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D3732 - St Christopher's Railway Home, [Railway Servants Orphanage], Derby - 1874-1992
1 - Minutes - 1892-1990
2 - Committee minutes of a committee which appears to have been successively a provisional committee (1874-1875), the executive committee (1876-1879) general committee (1879-1881) the orphanage committee (1881-1957) and St Christopher's Committee (1957-1993) - 1874-1993
3 - Minutes of house committee (from Jan 1958 the house sub-committee) known for a short period as the committee of management (1880-1881). - 1875-1991
4 - Orphanage and House Committee - 1912-1918
5 - Minutes of the weekly board meetings - 1876-1883
6 - Reports to the General Committee - 1888
7 - Ladies (visiting) committee - 1907-1956
8 - Annual Reports - 1875-1990
9 - Constitution and early development - 1875-1898
10 - Later development and closure
1 - File of papers setting out the duties of the staff at the Orphanage, clothing for children, daily timetable 1930, copy from ?minute 8063 relating to admission of children under 6 years of age, including information from other institutions - 1930s
2 - Letter from Southern Railwaymen's Home for Children in association with the Southern Railway Homes for Old People describing their organisation, with Railway Benevolent Institution rules 1935, RBI royal charter 1949, rules and bye-law nd [20th c] and Rules of the Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage in association with the Southern Railway Homes for Old People 1955 - 1965
3 - Leaflet describing the Orphanage and its mode of operation, including photographs, undated [after 1945] - [c1950]
4 - File consisting of reports of study group appointed by management committee minute no 3251, 13 Dec 1971, to make a thorough investigation of the future of St Christopher's and make recommendations by end Feb 1972 and including copies of earlier papers, from 1963 probably used by the study group - 1972
5 - File of papers relating to investigation of the future of St Christopher's and its redevelopment - 1963-1975
6 - Leaflet for `Boxhurst' at Dorking, Surrey, RBI home for aged railway employees or widows of railway men
7 - Conditions of entry to Home for Aged Railway People
8 - Code of practice for admission to St Christopher's Old People's Home with report of St Christopher's Committee for year ended 31 Mar 1983 - 1983
9 - Correspondence file concerning closure - 1990
10 - Lists of petitions against closure - 1990
11 - Correspondence
12 - Private ledger - 1876-1978
13 - General ledgers - 1922-1956
14 - Receipts/income from office and agencies - 1885-1890
15 - Account books, general income - 1950-1979
16 - Income and expenditure accounts and balance sheets - 1978-1986
17 - Income Accounts - 1980-1982
18 - Investments - 1917-1947
19 - Investments Account Book - 1943-1960
20 - Volume recording grants and payments made for children - 1944-1970
21 - Report on purchase of goods - ?late 19th cent
22 - Rates dispute with Derby Sanitary Authority - 1883-1885
23 - Secretary's Papers - 1881-1950
24 - Collection accounts - 1888-1916
25 - Bills, receipts etc - 1888
26 - War Loan Accounts
27 - Forbes Scholarship Fund - 1914-1930
28 - Finance sub-committee - 1984-1986
29 - Finance miscellaneous
30 - Legacies
31 - Documents relating to title
32 - Lists of deeds
33 - Estate
34 - Sites and buildings - 1877-1887
35 - Widening of Stepping Lane - 1885-1895
36 - Sites and buildings - 1887-1934
37 - Furniture and furnishings - (1888)-1976
38 - Proposals, architects' drawings and other records concerning building projects - 1975-1978
39 - Reports and Architect's plans concerning building projects - 1982-1988
40 - Correspondence regarding site and buildings - 1989-1990
41 - Insurances - 1913-1933
42 - Insurances - 1904-1937
43 - Manager's/Secretary's monthly reports to the Orphanage Committee - 1888-1890
44 - Visitors Report Book - 1951-1993
45 - Admission and discharge registers - 1875-1937
46 - Admission and discharge registers (boys and girls separate) - 1875-1926
47 - Registers of candidates, presentations and nominations for admission - 1891-1984
48 - File of papers concerning admissions - 1904-1910
49 - Monthly summaries of children admitted and discharged - 1944-1984
50 - Lists of leaving children including notes of school or ?grade - 1923-1933
51 - Admission Cards, arranged alphabetically by surname, separating boys and girls - pre-1900
52 - Girls and Boys Admission cards - 19th-20th cent
53 - Girls and Boys Admission cards - 1900s-early 1960s
54 - Girls and Boys Admission cards - 1940s-1970s
55 - Girls and Boys Admission cards - 1950s-1970s
56 - Admission cards - 1960-1980
57 - Papers concerning education for children at the orphanage - 1894-c1951
58 - Punishment books - 1949-1976
59 - Log books - 1964-1972
60 - Report books - 1973-1977
61 - Report Books for Trent House and Derwent House - 1977-1983
62 - Pocket money record - 1988-1989
63 - Sanatarium patients' registers - 1948-1977
64 - Medical records - 1959-1969
65
65 - Old persons' home Admission, discharge and death registers - 1984-1993
65-69 - Old persons' home (in building named Derwent)
66 - Old persons' home report books
69 - Old Pupils Association
70 - Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants Orphan Fund, Railway Benevolent Institution, and other items regarding fundraising and history - 1867-1990
71 - Printed items - 1932
72 - Visits by Queen Mother to the Orphanage - Nov 1977-Dec 1977
73 - Histories of the orphanage - 20th cent
74 - Scrapbook - 1954-1980
75 - Scrapbook - late 19th-20th cent
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