Category Archives: Upper Norwood Library Trust
Coe wants community to have its say over Palace plans
Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic gold medal-winner and former chairman of the organising committee of London’s acclaimed 2012 Games, wants the local community to back calls to save the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre for future sporting use. Lord Coe, … Continue reading
Godfrey ensures council sticks to funding pledge for library
Croydon Council’s new leadership has honoured a promise to increase funding to Upper Norwood Library, matching that provided by Lambeth. Labour’s arts and culture spokesman, Timothy Godfrey, has pledged an additional £47,500 this year, reinstating funding cut two years ago … Continue reading
Meeting to safeguard Upper Norwood Library, Oct 13
With local authorities, including Lambeth and Croydon councils, having to make further cuts in public spending – by as much as 25 per cent – here ROBERT GIBSON calls for more public help to keep Upper Norwood Library operating We … Continue reading
Crystal Palace library celebrates record reading figures
Staff at the Upper Norwood Joint Library have celebrated helping 140 Crystal Palace children complete a six-book reading challenge over the summer. This year’s Mythical Maze-themed Summer Reading Challenge was the latest, annual event, organised nationally, by the Reading Agency. … Continue reading
Norwood Society looks at the history of its fire stations
The next local history meeting of the Norwood Society is on Thursday, October 16, at 7.30pm, and is entitled “From Fire Station to Theatre”. As Norwood is soon to have a third new fire station, Bob Callender of the South … Continue reading
Upper Norwood book club sets off down the Red Dust Road
The Upper Norwood Library has chosen Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay for its Book Club tomorrow, September 27. The library’s book club meets for an hour from 2.30pm one Saturday a month to dissect and debate a book over … Continue reading
Norwood Society to look at local stories of the Great War
The next meeting of the Norwood Society, being staged next Thursday, September 18, will look at “Researching Upper Norwood’s glorious dead of the Great War”. Jerry Green will talk about the local people who died in the war, their backgrounds … Continue reading
Let’s be a borough of old scrubbers, says Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible has called on the people of Croydon to “get up off their arses” and take up their scrubbing brushes, their brooms and buckets, and start to get the borough cleaner, doorstep by doorstep. The former Damned frontman is … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library offers some a-maze-ing activities
Lots of activities coming up for the school summer holidays at the Upper Norwood Library, and in the maze in Crystal Palace Park, all beginning this week with the Summer Reading Challenge. Library users aged between five and 10 are … Continue reading
Library gets in Festival spirit with quiz, walks and poetry
The Upper Norwood Library and the Norwood Society have put together a package of cultural and historical events for people of all ages as part of the Crystal Palace Overground Festival, which starts this week. The events continue throughout the … Continue reading
Critic of London’s high-rise blocks heads Palace debate
Peter Wynne Rees, the former chief planner for the City of London who recently criticised planning policy across the capital for allowing too many high-rise blocks that were being marketed by developers to wealthy absentee landlords in the Far East … Continue reading
Cry God for Harry, England and the Upper Norwood Library
The Upper Norwood Library Campaign chose St George’s Day to rally all its supporters to start to lobby candidates of all the parties in next month’s local elections to fight for increased funding for the library. “The Library is at … Continue reading
Developer’s donation welcomed by Upper Norwood Library
The Upper Norwood Library Trust has received £1,000 from Neville De Souza, the director of Crystal Palace-based developer Lightbox. The money was donated from the commission on art works sold at Lightbox’s elegant redevelopment of the Thicket pub on Anerley … Continue reading
Cemeteries, the Palace and change: a year’s talks on Norwood
The Norwood Society, which stages its next monthly talk at Upper Norwood Library next week, has released details of its full programme for the rest of 2014. Norwood Society local history talks are held on the third Thursday of the … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Triangle’s festival going Overground in June
The Crystal Palace Overground Festival is set to return this summer, for its eighth year. The free four-day event will run from June 26 to 29 at venues across Crystal Palace and the Upper Norwood Triangle. More than 6,000 attendees … Continue reading
Crystal Palace set to go bananas for… Fairtrade bananas
It is Fairtrade Fortnight at the end of this month, from February 24 to March 9, and during those two weeks, people who live or work in and around Crystal Palace will be hearing a lot about “Foncho”, as the area … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library’s activities programme gathers pace
Thanks to the dedication of its librarians and the volunteers who run its trust, the Upper Norwood Library continues to operate, despite Croydon Council slashing its share of funding and thus ending a century’s worth of tradition and co-operation with neighbouring … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library recruiting after £15,000 IT grant
The Upper Norwood Library Trust has been awarded £15,000 from the People’s Health Trust to provide IT training and free access to computers at the library for disadvantaged local residents as a way to engage them in learning and reduce … Continue reading
Boris accused over “secret” £500m Chinese takeaway
London Mayor Boris Johnson entered into a secret agreement with a Chinese billionaire six months before a £500 million scheme to build a replica Crystal Palace was announced publicly, a group of local residents allege in a letter sent to their … Continue reading
Norwood Society announces its 2014 talks schedule
The Norwood Society has announced its first three local history talks for 2014, which are to be held at a new regular venue, the Upper Norwood Library. The first will be staged on Thursday January 16, from 7.30pm on the … Continue reading
Library looks to regenerate with help from Dr Who
There are some who believe that the Upper Norwood Joint Library is a bit like the Tardis: it transports people back to a time when libraries were cherished hubs of a community, expertly run by people who cared about books … Continue reading
Upper Norwood Library seeks volunteers for new trust
Trustees are wanted for a new social enterprise in Upper Norwood due to take over the running of the Upper Norwood Library. The Upper Norwood Library Trust (UNLT) has been formed by local residents with the objective of taking over … Continue reading
