Main Interest
- 1851 Great Exhibition
- 1853 Crystal Palace accident
- 1855 & 1867 Expositions
- 1862 International Exhibition
- 1864 Rammell's pneumatic railway
- 1903 Motor show
- 1904 Motor Show
- 1908 Franco-British Exhibition
- 1908-1914 Great White City
- 1911 Coronation Exhibition
- 1911 Festival of Empire
- 1920 IWM & Great Victory Exhibition
- 1921 Poultry Show
- 1924 British Empire Exhibition
- 1930 Antwerp Exhibition
- 1936 Crystal Palace Fire
- 1937 Exposition Internationale
- 1938 Glasgow Exhibition
- 1951 Festival of Britain
- 1998-1999 anti multiplex protest
- 2000 Millennium Dome
- Aeronautics
- Alexandra Palace
- Anerley and Penge
- Art and architecture
- Beckenham
- Biographies & Works
- Camille Pissarro
- Children's books
- Circus
- Collecting
- Colouring & drawing
- CPF Publications
- Cricket and Bowling
- Croydon and Norbury
- Crystal Palace & area
- Crystal Palace Company & bankruptcy
- Crystal Palace police
- Crystal Palace School of Engineering
- Cycling
- Delamotte images
- Dinosaurs
- Dulwich & Kingswood House
- Edward Milner & gardening
- Emile Zola
- Exhibition history
- Family history
- Fireworks
- Football
- Girl Guides 75th anniversary
- Great North Wood
- Guide Books & Orienteering
- Ideal Home & South London exhibitions
- Infomart, Dallas, USA
- Isambard K. Brunel
- Maps of London
- Motor Sport
- Music & Religion
- North tower lift
- Norwood New Town
- Novels
- Original souvenirs
- Public transport
- Raffaele Monti
- Railways
- Rare & out of print
- Sport - other
- St. Joseph's College, Beulah Hill
- Steampunk collection
- Sydenham & Forest Hill
- Sydenham fire station
- Television history & John Logie Baird
- West Norwood and Cemetery
- World War One
- World War Two
Croydon in Living Memory |
Thanks are also due to the Croydon Oral History Society, who carried out many of the interviews.
25 illustrations including
* Orchid Ballrroom, Purley 1955
* New Addington Carnival, 1947
* Portland Road, 1941
* Jean Barnard, 1961
* Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
* Waterman's Dry Cleaners, Purley Way, 1930
* Ada, Lucy & Jack Smart, 1914
* Oakwood, Avenue, Purley, 1930
* Jean Bentley, Thornton Heath, 1930s
* Mr. Green, Lacey Green, Couldson, 1920s
* Surrey Street Market, 1930 & 1990
* Crystal Palace Football Club, 1935
* North Surrey Golf Club, 1917
* Wartime evacuation, 1939
* Reeve's Garage, Purley High Street, 1920s
* Davis Theatre, 1947
* Croydon Airport, 1928
* Crystal Palace fire, 1936
* World's biggest Father Christmas at Kennards, 1943
Spiralbound paperback