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Register of Properties - A. Trythall, Auctioneers

  • AR121
  • Collection
  • c.1894-1896

Each entry gives description of house and price of sale or rent; some entries include copy of printed sale particulars. Properties are mostly in South and Upper Norwood but other locations are also included.

J A Trythall Auctioneers

In Company and India: Manuscript and Notes

  • AR85
  • Collection
  • 1991 - 1992

Manuscript of book, 'In Company and India, a history of Addiscombe Military Seminary (2 loose-leaf files); with file of research notes and correspondence etc used in its compilation. In Company and India was researched and written by Alan C Hardcastle in 1991-1992; but he was unable to find a publisher for it. It contains a preface written by Lord Weatherill (formerly Bernard Weatherill, MP for Croydon North-East and Speaker of the House of Commons).

Alan C. Hardcastle

Sydenham Renaud Addiscombe [Addiscombe College] Scrapbook

  • AR55
  • Collection
  • 1858 -.1905

Scrapbook, compiled by Sydenham Renaud. It contains a watercolour plan of the College and surrounding properties (dated June 1859; measures 28.5cm x 22cm; scale c9 in :1mile = 1:7040]; 147 albumen prints, mainly of cadets, staff, College buildings and surrounding area; and cuttings relating to the College. These are accompanied by captions and commentary on the photographs (mainly referring to the images, but sometimes to the photographic techniques) which extend in places to memoirs of the College Life. Non-Addington photographs include : Addington Palace; Beddington House and Church (2 photos), Cadet Alexander (son of General Alexander)s home; Lord Ashburtons Farm; General CA Browne, his house at Secunderabad, Deccan, and memorial to Elizabeth, his wife (3 photos; 1863); cadets at Sandown, Isle of Wight (1859 or 1860); room at University College, Oxford; and 4 copies of paintings or prints. Cuttings towards the end of the volume include cartoons from Punch etc; cuttings on military subjects; portraits of political and military public figures (including William Gladstone and Earl Roberts) articles re the Fens and re Egypt; etc., mainly undated, but some 1885 - 1905.

Photography was included in the Addiscombe curriculum from 1855 (taught by Aaron Penley, professor of civil drawing). The photographs mainly date from 1858-1859, and an early title for the book was 'Photographs taken by Cadets of the H.E.I.C.s Military College, Addiscombe. A.D. 1858-59. The photographs appear to have been stuck into the book soon afterwards, with brief captions. The captions were added to and amended over the years, particularly in the period 1891-1905, when the scrapbook assumed its present form. At times they extend into fairly long passages of text. These have been wrapped idiosyncratically around the pictures, or written on interleaved pieces of paper. Renaud comments 'the whole thing is go as you please over the patchwork so imperfectly hashed up. The book was used for reminiscing with other old cadets (for example, at a lunch in 1891), and some of the amendments may be the result of these shared memories. A few of the photographs were taken away from Addiscombe, or at a later date. Towards the end, the volume degenerates into a scrapbook for miscellaneous cuttings etc on military and other subjects, dated around 1885-1905. Renaud calls the book 'quite a preliminary canter to The Race, in the magnum opus of Colonel H.M. Vibart; a reference to Vibarts history, Addiscombe: its Heroes and Men of Note (1894) (shelved in Local Studies Library at S70(355)VIB).

Sydenham Renaud

Addington High School

  • SCH1
  • Collection
  • 1879 - 1984

This collection contains the records of the following schools: Cudham Fairchildes (Kent County Council); New Addington Temporary (all age); New Addington Temporary (later Overbury) Primary; New Addington Temporary (later Overbury) Senior; Overbury Primary; Overbury Secondary; Shepherds Hill (later Overbury) Secondary; Fairchildes Secondary Modern Mixed; Fairchildes Secondary Modern Boys; Fairchildes Secondary Modern Girls; Fairchildes High School; Addington High School.

Addington High School

William Page, My Recollections of Croydon 60 Years Since

  • AR111
  • Collection
  • 1880

One volume of manuscript notes written 1880. Contains sections on The Wandle; Theatre; The Markets; The Town or Cherry Fair; The Traffic; Croydon October Fair; The Pleasure Fair; The Canal; Addiscombe College; The Barracks; Middle Row; North End West Side; North End East Side; George Street South Side; and George Street North Side.

William Page

A Years Birdwatching by Barbara M. Cooper

  • AR177
  • Collection
  • 1949 - 1950

Scrapbook of typescript diary entries, maps, watercolours and pencil drawings, postcards and magazine clippings. Includes a weekly record of bird movements in and around a small wood in Purley; visits to Cuckmere, Rye, Camber and Dungeness; and notes on Ringing and Bird Migration Stations. There is a photograph of the author (who lived at 9 John Kirk House, 20 Little Roke Avenue) on the first page.

Barbara M.Cooper

A Tribute to Walter Troake

  • AR166
  • Collection
  • 1957

Volume presented by Croydon Municipal Officers Association to Walter Troake in recognition of his work for retired members. It contains letters, poems and comments written by members.

Walter Troake

Manor of Croydon, Leet Jury Minute Book

  • AR010
  • Collection
  • 1830-1855

Minute Book of the Leet Jury of the Manor of Croydon. Courts Leet were held annually in April, May or June. The location is given as the Town Hall from 1833 onwards. The majority of the records of courts before 1850 consist simply of the election of the manorial officers and the report All Well; although in 1830; 1833; 1836; 1837; 1843; 1844; 1845 and 1846 presentments are made for encroachments or nuisances. From 1833, the record of each court is signed by the members of the Jury. From 1850 onwards, these signiatures are the only record given of the proceedings at each court: there is no election of manorial officers and the records become generally more scrappy.

The back of the book has been used for various annotations and memoranda, including a list of preparations to be made by the baliff for a Court Day.

Manor of Croydon

A. B. Jayne Bill

  • AR86
  • Collection
  • 1882

Bill (with printed head) for hire of carriage and pair issued by AB Jayne, Riding and Job Master, Church Road, Upper Norwood. The printed billhead includes text reading 'AB Jayne, Riding Job Master. Church Road, Upper Norwood.; 'The White Hart Alma; 'Horses Carriages taken at Livery; 'Appropriate Carriages for Weddings; 'Horses Carriages of every description To Let on Hire. Ladies Gentlemens Saddle Horses Ponies.; 'Established 1864; 'Terms Monthly; 'And Dulwich Wood House Hotel; 'Riding School, Sydenham Hill; and three illustrations of carriages.

Abraham B. Jayne

Addiscombe Military Seminary: Drawings

  • AR30
  • Collection
  • c.1740 - c.1909

Volume containing civil and military engineering drawings made by Addiscombe cadets, with prints and sketches of Addiscombe House, of cadets, and of individuals associated with the House and the East India Company; printed ephemera and manuscript letters; etc.

The principal feature of this volume is the series of about 40 sets of civil and military engineering drawings made by Addiscombe cadets, 1837 - 1843, mainly signed by Captain Hector Smith, assistant to the Professor of Fortifications. They include a plan of the Seminary grounds dated 1838, by Cadet Charles Jackson (p.5); and several other drawings showing details of the grounds. These are followed by miscellaneous prints (from various sources) and sketches of Addiscombe House/Military Seminary, of cadets, portraits of individuals associated with the House and with the East India Company, views of St James Church and other local scenes; and some printed ephemera, manuscript letters, newspaper cuttings etc (including a MS account of the death of the Earl of Liverpool in 1808, on p.89).

The leather binding may also date from the mid-nineteenth century. The volume appears to have been compiled in its present form in the early twentieth century, when the supplementary prints and other papers were added. 2 of these supplementary pieces (bound in as pp122-125 and 127-130) are in fact strays from the collection of miscellaneous Seminary records held at AR65.

East India Company

British and Foreign Bible Society (Norwood) Records

  • AR95
  • Collection
  • 1853 - 1938

Records of the Norwood Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, formerly the Norwood Ladies Bible Association

Norwood Auxilliary of British and Foreign Bible Soceity

Baptism Registers of Mayday University Hospital Chaplaincy

  • AR175
  • Collection
  • 1867 - 2002

Collection consists of ten Baptism Registers, nine for the Croydon Workhouse Chapel covering the period October 1867 to February 2002 and one for the Croydon Isolation Hospital covering the period February 1950 to March 1964.

These registers do not, at least in the modern period, contain entries for Catholics. If a Catholic baptism was required then a local priest was called in and the baptism recorded in the register of that Church. In the 1960s this was usually St Marys but in more recent years this has been St Andrews in Thornton Heath.

Mayday Road Hospital

Ashburton Junior School

  • SCH8
  • Collection
  • 1928

Log Book 1928 - 1950 (1, SCH8/1/1)

Log Book 1951 - 1963 (2. SCH8/1/2)

Log Book 1963 -1971 (3, SCH8/1/3)

Log Book 1971 - 1993 (4, SCH8/1/4)

Log Book 06 May - 05 Oct 1998 (5, SCH8/1/5)

Admission Registers:

1) 1936 - 1944 (1, SCH8/2/1)

2) 1944 - 1950 (2, SCH8/2/2)

3) 1945 - 1948 (3, SCH8/2/3) (under 5s)

4) 1950 - 1958 (4, SCH/8/2/4)

5) 1958 - 1970 (5, SCH8/2/5)

6) MM

7) 1984 - 1999 (7, SCH8/2/7)

8) 1998 - 2000 (8, SCH8/2/8)

9) MM

10) 2004 - 2008 (10, SCH8/2/10)

Register of CP 1928 - 1976 (1, SCH8/3/1)

Photo albums (SCH8/5):

1) School trip to Seaford, 1934

2) Trip to Natural History Museum, c.1990?

3) Various including trip to Tower of London, c.1990?

4) Exercise books of pupils showing salads they have prepared.

5) Album of school activities, c.1960.

6) and 7) A year in the life of a bookshop, 1988-1989 with enclosures.

Book of condolence on death of Princess Diana, 1997.

Handbook for schools, 1975 edition.

Folders containing details of school activities:

1928-44(green)

1950 -5 (orange)

1952 (sports day)

1955-76(pink)

1956-60(yellow)

1960-9(pink)

1970+ (green)

1974-5(orange)

1975-6 (brown)

1975-6(yellow)

1976-7 (pink)

1977-8 (blue)

1979-80 (orange)

1980-81 (yellow)

1981-82(blue)

2 n.d. (1998)

Folder of Christmas play programmes.

Certificates: Comic Relief 1991; Tesco Computers for Schools 1996

Exercise book: trip to Seaford, 1938.

Photo album: large 1950 onwards.

Envelope containing letters of thanks, 1987 but also a speech day programme from 1939.

50th Anniversary Open Evening, 1981. Visitors book.

Envelope containing photos, n.d. (c.1998)

Slides: 1) Pilgrim Fort 1962 - 1967 2) Activities 1962 - 4.

Framed photos of balloon launch, 70th anniversary (1998)

Box File of photos, undated.

Governors minutes 1960 - 2004

Ashburton Junior School

Ashburton Infant School

  • SCH9
  • Collection
  • 1950 - 2009

Log Books (6):

1950 - 1971

1971 - 1978

1978 - 1985

1985 - 1988

1988 - 1991

1992 - 1996

Admission Registers (5):

1950 - 1963

1963 - 1969

1969 - 1975

1975 - 1987

1987 - 1991

plus subsequent admissions

2 photo albums

1 accident book 1989 - 2001

1 register of c.p.

1 commendation book 1985 - 1997

Photos, films, plaque, plan of school, folder containing:

Ashburton Infant School

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