Treat time: the chocolate bar-making class at Cocoa Jones delivered to our own tastes
Roving reporter KEN TOWL visited Croydon’s own chocolatiers and got a flavour of the hand-made chocolate business
“Your next assignment,” said the Editor, “is to visit Cocoa Jones in Purley and make a bar of chocolate. That’s what they do there.”
The clue, as usual, is in the name: “cocoa”, the plant from which the popular drink and confection are derived, and “jones” the 60s jazz slang word for addiction. Continue reading
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Theatres in the town attracted some of the world’s biggest Vaudeville stars in the early 20th Century, including the mysterious Chung Ling Soo. DAVID MORGAN discovered more from the archives
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the south Londoner who wants to take on Labour at City Hall
The borough’s Conservative Mayor, rendered impotent by the presence of government Commissioners, has spent much of the summer conducting some personal political campaigning, all paid for by tax-payers, that is often deliberately misleading, that sometimes gaslights residents and, very often, is simply untrue.
Crystal Palace play their first home game of the Premier League season against Manchester City tonight. The atmosphere at Selhurst Park will be different.
“For more than 20 years, the HF has stood on the Holmesdale and travelled across the country and beyond supporting this great football club.
INSIDE CROYDON INVESTIGATES: The Conservative MP for Croydon South is the subject of at least two complaints to Parliament’s Standards Commissioner, following a report published by Inside Croydon earlier this month, over what appear to be long-delayed declarations of financial interests
