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Theatre is boarded up as developers consider demolition
The Warehouse Theatre stands boarded up this morning, any hope of its re-opening even more remote after the owners of the Ruskin Square (non-)development site, Stanhope and Schroders, in midweek exercised a break clause in the lease to take back … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
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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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Warehouse Theatre: Croydon Council does the dirty deed
We reproduce here some of the key pages from the deed, drawn up in March this year, which Croydon Council has presented to developers Stanhope, demonstrating the greedy grab for the £3 million grant that had been promised to provide … Continue reading
Palace name their latest signing: Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard, the “total dress freedom” comedian and actor who has acquired National Treasure status since his marathon running exploits for Sport Relief, has been named as an associate director of his favourite football club, Crystal Palace, pledging to be … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Comedy, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport, Theatre
Tagged Dougie Freedman, Eddie Izzard, Eric Morecambe, Ken Livingstone, London Mayor, Palace, Sport Relief, Tommy Trinder
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The best thing to come out of Croydon since… the riots?
With a strapline sure to cause acid reflux for Dudley and Two Permits at the Town Hall and for the MP for the Whitgift Foundation, while prompting knowing smirks from Captain Sensible and the rest of London, How The World … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy
Tagged Croydon, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London, London Borough of Croydon
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Confessions of a Croydon building project gone wrong
The IYLO BUILDING, a “landmark development” for all the wrong reasons, has taken to Twitter to ease its angst. Here it explains what it’s like to be the centre of a roundabout and not the centre of attention Listen up … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Comedy, Environment, IYLO, Planning, Property, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, Lord Byron, Ruskin Square, Twitter
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Purley’s Got Talent this week highlights Festival build-up
The build-up to the Purley Festival gathers pace this week. After last night’s successful Barn Dance, the first heats of Purley’s Got Talent – you know how that will work – are being staged on Tuesday, June 12. At Christchurch, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, BRIT School, Comedy, Dance, Music, Purley
Tagged Brighton Road, btinternet.com, Christchurch, Croydon, Got Talent, London, London Borough of Croydon, Purley
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Green Dragon breathes some life into local cultural scene
Last weekend it was free beer (yes, in a pub!), as they helped to launch the New Addington-based Cronx Brewery to the world, plus free entry to a Rhythm ‘n Blues and Soul Club. This Sunday, the impressive Green Dragon … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Comedy, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Music, Pubs, Rugby Union
Tagged Croydon, David Lean, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Green Dragon, High Street, New Addington, Oscar, Surrey Street Market
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Fears for Warehouse Theatre as it faces administration
Another blow to Croydon’s pretence of having a rich and thriving cultural provision came today with the news that the much-loved and widely admired Warehouse Theatre is facing financial administration. The theatre on Dingwall Road by East Croydon station had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Business, Comedy, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, East Croydon, Education, Ruskin Square, Schools, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Brit School, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse Theatre
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Whatever it is that I’m told to say, I agree with it
For the Bank Holiday weekend, we thought you might enjoy this, the “latest YouTube sensation”, apparently. The rictus grimace delivered by Mr Shorten after his first response is particularly telling, we suggest. It might spring to mind the next time … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Croydon Council, Outside Croydon
Tagged Bank Holiday, Council Tax, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House, YouTube
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Film-maker puts Croydon between heaven and hell
BELLA BARTOCK, lippie judiciously applied, has gone “up West” to view a screening of a film where purgatory is somewhere with a CR0 postcode The screening invitation for Limbo came through. “Limbo is a feature film currently in development, a … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Comedy, Commuting, Croydon 8/8, East Croydon, Purley, Tramlink
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon, East Croydon station, London, London Borough of Croydon, NLA Tower, No.1 Croydon, Purley
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Dancing Palace fans raise £5,000 for Sport Relief
Nine Palace fans who strutted their stuff at half-time during the game against Barnsley on Tuesday have raised more than £5,000 in aid of Sport Relief. The fans, all but one of them men, donned mini-skirts and leg warmers, strutted … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Comedy, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Comic Relief, Eddie Izzard, Simon Cowell, Sport Relief
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Hooker’s life story that will make you fancy a ruck
Bruised and battered, STEVEN DOWNES reviews a local author’s new book which holds some painful memories This weekend will properly demonstrate how sport can go from the sublime to the ridiculous, barely pausing for breath along the way. This evening, … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Robshaw, Comedy, Rugby Union, Sport, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Chris Robshaw, England, Liberal Democrat, London, Rugby union in England, Saturday, Warlingham
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Lights! Action! Croydon’s mini-movie maker needs your vote
Inside Croydon avid reader (apparently, there’s more than one) and small-scale movie maker Michael Hall has made it into the top 20 for Empire magazine’s “Done in 60 Seconds” competition – for the third year in succession. The competition requires … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addington, Art, Comedy
Tagged 60 Seconds, Addington Hills, Croydon, Ealing Comedies, Empire, Ladykillers, Towering Inferno, Where Eagles Dare
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Croydon goes ****ing viral for all the wrong reasons (again)
If a picture says a thousand words, then surely at least one of them might be obscene. This photo has been doing the rounds on the interweb since yesterday morning. The nice people at Waitrose on George Street in central … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Croydon Central, East Croydon
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Waitrose
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It’s scrum time for Ken, Boris… and for Brian Paddick
STEVEN GAUGE is a former Croydon council LibDem candidate who helped run Nick Clegg‘s election campaign in 2010. Now he is working on the 2012 London Assembly elections, in between getting in a ruck with what was once Surrey’s second-worst … Continue reading
Michael Jackson to play at Fairfield Halls. Not (of course)
On to the door mat here at Inside Croydon Towers arrives the latest brochure for the Fairfield Halls. Dr Who‘s Tardis cannot be as effective as a time machine: it is as if the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield Halls, Sara Bashford
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Kenny Lynch, London
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Meat-eating veggie brings out the best of Come Dine hostess
The sacrifices that our editorial team here at Inside Croydon make for you, our faithful reader. For the third night running, we’ve giving up half an hour of our lives, which we’ll never get back, to watch Channel 4’s Come … Continue reading
Come Dine With Me: Bit of a dog’s dinner in Croydon
In case you were worrying about how the nightly episodes of Come Dine With Me from Croydon are going, worry no more: we’ve watched it, so that you don’t have to… Suzie Phillips, who revels in the fact that her … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Come Dine With Me, Comedy
Tagged Come Dine With Me, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, Michael Jackson, Vegetarianism
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Freedom of Expression is alive in Croydon (at least in a pub)
Birthday celebrations are going on at the Green Dragon pub on the corner of Croydon High Street and Surrey Street, where its regular programme of Freedom of Expression Tuesday night shows celebrate their fifth anniversary on June 7. It could … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Comedy, Croydon Central, Gardening, Music, Pubs
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Whyteleafe comedy club offers a kick up the apps
A local comedy club that first opened just 12 months ago has been so successful that it is now gearing itself up to take its regular show to the Brighton Fringe Festival next month and to Edinburgh in August.
Posted in Activities, Comedy
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Ronnie Corbett’s Brief (geddit?) Encounter with the council
Do you think it’s deliberate? As part of its extremely well-attended Last Picture Show series to mark the closure of the David Lean Cinema, tonight they are showing one of the master’s best-known films, Brief Encounter. Brief Encounter, introduced by… … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydon Council, Sara Bashford
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Burp! Harry Hill upstaged by a knitted duck in Croydon
Has Harry Hill ever had a billing like it? Hill headlines a charity comedy night at Whitgift School on March 25, where the bill also includes Dom Holland and Addy van der Borgh. The school has staged comedy nights before, … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Whitgift School
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New Croydon rhyming slang: “Anne Giles” = pain in the …
A hat-tip to regular reader “Jo of Brighton”, who has brightened up our Tuesday afternoon by directing us to a blog called the Nether Regions, which spends all its time ridiculing the extraordinarily naffness and parochialism of local papers.
Posted in Comedy, Local media
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Sadvertiser, Emile Heskey, Gary Glitter, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruby Murray, Sadvertiser
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