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Council announces plans for takeover of Fairfield Halls
Croydon’s Conservative-run Council wants to put professional wrestling and Roy “Chubby” Brown on the rates. At a meeting of the ruling Tory group’s cabinet tonight, proposals to take over the Fairfield Halls and the London Mozart Players will be discussed. … Continue reading
Benched: Council still can’t get borough’s greats’ names right
It is almost a year since Inside Croydon highlighted another botched PR effort by our council, the staging of a “public vote” on leading figures from Croydon’s past (and present), to provide three subjects for a “portrait bench” on a … Continue reading
Posted in Transport, Fairfield Halls, Comedy, Activities, Art, Music, Croydon Council, Environment, History, Waddon, Walks, Jason Perry, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Cinema, Cycling
Tagged Arthur Conan-Doyle, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ronnie Corbett, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Favoured” Halls, £4.5m debts and the commercial interests
Using the Fairfield Halls’ trustees’ own annual reports and accounts since 2010, together with official council documents, SEAN CREIGHTON examines what is going on at the town’s arts venue, ahead of £25m of public money being spent to refurbish it … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Charity, Cinema, Comedy, Community associations, Croydon Council, Dance, David Fitze, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, London Mozart Players, Music, Property, South Croydon Community Association, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Fairfield Hall, Legal & General, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Fairfield’s future needs to engage with Croydon public
Tired. Poorly managed. Poorly used. Under-funded. Under-appreciated. The Fairfield Halls, half a century old, might symbolise the faded grandeur of Croydon itself. With mounting concern over the council’s arts policy, or absence of it after the axing of the Mela … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Comedy, Community associations, Dance, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Music, South Croydon Community Association, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Arts Council, Croydon, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Hall, Hackney Empire, Michael Jackson, National Lottery, Surrey Opera
Beastly beginning to David Lean Campaign’s March screenings
The March programme of films from the Save the David Lean Campaign, being screened at the Spreadeagle pub on Katharine Street, next to the Clocktower, begins on Monday, March 4, with Beasts of the Southern Wild, a hit at the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Pubs
Tagged Academy Award, Chris O'Dowd, Croydon, David Lean, Deborah Mailman, Inglourious Basterds, Little Miss Sunshine, Paul Dano
Fairfield in discussions over cinema use of new studio threatre
Supporters of two of the borough’s neglected arts venues, the David Lean Cinema and the Warehouse Theatre, are expected to be very concerned that management at Fairfield Halls have been holding meetings with cinema operators over the possible use of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Comedy, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Margaret Mead, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse Theatre
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Bidders for David Lean Cinema deterred by council delays
£5,000 – that’s the amount of money Croydon Council will have to spend to “re-calibrate” the borough’s own digital cinema projector, after Town Hall staff were ordered to move the £20,000 piece of kit from the council-owned David Lean Cinema … Continue reading
What councillors say: gallery move is “improved service”
On the premise of cost-cutting, our council is about to move the local studies archive into an exhibition space at the Clocktower, thus managing to find a way to spend public money on compromising two aspects of cultural provision at … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, History, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Tim Pollard
Tagged Archive, Clocktower, Croydon, Monday
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Picasso in Croydon? Making the unlikely possible once more
Plans to move the local studies and archive public desk into what ought to be the borough’s principal art gallery are condemned as the latest example of Croydon Council’s “cultural vandalism” by TIMOTHY GODFREY, the Town Hall shadow spokesman for … Continue reading
Croydon needs to keep a proper grasp of its history
Norbury resident and noted historian and archivist SEAN CREIGHTON expresses concern over Croydon’s proposed cuts to the local studies centre, as first reported by Inside Croydon Croydon Council plans to disengage from cultural intervention as part of the next phase … Continue reading
Council’s “secret” consultation over plans to erase our history
Another flaw in the omnishambles of Croydon’s library privatisation process emerges, with a £105,000 cut to the budget of the borough’s local studies and archives service proposed by the culture-free-zone that is our council. The proposal is, in effect, a … Continue reading
David Lean Cinema Campaign stages more movie screenings
The Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign is busy again with screenings at the Spread Eagle pub today and tomorrow afternoon. The Save the David Lean Campaign was set up in response to reports on Inside Croydon in 2011, spurred … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls
Tagged Brendan Gleeson, Chronicles of Dekaydence, Croydon, David Lean, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield, John Michael McDonagh, Julian Fellowes, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Strong, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Ronnie Corbett, Susie Cornfield
Matthews Yard seeks public donations for expansion plans
Matthews Yard, the cafe and workspace off Surrey Street which has received significant support from the council and staged several events for the likes of Gavin Barwell MP and others in the Croydon Establishment, is now asking the public to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Cinema, Comedy, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Music, Surrey Street, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, David Lean Cinema, England, London, Matthews Yard, Saif Bonar, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
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Upper Norwood Library funding cuts called in for scrutiny
A council decision that threatens the future of the century-old Upper Norwood Library by withdrawing the majority of the library’s funding will hit a road block this week, after Croydon’s Labour councillors called for a special Town Hall meeting to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Education, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Upper Norwood, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, David Lean Cinema, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Upper Norwood Library
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