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Croydon and Waddon
This fascinating new book contains more than 200 vintage photographs of Croydon and one of its larger suburbs, Waddon. The images are assembled and annotated by local historian Ray Wheeler and provide an important insight into local life over the years. All aspects of everyday life are recorded, from shops, businesses, churches, and schools to work and leisure, day trips, and days off. The landscapes and landmarks of the town and its surrounding areas are captured in this valuable historical record of life in the area as it used to be.
Croydon Boy
The best-selling singles artist of 1967 was not the Beatles, the Stones or the Who. It was Engelbert Humperdink. And in the year that Sergeant Pepper was released, the best-selling album was the soundtrack from The Sound of Music. The reality of the sixties often fails to live up to the hype. In this unique book, Peter Saunders - a professional sociologist - blends research findings with personal anecdotes to paint a picture of what life was really like for most kids growing up in Britain in the years following the Second World War. Drawing on his own experiences as a lad living in Croydon, as well as on social research from that period, he explores the changes in family life, education, sex, law and order and personal freedom that were taking place in those tumultuous years.
Patemans By County
This is the story of the Pateman family in England by county since 1837 as recorded in the registers of births, marriages and deaths.
Croydon Past
This well-researched and very readable book tells the entire story of the Croydon's development over the centuries
Neither Waif Nor Stray
The author's father, Frederick George Snow (1909-1994), became a ward of the Church of England Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays when he was four years old in 1913. He was sent from England to Canada as one of the "Home Children" when he was fifteen. This book contains the author's search for his father's identity and family in England as well as information on the British child emigration system between 1880 and 1930.
