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Category Archives: Selsdon & Ballards
Happy’s Circus, Greenvale Primary, Selsdon, Oct 12
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Tagged Greenvale Primary School, Selsdon
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Shock! Council discovers trees on site it gave to Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick, the council’s loss-making in-house house-builder, has suffered yet more setbacks after the council “discovered” that two sites it wanted to concrete over were either too close to high-voltage electricity pylons, or had real live trees growing there. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Helen Pollard, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, BxB, Conservative, Croham Valley Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Foxearth Spinney, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Selsdon and Addington Village, Tony Newman, Tory
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Friends of Selsdon Woods open day and picnic, Sep 8
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Tagged Friends of Selsdon Woods, Selsdon
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Selsdon Guild raises hundreds of pounds for Garwood charity
A women’s meeting group in Selsdon has raised nearly £1,000 in donations for local charities over the summer. Selsdon Afternoon Townswomen’s Guild presented a cheque for £500 to Lee Bennett, the director of services for the Garwood Foundation, as a … Continue reading
BBC Bargain Hunt is focusing in on Selsdon’s Wonka auction
BBC television auction show Bargain Hunt is coming to Croydon later this month. The TV cameras will be at Farleigh Court Golf Club in Selsdon on July 17, together with one of the show’s presenters, Anita Manning, for the latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Court Golf Club, Selsdon
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Selsdon auction winning bidder will get Wonka’s Golden Ticket
You could fulfil the childhood ambition of millions and finally get your hands on a Golden Ticket – but it could cost you at least £8,000 at an auction to be held in Selsdon next month. The Golden Ticket and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Cinema, Selsdon & Ballards, Theatre
Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Court Golf Club, Selsdon
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Village fears as council bites into cherished conservation area
There is a growing suspicion, and some fear, among residents living in the close-knit community of Addington Village that council plans to alter the boundaries of the long-established conservation area are because of some deep ulterior motive to allow more … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Addington Residents' Association, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Helen Pollard, Planning, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Addington Village, Addington Village Conservation Area, Addington Village Residents Association, Helen Pollard, Selsdon and Addington Village
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Autographs from Laker’s legends up for sale in Mayday auction
There’s a big summer of cricket coming up, with the World Cup and Ashes series, but before it gets underway in earnest, historians of the game may be drawn to one of the lots at an antiques auction at Fairleigh … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cricket, Selsdon & Ballards, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Catherine Southon, Fairleigh Court
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Council to extend conservation area around Addington Palace
The conservation area around Addington Village is to be expanded to include Addington Palace, under proposals unveiled by Croydon Council this week. The Palace was built in the 18th Century, but has historic associations going back to a hunting lodge … Continue reading
Jubilee 10k road race, Selsdon, Jun 23
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Tagged Jubilee Church, Sanderstead, Selsdon
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Friends of Selsdon Woods Bluebells and Birds Walk, May 4
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Tagged Friends of Selsdon Woods, Selsdon, Selsdon Woods
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Walks, talks and work days to cherish Selsdon Wood
The Friends of Selsdon Wood have a busy programme of events – walks, work days, and some meetings – planned for 2019, with their first walk coming up on March 9, and the group’s annual meeting on March 25. Owned … Continue reading
Historic TUC President’s bell up for auction in Selsdon
The first auction of 2019 by television antiques expert Catherine Southon is full of historic interest, with items for sale linked to the Titanic and to the Churchill’s wartime coalition government. Going under the hammer with an estimated sale price … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club, Selsdon
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Cabinet member says Brick by Brick could build on libraries
GENE BRODIE, our bookish gyms correspondent, on the latest inadvertent slip by a council cabinet member which betrays the next possible target for the council’s ‘award-winning’ house-builders Brick by Brick’s insatiable appetite for turning public property into mainly private flats … Continue reading
Dustman’s depot mirror brings auction hammer down at £8,755
A local council dustman, working in Bromley, found a discarded old mirror when doing his rounds in the 1970s. He took it back to the depot and for the next 40 years used it in his locker at work. Last … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club, Selsdon
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TV antiques expert Paul Martin at Selsdon book signing
Television presenter Paul Martin will be in Croydon next week to sign copies of his latest book, My World of Antiques. Martin has presented BBC1’s Flog It! for the past 15 years, and his book – published last week – … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club, Paul Martin, Selsdon
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Bronze dancers to take centre stage at Selsdon auction
Television antiques expert Catherine Southon is staging another auction of art works in Selsdon later this month, including a collection of 11 works by the noted Australian sculptor Tom Merrifield. Estimates for the Merrifield auction items range from £120 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club
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Children In Need to bring down the auction hammer in Selsdon
Children In Need, the BBC’s annual charity telethon, will be filming a fund-raising celebrity edition of Bargain Hunt at Farleigh Golf Club in Selsdon on October 3. Bringing the hammer down on a wide range of money-spinning lots will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club, Selsdon
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