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

13 photographs of members of the Todhunter, Dowle and Rollason families, all teachers; testimonials etc for Ernest and Winifred Rollason as teachers; and historical notes by Dr RCW Cox.

Includes:

General Court 23 Sept 1532

View of Frankpledge with Court 6 May 1533

General Court 19 Oct 1534

View of Frankpledge with Court Baron 3 April 1535

General Court 21 Oct 1535

[View of Frankpledge with Court Baron] nd [c1535]

The third membrane has been trimmed, so that the heading,, including the date, of the final view and court has been lost. The text of this final court is also incomplete.

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

3 items relating to a Mrs Moore, deceased.

1 vol

Ledger of West Croydon Congregational Church

Box 1

Minutes of Committee Meetings:

1909 - 1914, 1920 (String Players Club was precursor of Croydon Symphony Orchestra. Until c.1926, concerts were joint between CPS and CSO. From then on, they became independent.)
1921 - 1922
1922 - 1928
1928 - 1934
1951 - 1957
1957 - 1960
1961 - 1964
1964 - 1968
1968 - 1973
1973 - 1976

Minutes of Annual General Meetings

1923 - 1939
1941 - 1962
1962 - 1979

Box 2

Programmes, November 1977 - December 2006

Box 3

Programmes, February 1927 - December 1959
Miscellaneous handbills

Box 4

Programmes, March 1960 - May 1977
Miscellaneous handbills

Box 5

Newsletters, February 1996 - October 2002

Minutes of Committee Meetings:

June 1981 - April 1991
June 1991 - April 1998

Collection of correspondence:

March 1975 - 31 October 1985
October 1985 - 31 December 1987

Publicity file including posters, newsletters and publicity invoices, 1986 - 1989

Box 6

Programme from 1964

Box of miscellaneous items including:

newspaper cuttings
photographs
membership paperwork
memorabilia
items related to the Fairfield Halls

Books of news cuttings:

1911 - 1933
1914 - 1963? (loose cuttings in file)
1922 - 1938
1933 - 1945
1946 - 1956

Photographs:

Envelope dated 1991 - 1992
Rolled Photograph
Black and White - concert at Fairfield Halls

Recordings: 5 cassettes; details to follow.

Black Bag

Certificate of fellowship of Alan Kirby from the Trinity College of Music

Certificate of honorary membership of Alan Kirby from the Royal Academy of Music (1947)

Large print of concert at the Fairfield Halls

Framed photograph of a concert

Box 7 A1158 Croydon Philharmonic Society (Choir), 2000-2022

Annual General Meeting Minutes:
3 September 2002
2 September 2003
7 September 2004

Committee Minutes:
12 September 2000
15 October 2000
12 November 2000
4 January 2001
22 April 2001
9 September 2001
4 November 2001
13 January 2002
14 April 2002
23 June 2002

Summary of Publicity Materials 2018-2022
'Choral Classics' programme, 17 November 2018
'Christmas Cheer programme, 17 December 2018
'Choral Celebrations' flyer and programme, 30 March 2019
'Stardust' programme, 15 June 2019
'Verdi Requiem' flyer and programme, 26 October 2019
'Christmas Cheer' programme, 16 December 2019
'Choral Gems' flyer and programme, 14 November 2021
Christmas at Fairfield programme, 18 December 2021
'Carmina Burana' programme and flyer, 2 April 2022
'Choral Gems' poster, 26 April 2022
'Together at the Minster' flyers x 2, programme and poster, 18 June 2022

Box 8
Records relating to the Croydon Philharmonic Society (Choir), including:
Concert programmes and publicity material for 2018/19 and 2021/22 seasons
AGM minutes for 2002, 2003 and 2004
Committee meeting minutes for 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 seasons

1 minute book:
6) 1993 - 2001 (final meeting)

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.

Ledger of Thomas Weller, watchmaker and jeweller.

The ledger records Thomas Wellers business during his final years. His customers included many of the well-known individuals and institutions of Croydon and the surrounding area. His work mainly comprised clock and watch maintenance and repair, supply and repair of jewellery and silverware, engraving, etc. He supplied silver trowels for the laying of the foundation stones of the new Workhouse and St Matthews Church. He was contracted to wind a number of clocks on a weekly or daily basis, including those of the Town Hall, St Johns Church, Addiscombe College, St Jamess Church, Providence Chapel, and Croydon Literary and Scientific Institution. Most of his customers were local to Croydon, but others were further afield, eg Westerham, Hever, Brighton, London, and even New Zealand.

Weller died on 3 February 1867, and his business was wound up: the final pages of the ledger (approx pp894-902) appear to have been completed by his executors in settling outstanding accounts.

Wellers name is not given in the ledger itself; but the identification is confirmed by comparison of the entries for the maintenance of the Town Hall clock with those in the records of the Waste Land Trustees.

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.