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Note book containing copies of letters from the battlefield 1916 from 2nd Lt. Edgar Rowe Williamson and includes some press cuttings.

Boards Minute Book. 1940-1946. Includes air raid report
Sources ref: DR/HD/4

Map shows area covered by 32nd Surrey Factory Battalion in Waddon/Beddington area

Cuttings books of newspaper cuttings, letters, flyers etc from formation of troop in 1911 - early 1913.

1) Retiring Report of the First Librarian in Charge of the Ashburton Library, Mr R.D.Hilton Smith (handwritten, 1929).
2) Report on the use of Stock 1929 - 1947.

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.

Leases relating to land in High Street, Croydon dated 18 July 1823 and 23 March 1866 (no. 43 High Street).

1 bundle:
Bundle of pre-registration documents relating to 62 Fernhurst Road, Croydon, CR0 7DG.

Miscellaneous legal papers, including correspondence, draft agreements and deeds, copies of wills

Minute books, balance sheets, etc. Hand list on accession file.

Compiled by Nora F Oclee, with sketches. Undated, but inscriptions inside cover dated July and August 1915.

Receipts from property in Croydon and the Manor of Croham; estate accounts for house in Lincolnshire and property in Leicestershire; accounts for members of the Croft, Green, Jervaise and Walker families. Possibly kept by or for James Croft.

Appointed to deal with claims for exemption under the Military Service Act, 1916, under Order in Council dated 3 February 1916.

Staff Absence Record for Croydon and Purley UDC Public Libraries Department

Minutes 1946-67 (2 vols); list of courses held at Croydon 1881-1967; posters; lists of lectures; lists of candidates who received certificates; correspondence; Croydon Education Committee A Plan for Leisure booklets.

Wills of James Wilkinson 1732 and Nicholas Baldwin of Croydon 1639, with probates

Deeds to 92 and 92a Brighton Road, Coulsdon, 1930-59; 16, 20 and 22 Godstone Road, Kenley 1947-69; 11-5 Kenley Parade, Kenley, 1904; 31, 33, 35 and 37 Luna Road, Thornton Heath, 1879-1943.

Manuscript copy of declaration of bounds of the Manor of Croydon from Bodleian MS Tanner 127 f.60

Tender made by Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Company (1920) Ltd

3 Borough Engineers Plans of Taberner House

Deeds to 18 Heathway, Addington, with plan and abstract of title to Spring Park Farm, Addington, back to 1885.

Deeds and correspondence relating to the purchase of 92 Tower View, Monks Orchard, Shirley, including abstract of title back to 1885

Cuttings, correspondence, balance sheets, membership slips, etc. Very brief list on accession file.

Minutes 1985-7; correspondence; files on affiliation, education, conference, Area and Branch; circulars; membership records 1985-8; file on Community Roots Trust; Area and Executive Councils material; membership print outs and financial statements 1987-8.