- AR3
- Collection
- 1928 - 1958
Two minute books (1928 - 1939; 1957), membership lists 1930s - 1940s; photographs 1920s - 1930s; posters, ephemera and insignia.
Croydon Amateur Boxing Club
Two minute books (1928 - 1939; 1957), membership lists 1930s - 1940s; photographs 1920s - 1930s; posters, ephemera and insignia.
Croydon Amateur Boxing Club
Addiscombe College Photograph Album
Photography was included in the curriculum from 1855 (taught by Aaron Penley, professor of civil drawing). The album includes group photographs and individual portraits of cadets and staff, and a few photographs of the College buildings and grounds, etc, mainly with pencilled captions. The photographs are mainly undated, but two are dated 1859, and most certainly date from around the same period. At the end of the album are several later group photographs etc (one dated 1872), including three apparently taken in India.
East India Company
Croydon Philharmonic Society Recordings: Five Tudor Portraits by Ralph Vaughan Williams
5 lacquered aluminium gramophone disks, carrying recording of R. Vaughan Williams, Five Tudor Portraits (disjointed excerpts), performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra and Croydon Philharmonic Society, etc, and broadcast on the BBC National Programme, 27 Jan 1937.
Five Tudor Portraits consists of settings of poems By John Skelton (1460-1529). It was first performed in September 1936 at the Norwich Festival. This recording is from its first London performance, broadcast on the BBC on 27 Jan 1937. The broadcast ran from 8.44pm to 9.32pm: it therefore overran slightly, and the 9.30 Greenwich Time Signal can be heard towards the end of the recording.
Another performance was given at North End Hall, Croydon, on 4 Dec 1937, by Croydon Philharmonic Society and the London Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams was in the audience, and this performance was also broadcast.
The discs are numbered 418-421 and 492. The recording appears to have been made on a single disc cutting machine. There are therefore lost pieces of the performance between sides, due to side changing; and there are also recording skips, due to cutting errors, on sides 1 and 6. Approximately 35 minutes of recorded material survives, from a performance lasting 48 minutes. Disc 492 (one sided) is a different generation recording from the rest of the material, and fills the skip on side 6. It may have been dubbed from another recording of the same performance; or it is possible (although unlikely) that it was taken from the December performance.
Croydon Philharmonic Society
Soft-covered volume (30x23cm). The book was used initially, in 1794, to draw up four (presumably fictitious) shop accounts: these may have been an exercise in handwriting and/or arithmetic. It was then reversed, and given an ornate title page, reading Abel Garraway, October 25th 1795. The rest of the book is filled with miscellaneous pencil, pen and ink, or watercolour sketches, of a varying standard. Includes pencil and watercolour sketch of Croydon Cornmarket and Town Hall, 1798.
Abel Garraway
Mainly arithmetic, used for homework by Leonard Brand of 9 Camborne Road, Addiscombe, when a pupil aged 8 and 9 at Woodside School. The book is designed for, and mainly used for, arithmetic exercises; but it contains one story (A burglar story), Jan 1931.
Leonard Brand
Croydon British Girls School Bible
Bible: containing ornate inscription recording its purchase, 1864, for the Croydon British Girls School, from the legacy of Ann Everett of Broad Green. Bible published by the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1863. The volume has a black fabric dust jacket with the word Bible embroidered on it; probably made for it while it was in the custody of the School [?c1930s-1940s].
Croydon British School
Deed re: continuation of lease of Reed Close, Bensham Manor, Croydon.
Unknown person
Crystal Palace Football Club Salaries Book
Four loose pages, damaged by fire, from the salaries book of Crystal Palace Football Club, covering (with some parts missing) the weeks 20 Feb - 20 Mar 1953. Includes details of weekly salaries paid to management, players and other staff.
Crystal Palace Football Club
Ledger of books issued 1902-1953; cash book 1902-1953 (with card detailing dates of Society meetings for 1788)
Croydon Book Society
Ancient Order of Shepherds Minute Books
Minute books of Sanctuary Pride of the Sea, no 4300 of the Ancient Order of Shepherds friendly society
Ancient Order of Shepherds
Shorthand Certificates of William Harry Hawkins
5 certificates for shorthand qualifications issued by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (at the County Polytechnic, Crodyon) and London Chamber of Commerce
William Harry Hawkins
Financial records of J R Bex, builders and undertakers, of 23 Wyche Road, Croydon
James R Bex
Letter of Alfred Russel Wallace
Letter on pre-printed note paper addressed to F.M.Roberts, Hon Sec of the CNHSS: I am so busy with books and correspondence that I cannot say anything about your Society, and I have quite forgotten that I was a member, but I have a recollection of attending the Annual Microscopical Meetings. It is certainly a new idea to have a Sociological148 Committee in a Local Nat. Hist. Society, and I hope it may do good. Yours very truly, Alfred R. Wallace. P.S. I left Croydon I think in 1880. ARW.
The letter is mounted on card with a note of explanation.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Woodford Old Girls Association
Records of the Woodford (House) Old Girls Association; and photographs and mementoes of Woodford School.
Woodford Old Girls Association
Includes one minute book 1955 - 1957, one photograph album 1956 - 1966 , correspondence 19 November 1954 - 19 July 1964, various newspaper cuttings 13 October 1966 - 8 September 1978, one statement of accounts 6 February 1957, one rule Book 1972, one sailing instructions leaflet and one CD Rom marked Scrapbook from 1956
Croydon Sailing Club
The collection consists of one volume of clippings and programmes, with ms index, 1904-7 and the secretarys minute book, 1904 - 9
Croydon Social Union
The collection comprises a volume of score sheets taken from score books dating from 1925-39 and a volume of notes including photographs, fixture lists, press cuttings and other ephemera covering the clubs history, 1918-47
Norbury Cricket Club
Norbury Manor School First Aid Post, Commandants Log
Log books covering the period July 1942 until the post became inoperative in December 1944. Also included is much contemporary correspondence including a note signed from the staff on 30 December 1944 to commemorate their years of service under Mr Douglas. In addition There are three badges owned by Mr Douglas. Also included is a biography written by his son, Dr Roy Douglas
Norbury Manor School First Aid Post
Croydon Branch of the Historical Association
Members and Visitors attendance register, 1983 - 1994
Account book 1970 - 1994
Cash Books 1994 (3 vols)
Croydon Branch of the Historical Association
A Years Birdwatching by Barbara M. Cooper
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
Mainly arithmetic. Belonged to Leslie Robinson, of 20 Page Crescent, Croydon, who attended Selhurst Grammar School.
Leslie Robinson
Baptism Registers of Mayday University Hospital Chaplaincy
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
Evacuation Records of Mary Neville-Kaye, Obe
Notebook and photographs belonging to Mary Neville-Kaye, a teacher from Overbury School evacuated to Lee, near Ilfracoombe in Devon, 1940 - 1942.
Mary Alicia Neville-Kaye OBE