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Category Archives: Church and religions
‘Let him have it!’: murder, the abdication and New Year revels
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: When he retired as parish clerk and verger in 1969, Frank Butler left his notes of a turbulent period of the 20th Century, from world war, through to the rapid social changes of the Sixties. The verger’s memoirs … Continue reading
Shirley care home celebrates the garden legacy of Rev Wilks
A special ceremony has been held at the MHA Hall Grange care home in Shirley to make the centenary of the death of the leading horticulturalist, and the person who created The Wilderness garden, Rev William Wilks. Rev Wilks arrived … Continue reading
Parish’s dynasty of vergers caring for Croydon for 100 years
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: In another discovery from the Croydon Minster archive, DAVID MORGAN has found the first-hand account of one of the church’s most senior lay officials which covers much of the history of the 20th Century When Frank Butler retired … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Bishop Maurice Harland, Canon Leonard White-Thompson, Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Minster Fire 1857, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, Frank Butler, Rev Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, The Blitz, William Groves, Woodbine Willie, World War I, World War II
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Occasional Voices concert, Christ Church Addiscombe, Mar 18
Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Church and religions, Music
Tagged Addiscombe, Christ Church, Occasional Voices
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Banker from Waddon who helped finance independent America
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One memorial in Croydon Minster’s churchyard dates back to the early 19th Century, and is for a man who knew Alexander Hamilton and had connections with George Washington. By DAVID MORGAN Another grave in the grounds of Croydon … Continue reading
How Dick Turpin’s life of crime included a hold-up in Shirley
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Stand and deliver! DAVID MORGAN has tracked down notorious highwaymen who preyed on the unwary travelling on Croydon’s roads, from Thornton Heath to Smitham Bottom in the 1700s The registers of Croydon Minster, as well as the information … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Dick Turpin, Highwayman, London, Shirley, Smitham Bottom, Thornton Heath
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Pitlake’s poetic priest and his Edwardian Coronation Ode
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Croydon Minster’s archive also serves as a library for its parochial reports dating back into the 19th Century, which help to reveal much about the area’s history, says DAVID MORGAN, pictured right The yearly Parochial Reports from the … Continue reading
Indoor Boot Sale, St Paul’s Croham Park Ave, Mar 11
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, South Croydon
Tagged Croham, South Croydon, St Paul's Croham Park Avenue
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Quiz Night fundraiser, St Paul’s Croham Park Ave, Mar 4
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, South Croydon
Tagged Croham, South Croydon, St Paul's Croham Park Avenue
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Artist’s sister helped him become poster boy of Victorian age
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: With the discovery in the Minster archive of a century-old clipping from a magazine, DAVID MORGAN traces the Croydon woman who was the muse for the world-famous Woman In White Opening up a folder in the Croydon Minster … Continue reading
When Minster was the venue for an Anglo-Saxon peace treaty
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A recent discovery of coins suggests that the date of the foundation of Croydon as a strategic location between London and Canterbury was more than 150 years earlier than historians had previously suggested, writes DAVID MORGAN It took … Continue reading
It’s long overdue that Hurlstone’s music is heard once again
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: In the year when Croydon is London’s Borough of Culture, DAVID MORGAN suggests it presents an opportunity to revive some of the music of a once-admired composer Searching through some old press cuttings, I came across one from … Continue reading
Make today the time we change to stand up for what’s right
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PETER UNDERWOOD considers how just trying to help others is a less-than-ordinary act of humanity Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. Since 2000, January 27 has also been … Continue reading
Tudor vicar who stood with Thomas More against Henry VIII
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: In his latest trawl through the Minster’s archive, DAVID MORGAN has discovered a Vicar of Croydon who is part of the long tradition of ‘meddlesome priests’ When Jonathan Gullis, the Conservative MP, vented his anger with the bishops … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Wolsey, Croydon Minster, Croydon Parish Church, David Morgan, Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Rev Rowland Philipps, Rowland Philipps, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Vicar of Croydon
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‘Ordinary People’ invited to Town Hall for Holocaust Memorial
Croydon Council is to stage its first in-person Holocaust Memorial Day event in two years later this month, and is inviting the public to take part. The remembrance event will be held in the Town Hall Chamber on Friday January … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Council, Education, Schools
Tagged Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Day
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Who do you think you are? Census data offers many insights
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The latest release of data from the 2021 national census has given PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, much to consider I have always been fascinated by the sort of data contained within the latest release from the 2021 census, … Continue reading
Croydon dowry proved not enough for heroic General Wolfe
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One of the greatest heroes in British military history relied for matrimonial advice on a friend and fellow officer from Croydon, as DAVID MORGAN discovered in the archives at the Minster Half a century before Nelson met his … Continue reading
Book Club, St Peter’s Church, South Croydon, Jan 21
Posted in Art, Church and religions, South Croydon
Tagged South Croydon, St Peter's Book Club, St Peter's Church
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Four candles and the tragic tale of the Croydon tallow chandler
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: There was a time when those fragranced candles you might be burning to celebrate Advent were an essential part of people’s lives, as DAVID MORGAN explains December is a month for candles. Their glow and significance in churches … Continue reading
