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Category Archives: History
Council’s once-prized listed building Heathfield House left to rot
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The borough’s built heritage is crumbling into a worrying state of disrepair, with no one at the council seemingly aware of the seriousness of the situation. By PEARL LEE, our south of the borough correspondent Any Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Art, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Gardening, Heathfield House, History, Property, Riesco Collection, Wildlife
Tagged Addington Hills, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Ecology Centre, Gravel Hill, Heathfield House, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Raymond Riesco, Riesco collection
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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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The History of My House illustrated talk, Carshalton, Oct 26
Posted in Activities, History, Honeywood Museum
Tagged Carshalton, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum
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Life and works of Inigo Jones, Honeywood Museum, Jul 27
Posted in Activities, History, Honeywood Museum
Tagged Carshalton, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum, Inigo Jones
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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
Original clockmakers are hired for Thornton Heath restoration
Six months after an attack by vandals set fire to Thornton Heath’s landmark clocktower, the council has begun work to restore it to its former glory – remarkably, using the same firm which had made the original clock more than … Continue reading
Windrush Generation’s exhibition is playing sounds of the 70s
After a week spent playing ‘silly games’ with the borough’s politicians, for a deserved break, KEN TOWL got serious about Lovers’ Rock Croydon’s musical heritage is immense. It is so rich and varied that the council is putting together some … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Community associations, History, Ken Towl, Music, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Christine McNabb, Janet Kay, Ken Towl, Lovers' Rock, Sonia Williams, Whitgift Centre, Windrush Generation, Windrush Generation Legacy Association, Wraydette McNabb
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Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, Ruskin House Screen Club, Mar 24
Posted in Art, Cinema, Ruskin House
Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala, Ruskin House, Ruskin House Screen Club
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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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History talk: Understanding medieval Chaldon, Mar 4
Posted in Activities, Community associations, History, Outside Croydon
Tagged Chaldon, Chaldon HIstory Group, History
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‘The Nijinsky of India’ is celebrated in museum exhibition
An extraordinary life which began in Bangalore and ended in Croydon is remembered and celebrated in an exhibition about dancer Ram Gopal currently running at the Museum of Croydon. Entitled “I saw a god dance”, the exhibition highlights Gopal’s contribution … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, History, Museum of Croydon
Tagged Apsara Arts, Museum of Croydon, Norbury, Ram Gopal
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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
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
Letters show a royal Duke complaining about news reports
A collection of letters written on behalf of the Duke of Windsor in the 1930s that were amassed by a royal fan will be offered in Catherine Southon Auctioneers and Valuers’ antiques auction on Wednesday February 8. The letters, to … 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
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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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
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
Golden haloes pick out icons of the Windrush exhibition
KEN TOWL pays a return visit to the Windrush Legacy Association in the Whitgift Centre to view the works of south Londoner Zoe Sinclair Despite her interest in where people really come from, Baroness Hussey of North Bradley, better known … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Community associations, History, Ken Towl, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Diane Abbott, Doreen Lawrence, Ken Towl, Lady Susan Hussey, Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, Trevor McDonald, Whitgift Centre, Windrush, Windrush Generation Legacy Association, Windrush Legacy Association
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