Photographs

The Local Studies Library have 40,000 photographs, postcards, slides and lantern slides of Croydon, dating from the 1850s to the present. They are arranged by area, street and subject, and most of them are on open access. Photographs which form part of archive collections must be requested separately.

Photo Gallery

Click on the thumbnails to view full-sized picture.

George Street. Last day of trams to Addiscombe, 31 March 1927		Queuing for trams, Brighton Road, Purley, Easter Monday 1913
Surrey Street Market, Saturday 30th May 1913		Union Street, January 1934
Addington village, c1827		Cadets at Addiscombe College, June 1861
District nurse, Castle Hill Avenue, New Addington, c1948		Blacksmith at Woodside Green, 1894
Coronation Party, King Henry's Drive, New Addington, 1953		General Election poster display, George Street, 1909
Norwood, c1823		Worcester Park Beagles meet at Selsdon Park Hotel, October 1927
Westow Hill, Upper Norwood, c1900		Floods at Purley Crossroads, July 1956
Suffragette Week, Croydon High Street, December 1909		Opening of the Savoy Cinema, Broad Green, March 1936

For more information on the photographs, e-mail localstudies@croydon.gov.uk

Wednesday, 22 May, 2013

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