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Various deeds relating to Croydon

  • AR898
  • Collection
  • 1871 - 1957

4 items:
1) Conveyance of freehold land and premises adjoining the Compton and Selwood Roads, Addiscombe, Croydon [Ormerod to Addiscome Garden Estates Ltd] 1922
2) Agreements re: nos 40, 52 and 60 Penge Road and allotment adjoining Queens Road, South Norwood, 1906 - 1915
3) Appointment of trustees of m/s Jacob Ellery and Charlotte Ann Ellery of Crown Hill, Norwood, 1871.
4) Appointment of trustees re: several properties in Croydon belonging to the late H. Harland with fire insurance policies, 1934 - 1957. Addresses include 1-2 Fairfield Villas, 45, 47 and 83 Waddon Park Avenue, 70 Clarendon Road, 24, 26, 28 and 7 Benson Road, 46-8 Fairholme Road, 59 and 61 Parsons Mead.

Unknown person

Conveyance of land in Croydon

  • AR902
  • Collection
  • 1790 - 1846

Conveyance of lands in the parish of Croydon known as Stony Close, Madams Field, Under Duppers Hill and the Three cornered piece. Between William Sampson and Frederick Taylor and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1846 with schedule from 1790.

Unknown person

Records of Leonard Evans Parr

  • AR918
  • Collection
  • 1903 - 1973

2 boxes:
Material relating to Leonard Evans Parrs occupation as a house parent and Bandmaster of Shirley Residential Schools and personal items. See attached box list:

1) Shirley Residential Schools 1903-1967

Photographs 1923-?
Incl.
Children/Staff
Aerial
Large mounted photograph of school, staff and board 11 March 1930
Mounted photograph of Shirley Residential Schools Christmas 1926 + hand drawn plan

Magazines 1929-1967
Shirley Schools Magazine 1929-1967

Programmes 1929-1934
Annual Sports Inspection x2 1929 1934

Miscellaneous 1903-?
Luggage tag: Joan Boardman
Five hankies ie. Chestnut 5, 6,8,9,10
Every boys book of hobbies by Cecil H. Bullivant
(inscribed: Stanley Isaacs for Woodwork) n.d
Notebook c1926 (black) incl. paper cuttings (author unknown)
Notebook 1903-? (author unknown)
Shirley Schools History notes n.d (author unknown)
Ration Book Cover (embroidered cloth) owner unknown
Suitcase brown (John Green, Rose Cottage, Shirley Residential School Croydon)

2) Shirley Residential Schools Band 1924-1967

Photographs 1924-?
Incl.
Shirley Residential Schools Band: Various
Shirley Residential Schools Band: Mounted Signed by Mayor Southwell 1924/5

Programmes 1925-1966
Programmes: Venues for Shirley Residential Schools Band 1925-1934
Programme of Music: Shirley Oaks Band Open Day 8 July 1966

Certificates 1933
Shirley Residential School Band: School Orchestra Junior Band Festival 1933
Miscellaneous 1967?
Shirley Residential Schools Band list for Sports Day x2 1967
Sheet music: Three Jolly Sailormen, In the Shadows, Viennese Ladies, Teddy Bears Picnic, Scales

3) Personal 1905-1973

Photographs/Postcards
Miscellaneous bands n.d

Correspondence 1905-1973
Incl.
Testimonials 1905, 1908 1923
Correspondence/Notes concerning estate of late Mrs Parr 1966

Miscellaneous 1914-1970
National Insurance Card 1914/15
Medical Card 1914
Register of Local Land Charges(incl. plan): Bradfield Rural District Council
4 November 1926
Journal Household Calvary 1927?
Certificate Hospital Savings Association 1963
LCC card 30 years service 8 October 1964
Application for National Development Bonds: Leonard Evans Parr March 1967
Rates Valuation 203 Devonshire Way 12 March 1970
Vicarage Garden Party List n.d
National Savings Certificate Book
Photograph of Leonard Evans Parr + two ladies (Mrs Parr on the left?)

Leonard Evans Parr

Bound sales particulars and other records of Stiles Harold Williams

  • AR935
  • Collection
  • 1830 - 1994

Please Note:
This collection is currently stored offsite as we are unable to store a collection of this size onsite at present.
If you wish to access any of this material, please contact the team at archives@croydon.gov.uk

The records are organised into 12 broad groups.

1) Two early volumes of sales particulars: 1830 (Eden Park area) and Bletchingly 1835

2) 87 volumes of sale particulars. Some are in poor condition as noted.

The following 39 volumes are indexed chronologically except where noted:

1830 - 1836
1837 - 1840
1841 - 1844
1845 - 1848
1849 - 1850
1851 - 1853
1854 - 1855
1857 - 1858
1859 - 1861
1862 - 1864
1865 - 1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872 - 1874
1875
1876 - 1877 no index
1878
1879
1880
1881 damaged spine; chronological index
1882 damaged spine; chronological index
1883 alphabetical index
1884 alphabetical index
1885 alphabetical index
1886 alphabetical index
1887 alphabetical index
1888
1889 alphabetical
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895 - 1896 chronological index
1897 - 1898
1899 chronological index

The following nine volumes contain an alphabetical index at front of each volume:

1900 - 1901
1902
1903 - 1904
1905 - 1906 damaged spine
1907 - 1908 (March)
1908; 1910 - 1911
1912 - 1913
1914 - 1918
1919

The following 39 volumes contain a chronological index at front of each volume:

1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929 (badly damaged spine)
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938 - 1942
1943 - 1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957 - 1958
1959 - 1960
1961 - 1962
1963
1964
1965 - 1966
1967 - 1968
plus one volume of sales marked 1930 London but includes some Croydon sales.

3) 4 Indexes of auction particulars.

4) Volume of newspaper cuttings 1957 - 1963.

5) Bundles of loose sale/auction particulars, various dates:

a) London Borough of Croydon: commercial properties (now part of our Sales Particular collection)
b) London Borough of Croydon: residential properties (now part of our Sales Particular collection)
c) Bundles relating to properties in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, the Isle of Wight, Surrey, Derbyshire and the London Boroughs of Sutton, Merton, Lambeth, Lewisham, Bromley, Islington and Haringey have been transferred to the relevant archives or local studies centre.

6) 4 Case files concerning sale of Reedham Orphanage site, 1979-1980.

7) Harold Williams accounts 1955 - 1967.

8) Bundle of assorted plans.

9) 3 volumes of locked private ledgers

10) 5 volumes of indexes.

11) Volume of statement of change (receipts), 1907 - 1909

12) 3 Ledgers, 1947 - 1960, 1960 - 1973 (current accounts of staff), 1994 (These records are closed)

Stiles Harold Williams

Rendezvous Noon and other films by Croydon YMCA

  • AR955
  • Collection
  • 1959 - 1962

8 items:
Five reels of films made by Croydon YMCA, 1959 - 1962:
Rendezvous Noon (1960)
Carry on Karting (1961)
Entry to Adventure (1959)
and Duke of Edinburgh Award Expedition to Dartmoor, 1962
plus two reel to reel tapes of soundtracks and one cassette tape.
A DVD of the films was also supplied.

Croydon YMCA

Additional records relating to St Aubyns Congregational Church, Upper Norwood

  • AR963
  • Collection
  • 1801 - 1961

1 bundle:
Listing (as taken from the inventory of documents originally lodged with bank on behalf of the Upper Norwood Congregational Church in 1960) and supplied by the United Reformed Church History Society.

1 2 March 1801 Extract from Croydon award. Norwood Common and Woodlands in Norwood for the use of the inhabitants of Croydon.

2 16 July 1806 Act for rebuilding the Court House of the town of Croydon.

3 5 September 1809 Indenture between Vicar etc, and John Scott of Penge Place. Sale of land in Westow Hill.

4 6 April 1836 Copy of William Roses Will (9 Pages).

5 9 June 1849 Lease of land on Westow Hill. Messrs Overton to Mr Frederick George Aubin. Indenture.

6 21 June 1863 Certificate of Conveyance of workhouses and other property. Central London District School paid 1,200 to Henry Overton, trustee of will of Wm Rose.

7 30 September 1856 Conveyance of land at Westow Hill. Henry Overton to Central District School.

8 1860 Plans of a Chapel, the property of the Central District School.

9 16 February 1860 Duplicate Conveyance of freehold land and premises at Westow Hill. Central London District School to Messrs Outhwaite and Hubbard.

10 1861 Abstract of Title to freehold Chapel at Norwood. Power to enclose parts of 215 acres. Central London District School ordered to sell premises under an act (Wm IV) to facilitate conveyance of workhouses etc. 2,000 paid by John Bromhall of Belsize Road, St Johns Wood, Middlesex. (22 pages).

11 3 May 1861 Order to Central London District School to sell such portion of the premises as remain unsold.

12 16 May 1861 Conveyance. Central London District School to John Bromhall. [Broomhall]

13 29 April 1862 Declaration of George Law, architect, concerning land conveyed to John Bromhall. Upper Norwood Chapel.

14 13 May 1824(extracted 1862) Certificate of burial of Ruth Scott

15 21 May 1851 Certificate of marriage of Robert Marke and Sarah Elizabeth Rose [widow]

16 25 July 1863 Further charge. John Bromhall to William Betts

17 2 June 1876 Mortgage. John Bromhall to William Betts, etc. Reconveyance. William McArthur to Fred William Carter.

18 31 July 1868 Act for enabling Star Life Assurance Society to sue in their own name.

19 11 February 1886 Memorandum of Deposit of Title Deeds of the Upper Norwood Congregational Church with the British Equitable Assurance Company for securing payment of 2,500.

In addition there are

10 November 1909 Letter from Martin Nicholson solicitors to H W Mitten concerning trustees for the Chapel and enclosing
13 June 1868 Conveyance and settlement of land and chapel at Norwood Surrey. John Broomhall to Frederick Wm Carter and others

November 1919-June 1924 Correspondence on insurance, including organ
8 April 1924 drafts/schedules for rebuilding of organ
31 May- 22 July 1924 correspondence, insurance issues connected with rebuilding
W J Curry and J Stone Blomfield
11 June 1924 Agreement Robert Hunter, Alfred Hunter and George Hunter, organ builders and Josiah Beddow, James Blomfield and William Curry for said rebuilding

August 1921 Specification proposed extension to church parlour at St Aubins Congregational Church (architect John Moir Kennard), plus plan
Plan by Gerald Warren (nd)

7 July 1961 Conversion of Manse, 2 Forsyte Crescent, SE19. Plans and application to Croydon Borough Engineers Office.

Notebook (nd) Covenant of fellowship between members of St Aubyns Congregational Church (includes Geoffrey Satchell, minister, 1961-68

St Aubyns Congregational Church, Upper Norwood

Title deeds and other documents relating to 55 -61 The Glade, Shirley

  • AR970
  • Collection
  • 1921 - 1980

Bundle of deeds and other documents relating to 55 -61 The Glade, Shirley, 1921 - c.1980 including redevelopment of the site through demolition of no.59 and erection of housing on land to the rear (the present Camrose Close).

Unknown person

Conscientious objector records of George Glasscock

  • AR975
  • Collection
  • 1916 - 1919

1 bundle: Bundle of correspondence, pamphlets, postcards relating to the conscientious objection of George Glasscock (1895 - 1991) of Morland Road.

Collection includes a chapter from an unpublished (?) history of Croydons conscientious objectors by G.Patrick Battell.

George Glasscock

Ted Hubbard scrapbook

  • AR347
  • Collection
  • c.1860-1988

Scrapbook of notes, newspaper clippings and photographs relating to Addington and its residents, compiled by Tedd Hubbard

Ted Hubbard

Braithwaite Memorial Committee minutes

  • AR350
  • Collection
  • 1889-1893

Minutes of the Braithwaite Memorial Committee, with some loose items of Committee correspondence

Braithwaite Memorial Committee

Papers of A L Whealler

  • AR358
  • Collection
  • 1887-1947

Papers of A L Whealler, relating to 1st Volunteer Battalion, Queens Regt, 1887-1911, and (mainly) Croydon Parish Church and Whitgift Foundation

A L Whealler

Births Deaths and Marriages Summaries and Statistics

  • AR362
  • Collection
  • 1934-1957

Register of income collected by Registrars and Registrar General, and annual summaries of births, marriages, deaths and stillbirths, Croydon Registration District

Unknown person

Papers relating to Addington parish

  • AR369
  • Collection
  • 1908-1947

Agreement for tenancy of Addington Village Hall, 1947; letter relating to sale of Birdhurst, 1908; bill for repairs to fence at Addington School, 1912; book of receipt stubs for Addington War Memorial Fund, 1921-22

Unknown person

Handel Lucas Papers

  • AR54
  • Collection
  • 1877-1972

2 boxes and a folder of sketchbooks, watercolours, photographs and cuttings of Edward George Handel Licas (1861-1936), a Croydon artist

Edward George Handel Lucas

Survey and Valuations of Property

  • AR1131
  • Collection
  • c1890-1900

Volume of survey and valuations of property (indexed). Mentions Sydney Edridge as the surveyor at the beginning of the volume

Unknown corporate body

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