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A collection of transcripts and translations of documents together with copies of plans, maps and other material relating to the history of the Manor and Parish of Coulsdon

Bundle 1: Deeds dated 1914 - 1956, including plans.
Bundle 2: Photograph of wardens at County Borough of Croydon Reporting Post F51, c1939-1945; file of ARP circulars and notes re stock of equipment; file of ARP booklets and pamphlets.

Papers relating to Place Fell, built c.1885. The house was purchased by the Myers family in 1945 and occupied by them until its sale in 1984. A family member deposited 5 photographs of the house from 1944 and then also from 1977, these were accessioned as A1179 in February 2023

Letter re: Rhoda Brodie, c.1880, one of the first women to be enrolled as Special Constable during First World War, later awarded OBE; letter to Mayor of Croydon, proposing formation of Home Defence Corps, 1914; letter re: Croydon Church bells, 1932; photograph of Sir Henry and Lady Berney, 1937; handbill and note re: lost blue bag containing estate documents of Samuel Browne, 1824; letter to John Newnham re: 3/4th Bn, Queens Royal Regt, 1917; letter from officer on service in India, 1916; declaration re: estate of Samuel Browne, 1831.

Three unrelated documents:

A handbill concerning the 1902 Council Elections;

A religious handbill by Herbert W. Knocker, 1929

Ms notes on Croydon Improvement Act 1890

Text of a drinking song. Full title: A favorite Song called / The Wine Bibber / Or, Billy diddled out of his Madeira. Contains a reference to the Green Dragon inn, Croydon; and to a churchwarden named Nevit. The text is written on a page torn out of a volume, previously used to record grocery accounts (including vegetables, a pigs head, etc) for Lloyd, with dates including 1813, 1815, and 1817. It has subsequently been mounted on card (by Croydon Library).

Architectural drawings

Includes heads of households only.

Manors of Croydon, Lambeth, and Waddon 1671-1736; in back of volume manors of Fulham, Hammersmith, Acton, Greenford cum Hanwell, Ealing, Hornsey, Finchley, Stevenach, Ashwell, Hadham, Stortford, Fearing cum Pattiswick, Kelvedon, Wickham, Langdon 1660-80.

Various correspondence files, financial records, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia etc of R Mansell Ltd, builders

Deed for land west of Birchanger Road, South Norwood, 1872. Includes part of Brickfield Meadow.

Deeds and papers relating to nos 203-221 Portland Road, South Norwood

Deeds to properties in Selsdon Road

Settlement regarding the marriage of Edward Hall of 35 Martin Road, Woodside, Croydon, and Edith Welbrock of Plumstead, Kent

Correspondence, bill for ring, cards, telegrams, etc.

SIgnatures of visitors and list of pictures on view in the Council Chamber, Croydon Town Hill

Mortgage of number 1-7 The Terrace, Church Road, Upper Norwood

On paper slips. Original deeds transferred to Surrey Record Office in 1960.

Lease of beerhouse, Canning Road (with plan), 1874; extension of lease of Cricketers Inn, Upper Addiscombe Road, 1899; underlease of beerhouse, Addiscombe Road, 1878; statutory declaration re hedge adjoining Addiscombe Court and Addiscombe Cricket Ground, 1894; schedule of deeds re properties, 1824-99.

1) Marriage settlement by Mary Gilpin and Alderman Winterbottom; grant of annuity; conveyance (by lease and release) and other deeds and papers, all re farm and land in the borough of Bensham, parish of Croydon. 1752; 1762; 1772; 1781; 1800
2) Agreement between Thomas Farrimond of Thrnton Heath, engineer, and Edward Cross, tobacconist of London, re the manufacture and sale of the Farrimond tobacco pipe, 1926

Abstract of title re 35, 37, 39, and 41 Macclesfield Road, Woodside

Deeds to 4 Lambeth Road and Summer Road, Croydon

Deed to Northwood Avenue, Purley

Deed re: continuation of lease of Reed Close, Bensham Manor, Croydon.

3 deeds relating to Exonville, 19 Princes Road (formerly 4 Belmont Villas), South Norwood, 1907 - 1909.