| Collection | Shirley Programme Collection |
| Description | 45 programmes for the following productions at the Croydon Repertory Theatre during it's 1937-1938 season.
* Love on the dole, by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood, produced 10 Sep 1937.
* Bats in the belfrey, by Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermot, produced 20 Sep 1937.
* The doctor's dilemma, by George Bernard Shaw, produced 27 Sep 1937 and introducing John Le Mesurier.
* Wise to-morrow, by Stephen Powys, produced 04 Oct 1937.
* And the music stopped, by Noel Scott, produced 11 Oct 1937.
* The constant nymph, by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean, produced 18 Oct 1937.
* Gertie Maude, by John Van Druten, produced 25 Oct 1937.
* Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (adapted by Helen Jerome), produced 01 Nov 1937.
* The unknown warrior, by Paul Raynal, produced 08 Nov 1937.
* Night must fall, by Emlyn Williams, produced 15 Nov 1937.
* To-night at 8:30, by Noel Coward, produced 22 Nov 1937.
* Dear Brutus, by J M Barrie, produced 29 Nov 1937.
* Ten minute alibi, by Anthony Armstrong, produced 06 Dec 1937.
* Bird in hand, by John Drinkwater, produced 13 Dec 1937.
* The private secretary, by Charles Hawtrey, produced 27 Dec 1937.
* Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (adapted by Helen Jerome), produced 03 Jan 1938.
* The case of the frightened lady, by Edgar Wallace, produced 10 Jan 1938.
* Victoria and Albert, by Consuelo De Reyes, produced 17 Jan 1938.
* Goodbye to yesterday, by James Parish, produced 24 Jan 1938.
* Sarah Simple, by A A Milne, produced 31 Jan 1938.
* People at sea, by J B Priestley, produced 07 Feb 1938.
* Bonnet over the windmill, by Dodie Smith, produced 14 Feb 1938.
* Quinneys, by Horace Annesley Vachell, produced 21 Feb 1938.
* Aren't we all, by Frederick Lonsdale, produced 28 Feb 1938.
* The amazing Dr Clitterhouse, by Barrie Lyndon, produced 07 Mar 1938.
* Yes and no, by Kenneth Horne, produced 14 Mar 1938.
* Busman's honeymoon, by Dorothy L Sayers and M St Clare Byrne, produced 21 Mar 1938.
* The wandering jew, by E Temple Thurston, produced 28 Mar 1938.
* Arms and the man, by George Bernard Shaw, produced 04 Apr 1938.
* The passing of the third floor back, by Jerome K Jerome, produced 11 Apr 1938.
* Grumpy, by Horace Hodges and T Wigney Percyval, produced 18 Apr 1938.
* Mary goes to sea, by Rosemary Casey and B Iden Payne, produced 25 Apr 1938.
* Cranford, by Ronald Russell and John Lindsay, produced 02 May 1938.
* White cargo, by Leon Gordon, produced 09 May 1938.
* Mourning becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill, produced 16 May 1938.
* Little women, adapted from Louisa May Alcott, produced 23 May 1938.
* Good and proper, by Gerald Savory, produced 30 May 1938.
* Aren't men beasts! by Vernon Sylvaine, produced 06 Jun 1938.
* Hobson's choice, by Harold Brighouse, produced 13 Jun 1938.
* Black swans, by Geoffrey Kerr, produced 20 Jun 1938.
* Autumn, by Ilya Surguchev, produced 27 Jun 1938.
* To have and to hold, by Lionel Brown, produced 04 Jul 1938.
* Hay fever, by Noel Coward, produced 11 Jul 1938.
* Badger's Green, by R C Sheriff, produced 18 Jul 1938.
* The second Mrs Tanqueray, by Arthur Wing Pinero, produced 25 Jul 1938.
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| Admin history | Collection accumulated by Shirley's parents and grandparents. |