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1 bundle of letters and family photographs.

Deeds to nos. 9, 11, 27 and 31 Penge Road

Notes and papers accumulated by Mr Palt in the course of research for his thesis (see below) concerning Croydons response to town planning legislation in 1950. Includes correspondence and agreements between the County Borough of Croydon and the Surrey Garden Village Trust.

Deed includes a plan showing the property south of the junction between Whitehorse Road and Strathmore Road

6 documents:

1. Final Concord (Fine). Concerning three messuages, three stables, three cartilages, three gardens, one orchard, and one acre of land with the appurtenances in Croydon. Between John Shorey and John Washford. Dated (?) 26 Nov 1782 [fifteen days of St Martin in the twenty third year of George III].
2. Mortgage. Premises in Hampton Terrace, Hampstead Road, St Pancras, Middlesex. Between Harry Collins Deacon, and Jonathan Robinson. Dated 23 October 1847.
3. Lease and release. All of three messuages or tenements with the appurtenances formerly or tenements with the appurtenances formerly but two messuages and since rebuilt by the said James Anderson [late father of George] and made into and now used as three messages or tenements and adjoining each to the other with the barnes, stables and brewhouse thereunto belonging, and also all that great orchard with the barn and stable thereon lately erected at the West or lower end thereof, which said orchard is containing in length from east to west two hundred and fifty feet of assize and in breadth from north to south sixty five feet of assize. All which said messuages and premises are situate standing, lying and being in the town of Croydon aforesaid on the west side of the high Street there and who heretofore in the tenure or occupations of William Peate and William Pigeon or William Reynolds or their assigns and are now in the severall tenures or occupations of the said George Anderson, Abell Cole Smith and the said John Wood a messuage of Jane King, widow, being situate on the north side thereof a meadow of Nicholas Carew, esquire, adjoyning to the west side thereof a tenement of Martin Witchells and the garden or orchard belonging to a messuage of Thomas Anderson Dated 7 October 1709.
4. Final Concord (Fine).
5. As above.
6. Mortgage. Concerning: All those two messuages or tenements adjoining each to the other and all outhouses, edifices, buildings, wayes, backsides, gardens and orchards to them belonging then to fore purchased by him the said James Anderson of and from Thomas Batt and John Batt, son of the said Thomas, situate in the town of Croydon Between William Bartlett of Coulsdon (yeoman), George Anderson of Croydon (cooper), John Wood of Croydon (cordwainer) and William Sanders of Croydon (yeoman). Dated 7 October 1709.

Deed of 13 Penge Road, South Norwood

1 item: Plan of Croydon (Thornton Heath to South Croydon) mounted on canvas. The detail of the map appears to have been copied from the Plan of the Parish of Croydon in the County of Surrey (1847) by W.Roberts with one or two additions.

Bundle of approximately 20 deeds, various dates (mid (19th - early 20th)

Deeds and other property documents concerning 43 St Peters Road, Croydon as detailed on enclosed schedule (dated 1935).

1 vol: Photograph album containing mounted photographs (b/w) of V1 damage in Friern Road, Lordship Lane, Crystal Palace Road (all Dulwich), aircraft at Croydon Airport (30 Aug 1947), air journey to continent from Northolt, RAF personnel 1946-7, views of continental scenes including Mont St Michel, St Malo, Paris, Ireland, Stavangar etc. Some views annotated.

Deed poll (change of surname) of Herbert John Grierson Ward, of 39 South Norwood Hill, 1912; account book of Mrs Grant Wilson of Red Roofs for purchases made at C H Powell, grocers, Beulah Hill; counterpart lease of Grange Lodge, Beulah Spa, 1886

Marriage settlement of Miss Ellen Elizabeth Fanny Fraser of Addiscombe House

Deed, at Croydon on Corpus Christi 15 Ric II (1392) between Peter Vyne and John Spicer of Croydon re 1.5a in the common field of Croydon called le gore on the south side of Crowehamlane; copy of court roll of the manor of Croydon 1438 re the former lands of John Ovenstede viz lands and tens once of John Clayhill, lands and tens called Wolvardes, lands and tens once of Geoffrey and Peter Jay, lands and tens called Redefele, toft and 2a called Beneveys, parcel called Canonbrome; wills of Parker family of Waddon 1733 and 1773; wills of Bisenden family 1762-1783.

Copy of satirical drawing by Rowlandson showing A Lord of the Manor receiving Rents, source unknown; Letter written by Mary henman of Croydon asking for payment of board, 1714; Receipt for farm rent, signed by Francis Carew, 1605; Faculty for appropriation of part of St James Churchyard by Croydon Corporation, 1891 (with plan); Receipts for quit rent paid to the Lord of the Manor of Croydon, 1798-1799 (4 docs); Assignment of mortgage, involving William Herring of Croydon, 1758; Lease of Norbury Manor Farm, 1831.

List of rentals owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury prepared when Whitgift became Archbishop. An English translation is included.

Four property documents relating to 125 Sussex Road:
Abstract of title: 1936
Conveyance: 04 February 1937
Supplemental Abstract of title: 1960
Conveyance: 13 October 1960
Extract from property register 1987

Deed to a parcel of land north of Haling Farm

1 box:
Collection of property transfer documents relating to the sales of Herons Croft to the Dreyer family in 1968 and by the Dreyer family in 1997. Also includes newspaper cuttings, information relating to listed building status and sales particulars from previous sales as well as research notes.

A bundle of photographs, some apparently taken from a scrap book, showing school activities from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Activities include harvest festivals, nativity plays, coronation parade (1953) etc. Also included is a 1927 teachers report from Furzedown Training College for Irene Eveline Barnett. As the collection also includes a couple of personal photographs, it is likely that the collection came from her family.

Bills and receipts re the Mission Room (part of Addington School), 1875-86; correspondence, receipts and plans re proposed cottages on Addington Hills/Badgers Hole, 1892-98

Volume containing 6 docs (removal orders, warrant, settlement certificate) pasted in, with list of contents, transcripts and index of names

Deeds and papers relating to Bedward Lodge, South Vale, Upper Norwood

Agreement re erection of fences and the observance of building lines. Includes land around New Lane, Dingwall Road, Lansdown Road, Middle Heath Lane, Bedford Place, St James Road, Brighton and South Coast Railway line. With plan.