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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Local derby marks football’s return to Croydon Arena
The romance of football is very much on show in the lower levels of the English game that Croydon FC and AFC Croydon Athletic compete in. Rising from the ashes left by the involvement of the club’s owner, Mazhar Majeed, … Continue reading
Norwood celebrates railway project that linked communities
Croydon’s controversially partisan Tory mayor, Eddy Arram, will be doing the honours tomorrow when he unveils two plaques marking the centenary of the opening of the pedestrian subway under Norwood Junction station. The tunnel links South Norwood town centre with … Continue reading
Londoner forced to go to end of the earth in Olympic sacrifice
Ignore the statistics pumped out so far this week about the Olympic Games and Britain’s quest for 48 medals in the coming 16 days of high-octane sporting action. Here’s a set of stats much closer to home: London is a … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, London-wide issues, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Blake Aldridge, Britain, Ellen Gandy, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, Tom Daley, Tony Beckley
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Shabden Farmers’ Market: this Saturday, Jul 28
The delayed and postponed Shabden Farmers’ Market is this Saturday, July 28, from 9.30am until 2pm. The wettest June on record caused the previous market at the farm, in Chipstead, a 10min drive from Coulsdon, to be abandoned. But now … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Coulsdon, Environment, Outside Croydon, Walks, Wildlife
Tagged Coulsdon, Farm Shop, Farmers' market, Food, June, Olive oil, Shopping
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Hammerson: Handsome half-year figures and takeover talk
As previously suggested by Inside Croydon, Hammerson, the owner of Centrale and potential developers of the Whitgift Centre, is a takeover target for other developers – including their Whitgift rivals, Westfield. The takeover talk emerged from Australia in May, according … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Jon Rouse, Purley Way, Ruskin Square, West Croydon station, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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These are the questions Croydon needs answered by Westfield
So Westfield is claiming 91 per cent of the people of Croydon favour its scheme for the redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre. Just as we predicted. After all, the only thing more predictable than the results of North Korean elections … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Centrale, East Croydon, Environment, Fairfield, Housing, Tramlink, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammerson, John Lewis, London, London Borough of Croydon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Travelling to London: check out this Olympic transport advice
London’s “Zil Lanes”, the network of restricted roads mainly in the centre of the city, go live this morning, barely 24 hours after the shut down of one Tube line and an overground railway line prompted transport chaos for 60,000 … Continue reading
Croydon to battle Westfield. In the Combined Counties League
You couldn’t make it up. With Westfield, the multi-billion pound property developers, looking to move in on a large chunk of central Croydon with massive redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre, when AFC Croydon Athletic got their fixtures through for the … Continue reading
Posted in AFC Croydon Athletic, Croydon FC, Football, South Norwood, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon FC, London, Sheerwater FC, South Norwood, Westfield, Westfield FC, Whitgift Centre
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Make it so! Waddon gets a flicker of the Olympic Flame
They say that the Olympics is a power for good, bringing people of the world together. And so it was in Waddon this lunchtime, as two cultural icons met for the first time: Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Pickard from … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Flyover, Duppas Hill, Olympic, Olympic Games, Patrick Stewart, Star Trek, Waddon
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Wallander’s not so miserable after seeing Sarah Lund’s jumper
With arts correspondent Bella Bartock entertaining her Wagnerian fantasies at Bayreuth (don’t ask), ANDREW PELLING, Inside Croydon’s contributing editor was sent off to a pre-Edinburgh Festival review at the Scream Lounge What a delight is the Scream Lounge, on Brighton … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Bayreuth, Brighton Road, Croydon, Edinburgh Festival, London, London Borough of Croydon, YouTube
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Croydon clubs get £95,000 from Mayor’s sports fund
As the Olympic Torch enters Croydon, locals had another 95,000 sporting reasons to celebrate, with three projects in the borough benefiting in hard cash from the latest round of grants from the Mayor of London’s sports fund. Streatham and Croydon … Continue reading
United we stand: looking for a more representative Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: There’s gathering interest in more radical solutions to the deep economic and social problems, locally and nationally, judging by one well-attended meeting last week, writes ANDREW PELLING Something rather extraordinary is happening to left of centre politics in … Continue reading
Carrying a torch for the Olympics: Croydon’s route
The Olympics come to Croydon, however briefly, on Monday.
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Sport
Tagged Coca-Cola, Croydon, Didier Drogba, Lloyds TSB, Olympic, Olympic Flame, Olympic Games, Patrick Stewart
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A real award won by new YMCA build on Dingwall Road
South London YMCA’s Alexandra House in the centre of Croydon has won a prestigious award at the Construction News Awards. This appears to be a genuine award, with contractors Warings selected as winners of the “Best Project Under £10 million” … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Fairfield, Housing
Tagged Croydon, Homelessness, Jeremy Gray, London, London Borough of Croydon, South London, YMCA
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