1835)
Prince of Wales Theatre, Croydon (1850)
New Surrey Theatre, Kennington (c. 1850)
Croydon Palace Theatre of Varieties (15/11/1900)
Croydon Repertory Theatre Programmes (1932-1940)

Two prints:
1) Madam Vestrus by J. Cochran. Madam Vestrus played the leading role in 'The Beulah Spa' by Charles Dance, performed a tthe Royal Olympic Theatre in 1833.
2) 'The Gypsy's Life is a Joyous Life' by J. Brandard, printed by M & N Hanhart. This was a song sung at London & provincial concerts.

One songbook for 'The Merry Gypsies, A Favorite Glee', composed by G. T. Smart, written by Mr Arnold. This was sung at the Ladies Concerts by Mrs Harrison, Master Elliot and Mr Bartlemann.