Media: DATA CD - 1 CD
Publisher: Archive CD Books GB

This product is sold as a CD SECOND or SPARE.

"CD seconds" or "spares" are perfectly good data wise, but have been put aside due to:

• faulty label printing, e.g. off colour or misaligned. A few have been manually labelled or corrected
• over-produced initially, so offered as "spares" to clear

They are all offered at 60% to 90% discount (from the normal price). They will be supplied in clear CD sleeves, rather than the normal CD cases. It is the last available, i.e. it won't be available, even at full price, when sold out.

A history of Croydon town from around 1100 to 1800, with illustrations. It contains chapters on Early History and the Present state, Manors and Parks, Addiscombe, Charitable Institutions, The Palace, The Church, Benefactions to Croyden. Probably the most interesting section is the Chronology chapter containing interesting snippets of information about the goings on of the town between 1185 - 1744.

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Examples include,

"1200 - Two women, having stolen some clothes at Croindone, were pursued to South fleet where they were seized, imprisoned and afterwards tried by the Lord Henry de Cobham and other gentlemen of the county, who adjudged them to undergo the fire-ordeal. By this cruel and superstitious test of innocence one was acquitted, the other condemned and afterwards drowned in a pond called Bikepool."

"1728 - On the 12th of May, so violent a storm of hail and rain, with thunder and lightning, fell at Croyden as to strike the hail stones, which were from eight to ten inches round, some inches into the earth. The cattle were forced into ditches and drowned, the glass windows facing the storm were shattered and other great damage done."