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Evidences of title relating to the Dukes Head and other messuages in the High Street, Croydon, 1704 - 1827

Mortgage of no. 1 Morland Park, Croydon [Henry Radcliffe to Rev. Arthur W. Fleming], 21 June 1865.

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.

Legal charge and other deeds etc re: 11 Chipstead Valley Road, Coulsdon, 1935 - 1950

Assignment for 12, 14 and 14a London Road Croydon, 19 January 1962

One rolled tube containing:
1) 17 Annual Dinner seating plans, 1954 - 1968 together with two blank templates
2) 9 games/attendance sheets 1958 - 1967 listing members and players names.
3) 2 blank competition sheets.

Two photograph albums and loose photographs showing HMS Milne, and its crew, on active service together with views taken in Italy, Jerusalem, Malta etc as well as a tour of the ship by HM King George VI. Also included is a newspaper cutting detailing the gift of the ships ensign to the Mayor of Croydon (Cllr Boddington, Mayor 1943 - 4) by Captain L.M.R. Campbell.

11 household account books of Anne McMillan

Staff welfare committee bulletins
Staff welfare handbook
Staff discount card

1 vol

Ledger of West Croydon Congregational Church

18 items:
Minutes 1988 - 1993
Minutes 1996 - 1997

Photograph album: various events c.1998 - 2006

File: examples of work of members and biographical notes

Correspondence etc: c.1997

Newsletters 1991 - 2006

Millennium activities: file

Diamond Jubilee 2005: file (some thinning needed)

Activities in local bookshops (Books Etc, Waterstones)

Material on grant applications

Handling the Media: Press release pack from Croydon Council press office*

Scrapbooks and photographs: strolling writers

Photograph of Ray Donien

Archive Material: copies of archive material: publications, correspondence, photos etc.

Visitors Book 1987 - 1995
Members successes 1997 - 2002
Members successes and visitors book 1992 - 2001

Framed needlework: Golden jubilee 1945 - 1995

Croydon Soroptomist Club Projects: Booklets etc
How to .a Guide for Carers in Croydon (1993)
St Piers: the National Centre for children and young people with epilepsy and other special needs (2000)
The Mentoring Scheme at Norbury Manor HS for Girls
Limbs for Life (1999-2003)
Womens Aid (1998-1999)
Westdene Supper Party (1993)
All Work and No Play? (2000-2001)
Women in the Community Award
The Aplastic Anaemia Trust

Croydon Soroptomist Club Project: Dutch Dash 25 - 26 October 1996:

Video, album, negatives, photographs, cuttings

Registers

1994 - 1995

Peace Debate

Various notes, 1997 onwards*

Joyce Stovell, former President

Folder of photographs, cuttings etc

Membership and programmes: various examples

Presidents Dinners etc :

Photographs, menus etc

Soroptomist publications (envelope of 15, national, 1948 - 1999)
plus
The Ancient Olympic Games (Soroptomist International Greece, 2002) (2 copies*)

Croydon Old and New*

75th Anniversary Celebrations:

Invitations, menus, gifts and cards.

Material relating to Friendship Links:

Visits etc: Arnhem, Paris, Mandeville, Tokyo-Azuma, Ballina and District groups
Applications: Federal Way USA; Lagos, Nigeria; Yanai City, Japan
Friendship Newsletters: Arnhem
List of Friendship Links, 2002

Former Friendship Links

Scrapbooks:
London Ontario (closed 1995)
Banff National Park
Santa Paula 1977
Huntingdon Park Area

Services of Thanksgiving

R Margaret F. Adams 1895 - 1983
E. Mary Thomas nee Batchelor 1909 - 1997
Annette Carncross 1932 - 1996
Elsa Cameron 1910 - 2002

Conferences

Golden Jubilee Harrogate 24 October 1984
Conference, Ingleton 1981
Waldorf Astoria Photograph 1956

Benevolent Fund

1987 - 2001 (1 folder)

Minutes

1983 - 1989 (one bundle)

Newsletters

Croydon and District Newsletter 53 -55 (1999 - 2000)
South East England Newsletter 1998 - 2004

Plus examples of Soroptomist, Soroptomist News, International Soroptomist*

63 Residential Club, Bayswater Road, London

Folder of items of interest including ways of raising money to support the renovation and refurbishment.

Development of New S.I.G.B.I Constitution

Folder of notes etc

Venture Club

Reunions 2001 - 6

European Visits
Federation of European Soroptomists, 1958
European Parliament, 1993

United Nations

Miscellaneous notes*

Miscellaneous

Two folders*

Box of artefacts*

Three folders (deposited on 04 November 2006)

Press releases
Agendas, minutes, notes etc (2)

16 plans showing detailed areas of the following stations and bridges:

Addiscombe
Barclay Road Bridge (2)
East Croydon (4)
Norwood Junction (2)
Purley
Selhurst (carriage washing machine)
Smitham
South Croydon (2)
South Croydon/Stoats Nest/Purley
West Croydon

Four engineers note books from the Borough Engineers Dept. One contains detailed sketches of the elevations of various Croydon roads.

1) Photograph album c.1898 - 9.
Photographs include:
Whitgift Almshouses
St Saviours Church, Croydon
High Street,
Bensham Villas, London Road
Waddon
Duppas Hill
Thornton Road
St Lukes Mission Church
Lifeboat procession
Barnums procession, 1898
Sangers Circus procession
Shirley
Hare and Hounds pub, Waddon
Waddon Marsh Farm
Colliers Farm and Cottage, Thornton Heath
Broad Green Place
Mafeking Avenue
Surrey Street
Canterbury Road
Lodge Road
Agricultural show
Plus views of Mitcham and Beddington

2) Lose photographs, some mounted, showing Beddington, Budleigh Salterton and Bensham Villas, London Road.
3) Photograph of Rev G.Kempe of St Saviours Church, TH.
4) Photograph of Phyllis Kynaston as worker at the Croydon War Depot during WWI.
5) Two billheads for E.C.Chart, Ecclesiastical and Art Needlework, 51 High St.

15 docs: Balance sheets and accounts 1935 - 1945. Detailed handlist produced by the donor.

Large photograph album, in a fragile condition with some loose pages. The album is mainly holiday photographs (Isle of Wight, Bexhill, Eastbourne etc) but with some Croydon photographs, including interiors. These include:

88 Lansdowne Road, Drawing Room, 1892
88 Lansdowne Road, Conservatory
Eldon Villa
Ruby Lodge, Park Hill Rise (Back view)
Coombe Cottage
Hill Crest, (on Brownlow Road), 1892 (front and garden)
St Matthews Church (exterior and interior)
St Fillans, Coombe, Croydon
Wrencote, Croydon

The album also includes scenes from a historical pageant as well as some pressed leaves.

It is likely that the owner of the album was an acquaintance of James Sant (1820 - 1916, born in Croydon) as there are photographs of him at work and also a photograph of three ladies taken at his home at 43 Lancaster Gate, London.

The petition reads: We the undersigned deplore the proposal to demolish the Grand Theatre and call upon the Croydon Borough Council to reject outright this attempt to close Croydons only live theatre and presumably was compiled c.1958-9 as the Grand closed on 18 April 1959. The petition is signed by actors and actresses who give their address as various London Theatres so this is presumably where they were appearing. Signatories include Fenella Fielding, Sybil Thorndike, Dora Bryan, Daniel Massey, Peter Finch, Nigel Stock and Jimmy Edwards.

2 volumes of minutes of Purley Urban Powers Committee, including newspaper cuttings.

Day book 29 June - 17 October 1914. The lists of addresses and house names (Purley and South Croydon area) means it is possibly a rent collection book

1) Executive Committee Minutes 1985 - 1989 (Rebound)
2) General Meeting Minutes 1985 - 1988
3) Local Correspondence 1983 - 1988
4) General Meetings, Agendas and Minutes, 1989 - 1994

Diary for the year 1908 written in a Northern Assurance Company memo booklet. The diary is mostly the minutiae of the daily life of a seventeen year old girl (age 10 at 1901 census; birthday 12 June) who lives with her aunt and other family members at 2 Dagnall Park, Selhurst. There are references to her father. Occasional references to local events e.g. she was a member of the Primrose League; wins a prize at the meeting on 04 April.

1) Ellen Sarah Dickinson; letters of administration granted 10 August 1876 of the personal estate of Mary Dickinson late of 89 Albert Road.
2) Miss J. Ford, 1896. Abstract of title of Miss Ford and another to leasehold premises known as Elm Bank, Chepstow Road, Croydon
3) Appointment of new trustees of settlement in the will of Ann Skeet
4) Deed of indemnity and creation of power of appointment for the benefit of John Watton Teevan

3 boxes:
Collection is boxed in no particular order but needs severe weeding.

Box 1 of 3

Certificates: school, professional
Artwork: school
Diaries: 1935, 1937
Photographs of RFC group at Farnborough, c.1917. One photograph marked as a Lt. Scott, died in action June 1918. Relation?
Three copies of parents wedding photograph, 1917.
School books: French, Geography, English x 2, Composition, French verbs.
History notes (mustard colour folder)
English notes (mustard colour folder)
Lanfranc School Journey to Seaford, June 1932 plus diary.
Song books x 2
Cookery Recipes booklet
Notes on Christian Science (office training on cover)
Envelope of school reports
Cookery notes
Science booklet: transport project
Biochemic System of medicine: Schussler
Floral Birthday book: includes some birthdays
Exercise book containing cigarette cards: fragile

A865 Patricia Scott Collection

Box List

Collection is boxed in no particular order but needs severe weeding.

Box 2 of 3

Photographs: personalities
School timetable
Lanfranc Senior Girls Magazine February 1933 (typed)
3 essays written on Clarks College notepaper
3 examination question papers
South Bank Exhibition 1951: plan
Card presented to Sgt Maj A.E.Scott, 1919 by County Borough Croydon.
Cuttings etc on spiritualism, horoscopes etc plus 2 photographs of (?) gurus.
Personal documents: Patricia Scott
Personal documents: Albert and Frances Scott
Personal documents: Dorothy Smith (1902 - 1989)
Greeting cards: 1 bundle
Box of badges, coins etc
Postcards, written: 1 bundle
Postcards etc, unwritten: 1 bundle
Postcards of the Channel Islands: 1 bundle
Roll of Certificates: Dorothy Smith and family
Packet of negatives: holiday snaps
Embassy Club Folder containing Christmas cards etc
Three photographs of an ice bound ship: WWII frigate?
Correspondence: 1 envelope
Guide books etc and publications: 1 envelope

A865 Patricia Scott Collection

Box List

Collection is boxed in no particular order but needs severe weeding.

Box 3 of 3

Personal photographs of people: 1 envelope, 1 bundle and 2 loose: all unidentified
Frame containing two photographs
Personal photographs: various including two of 139 Langdale Road
Book of Red Letter Days with some birthdays included.
New Testament presented to Frances E. Scott on 25 January 1900 (her 8th birthday).
Scrapbook: includes photographs of PS at Lanfranc, girls on trips and the new Lanfranc building.
Scrapbook with several newspaper cuttings
Bibbys Annual, 1916
Wonders of the World: Nestl picture strip album
The Sphere: Captain Scott memorial exhibition