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Category Archives: Selsdon & Ballards
How to add that luxury touch to your special afternoon tea
National Afternoon Tea Week is coming up (who knew?!). Here, exclusively for Inside Croydon, RICHARD SIMMONDS, the head chef at De Vere Selsdon Estate, offers his top tips to help you host a memorable afternoon tea Without doubt the most … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, De Vere Selsdon Estate, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged De Vere Selsdon Estate, Selsdon
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Suffragette collection fetches record amount at Selsdon auction
The National Museum of Wales stepped in to buy a rare suffragette medal and the historic archive of Kate Evans at an auction staged at Fairleigh Golf Club in Selsdon yesterday. The letters, books and awards of suffragette Kate Williams … Continue reading
Mischief Makers summer reading challenge, Jul 14- Sep 15
Posted in Activities, Ashburton, Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon parks, Education, Libraries, New Addington South, Norbury, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, South Norwood, Thornton Heath
Tagged Ashburton, Croydon Council, Croydon Libraries, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Purley, Thornton Heath
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Rare suffragette’s Hunger Strike medal is set to be auctioned
In the centenary year of women in Britain first getting the vote, TV auction expert Catherine Southon is staging a sale in Croydon where the leading lot is a wonderful archive of one suffragette’s fight for the cause, including a … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, History, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club
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Bric-a-Brac and Book Bazaar, St John’s Selsdon, Jun 16
Posted in Church and religions, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Selsdon, St John the Divine
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Selsdon hotel is staging charity garden party in aid of AADC
The Selsdon Park Hotel is tomorrow hosting a charity garden party to raise awareness and funds for those affected by AADC – Aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency – a rare, genetic disease. The event – held at what is now … Continue reading
Selsdon women’s guild flies in with cheque for Air Ambulance
The Selsdon Afternoon Townswomen’s Guild presented London Air Ambulance with a cheque for £750 that had been raised by members during 2017. The Selsdon guild meets every third Friday of the month. For the charity presentation, one of the Air … Continue reading
Bishops Walk and the loneliness of the ‘paper’ candidate
This could be called “The problem with Monks Hill”, or “A Tale of Two Villages”, or “Bishops v Monks”, or “Who Cares?” KEN TOWL takes a walk on the less-than-wild-side, as a “paper” candidate in the local elections Yesterday, I … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addington, Ken Towl, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Addington, Conservative, Ken Towl, Labour, Selsdon and Addington Village, Tory
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Council contempt for public in Orwellian Town Hall meeting
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE watched the latest travesty of a council meeting, so you wouldn’t have to Will they never learn? Monday night saw the Town Hall chamber holding the last full meeting of the council before the local elections … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Chris Wright, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Donald Speakman, Dudley Mead, Housing, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Purley, Queens Gardens, Shirley North, South Norwood, Tim Pollard, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick Action Group, Conservative, Croydon Council, Donald Speakman, Dudley Mead, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory
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Nine months on, and Labour still selecting election candidates
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on how the ruling party in Croydon is struggling to find candidates for all the borough’s wards Today marks 60 days until the Town Hall elections on May 3. Yet Croydon Labour still hasn’t managed … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Caragh Skipper, Clive Fraser, Croydon Central, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley South, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Caragh Skipper, Clive Fraser, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Labour, Shirley South, Tony Newman, Tory
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MP Jones describes Government nursery cuts as ‘a disgrace’
Sarah Jones, the Labour MP for Croydon Central, has branded as “a disgrace” the Government decision to cut a grant to a specialist nursery in South Croydon which, for the past 40 years, has helped school-aged mums get back into … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Education, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Cotelands Nursery, John Ruskin College, Sarah Jones MP, Selsdon
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Author event with Christopher Bowden, Selsdon Library, Jan 27
Posted in Activities, Libraries, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Christopher Bowden, Selsdon, Selsdon Library
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Author talk with Monica Bose, Selsdon Library, Mar 8
Posted in Art, Education, Libraries, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Monica Bose, Selsdon, Selsdon Library
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Churchill’s spectacles for sale at Farleigh Christmas auction
A pair of spectacles belonging to Churchill – the wartime Prime Minister, not the insurance company’s nodding dog – are the highlight lot in the latest auction to be staged at Farleigh Golf Club next month, on December 6 (with … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Southon, Farleigh Golf Club, Winston Churchill
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Senior Tory councillor quits Town Hall but keeps it all quiet
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the disappearing act performed by one of the local Tories’ former leading lights Unannounced at the Town Hall, and unmentioned to the people of Selsdon and Ballards ward she was supposed to be … Continue reading
