50 years and counting: Croydon Nightwatch’s work has been recognised multiple times, including here in 2022 with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
CROYDON CHRONICLES: This week, Minster archivist DAVID MORGAN has gone back just 50 years, for a heart-rending story of volunteers and sacrifice that began with a local newspaper reporter and the Parish Church’s curate going out on to the streets of the town centre
“A true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its vulnerable members.” This quote, or variations of it, have been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, Pope John Paul II said something very similar and Gandhi was supposed to have said it, though researchers haven’t found exactly when it was.
When a man froze to death in the cold winter nights at the back end of 1975, some people in Croydon decided enough is enough. An appalling situation in a London borough where people lost their lives because they had nowhere to sleep other than a park bench sparked a movement which has continued for 50 years.
For half a century, Croydon Nightwatch has offered food and drink and been a listening ear to those who have found themselves on the streets with nowhere to go. Continue reading
Polaska Assets Ltd, the shadowy holding company registered in the British Virgin Islands which has been behind the £60million project to build 220 “later living” flats in the centre of Purley, with a swimming pool and leisure centre tacked on, has gone into administration.
In Edinburgh for the Fringe last month, I noticed a lot of posters for Woody Sez.
Croydon East MP Natasha Irons and the University and College Union have this week joined calls to halt any moves by Tory Mayor Jason Perry to outsource CALAT, Croydon Adult Learning and Training, in an effort to save the cash-strapped council some money.
An exhibition, “Shaping Croydon – Architecture and Ambition”, has opened this week at the Museum of Croydon, just in time for this weekend’s celebration of the capital’s architecture with 
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The notification of the service suspension was issued by Transport for London just after 4am, and affected the morning rush hour.
