Historical information

The Baby Health Centre opened in the Surrey Gardens in 1930 on the site previously occupied by the screen for outdoor pictures. Previously during the 1920s it had operated in the room underneath the rotunda in the Surrey Gardens.

Physical description

A vertical file of information related to the baby health centre in the Surrey Gardens:
1. ‘Surrey Hills baby health centre’ photo in ‘The Argus’, 2.6.1930 (1 page).
2. ‘Surrey Hills big day’ ‘The Reporter’, 6.6.1930 (1 page).
3. ‘Health association disbands’, ‘Progress Press’, 11.12.1974 (1 page).
4. ‘The Surrey Hills baby health centre – Surrey Gardens’: notes obtained by Mrs Daphne Wisewould in discussion with committee members, c. 1975 (1 page).
5. Copy of letter from City of Camberwell to Mrs. C.T. Lancashire, 10.2.1975 (1 page).
6. Handwritten copy of No. 4 (3 pages).
7. Handwritten ‘A now story for 1981’, Mrs. Dorace Lancashire (1 page).
8. Typed copy of No. 7 (1 page).
9. Precis history compiled by Susan Barnett from information provided by Mrs. D. Lancashire (1 page).