Croydon Archives: Collections

Grant Brothers Family Papers

AR389/2
SubCollection
1909-1931

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

Grant Brothers Department Store: Financial and Organisational Records

AR389/1/1
Series
1910-1959

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

Grant Brothers Department Store: Wages Book

AR389/1/1/1
Item
16th September 1910- 16th October 1912

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

A Wages book listing the monthly wage paid to each member of staff in the department store. Included is an alphabetical list of the staff members employed over this period

Grant Brothers Department Store: Scrap-Book of Correspondance From Customers

AR389/1/1/2
Item
1st August 1935- 5th July 1946

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

A scrap-book containing letters from customers,m ainly concerning payment of bills.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Book of Customer Accounts

AR389/1/1/3
Item
5th August 1936-30th September 1936

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

A daily list of customers (with surnames starting with R-Z) showing items and their prices that were bought on the customers account. The book is less than half filled.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Priced Inventory of Fixtures, Fittings, Furnishings, Office Furniture and Rolling Stock.

AR389/1/1/4
Item
March 1947

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

An inventory by

Henry Butcher Co.

Valuers and Surveyors,

73 Chancery Lane, London.

The book gives prices of fixtures, etc, in the store when they were fitted, and the cost of replacements.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Memorandum Articles of Association for Grant Brothers Ltd.

AR389/1/1/5
Item
3rd July 1959

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

Book giving the Articles of Association for Grant Bros. Limited from the 3rd July 1959 onwards. Was compiled by

H.A. Crowe Co.

Solicitors,

48 Chancery Lane,

London.

The articles were drawn up by the chairman Sydney T. Grant.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Labels

AR389/1/1/6/1
Item
To be defined

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

One luggage label, listing Grants address as 14-32 High Street, Croydon. The other label is earleir giving the address as 14,16,18,20,22 High St, Croydon. This label also shows a picture of the store from the High Street. Both appear to be unused.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Bills

AR389/1/1/6/2
Item
19 November 1917 4th December 1917

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

Two used bills from the departement store.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Grants Cheque-Book

AR389/1/1/7
Item
19th November 1923-9th January 1924

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

This is presumably a Grants account with some cheques having been made out to members of the Grant family. The account was with the London County Westminster and Parrs Bank Limited.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Croydon High Street

AR389/1/2/1/1
Item
1888

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

The photograph shows the original Grants premises on the left, and the site of Grants on the right.

Grant Brothers Department Store: a Portion of the Front, Looking South.

AR389/1/2/1/2
Item
1927

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

Shows the front of the store, on the High Street.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Another View of Grants New Building

AR389/1/2/1/3
Item
1931-1932

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

Taken on Surrey Street, the photograph shows the construction of the Grants extension

Grant Brothers Department Store: Bridges Connecting Grants New Building to the Old

AR389/1/2/1/4
Item
1932

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

The photograph shows both the High Street Grants building, and the recently built extension.

Grant Brothers Department Store: Dress and Print Depts

AR389/1/2/2/1
Item
1912

Part of Grant Brothers Collection

A photograph showing the dress department in the store, printed by Bendar Lewis.

Bainbridges Plan of Coulsdon Court Estate

AR79
Collection
1783

Plan of the Coulsdon Court estate in the parish of Coulsdon, surveyed by Thomas Bainbridge.

Thomas Bainbridge

Croydon Philharmonic Society Recordings: Five Tudor Portraits by Ralph Vaughan Williams

AR28
Collection
[27 Jan] 1937

5 lacquered aluminium gramophone disks, carrying recording of R. Vaughan Williams, Five Tudor Portraits (disjointed excerpts), performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra and Croydon Philharmonic Society, etc, and broadcast on the BBC National Programme, 27 Jan 1937.

Five Tudor Portraits consists of settings of poems By John Skelton (1460-1529). It was first performed in September 1936 at the Norwich Festival. This recording is from its first London performance, broadcast on the BBC on 27 Jan 1937. The broadcast ran from 8.44pm to 9.32pm: it therefore overran slightly, and the 9.30 Greenwich Time Signal can be heard towards the end of the recording.

Another performance was given at North End Hall, Croydon, on 4 Dec 1937, by Croydon Philharmonic Society and the London Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams was in the audience, and this performance was also broadcast.

The discs are numbered 418-421 and 492. The recording appears to have been made on a single disc cutting machine. There are therefore lost pieces of the performance between sides, due to side changing; and there are also recording skips, due to cutting errors, on sides 1 and 6. Approximately 35 minutes of recorded material survives, from a performance lasting 48 minutes. Disc 492 (one sided) is a different generation recording from the rest of the material, and fills the skip on side 6. It may have been dubbed from another recording of the same performance; or it is possible (although unlikely) that it was taken from the December performance.

Croydon Philharmonic Society

Civilian War Death: Young, William Fraedrick